Today Ulefone has unveiled the Armor Mini 20T Pro, the Armor Mini 20 Pro, and the Armor Mini 20 4G. These are its smallest rugged smartphones to date, hence the "Mini" in the family name. The 4G model is powered by MediaTek's Helio G99 SoC, while the other two go with the Dimensity 6300 instead. The Armor Mini 20T Pro has advanced FLIR Thermal Imaging Lepton 3.5, with a 57-degree horizontal field-of-view and a thermal resolution of 160x120, and 25 Hz frame rate. The measurable temperature range is -10°C to 450°C and the accuracy is ±3°C. The phone also has a flashlight function...

Asus is announcing the ROG Phone 9 series on November 19, and the duo will unsurprisingly sport the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This, according to a new rumor, will be paired with the best heat dissipation tech available at the moment. Not just that, but the ROG Phone 9 Pro's LTPO OLED screen will have a record-breaking (for a smartphone) 185 Hz refresh rate. It will be a flat screen, by the way. The phone will be IP68 rated for dust and water resistance, and it's expected to come with AI features as well, because it is 2024 after all and every phone launch needs a lot of talk of AI...

At the beginning of this month a rumor claimed Google would launch Android 16 earlier than its predecessors. Today, Google itself has confirmed this. Android 16, the finalized version, will be out in the second quarter of next year, so between April and June. The company says it's doing this "to better align with the schedule of device launches" across the Android ecosystem. This year, the Pixel 9 family arrived in August with Android 14 on board, even though Google was already working on Android 15 - which eventually came out a couple of weeks ago. If Google manages to release...

The iPhone 17 coming in fall 2025 will use an Apple-designed Wi-Fi 7 chip, according to renowned Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The chip will replace the Broadcom chip that Apple currently uses for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Apple's Wi-Fi 7 chip will be built using TSMC's 7nm process. Apple apparently wants to move "nearly all" of its products to its own Wi-Fi chip within about three years, in order to cut supply costs and rake in more profits. Apple is also working on its own 5G chip, which will be separate from the Wi-Fi one and built using a different TSMC process technology....

Today WhatsApp has released a new feature - custom lists. These are the evolution of chat filters, introduced earlier this year as a way to find messages faster. With custom lists, you can filter your chats into custom categories of your choice - you can have a list for anything: family, work, your neighborhood, and so on. Creating a new list is as easy as tapping the + in the filter bar at the top of your Chats tab in WhatsApp. To edit a list, long-press it. In a similar way to your favorites, you can add both groups and one-on-one chats to any list. All the lists you create...

The much-anticipated search function of ChatGPT is now live. It's called ChatGPT Search, and searches the web for you. The twist is that it's integrated into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT may choose to search for you for some things you ask it. You can also manually click/tap the Search option after you input anything into the text box. OpenAI says it "blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more". The company has partnered with "news and data providers to add up-to-date information and new visual designs for...

Ten years ago, Samsung launched the Galaxy Alpha, a slender 6.7mm phone that would go on to inspire the Galaxy S6 design the next year. Korean publication ETNews is quoting industry insiders who claim that the company is about to try something like that again. Design sketches for the Galaxy S6 The insiders say that Samsung will launch a Slim version of one of the Galaxy S25 phones. Note that this will be a separate device that will launch later – the Galaxy S25 series is still expected early next year with a vanilla, Plus and Ultra models. The slender device will come a few months...

The Snapdragon 8 Elite represents a new hope in the mobile field – it’s the first chipset in a long while that has custom CPU cores (and isn’t coming out of Apple). The GPU is all custom too and a new generation to boot. And Qualcomm found a way to boost the clock speed higher than any other smartphone chipset by quite some margin. It all looks great on paper, let’s see whether expectations meet reality. Here we will focus on how the 8 Elite compares against the two previous generations of Snapdragon 8-series. We are working on a separate post that will pit the Elite against its chief...

OnePlus 13 just debuted with a new 6.82" display by BOE. The panel has an under-display fingerprint scanner underneath, and we learned it is a new ultrasonic solution made by Goodix. According to a company executive, the sensor is both faster and safer, thanks to innovative architecture and wafer-level acoustic layer processing. OnePlus 13 display and fingerprint scanner works even in wet conditions The ultrasonic fingerprint scanner by Goodix allows unlocking the phone with wet or dirty fingers. It is a company that is already supplying companies like Samsung, Google, Xiaomi,...

It was 10 years ago during IFA that Samsung unveiled the Gear VR, a VR headset that used a Galaxy phone as its display and brain. A sequel followed and the company found great success – analysts reported that Samsung was the dominant VR headset maker in 2016. Of the 6.3 million headsets sold that year, 4.5 million were Gear VRs. The company also worked with Microsoft and built a Mixed Reality AR headset in 2017, but it wasn’t long before Samsung pulled the plug on its VR efforts. That’s a lot of history, but it was necessary to explain why Samsung may be cautious to get back in the game....