Apple Loop: iPhone 18 Pro Pricing, Mystery AirPods Update, iPhone Ultra Delayed

This week’s Apple headlines: iPhone 18 Pro release date, Apple warns of price rises, iPhone Ultra delayed, Mac’s Intel story, Apple Music’s Top Twenty and more…

Android Circuit: Android 17 Arrives, Galaxy S27 Details, Shrinking Smartphone Market

This week’s Android headlines: Android 17 launch, Galaxy S27 details, Oppo Find N6 released, Gemini powers new Google Home Speaker, Honor’s bigger battery and more…

Nothing cancels this year’s CMF phone due to RAM prices
Nothing cancels this year’s CMF phone due to RAM prices

Nothing’s next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won’t be coming this year: We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can’t build […]

As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit
As Jio files for India’s biggest-ever IPO, it’s planning a Starlink rival in orbit

At its annual shareholder meeting on Friday, Reliance unveiled two things at once: paperwork for what could be India’s biggest-ever stock-market listing, and a plan to put a Starlink rival into orbit. Jio Platforms, the digital and telecom arm of Mukes…

AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.
AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.

For a year, AI’s hunger for memory chips was a price story: your next laptop or phone would cost more. This week it became a product story. Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro, with a co-founder saying the company could not build a budget …

T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’
T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile’s media relations manager. If you’ve been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you’ll know that Trump Mobile doesn’t exactly keep open lines of […]

Life360 now lets parents order Uber rides for teens without leaving the app
Life360 now lets parents order Uber rides for teens without leaving the app

Life360 and Uber launched an integration that lets parents request and coordinate Uber rides for teens and other family members directly inside the Life360 app. Parents can tap a family member’s real-time location on the Life360 map, and the pickup det…

Apple CEO Warns Your Next iPhone Could Be More Expensive

Apple is facing rising silicon costs as the world rushes towards AI. That’s going to force price rises across the board, including the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro.

The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.
The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.

The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Donald Trump’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year ago, the pitch was a gold-coloured handset with an iPhone resemblance, proudly made in the US. What shipped is a rebranded H…

ROG Xbox Ally X20 Interview: The Long-Awaited OLED Finally Arrives

Asus’ Republic of Gamers has announced an update to its portable console, in the ROG Xbox Ally X20, which features the long-awaited OLED display and a bonus AR solution.