It's that time of the year when we look back and see what mattered most to you. What better way than to see which news stories resonated the best with our readers? We rounded up our 100 most popular news stories and have some interesting insights on our website, you, our readers, and the industry as a whole. Battery capacity is by far the strongest point of interest, appearing in a lot of the titles in our stories. It's no coincidence that this year Silicon-carbon batteries became mainstream in Chinese smartphones. Slimness is also something readers cared about - it's the focal point of...

AnTuTu has published its monthly rankings for December today, and as usual there are three categories to get through: flagship smartphones, upper-midrange smartphones, and tablets. Leading in the flagship realm is the RedMagic 11 Pro+ with an average score of 4,118,828, followed by the iQOO 15 with 4,078,562 and the OnePlus 15 with 4,073,184. In fourth is the Realme GT 8 Pro with 4,066,017, followed by the Honor Win with 4,054,673. The vivo X300 Pro in sixth place is the first phone using the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC, all of the top five are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen...

Motorola is getting ready to unveil its next top of the line smartphone, the Signature. The company has been teasing an announcement taking place on January 6, and this might be when the Signature finally becomes official. We saw the phone in leaked renders last month, and now we get a new promo shot, but this one comes with a twist: a stylus is shown in front of the phone, as you can see. This heavily implies that the Signature will have stylus support, and that's not surprising. In early December a rumor told us that the upcoming Motorola Edge 70 Ultra would support a stylus, and...

According to the latest report out of Korea, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S26 series on February 25 in San Francisco before releasing the trio in March. The Galaxy S26 will come with a 4,300 mAh battery (300 mAh bigger than its predecessor's), while the Galaxy S26+ will support "3x zoom HDR shooting", and the S26 Ultra will have a previously rumored electronically controllable "privacy display" feature to keep prying eyes away from it. The Galaxy S26 Ultra is rumored to be using the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC globally, while the other two models will also use the Exynos 2600 in some...

Honor enjoyed a great 2025! It's been hard to find any losers in the maker's lineup, thanks to thoughtful upgrades and great deals throughout the year. Let's look at how it did. Winner: Honor Pad X9a and MagicPad 3 Honor made a few solid tablets in 2025, but the affordable Pad X9a and flagship MagicPad 3 were able to stamp their authority on markets such as Malaysia, where Honor was the number one tablet maker! Honor made both tablets competitive starting from the specs page, and then bolstered their sales with regular promos. Winner: Honor 400 and 400 Pro The Honor...

Back in May, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's startup io (yes that's really how it's spelled), part of his LoveFrom creative design company. io was working on a secretive hardware product, and now a new rumor tells us what it is. A pen. Obviously, this will be no ordinary pen. A past report described it as "contextually aware", and io is now part of OpenAI, so this will definitely be an AI pen. What will it do? Your guess is as good as ours. Interestingly, this will be just the first hardware product from OpenAI, but the company is working on two more, of which one is said to be a "to-go"...

Oppo launched the Reno15 and Reno15 Pro in China in November, and their global release is undoubtedly coming soon, but which device you'll be getting under what name may heavily depend on where you're located. The Google Play Console's Supported Devices List now has two listings for the Reno15 Pro 5G with model numbers CPH2811 and CPH2813. So far so good, these are probably regional variants. But here's the twist: the CPH2811 will also be known in some places as the oft-rumored Reno15 Pro Max 5G, while the CPH2813 will also be sold as the Reno15 Pro Mini 5G in other parts of the...

OnePlus is unveiling the Turbo 6 and Turbo 6V on January 8, and the brand has already revealed some of their specs a few days ago, along with two videos. Now OnePlus has also confirmed the handsets' oft-rumored 9,000 mAh battery capacity, along with an interesting detail. The Turbo 6's camera island protrudes just 1.7mm on top of its rear. It's not quite flush, RedMagic-style, but very, very close. Obviously, the Turbo line isn't focused on camera quality (one could argue none of OnePlus' recent devices are), which allows for such small camera island protrusions, but this is still a...