Category: Smartphones

December 1, 2023

Apple and Amkor have announced an “expanded partnership” to return another piece of the complex chip manufacturing puzzle to the US. The Arizona-based company will build a new advanced chip packaging facility in Peoria. The plan is to construct the […]

November 27, 2023

Pixel 8 Pro users are receiving an update today for a new Google app called AI Core. This background service is responsible for powering AI-driven features across Android, keeping those features up-to-date, and providing AI functionality to other apps. As […]

November 27, 2023

It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be […]

November 27, 2023

Google has quietly added support for Android’s new Ultra HDR Image Format in Google Messages when sending messages over RCS. Images in this format when sent over RCS will maintain their meta data and will display correctly on the receiving […]

November 20, 2023

Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is Qualcomm’s latest SoC “Media Platform” for affordable, yet moderately powerful smartphones. The mobile chip joins the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 SoC launched earlier this year, but it is meant to be a proper successor to […]

November 17, 2023

Smartphones are essential parts of our lives now. All of use them to stay connected with family and friends, to learn, work, and play. The technology has seen a rapid change in the last couple of decades. From the green […]

November 15, 2023

The Fan Edition is no more, yet the FE series live on. Indeed, the new Samsung Galaxy S23 FE is bringing back the beloved affordable flagship vibe, but there is no mention of the original FE meaning, just Standout Features. […]

November 13, 2023

Unlike other major markets around the world, like China, India, or Europe, which have seen a number of different companies rise and fall to and from leadership positions over the last few years, North America remains under one smartphone vendor’s […]

November 10, 2023

In the third quarter of this year (July to September), smartphone shipments in the US grew sequentially (compared to Q2) by 21% to 31 million units, according to the latest report by Canalys. This growth was driven by Apple’s release […]

November 3, 2023

The vivo X100 series will take better than ever photos during sunset, revealed Jia Jingdong, VP and chief of branding at vivo. The executive revealed key specs of the duo in a long post on Weibo, including a Dimensity 9300 […]

November 1, 2023

Both Google and Apple brought meaningful generational improvements to their top-of-the-line models this year. Changes in build and physical properties join the usual updates in the camera department and a mandatory upgrade to the internals. But with both the Pixel […]

October 31, 2023

Oppo has launched the Find N3 Flip – the next compact foldable smartphone with an improved design, hinge, performance and camera experience. It’s merely an evolutionary upgrade compared to the Find N2 Flip, but it is also shaping up to […]

October 27, 2023

Global smartphone shipments declined 1% year-over-year during the third quarter as 293.4 million units were shipped during the three months according to Canalys. Despite a decline of 6% in shipments on an annual basis, Samsung remained the number one smartphone […]

October 24, 2023

While the jump from the Pixel 6 to the Pixel 7 series was somewhat modest, the 8 series’ launch is defined by a slew of new features and upgraded hardware. There’s also an interesting shift in strategy with the smaller […]

October 23, 2023

Google played up AI features a lot during its launch event for the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro earlier this month, but if a new rumor is to be believed, those devices’ AI smarts will soon be one-upped by […]

October 18, 2023

The smartphone company Meizu, owned by automaker Geely, is launching a new smartphone tomorrow. The device will be called Meizu 20 Classic, and according to one leakster, it will have 16 GB RAM and 512 GB storage. The same user […]

October 17, 2023

The Pixel 8 Pro’s “Super Actua” display has fixed another pain point that Pixel users had with previous models. The 6.7-inch screen is currently the brightest in the U.S. with a maximum reading of 2,400 nits. Not only is that […]

October 12, 2023

The China-exclusive Oppo Find N3 Flip will begin its global journey today, starting with India. The clamshell will be launched in the world’s second-largest smartphone market today at an event beginning at 7 PM IST (1:30 PM UTC). The event […]

October 10, 2023

When it announced the Xiaomi 13T and 13T Pro the company went to great lengths to hype their Leica-tuned cameras and for good reason as we found out. Except the phones will miss on the Leica branding and tailored camera […]

October 5, 2023

Xiaomi’s mid-cycle flagship refresh is now live, and the new T lineup will be remembered for bringing the “co-engineered with Leica” camera and finally bridging the gap between the Number and T series. They are also the first waterproof Xiaomi […]