After yesterday’s big iPhone 17 reveal, smartphone makers rushed to the Internet to compare their upcoming phones with Apple’s latest and greatest. Zhou Yibao from Oppo shared some details on the Find X9 series and some photos, one of which features an iPhone. The Oppo Find X9 Pro will feature a large 7,500mAh battery, while the smaller Find X9 will have a 7,025mAh power cell. The Pro’s battery spec was previously confirmed by Zhou, along with the thickness – 8.25mm. Weight wasn’t mentioned, but according to Digital Chat Station, the X9 Pro will be 224g, while the vanilla X9 will be...
Hot on the heels of Apple’s iPhone 17 announcement, vivo has released a teaser showcasing the camera bump of its upcoming X300 Pro flagship. The company even compared the thickness of the bump to that of the new iPhone 17 Pro. vivo Product Manager Han Boxiao took to Weibo once again to share details on the company’s X300 series. He shared an image comparing the camera bump of the iPhone 17 Pro with the vivo X300 and X300 Pro. We already saw the vanilla model in an earlier teaser, but this is the first official glimpse of the Pro model. As seen in the shared image, the camera bump on...
With the iPhone 17 lineup now official, Apple has discontinued select older models while reducing prices on others. The iPhone lineup starts with the iPhone 16e. Apple will also sell the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, but the company has discontinued the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max. iPhone 16 and 16 Plus have also received a price cut. The iPhone 16 is now only available with 128GB storage and costs $699. Meanwhile, the iPhone 16 Plus with 128GB storage is priced at $799 and the 256GB variant will set you back $799. Apple unveiled the new iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone...
Apple introduced the satellite communication feature with the iPhone 14 series in September 2022, which was free for the lineup for the first two years. However, it was extended by a year in November 2023, and now, after the introduction of the iPhone 17 series yesterday, Apple has again extended the free trial of this feature for older iPhones. "Apple is extending free access to satellite features for an additional year for existing iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users. The free trial will be extended for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users who have activated their device in a country that supports...
No one told Oppo that today is iPhone day - following the A6 Pro, the brand has also unveiled the A6 GT and A6i. Let's look at them one by one. Oppo A6 GT The A6 GT comes with a 6.8-inch 1280x2800 AMOLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate, 240Hz touch sampling rate, and 1,600-nit peak brightness, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC at the helm, a 50 MP main camera with OIS and a 2 MP monochrome camera next to it, a 32 MP selfie snapper, and a 7,000 mAh battery with support for 80W wired charging. Oppo A6 GT official images It measures 163.13 x 77.58 x 7.7 mm in Rock Mist Blue and is...
Ahead of its rumored October launch, Honor has shared new details about the upcoming Magic8 series. The flagship series will offer powerful hardware that will use AI to deliver optimum performance when needed, Honor CEO James Li explained in a Weibo post. He added that the Magic8 series will run MagicOS 10 with a SOTA-level MagicGUI large language model. MagicOS 10 will offer deeper AI integration that can automate a wide range of tasks. The Magic8 series will also bring improved ecosystem integration. Meanwhile, a Chinese tipster has shared an image of a Magic8 series phone that...
OnePlus is expected to unveil the 15 next month in China, and ahead of that today a new leak purportedly brings us the three colorways in which it will launch, along with its weight - that will be different between colors, making us think there may be different finishes on offer on its back side. The OnePlus 15 in Dune will weigh 211g, and incidentally this is said to be the 'hero' color, the one that the brand will use most prevalently in its official promotional materials. Then we have two others, both weighing 215g - Absolute Black, which has been rumored before to be blacker...
We’ve been hearing a lot about potential camera upgrades on the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. While upgrades are good, they do often come at a cost. In this case, Ice Universe reports that the camera island on the Ultra will get noticeably chunkier. Last week, Ice reported that the S26 Ultra will measure 163.4mm tall and 77.9mm wide, which is 0.6mm taller and 0.3mm wider than the S25 Ultra. Now the leakster has details on the depth dimension. The new model will be thinner at its thinnest part – 7.9mm, compared to 8.2mm on the current model – but the camera island will get thicker, going...
Apple's iPhone 17 series is now official. All four phones will launch for pre-order across the first wave of 63 countries, including the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, Canada, China, France, India, South Korea, and others, this Friday, September 12. Shipments will start from September 19. Another 22 countries will get the iPhones from September 26. The iPhone 17 was a surprisingly great upgrade, finally matching the Pros in display technology - ProRes, 120Hz, Always-on, less reflective! It also matches the Pros in another interesting development - it now starts from 256 GB storage as...
Apple unveiled iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 in June during its Worldwide Developers Conference, as usual, and today during the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air launch the company finally revealed when this version will be released to the public. It's happening on September 15, which is the coming Monday. This too is par for the course for Apple, as the date is in between the start of pre-orders for the new devices (September 12) and their release (September 19). Needless to say, the new iPhones will all run iOS 26 from day one. iOS 26 iOS 26 and iPadOS 26...