Yesterday Google's upcoming Pixel Buds Pro 2 leaked in all the colorways in which they're expected to be sold, and today it's time for pricing information to be outed. The Pixel Buds Pro 2 will allegedly cost $229, €249, and £219, respectively in the US, EU, and UK. That's a slight increase of $30 / €20 / £20 compared to the original Pixel Buds Pro which came out in 2022. The new earbuds come with a similarly shaped but apparently slightly larger case, which may hide a bigger battery. The buds themselves will hopefully have better features than their predecessors. The Pixel Buds...
It's a new day, so it's time for some new Pixel leaks. Google may have been trying to prevent comprehensive leaks of its upcoming devices by holding its annual launch event two months early in August, but that clearly hasn't worked at all. Following yesterday's barrage of Pixel leaks, today we have a ton of newly leaked promo materials, leaked promo videos, and leaked official cases. So let's dive in. The Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL's official cases have been leaked. The former device will get silicon cases in Charcoal, Porcelain, Hazel, Rose, and Aloe. That last one is strange...
Samsung's Galaxy A06 is coming soon, and it might actually arrive very soon. The device has now been listed on Samsung India's support pages, with the model number SM-A065F/DS. This obviously means India will be one of the markets where it will be available. The "DS" suffix in its model number also tells us it will have dual-SIM functionality. The Galaxy A06 has previously been certified by the Bluetooth SIG, BIS, NBTC, and the FCC. It was also spotted in the Geekbench online database a while back, and that run revealed the fact that it will be powered by the MediaTek Helio G85 SoC, just...
Poco has now announced that it's officially launching the M6 Plus in India on August 1. This phone will be the newest member of the M6 family, and Poco has already teased the fact that it has a 108 MP main camera with 3x in-sensor zoom and f/1.75 aperture. Interestingly, this looks a lot like the Redmi 13 5G which launched earlier this month, so it could be a rebranding of that model. It definitely wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary for Poco. If this pans out, then expect the Poco M6 Plus to sport a 6.79-inch 1080x2460 120 Hz LCD touchscreen, the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC,...
It's been a long, hard, windy road but WhatsApp has finally reached 100 million monthly active users in the US. That market is notoriously enamored with Apple's iMessage so this is quite the feat for WhatsApp - unlike ever other place in the world where WhatsApp is as dominant as iMessage is in the US, or more. This information is official and comes straight from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The fastest-growing markets for WhatsApp in the US are Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle. The company is also saying it's experienced "significant growth" in the South, with Texas having more than...
Realme is launching the 13 Pro and 13 Pro+ in India on July 30, and ahead of that it's revealed some more details about the duo. For starters, it looks like both models will have a 5,200 mAh battery with 80W wired charging support and they will be powered by a Snapdragon 7 series chipset. It's unclear which one, however, since the brand stopped short of naming names. The devices will have dual Sony 50 MP camera sensors with dual OIS, the "world's first Sony LYT-701" sensor in the Pro+, as well as the "world's first Sony LYT-600 periscope" also in the Pro+. By the looks of things, it will...
Epic Games announced its new strategy for mobile app stores. The video game publisher is ending its distribution partnerships with mobile stores which it calls “rent collectors” and is instead opting to offer its games via the upcoming Epic Games Store to Android users worldwide and iOS users in the EU. Epic also announced it will bring its mobile game portfolio (including Fortnite) to the AltStore for iOS users in the EU. Epic also plans to expand to two more third-party stores soon. On the opposite side, Epic is removing its game library from the Samsung Galaxy Store due to...
Google announced a major update to Gemini that will affect all service users. The company revealed in a blog post that the AI engine is now running a 1.5 Flash language model, optimized for speed and efficiency. The new LLM has a 4x-longer context window (from 8K to 32K tokens), and overall responses should be improved in quality and accuracy. The update also brings Gemini to Google Messages across Europe. It will be able to converse in newly added languages like French, Polish, or Spanish. The Gemini app is also being rolled out to more regions, with the new total being 230 countries and...
SearchGPT is OpenAI’s long-awaited answer to Google Search. It’s an AI search engine powered by the GPT-4 model family with real-time summarized information from the web with links to relevant sources. The service is currently in its prototype testing phase and is limited to 10,000 test users at launch. You can sign up for the SearchGPT waiting list here. The text-entry prompt looks just like the one you’d see on ChatGPT. You type a search prompt and SearchGPT provides the relevant answers below. You can then browse through the summarized information and follow the provided links...
It's been a very Pixel-filled 24 hours, with multiple leaks about Google's upcoming smartphones, but the Pixel Buds Pro 2 have also been part of the action - first, we saw them in renders by a case maker. Now it's time to get the full official-looking leaked image treatment. So let's take a look at the Pixel Buds Pro 2 in all the colors in which they'll be sold. The hues will be called Charcoal, Porcelain, Aloe, and Hot Pink. Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 in Porcelain Compared to the original Pixel Buds Pro, these will have a slightly chunkier case, but with the same overall look....