With the diminishing iPhone Plus sales over the years, Apple is looking to substitute the Plus lineup with something more exciting. Or that's at least according to the rumors this year. Enter the iPhone 17 Slim, a new iPhone lineup, rumored to be even more expensive than the Pro Max series. New information coming from DigiTimes suggests the upcoming iPhone 17 Slim will feature a new kind of OLED display that could allow an extremely thin build. A lesser-known Taiwanese brand, Novatek, recently introduced a new TDDI OLED panel that combines the touch sensor layer and the display driver...
During this year's Samsung Developer Conference, the company announced its upcoming One UI 7 based on Android 15. Arguably, this is the most interesting bit of the whole keynote. Still, there are other developments with Samsung products, like Tizen OS, for example. As a quick reminder, One UI 7 will arrive in early 2025, while a beta version of the software will be seeded to users by the end of this year. The new OS will feature a UI redesign, more customization options and deeper AI integration that will be more contextual—depending on location, surroundings, etc. Speaking of AI,...
This is the Huawei MateBook 14 2024 ushering the lineup into the OLED realm. It's a solid upgrade over the MateBook 14 2023 and the 450-nit OLED panel that replaces a 300-nit IPS LCD is just one of them. This is also the first stylus-compatible MateBook. Last year's model ran an i7-1360P - this year's model packs a more efficient and much faster Core 7 Ultra 155H. Huawei also made this year's model lighter than its predecessor. The laptop ships with a 65W charger with a built-in USB-C cable, and you can spec the machine with an Ultra 5 125H or Core Ultra 7 155H with 16GB of RAM,...
Apple's iPhone 16 family launched last month and one of the standout new features on all four devices is the new Camera Control button, which Apple hilariously refuses to call a button. The company is so proud of what it's done with the Camera Control button that it's put out a new ad today that is all about this one feature, showcasing everything you can do with it. You can obviously use the Camera Control to control the camera. Swiping over the button lets you pick what you want to do, and one of the things you can do is use it to control zoom amount. And of course you can take...
Xiaomi is expected to unveil the 15 and 15 Pro smartphones on October 20, at an event in China. Today we have our first look at the Xiaomi 15 Pro courtesy of some leaked renders showing the device in three colors - black, white, and silver. A special titanium edition will also be available. The phone has a rear design that's quite reminiscent of its predecessor, the Xiaomi 14 Pro, which launched last year. The main difference is the LED flash array now being moved outside of the camera island. The Xiaomi 15 Pro is rumored to come with a 6.78-inch quad-curved AMOLED panel made by...
Realme launched the GT Neo6 back in May and it's already working on its successor. The GT Neo7's launch timeline has allegedly been accelerated, according to a tipster over on Weibo. The GT Neo7 is rumored to come with a "1.5K" flat "gaming" screen, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading Version (which has been ruling AnTuTu for a while now), a large battery, and support for 100W fast wired charging. Realme GT Neo6 It's unclear what is meant by a "gaming screen" - maybe a 144 Hz refresh rate? But this device could very well be aimed at gamers, especially with its use of that higher binned...
The Redmi Note 14 Pro+ got official on September 26, and promptly entered AnTuTu's monthly chart for upper-midrange devices in the tenth spot. The phone went on sale immediately, and today the Xiaomi sub-brand is boasting a very impressive feat it's achieved. Apparently the Redmi Note 14 Pro+ broke a record for first-week sales. Machine translation from Chinese isn't very helpful at explaining exactly what record we're talking about. It seems to be implying that it's a record sales number for any Android phone, not just Redmis, but then there's a caveat regarding price. So we assume...
MediaTek is officially unveiling its next flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9400, on October 9. Ahead of that, the chip has already overtaken Apple's A18 chip in a GPU benchmark, and topped the AnTuTu scales. Today courtesy of prolific Chinese leakster Digital Chat Station we get purported details about its CPU cores. According to DCS, the Dimensity 9400 will have one Cortex-X925 super-large core clocked at up to 3.626 GHz, three Cortex-X4 large cores, and four Cortex-A720 cores, though the latter could be a typo since Cortex-A725 are the latest designs from Arm. Anyway, DCS says the...
Verified checkmarks used to be a status symbol before Elon Musk ruined everything by allowing the plebs to purchase said status. Google, however, might be bringing back the status symbol nature of verified checkmarks, as it seems intent on introducing them to its search results. This is only a test at the moment, which only a limited subset of Google users are seeing. But what they are seeing will definitely seem familiar to anyone who's been on a social media site in the past few years. The checkmarks are blue and show up next to business links, which makes this a case of good...
We had a brief encounter the other day, but now that it hit the shelves we managed to grab a Samsung Galaxy S24 FE unit to review. But before handing it over to the review team let's do a quick unboxing. There's not much in the retail package, to be honest. The phones ships with a USB-C cable and a SIM tool, packaged in a typical black box. If it's good enough for the Galaxy S24 Ultra - it's good enough for the FE, we guess. We have the base model 8/2128GB in Yellow - what we'd expect most users would go for - the S24 FE is supposed to be the value-for-money option after all. The...