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The HMD Vibe 2 5G is set to launch in India on May 21. Ahead of its debut, the company has already confirmed a few key specifications. Now, a tipster has revealed the phone’s expected price along with additional hardware details. According to the tipster, the Vibe 2 5G will be powered by the Unisoc T8200 chipset, paired with up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The smartphone is tipped to feature a 6.75-inch LCD display with a 120Hz refresh rate and HD+ resolution. It is also said to carry an IP64 rating for dust and splash resistance. HMD has already confirmed that...

The vivo X300 Ultra and X300 FE, introduced in India last week, will go on sale in the country today through vivo's official Indian website, Amazon.in, Flipkart, and leading retail partner outlets. The vivo X300 Ultra comes in Eclipse Black and Victory Green colors in India, but only has one memory option - 16GB/512GB, priced at INR159,999. Its Photography Kit - including the X300 Ultra, a 400mm Equivalent vivo ZEISS Telephoto Extender Gen 2 Ultra, a 200mm Equivalent vivo ZEISS Telephoto Extender Gen 2, and a vivo Imaging Grip - is priced at INR209,999. vivo X300 Ultra's color...

Yesterday, Google announced Gemini Intelligence, a suite of features that it said would become available on the Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 devices "this summer". Now a new report from Korea claims that Gemini Intelligence will actually launch on the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Flip8 (and probably also the Samsung Wide Fold if it gets unveiled at the same time as those two). Presumably it would then arrive on the S26 and Pixel 10 families afterwards. This wouldn't be a surprising move as the cooperation between Samsung and Google has gotten ever closer over these past few...

Samsung has just released the latest update for the Penup drawing app for its Galaxy smartphones. This is available now in the Galaxy Store with version number 3.9.22.23. It brings with it a bunch of new features. First up, there's a new brush. Then, support for dual brush has been added. You can export files as drafts, and the Lasso tool now comes with an auto-selection option. Landscape mode is finally supported as well, and you can sync with your Samsung account. Latest Samsung Penup update You can get the latest version of Penup by going to the Galaxy Store app, hitting...

Instagram today is introducing Instants, which is both a feature and an app. Instants is billed as "a new way to share in the moment - with spontaneous, unfiltered photos" that go out to your friends. These are ephemeral to viewers, but are saved in your archive for up to a year and can be reshared as a recap to Stories. Your friends can react and reply, with replies going straight to your DMs. The new Instants "companion app" provides quicker camera access for the feature and is now rolling out to iOS and Android "in select countries". So Instants is basically just a...

Today, WhatsApp has announced the introduction of incognito chats with Meta AI. As the name implies, these are private chats with the Meta chatbot inside WhatsApp. And when we say private, we mean "truly private", as Meta bills them - no one can read these chats, not even Meta (if you take their word for it, of course). Interestingly, Meta says other incognito-style modes for competing AI chatbots can't compete because the makers of those chatbots "can still see the questions coming in and the answers going out". On the other hand, incognito chats with Meta AI are...

The Amazon Fire phone, launched in 2014, was an unmitigated disaster for the company, and it's been keeping its distance from the space ever since. However, back in March a report surfaced claiming the company was developing an AI-powered phone. If you've been anxiously expecting it to happen, we have some bad news. According to Amazon's boss for consumer electronics Panos Panay, Amazon isn't "necessarily" doing a phone, since "there's no clear path that makes sense" for the company in this space right now. He didn't fully, 100%, black-on-white deny it, though, so do keep that in...

Apple is unveiling iOS 27 on June 8, and a new report from the usually very reliable Mark Gurman at Bloomberg brings us more details about it. According to him, the camera app will become customizable in iOS 27. You will be able to choose which features you want to see in the app and where they're placed. This includes the controls for the flash, exposure, the timer, night mode, live photos, and the resolution, apparently. You will get a new Siri mode in the camera app as well, alongside the usual photo and video options. This will let you use its Visual Intelligence abilities to...

Yesterday, Samsung announced the rollout of the One UI 9 beta program, and today it's added some more details. Meanwhile, the first One UI 9 beta build is now available for the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra in Germany and the UK. It comes in the form of version S94xBXXU2ZZEF, where the "x" is different depending on the exact phone you have. It's a 3.6GB download, so if you want to enter the beta program and grab this, make sure you do so on a fast enough network. Samsung One UI 9 beta update screenshots The build brings with it the May 2026 security patch level, a more...

Following its announcement last June, the T1 Phone from Trump Mobile is actually set to begin shipping to its first customers later this week. The news was confirmed by Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien in an exclusive report for USA Today. The piece also includes some images of the device and a teaser video, all of which may or may not be AI-generated. For reference, the T1 Phone was supposed to launch in August of last year. That was then pushed to October and eventually to “later this year”. Obviously, none of those dates materialized, and the phone itself went through several spec...