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Honor enjoyed a great 2025! It's been hard to find any losers in the maker's lineup, thanks to thoughtful upgrades and great deals throughout the year. Let's look at how it did. Winner: Honor Pad X9a and MagicPad 3 Honor made a few solid tablets in 2025, but the affordable Pad X9a and flagship MagicPad 3 were able to stamp their authority on markets such as Malaysia, where Honor was the number one tablet maker! Honor made both tablets competitive starting from the specs page, and then bolstered their sales with regular promos. Winner: Honor 400 and 400 Pro The Honor...

Back in May, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's startup io (yes that's really how it's spelled), part of his LoveFrom creative design company. io was working on a secretive hardware product, and now a new rumor tells us what it is. A pen. Obviously, this will be no ordinary pen. A past report described it as "contextually aware", and io is now part of OpenAI, so this will definitely be an AI pen. What will it do? Your guess is as good as ours. Interestingly, this will be just the first hardware product from OpenAI, but the company is working on two more, of which one is said to be a "to-go"...

Oppo launched the Reno15 and Reno15 Pro in China in November, and their global release is undoubtedly coming soon, but which device you'll be getting under what name may heavily depend on where you're located. The Google Play Console's Supported Devices List now has two listings for the Reno15 Pro 5G with model numbers CPH2811 and CPH2813. So far so good, these are probably regional variants. But here's the twist: the CPH2811 will also be known in some places as the oft-rumored Reno15 Pro Max 5G, while the CPH2813 will also be sold as the Reno15 Pro Mini 5G in other parts of the...

OnePlus is unveiling the Turbo 6 and Turbo 6V on January 8, and the brand has already revealed some of their specs a few days ago, along with two videos. Now OnePlus has also confirmed the handsets' oft-rumored 9,000 mAh battery capacity, along with an interesting detail. The Turbo 6's camera island protrudes just 1.7mm on top of its rear. It's not quite flush, RedMagic-style, but very, very close. Obviously, the Turbo line isn't focused on camera quality (one could argue none of OnePlus' recent devices are), which allows for such small camera island protrusions, but this is still a...

Samsung’s upcoming premium A-series smartphone, the Galaxy A57, will reportedly sport a flexible OLED display for the first time. According to a report, the panel will be supplied by Chinese display manufacturer CSOT. While CSOT won’t be the sole supplier of the flexible OLED panels for the Galaxy A57, this would mark the first time Samsung is set to source displays from a manufacturer other than its in-house Samsung Display. The Galaxy A56 features a 6.7-inch AMOLED display. However, Samsung Display is said to supply more units than CSOT. A flexible OLED panel would mean that the...

Motorola has already upgraded a bunch of its devices to Android 16, but not the Edge 50 Neo, at least not yet. This will, however, thankfully change soon, as the company has now revealed when we should expect Android 16 to roll out to the Edge 50 Neo. [#InlinePriceWidget,13224,1#] It will happen by the end of January, so there are only a few weeks left to wait, at most. The information comes from Motorola India, replying to a user on Reddit about the update situation for the Edge 50 Neo. Motorola launched the Edge 50 Neo in August 2024, running Android 14. It has so far received...

Introduction Motorola had a strong year thanks to its Razr foldables, however, the direction of the Edge series left something to be desired. The brand is one of the few available in the US outside of the Apple-Google-Samsung trinity and shouldn’t be overlooked, even when it doesn’t get things 100% right. Motorola’s mostly clean Android implementation and the advanced connectivity features (even on some lower-end models) add to what are already some of the better value-for-money phones on the market. Winners: Motorola Razr series The Razr 60 series – or as it is known in the US,...

Back in September we heard that Honor was going to outfit the upcoming Magic V6 foldable smartphone with a 200MP main camera, as part of a more general push for all of its future high-end devices. Today a new rumor from Weibo confirms this, reiterating that the Magic V6 will indeed have a 200MP camera. In addition, today's source claims that all upcoming Chinese foldable devices will have at least one 200MP camera. Honor Magic V5 The Magic V5 was unveiled in July, so its successor might still be a way off at this point. According to a previous rumor, the Magic V6 will use the...

To kick off the new year in style, nubia has announced the RedMagic 11 Pro+ Golden Saga edition. This special edition ups the ante with premium materials, including a gold-plated liquid cooling system. The RedMagic 11 Pro+ was originally unveiled in China in October last year. The new Golden Saga edition features a supercar-grade carbon fiber rear panel with a sapphire glass on top and a metal frame with a mirror silver finish. Apart from the use of new materials for the body of the phone, you’ll also find a gold-plated vapor chamber, air ducts with gold and silver accents, and a...

The Redmi Turbo 5 Pro has long been rumored to sport a 9,000 mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging, and while the cell's capacity still isn't confirmed, the charging spec now is. That's thanks to a new certification in China by 3C, which reveals that the Redmi Turbo 5 Pro, with the model number 2602BRT18C, does indeed support 100W wired charging. The phone was recently rumored to employ the yet-unannounced Dimensity 9500e chipset, likely a low-bin version of the 9500. The Redmi Turbo 5 Pro should also have an LTPS OLED screen with "1.5K" resolution, an ultrasonic...