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The rising cost of memory chips in the last year or so has forced manufacturers of electronic goods to come up with various strategies to offset the burden, especially smartphone makers that have a portfolio of low-end to mid-range devices. Bumping up the price of more affordable devices could potentially spell trouble. This doesn't necessarily apply to the high-end smartphones, where manufacturers are more inclined to shift the cost to consumers. A report from a Korean publication DealSite suggests that Samsung swapped out its homemade OLED panels in some of its mid-range models,...

Honor is on a roll with its announcements, and the latest addition to its X-series smartphone lineup is a refresh of the toughened battery champion Honor X70, which was launched back in July. Honor also unveiled its latest fitness-oriented smartwatch - the Watch X5i, which brings 1.97-inch AMOLED and up to 21 days of battery endurance. Honor X70 Refresh Edition The X70 Refresh Edition has three changes: 1) it comes in a new Sunrise Gold color, 2) ships with MagicOS 10 based on Android 16, and 3) is CNY 300 ($44) more expensive than the regular Honor X70. As for the rest of the...

Yesterday, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy A27 was spotted in the Geekbench online database, and this has revealed the fact that it's powered by the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 SoC, which will be paired with 6GB of RAM in one version. Today a new rumor claims the Galaxy A27 won't just be switching SoCs from the Samsung-made Exynos line to the aforementioned Qualcomm Snapdragon. It will also allegedly feature an upgraded selfie camera. Samsung Galaxy A26 This will have 12MP resolution, which is a tiny bit lower than the 13MP of its predecessor, but it should be better quality and take better...

Yesterday, Honor launched the Play 80 Pro in China, and the vanilla Honor Play 80 has now joined it. The Honor Play 80 has a 6.75-inch LCD screen with 720x1600 resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. It's powered by the 5G-capable MediaTek Dimensity 6300 SoC, and like the Pro it disappointingly (for 2026) runs Android 15 with Honor's MagicOS 9 on top. It comes with a 13MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera. Honor Play 80 official images Keeping the lights on is a 5,300 mAh battery with support for 15W wired charging. The phone measures 167 x 77 x 7.89 mm and weighs 186g. It's...

Apple launched the second-generation AirTag back in January, and now the tracker is receiving a firmware update. This takes the tracker's firmware up to version 3.0.45. It comes with the usual unnamed bug fixes and improvements, along with an update to the unwanted tracking feature (aka anti-stalking). The unwanted tracking sound is now updated in order to more easily be able to locate an unknown AirTag with Precision Finding. Basically, if you're being stalked with an AirTag, you'll receive a notification on your iPhone saying an unknown AirTag has been traveling with you, and you...

In late March, Honor started teasing the upcoming 600 series in Malaysia, and today the brand is continuing the teaser campaign on its global X account. The post associated with the images you can see below reads "get ready for an epic upgrade", which makes us think we should expect the 600 series to be well above the 500 series. Honor 600 series new teasers As you can see, Honor promises a new ultra-thin design, long-lasting endurance, and an "entirely fluid experience". Camera-wise, we're apparently getting "flagship-level details" at night, and this is all powered by a...

A little over two weeks after their announcement and one week after they went on pre-order, Apple’s AirPods Max 2 are now on open sale from Apple and partnering retailers. Pre-orders placed last week are now arriving to customers. Apple’s official US store has the headphones in stock for online deliveries as well as in-store pickup. Apple stores in other regions, like the UK and Germany, require a 1 business day wait. Retailers like Amazon also have the AirPods Max 2 in stock in the US, but the German and UK branches are temporarily out of stock. Amazon India has limited...

The vivo V70 FE has made its way to India, following its debut in Indonesia early last month. The device offers the same specifications as the global variant. It joins the standard V70 and V70 Elite in the country. vivo’s latest V-series handset is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7360 Turbo chipset, which is paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. It sports a 6.83-inch AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 120Hz, 1.5K resolution, and a peak brightness of 1,900 nits. The V70 FE offers a 200MP primary rear camera with OIS, paired with an 8MP ultrawide...

The latest addition to Honor’s X-series is now live in China with the Honor X80i. It brings a bright 120Hz AMOLED display, a 7,000mAh battery with 45W charging and is the first phone to launch with MediaTek’s Dimensity 6500 chipset. Strangely enough, MediaTek has not officially announced the Dimensity 6500, but Honor’s listing reveals a few key details. It features an eight-core CPU with 2x Cortex-A76 cores running at 2.6GHz alongside 6x Cortex-A55 units at 2.0GHz. We also get confirmation that the chip is equipped with a Mali-G57 MC2 GPU just like the Dimensity 6400 and its...

vivo recently launched its X300 Ultra and X300s smartphones in China, alongside redesigned 200mm and 400mm teleconverters. The 200mm lens is dubbed the G2, while the 400mm is marketed as the G2 Ultra. The company has now revealed the compatibility list for these new external lenses. The vivo Zeiss G2 teleconverter is priced at CNY 999 ($145) in China and is compatible with the newly launched X300 Ultra and X300s. It will also work with the X300 Pro, X300, and the X200 Ultra. The G2 Ultra 400mm and G2 200mm teleconverters. Meanwhile, the older 2.35x teleconverter, originally...