Category: Smartphones

February 1, 2023

You have probably heard the word “inflation” more often than you would have liked over the last few months. It has affected the prices of many things – and premium goodies like Samsung’s latest flagships are no exception. At least […]

January 25, 2023

Samsung’s next Unpacked event is creeping ever so closer with the festivities set to kick off on February 1st at 10 am PST/1 pm EST. Galaxy S23 series pre-orders will start being accepted by Samsung at the same time and […]

January 20, 2023

Samsung has a new prototype display that could send its folding phones in a new direction: 360 degrees. Samsung Display, the subsidiary that makes the company’s screens, showed off the new prototype display and hinge at CES 2023. The “Flex […]

January 20, 2023

Last year was a rough one for Samsung Foundry. Not only did a partnership with AMD failed to bear fruit, but the proprietary Exynos 2200 chip that powered the Galaxy S22 in some markets also had to be throttled to […]

January 18, 2023

The GSM Association’s website has confirmed Honor’s presence at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. The company will have its own booth this time, unlike last year when it only held an event but wasn’t present on the ground. […]

January 17, 2023

The final quarter of 2022 was not such a great one for the smartphone industry. Research firm Canalys released a report today revealing that smartphone deliveries declined by 17% to less than 1.2 million units for the three months from […]

January 17, 2023

Smartphone vendors are licking their wounds after an all-around lousy year in sales. Analysts at Canalys estimate worldwide shipments for Q4 2022 dipped 17 percent compared to 2021. Full-year sales were down to less than 1.2 billion, a decline of […]

January 11, 2023

Leave it to Apple to do away with a major hardware feature. After successfully abolishing the SIM tray and the headphone jack, it seems the Cupertino company has now set its sights on… physical buttons? We have been hearing reports […]

January 9, 2023

Samsung’s official Indian website has just announced that the company is unveiling a new A-series smartphone on January 18, at 12 PM local time. You can register your interest if you want to be notified when the launch happens, and […]

January 3, 2023

India has taken inspiration from the E.U. and will be requiring all mobile devices to be equipped with USB Type-C by March 2025. The decision is in line with the recent European Union (EU) requirements, but with a little more […]

December 29, 2022

Apple’s chip supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) today kicked off volume production of chips based on the new 3nm technology. The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Ultra’s A17 chip will most likely also use this tech. 3nm chips […]

December 12, 2022

With Huawei unable to access its U.S. supply chain, the Chinese manufacturer has been forced to innovate and it has come up with its own HarmonyOS operating system, now on its third version, and the Huawei Mobile Services platform. In […]

December 5, 2022

Nothing Phone (1), the first smartphone from OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s tech startup Nothing, was a breath of fresh air in the somewhat stale Android phone scene when it launched this summer. With a cool, transparent design, decent specs, several […]

December 2, 2022

Just a couple of weeks after Apple’s new Emergency SOS service went live in the US and Canada, the first success story is here. A man used his iPhone 14 to beam an SOS signal to a rescue team via […]

November 29, 2022

Google is warning that Android smartphone manufacturers need to get better at patching their devices. In a blog post(opens in new tab) published by Google’s cybersecurity arm, Project Zero, the researchers explain how Android’s biggest strength – the decentralization if […]

November 18, 2022

Samsung will be announcing the new Galaxy S23 in early 2023 — which happens to be very, very close. And, as is usual with hot upcoming devices, we already have a lot of leaks and reports to go on. So, […]

November 17, 2022

Some interesting news has been shared on Twitter by a subscriber who goes by the name of Connor (@OreXda). If Connor is correct, Samsung has been working with Google’s Tensor team and with AMD’s graphics crew to create a new […]

November 7, 2022

Samsung is extending its OneUI 5.0 update to the Galaxy S21 series alongside the older Galaxy S20 series and the Note 20 duo as promised by the official update rollout schedule. European units of the Galaxy S21, the Galaxy S21+ […]

October 31, 2022

The Huawei Mate 50 series debuted in September with four Mates hitting the shelves in China – Mate 50, Mate 50 Pro, Mate 50E and Mate 50 RS Porsche Design. Only one of these high-end smartphones eventually left its homeland […]

October 28, 2022

There is a tendency among phone enthusiasts and yes, even us in the media, to make too big a deal about benchmark scores as though they were points on a scoreboard indicating a winner and a loser. As a result, […]