Realme is launching the GT 8 Pro alongside the GT 8 in October, and before that the flagship model has received its certification for sale in China. This has revealed its support for 120W wired charging, and according to rumors on Weibo, the phone will also support wireless charging and will have a large battery with a capacity starting with the number 7. So it's not going to hit 8,000 mAh as previously rumored, but even 7,000 mAh is obviously nothing to scoff at. The charging spec is identical to its predecessor's, which is good because some past rumors did claim it would go down...
The Xiaomi Pad Mini is the first compact tablet under Xiaomi's own brand name for some time. Despite its smaller size, the Pad Mini is a premium tablet and more than ready to duke it out with the likes of the Apple iPad mini. Our review unit is the Grey version and comes in the 12/512 GB configuration. It ships with a USB-A to USB-C cable and a 67W charger. You can get the Pad Mini with Xiaomi's Focus Pen and the Pad Mini Cover. The Cover comes in a single white color. It has a 1.3mm PC shell, combined with a 0.5mm softer PU layer. The functional Mini Cover The...
Today Meta has announced that ad-free subscriptions for both Facebook and Instagram are going to become available in the UK "over the coming weeks". These will give you the option to pay a fee to stop seeing ads on either service. The subscription cost will be £2.99 per month on the web and £3.99 per month if you subscribe on iOS or Android. The latter is more expensive because of the fees that Apple and Google charge through their stores. These prices are for the first account listed in your Account Center. For every subsequent one, you only pay £2 (on the web) or £3 (on iOS or...
Samsung's Galaxy S25 FE launched earlier this month, and now it's already receiving its first software update. This is rolling out in both Asia and Europe, and it brings with it the September security patch. [#InlinePriceWidget,14042,1#] Aside from that, you get stock price updates in the Now Bar (for stocks you've previously added to Google Finance), although it seems like only "big price changes" will appear in the Now Bar, whatever that means. Samsung also promises that "device behavior has been improved" without going into more details. The usual stability and reliability...
Samsung's Galaxy S25 FE launched earlier this month, and now it's already receiving its first software update. This is rolling out in both Asia and Europe, and it brings with it the September security patch. [#InlinePriceWidget,14042,1#] Aside from that, you get stock price updates in the Now Bar (for stocks you've previously added to Google Finance), although it seems like only "big price changes" will appear in the Now Bar, whatever that means. Samsung also promises that "device behavior has been improved" without going into more details. The usual stability and reliability...
The first phones with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 have already been announced, but they are not available just yet. That said, we have a prototype device on hand that we can use for the first round of benchmarks. We can't show it to you yet, but here's a sneak peek at the Realme GT 8 Pro prototype: Let’s get a closer look at the chip first. The 8-core CPU features third-generation Oryon cores – two big ones and six medium. The big cores can reach new heights in terms of smartphone clock speed, going up to 4.61GHz. Overall, the CPU is expected to deliver a 20% performance...
Allstate Protection Plans evaluated how durable the new iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro are with some more scientific drop and bend tests. The purpose of the test was to assess how the new designs have affected durability and provide people with a sense of what might happen during everyday use. Starting with the bend, the iPhone 17 Pro withstood more than 90 kg of pressure, while the Air bent at 86 kg of pressure, despite being only 5.6 mm thick. Both devices remained functional after being bent, and testers say this is more than any scenario under everyday use would demand. It's clear...
Samsung is rumored to be launching the Galaxy S26 family (most likely in January) running One UI 8.5. A few days ago we got our first look at the design changes coming in this upcoming release, and today courtesy of a teardown of a One UI 8.5 build there's additional news about a new feature that will be built in. We're talking about the ability to double tap the back of the phone to perform an action. This has been available in some other Android skins for quite a while now, and in fact you can even get it in One UI, but only using the Good Lock app, the functionality isn't built right...
The Realme Watch 5 leaked at the beginning of this month, and now it's finally official, listed on Realme's official website in all its glory. Realme Watch 5 official images The watch comes with advertised 14-day battery life from its 460 mAh battery, which of course tells you it's running proprietary software and not Google's Wear OS. The watch has a 1.97" rectangular AMOLED screen with 390x450 resolution, 60Hz refresh rate, and 600-nit peak brightness, 108 sports modes, over 300 watch faces to choose from, GPS and GNSS, support for NFC payments, a heart rate monitor, blood...