Gemini can now generate files for you

Google's Gemini can now easily generate files for you. Supported formats are: Workspace files (Docs, Sheets and Slides), .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .csv, LaTeX, Plain Text (TXT), Rich Text Format (RTF) and Markdown (MD). This feature is now available globally to all Gemini users. All you need is a prompt and Gemini will generate the file you want. Google says this new feature "will allow you to easily move your work into different applications" without the need to copy, paste, and reformat. For most of the supported formats, once Gemini has created the file you asked it for,...

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Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra to have fewer cameras than its predecessor

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S27 series has recently been rumored to arrive with a big design overhaul - moving the camera island. In fact, the Galaxy S27 Ultra could look something like this: This is not a leaked image, it's just a speculative render based on the aforementioned rumor. From the same source, the prolific Ice Universe, comes another revelation: Samsung is going to be changing the S27 Ultra in the actual camera department too, not just the location of the camera island. Apparently, the 3x telephoto camera from the S26 Ultra (and its predecessors) will be gone in the S27...

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Moto Buds 2 Plus arrive with Dynamic ANC, 9-hour battery life, Sound by Bose

Alongside the three new 2026 Razrs, the Moto G87, G47, G37, and G37 Power, Motorola has also introduced the Moto Buds 2 Plus TWS earbuds. These will go on sale later today at Motorola.com for $149.99. They are obviously the successors to the original Moto Buds+, launched back in 2024, and they're $50 cheaper than those. Like their predecessors, the Moto Buds 2 Plus feature sound by Bose, which still strikes us as odd - Bose makes its own TWS earbuds, after all, and these are competing in the same space (though not at the same price, granted). Anyway, the new Moto earbuds sport 11mm...

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Dreame talks about its smartphones again without revealing any specs

As Dreame is headed towards an IPO, most likely in the US, aiming to raise tons of money, the company has recently 'diversified' its range of products to make itself more interesting to investors. We say 'diversified' quote-unquote because vaguely talking about things doesn't really count as launching them. Case in point: the smartphones. These were first talked about in China in February, then the company upped the ante by talking about gold phones in March. It's already the end of April and no specs have been revealed for any of them, but you'll be happy to hear that Dreame has once...

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Oppo Reno16 Pro global variant’s key specs and launch timeline tipped

Last week, a tipster revealed the key specifications of the China-bound Oppo Reno16 Pro. Now, another source has shared details about the global variant, including its key specs and expected launch timeline. The device will succeed the global Reno15 Pro, which debuted in January this year. According to the tipster, the Reno16 Pro for global markets will be unveiled between July and August. Oppo Reno15 Pro (global) The tipster claims that the phone will come with a 6.32-inch OLED display, similar to its predecessor. It is said to offer a glass and aluminum build. The Reno16 Pro...

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Laptops sold in the EU now required to ship with USB-C charging

The European Union’s common charger directive came into effect back in December of 2024 and required most new portable electronic devices to ship with a unified USB-C connector. Back then, the EU Commission extended the transition for laptop manufacturers by an extra 16 months, and the grace period officially expired yesterday, April 28. This means that all new laptops sold in the European Union are now required by law to feature at least one USB-C port for charging. The directive specifies that all laptops with a 100W or lower power rating are required to transition to USB-C charging....

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Motorola unveils the 2026 Razr 70, Razr 70 Plus, and Razr 70 Ultra

Right on time and as promised, today Motorola has announced the new, 2026 versions of the Razr, Razr+, and Razr Ultra for the North American market. These will be known internationally as the Razr 70, Razr 70 Plus, and Razr 70 Ultra, respectively. Let's take them one by one. Motorola Razr 2026 / Razr 70 This device comes with a 6.9-inch main folding LTPO AMOLED screen with 1080x2640 resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 3,000-nit peak brightness, and a 3.6-inch LTPS AMOLED cover display with 1056x1066 resolution, a 90Hz refresh rate, and 1,700-nit peak...

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Honor teases its upcoming Watch 6 Plus with 35 days of battery life

Honor is preparing to announce its Watch 6 Plus smartwatch in the coming days or weeks, and to hype people up, the company shared a teaser poster, revealing the design and sharing a few key new features. Honor Watch 6 Plus teaser poster First off, the design doesn't seem to be all that different compared to the Honor Watch 5 Ultra, but it does bring an improved battery life thanks to a larger battery. Honor markets 35 days of battery life, which, if true, will offer one of the longest battery lives in the industry, falling short only of certain Garmin smartwatches. In addition to...

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Samsung Galaxy Buds4 Pro receive first firmware update

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro received a new software update, which brings minor stability improvements. Buds 4 Pro received the R640XXU0AZD2 update in South Korea, which comes in at 8.55MB. As you can imagine, this is a minor update meant to iron out any bugs related to general connectivity. The update is expected to make its way to more regions in the coming days. Galaxy Buds4 are also expected to get the same update in the coming days. For more details on the Buds4 Pro, check out our recent review, which covers their key specs, sound quality, battery life and more. Source (in...

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The European Commission thinks Android can be more open to third-party AI services

Android is designated as a gatekeeper under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and as such is required to offer equal access to key features of phones and tablets to third-party companies. The European Commission feels that Alphabet (Google) hasn’t done enough and has kept some features related to AI exclusive to its own Gemini platform. The Commission has proposed changes to resolve the situation and has invited people to a public consultation. The discussion focuses on three key issues, quote: the ability of users to invoke AI-powered services via wake words the possibility...

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Samsung confirms the Galaxy Glasses name

Yesterday a leak brought us renders of Samsung's upcoming pair of smart glasses, and we obviously assumed these would be called Galaxy Glasses. Now, Samsung has pretty much confirmed this through an app update. We're talking about the Nearby Device Scanning app, which is part of Samsung's One UI on Galaxy phones and tablets, and ensures you can quickly connect to nearby devices - like the upcoming Galaxy Glasses. The second row of the app's latest changelog references "Glasses quick pair" as being supported, as well as "battery pop up" for them, as you can see in the first screenshot...

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Xiaomi releases open-weight MiMo-V2.5 AI model, claims "frontier-level agentic capability"

Xiaomi is the latest company to release an open-weight AI model – MiMo-V2.5 claims to be a “major step forward in agentic capability and multimodal understanding.” Xiaomi has shared various benchmark results that compare MiMo-V2.5 against the likes of the recently released DeepSeek-V4, Kimi K2.6, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Xiaomi’s older MiMo-V2-Pro. The company claims that MiMo-V2.5 achieved best-in-class performance on its in-house agentic tasks benchmark. On the internal MiMo Coding Bench, the smaller V2.5 model matched the larger V2.5-Pro at half the cost. In other...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Wide to have the same selfie camera improvement as the Fold8

A few days ago a rumor claimed that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 would have a smaller hole punch for the selfie camera on its cover display, and the difference was quite noticeable. Today, the same source claims to have confirmed the fact that the Galaxy Z Fold Wide (or whatever it ends up being called) will have a similarly small hole-punch for its cover display's selfie camera too. Both of these will apparently be the smallest hole punches Samsung's ever had on its foldables. The Galaxy Z Fold Wide is rumored to be unveiled right alongside the Fold8, most likely in July, at...

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vivo Y600 Pro arrives with 10,200mAh Si-C battery and Dimensity 7300e

In just two generations, vivo has nearly doubled the battery capacity of its Y-series Pro smartphones. The Y400 Pro, which launched last June, arrived with a 5,500mAh battery, which is pretty average for midrangers these days. The Y500 Pro followed in November with a significant bump up to 7,000mAh, but the freshly announced Y600 Pro makes them both feel tiny thanks to its 10,200mAh Si-C battery. That’s a full 38Wh battery inside a smartphone, and it features fourth-generation silicon anode technology with 15% silicon content and an energy density of 886Wh/L. Judging by the...

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Samsung India expands Finance+ plans to include home appliances

Samsung India is expanding its “Samsung Finance+” program to make it easier to buy new home appliances – ACs, fridges, microwaves, washing machines and so on. Finance+ is available even for first-time borrowers, including ones with no credit history. To get started, you will need to visit your nearest participating store and present your Aadhaar and PAN cards for identification. Samsung says that the process is quick and paperless – it will take you around five minutes. Once done, you will be able to buy appliances with various affordable Equated Monthly Installment (EMI) plans. The...

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Poco C81 Pro is here with a 6.9-inch display, 6,000mAh battery

Last week, Poco unveiled the C81 and C81x in India, featuring the Unisoc T7250 chipset. The company has now introduced the Poco C81 Pro in select global markets, which appears to be a C81 with a 6,000mAh battery and more storage. The Poco C81 Pro is powered by the Unisoc T7250 chipset, paired with 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM, same as the other C81 models. However, the Pro model gets up to 256GB of UFS 2.2 internal storage. It sports a 6.9-inch LCD display that has an HD+ resolution of 1600 x 720 pixels, up to 120Hz refresh rate, and 650 nits of typical brightness. The phone comes with a...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 17

The Samsung Galaxy A57's streak as the most popular phone in our database finally ended this week. Honor's new 600 Pro took advantage of its global launch to shoot to the top after just missing out last time around. The bronze medal went to one of the strongest contenders for cameraphone of the year - the Oppo Find X9 Ultra. [#InlinePriceWidget, 14379, 1#] Another Ultra is in fourth - the Galaxy S26 flagship having to settle for the first spot below the podium this time, followed by the Motorola Edge 70 Pro in fifth. The Poco X8 Pro Max slid to sixth, ahead of the Apple iPhone...

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Samsung Wallet's new Trips feature shows your travel timeline

Samsung has announced a new feature for Samsung Wallet today. It's called Trips and it "consolidates travel plans", "offering a single access point for all travel details - eliminating the need to juggle multiple apps and confirmations", according to the Korean company. The new section comes with a Trip timeline, which brings all travel-related plans together in a single view, "adding structure to busy itineraries and providing a smoother journey from start to finish". When you add eligible items to Samsung Wallet, Trips will group them together based on time and location. Trips...

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Google is rolling out a fully customizable Multiview in YouTube TV and testing new YouTube Live ads

Let’s start with YouTube TV first – the company’s live broadcast TV offering exclusive to the US. Users might know that the platform already has a Multiview feature that allows viewing two, three or even four channels all at once. Why? Well, besides brain-rot optimization, there are actually some practical use cases, like during a busy sports season when you want to keep an eye on multiple matches at once. Google knew that was the typical case and originally rolled out Multiview through “suggested” Multiview setups that the platform curated automatically for the user. Those are still...

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Samsung's domestic chip manufacturing gets disrupted briefly by a labor protest

We still don't know much about how the situation was handled or whether or not it was even amicably resolved, but Reuters reports that on April 23 and April 24, during the night shift from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., many workers in the Samsung factory complex in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, skipped work in order to protest. For reference, like pretty much every foundry out there, this facility works 24/7 on three shifts. Details, as we said, are scarce, but according to the workers' union, the attending workers demanded higher wages. While we don't know whether those demands were met or...

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Google Photos AI Enhance is now live for all users

Google seems to be working hard on expanding its editing options in Google Photos. We recently saw the online titan add a quick facial touch-up feature. Now another similar feature has gone live. It is a very simple and straightforward “AI Enhance” button that sits beside the Enhance and Dynamic buttons that were already present in the Auto tab in the image editor. We tried it for ourselves, and while it can restore highlights and shadows quite effectively and deal with common issues caused by bad lighting and boost colors slightly, it is nothing truly spectacular in any way....

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Samsung Galaxy Buds4 Pro review

Introduction and unboxing Samsung owns Harman, which is the parent company of several high-profile audio brands, many of which make headphones. Yet you will find very few Samsung-branded headphones outside of the Galaxy Buds series. The company hasn’t even released over-ear headphones in years – in short, Samsung is betting that the Galaxy TWS buds are the only headphones that most people need. We have the new Samsung Galaxy Buds4 Pro in our ears right now – they are the best of the three-tier structure that Samsung settled on (FE, vanilla and Pro). We think these are a notable...

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Weekly deals: Galaxy S26 series on discount, Pixel 10 and 10 Pro XL get big price cuts

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series has been on discount since it went on sale in early March. And it looks like there’s no stopping the price cuts. Meanwhile, the recently launched Galaxy A57 and Galaxy A37 are available with free gifts. Notably, a couple of Pixel phones, the OnePlus 15R, and a few Xiaomi devices have also received price cuts on Amazon UK. Samsung’s Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and the Galaxy S26 Ultra are all available with £170 off, plus users are eligible to save another £100 at checkout. Samsung Galaxy S26...

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This Galaxy S26 series feature is coming to some older Samsung smartphones

Samsung introduced a feature with the Galaxy S26 series, which is coming to some older Galaxy smartphones eligible for One UI 8.5. We are talking about the improved document scanning feature, called Document Scan. Previously, when you clicked multiple pictures of documents, they weren't saved as a single PDF document. Samsung made it possible with Document Scan, which is available to Samsung Galaxy S26 users. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Additionally, Samsung also made it easier to access Document Scan by allowing users to add its shortcut to their phone's homescreen. Just open the...

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OPPO Find X9 Ultra Hasselblad Earth Explorer Kit hands-on

This is the OPPO Find X9 Ultra Hasselblad Earth Explorer Kit, a fancy name for the Find X9 Ultra's photography kit. But a fancy name is fitting for such a fancy product. While vivo's X300 Ultra photography kit attaches either a 200mm or a 400mm teleconverter lens to the phone, the Oppo Hasselblad kit has a single option that sits in between - a 300mm lens. But it's a longer lens that gets longer still if you use the provided lens hood. Here's what's in the box. You get a case for the phone with a very compact built-in grip; the lens with a body cap, a lens cap, and a lens hood; a...

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Samsung Galaxy Book6 Edge with Snapdragon X2 Elite chip leaks

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book6 series of laptops at CES in January – those were powered by Intel’s new 18A Core Ultra Series 3 processors. There is an Edge model coming too – “Edge” is what Samsung calls its ARM-powered laptops. We know this because German retailer Cyberport jumped the gun and published the Samsung Galaxy Book6 Edge page on its online store. This appears to be the base 16” model with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. The whole kit costs a hefty €2,200. The laptop is powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite, specifically the X2E-88-100 variant. It is an 18-core CPU (of which 12...

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DeepSeek-V4 Preview launches with open weights and API access

Chinese AI company DeepSeek caused quite a stir last year as it climbed to the top of the App Store charts and beat out incumbents like ChatGPT. That was over a year ago and now the company has launched a preview of its latest and much more capable model dubbed DeepSeek-V4. If you have a DeepSeek account, you can try out the new model here: chat.deepseek.com/. There are two versions available, Expert and Instant. Expert is a massive 1.6 trillion parameter model, Instant is a more reasonable (but still huge) 284 billion parameter model. DeepSeek-V4 Pro and Flash models And here’s...

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Realme C100X gets listed in Europe and leaks in India, more details revealed

The upcoming Realme C100X first surfaced earlier this month, when it was said to be on its way to India as well as the EU. While the phone still isn't official, it has now been listed on both Amazon Italy and Amazon France. It will be available in Dark Blue and White Platinum, and the image you can see below is from the Amazon Italy listing and seems to actually portray the unannounced device. According to these listings, in the EU Realme will offer the C100X with 4GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The phone allegedly has a 6.8-inch LCD screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, a 50MP rear...

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Samsung's mobile division may be facing its first-ever annual loss because of crazy memory prices

Samsung’s MX division (which builds its smartphones) may be facing its first-ever annual loss – meanwhile, the folks over at Device Solutions (where the memory business is housed) posted guidance for a record-breaking Q1. You have already figured out that there is a single cause for these two events. To spell it out, the soaring prices of DRAM and NAND memory are eating into the margins. According to the analysts at Counterpoint, the bill of materials (BoM) for a flagship phone ($800+) is predicted to rise by $100-$150. Memory makes up the most with 23% of the total going towards RAM and...

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Google confirms: revamped Siri will be powered by Gemini

Back in January, Apple confirmed that Google's Gemini AI models would be powering the next evolution of Apple Intelligence, which is expected to be unveiled this June at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference. This should include a completely revamped Siri, and will hopefully ship in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 in the fall. Now, Google has also confirmed that this is happening, on stage during the Cloud Next 2026 conference that's currently taking place in Las Vegas. Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian said: Earlier this year, we announced a monumental partnership with one of the most...

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vivo Y6 5G unveiled with 7,200 mAh battery, Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC

After launching the Y6t a few days ago, now vivo has also made the Y6 5G official. It is powered by the same Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC as the Y6t. The Y6 5G comes in silver, gold, and black. It measures 166.64 x 78.43 x 8.39 mm and weighs 219g. It boasts a 6.75-inch 720x1570 LCD screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and 1,200-nit peak brightness, a 50MP rear camera, an 8MP front camera, and a 7,200 mAh battery with support for 44W wired charging. vivo Y6 5G official images The phone has 5G support, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner embedded into the power button, an IR blaster, and...

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Honor 600 in for review

Now that we've unboxed the Honor 600 Pro, it's time to do the same with the Honor 600. Just like the Pro, the Honor 600 ships with a USB cable and nothing more. You'd need to supply your own case and charger. So, how does the Honor 600 differ from its sibling? Well, from the outside, it doesn't really. The only telltale sign is the missing third camera lens on the back for the zoom camera - the Honor 600 only has a wide-angle and an ultrawide. On the upside, the 200MP main camera and the 12MP ultrawide are the same as those on the Pro. In the hand, the Honor 600 feels just as...

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Oppo Watch X3 Mini arrives with a smaller footprint than the Watch X3

Oppo launched the Watch X3 in China last month, and now it's unveiled the Watch X3 Mini to go along with it. As the name implies, this is smaller, and it probably won't surprise you to see that its design seems to be more blingy since that's usually what smartwatch makers assume will appeal more to women. We're not sure if that's true or not, but given the smaller size, that alone might make this a much better option for women than the 47mm Watch X3. The Watch X3 Mini has a 1.32-inch AMOLED screen with 466x466 resolution, 1,000-nit peak brightness, and a sapphire crystal on top. The watch...

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Microsoft drops Game Pass pricing after user complaints

Microsoft has announced that it is revising prices for its Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Two of the four plans will now be cheaper, but with some changes to their content. The company is changing the price of the most expensive Ultimate plan from $29.99 to $22.99. However, this plan will no longer get new Call of Duty titles at launch. Instead, they will become available during the following holiday season, about a year later. The existing Call of Duty titles will continue to be available. The PC Game Pass plan pricing is also being revised, and it will now cost $13.99...

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vivo Y600 Pro with a 10,200mAh battery is coming next week

After key specifications of the vivo Y600 Pro surfaced online yesterday, vivo has now officially confirmed the phone’s launch date and revealed a few details about the handset. The vivo Y600 Pro will be unveiled in China on April 27. It will be available in three color options and is confirmed to pack a massive 10,200mAh battery. The phone will support 90W wired fast charging and is claimed to deliver a standby time of 16.7 days. It is also said to offer over 24 hours of usage under light-usage conditions, and over 12 hours under heavy-load. vivo also confirmed that the Y600 Pro...

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Motorola Razr 70 listed ahead of announcement

Motorola’s next-gen Razr 70 series is expected to launch soon with no less than three members. Razr 70 will be one of them, and we stumbled across a listing by a Ukrainian retailer that has the phone on sale ahead of its official unveiling. The listing is complete with detailed renders, specs and pricing. As previously rumored, the Razr 70, which will be called the Razr 2026 in North America, features a 6.9-inch LTPO AMOLED main display with 2,640 x 1,080px resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. Motorola Razr 70 (aka Razr 2026) It is joined by a 3.6-inch AMOLED cover screen...

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Here's our best official look at the vivo X300 FE's green model coming to India, processor confirmed

Last week, vivo announced that it would launch the X300 Ultra and X300 FE in India soon, while also revealing that the X300 FE will be available in green in India. Now, the brand has posted a couple of images on its X account, giving us our best official look yet at the X300 FE's green model. vivo X300 FE in green Additionally, the images shared by vivo confirm that the Indian X300 FE will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC - the same chip that powers the global model. The Indian X300 Ultra is also likely to have the same chip as its global counterpart under the hood -...

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Redmi K90 Max arrives with Dimensity 9500, cooling fan and 8,500mAh Si-C battery with 100W charging

The Redmi K series is consistently pushing the envelope in terms of specs, and the just-announced Redmi K90 Max is the latest example. It arrives with a flagship chipset, a built-in cooling fan and a generous 8,500mAh Si-C battery with 100W charging. Redmi K90 Max The K90 Max brings MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 9500 chipset, armed with up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage. The chip is paired with a dedicated Xiaomi D2 graphics chip, with Redmi boasting a 4,161,374 score on AnTuTu v11. Redmi K90 Max brings a dedicated cooling fan and MediaTek's Dimensity 9500...

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Oppo Find X9 Ultra review

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Samsung brings the Galaxy S26 AI features to the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy Z Fold7

Samsung has released new updates to the One UI 8.5 beta for the Galaxy S24 family and the Galaxy Z Fold7 today. The updates include the new Galaxy AI features that debuted on the Galaxy S26 family a few weeks ago. We're talking about Creative Studio, Call Screening, the improved version of Photo Assist, and a better Audio Eraser. If you're already using the One UI 8.5 beta on your Galaxy S24 series device or the Galaxy Z Fold7, you will of course receive the new build as an over-the-air software update. If you haven't been notified about it yet, you can go to Settings > Software...

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Huawei Watch Fit 5 series announced

Huawei’s Watch Fit series just entered its fifth generation. Watch Fit 5 and Watch Fit 5 Pro were announced today at Huawei’s big launch event, which also saw the debut of the Pura X Max foldable, Pura 90 Pro series, as well as the Watch Buds 2 and Watch Ultimate Star Diamond Edition. Huawei Watch Fit 5 Pro Both Watch Fit 5 members bring familiar-looking designs, though the Fit 5 Pro gets slimmer bezels, which allowed Huawei to fit a larger 1.92-inch AMOLED touchscreen this time around. The Pro features 2.5D sapphire glass and 3,000 nits peak local brightness. The non-Pro...

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iPhone 18 Pro color options shown on leaked camera islands

The four colors in which the iPhone 18 Pro (and, presumably, the iPhone 18 Pro Max) will launch have been outed not long ago, but at that point we were only shown some Pantone hues. Now, a leaker from China is showing us these colors on the metal of the iPhone 18 Pro's camera island. You can see them in the image below. According to the previous leak, these will be called Dark Gray, Dark Cherry, Silver, and Light Blue. Dark Cherry is most likely the rumored hero color for the series, replacing Cosmic Orange, which was that but for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. It's been described...

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Huawei Pura 90 is also official with triple camera, 6,500mAh battery

Tagging along with the Pros is the Huawei Pura 90. And while it's not nearly as colorful as the Pura 90 Pro and 90 Pro Max, it packs a mightier battery and also has a conventional triple camera setup on the back. Let's dig in. The Huawei Pura 90 comes in Snow White, Velvet Black, and Roland Purple. The phone weighs just 210 grams and is impressively thin at 7.0mm. The Huawei Pura 90 in all three colors It has a large screen upfront, spanning 6.8 inches. The 2856x1320px panel is an LTPO 1-120Hz OLED with a 300Hz touch sampling rate. It's covered by Kunlun Glass. The phone...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 16

It's been four weeks of Samsung Galaxy A57 at the top of our trending chart and it faced its toughest challenge yet. The upcoming Honor 600 Pro got enough of you checking it out to place second as the company's teaser campaign went full throttle this week. [#InlinePriceWidget, 14379, 1#] The Galaxy S26 Ultra managed to retain its third spot, while the Poco X8 Pro Max slid down to fourth. We then have yet another upcoming phone in the Galaxy A27, while the Poco X8 Pro now sits in sixth. The iPhone 17 Pro Max came in seventh, followed by the vanilla member of Honor's upcoming...

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Motorola Moto G Stylus (2026) in for review

Motorola unveiled the Moto G Stylus (2026) at the beginning of April, and the phone went on sale earlier this week. So we're right on schedule to bring you a quick unboxing before we're off to review the phone. The Moto G Stylus (2026) is up for grabs on Amazon, Best Buy, and Motorola.com and costs $500. It ships with a USB cable and nothing more. That means you'd need to supply your own case and 68W charger. On the plus side, the phone has a pretty back panel that you don't need to cover up because Moto ensures the phone can handle some bumps and bruises, and it feels nicer...

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Weekly deals: Galaxy A37 and A57 launch, but Galaxy S25 FE and Pixel 10a present a challenge

It was a pretty uneventful week for the US smartphone market – the biggest (and worst) thing that happened is that Samsung hiked up the prices of several of its smartphone and tablet models. It’s not so bad, though, as you don’t actually have to pay the new MSRPs – we have better deals. Also this week, Samsung is finally launching the Galaxy A37 and A57. Starting with the Galaxy A57, we’re glad to see this one available early – the A56 took forever to launch in the US. As for the phone itself, it brings a slimmer, lighter frame (6.9mm, 179g vs. 7.4mm, 198g) with better water resistance...

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vivo X300 Ultra European price official, we unbox the Find X9 Ultra, week 16 in review

Huawei's Pura X Max foldable will debut in China on April 20. The wide-aspect foldable is shorter but brings wider screens, especially the unfolded one. It packs a triple rear camera, and will come in a range of colors - Interstellar Blue, Olive Gold, Phantom Night Black, Vibrant Orange, and Zero Degree White. The Pura X Max will arrive alongside the Pura 90 Pro series. Sony's Xperia 1 VIII will likely retain its 3.5mm headphone jack, per FCC certification, yay! Vivo launched its X300 Ultra and X300 FE on the global stage. The X300 Ultra will cost a whopping €2,000 in Europe for the...

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Weekly poll results: the vivo X300 Ultra is a great phone for those who can afford it

Earlier this week, vivo announced the start of the global rollout of the X300 Ultra and X300 FE with the exact date depending on the market – it’s April 24 for Spain, for example. Also, the X300 Ultra is now up on Amazon with an eye-watering price tag of €2,000 (16GB/1TB). Based on the results from last week’s poll, the vivo X300 Ultra will be one of the main challengers in the upcoming Ultra battle. The phone received a very warm welcome with one caveat – people are curious about the Oppo Find X9 Ultra, which will go global on April 21. The vivo X300 Pro didn’t offer much challenge,...

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Motorola will allow even more users to try out the new Android 17 beta this year

With Google releasing the first Android 17 beta version in February, it's now smartphone manufacturers' turn to kickstart their beta programs. Motorola was one of the first to jump on the bandwagon and is doing so with a longer list of devices compared to last year. In addition to the Motorola Edge (2025), Moto G57 and Moto G57 Power, the list of all Motorola devices has been updated with several new devices. Here they are: Motorola Razr+ (2025) [USA] Motorola Razr+ (2024) [USA] Motorola Razr 50 Ultra [India] Motorola Razr 50 Ultra [EMEA] Motorola Razr 50 Ultra...

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OnePlus Buds Ace 3 key specs and images surface online

OnePlus is expected to launch its budget-friendly TWS buds called Buds Ace 3 sometime this month, succeeding the Buds Ace 2 that debuted in late 2024. So in a sense, the Buds Ace 3 are a bit overdue. OnePlus Buds Ace 3 Ahead of the near release, OnePlus teased the headphones on Weibo, revealing key details and a press render. The headphones are also up on the Chinese Oppo online store, confirming the imminent launch. It looks like the Ace 3 brings the most upgrades in two departments - battery life and noise cancellation capabilities. The new buds are rated at up to 55 dB of...

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