The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s friction
The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s friction

What do you want from a flip phone when it’s closed? A simple interface, perhaps notifications and a widget or two, for handling the basics? Or a fully fledged Android experience shrunk down for the Flip form factor? For years, Samsung has insisted on the former, even as some fans – and Razr rival Motorola […]

Should John Ternus Move Apple’s Focus Away From Annual iPhone Upgrades?

As John Ternus steps in as Apple CEO, slowing iPhone hardware growth means recurring subscription services must power Apple’s next era of financial expansion.

Android Circuit: Pixel 11 Pro Benchmarks, Galaxy S26 FE Launch, Falling Smartphone Sales

This week’s Android headlines: Pixel 11 Pro performance, Galaxy S26 FE launched, Galaxy Buds Pro award, Galaxy S27 Ultra specs leak, Poco F9 Pro launch date and more…

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 […]