Apple Loop: iPhone 18 Pro Dates Confirmed, Mac Mini And Mac Studio Revealed, A Surprise Upgrade

This week’s Apple headlines: iPhone 18 Pro launch confirmed, new Mac Mini and Mac Studio, iPad Mini’s OLED option, Apple Maps adverts, an updated polishing cloth and more…

Nokia’s 300 Charge Is the Cool Retro Phone You Won’t Be Using in the US

The unavailability of the phone due to its 2G networking may drive fans of retro-styled phones to look at other options.

Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else
Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store’s role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limits for apps, in order “to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware […]

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software

The Fan Edition phones are rarely Samsung’s most exciting launches of the year, but the new Galaxy S26 FE feels especially familiar. Hardware-wise, little has changed since the S25 FE launched 12 months ago, and the upgrades have mostly come in the form of software tricks which themselves were already seen on this year’s previous […]

Xiaomi’s new Redmi phone lasts for three days on a single charge
Xiaomi’s new Redmi phone lasts for three days on a single charge

The 9,210mAh dual-cell battery in the new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the biggest that Xiaomi has fit in any phone it’s sold in Europe – and remarkably, in some other markets the phone comes with an even larger 10,000mAh single-cell design. As you can probably guess, this is a silicon-carbon battery either way, […]

Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen
Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android’s built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper “while Nothing’s predominantly monochrome character […]

The TCL Note A1 is a kinder, gentler tablet
The TCL Note A1 is a kinder, gentler tablet

Without thinking, I scribbled over what I’d just written. It’s what I would have done if I was writing with pen and paper. But I didn’t have a pen in my hand; my canvas was an LCD and the letters on my page were just pixels. Score one point to the TCL Note A1. TCL’s […]

Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight
Amazon raised its device prices by up to 60% overnight

Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in the range, and they were not announced. Fortune reported the change across the hardware line. Pocket-lint had reported the Fire TV in…

De-Googled GrapheneOS is coming to Motorola’s foldables next year
De-Googled GrapheneOS is coming to Motorola’s foldables next year

GrapheneOS, an open source version of Android that prioritizes security and privacy, has detailed its plans for supporting Motorola smartphones. Official support is set to arrive next year, starting with traditional flagships, before rolling out to Motorola’s foldable phones and perhaps cheaper models, eventually. In a Mastodon thread, the GrapheneOS Foundation announced that it will […]

iPhone 18 Pro Release Date Has Already Crushed The Competition

Apple’s September 9th release date for the iPhone 18 Pro squeezes Android rivals out of the holiday launch window and dominates carrier upgrade cycles.