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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Samsung's Galaxy S25 series has long been rumored to arrive with a price hike - in Europe, in Korea, and in India. Today a new report from Samsung's home of Korea details things a bit further. It's good news and bad news.The bad news is that a price hike is indeed coming, at least in Korea. The good news is that it will apparently only apply to the models with 512GB of storage. The 256GB versions will have the same launch price as their predecessors.The actual level of the price hike is even better news as it's rumored to be KRW 15,400, which at the current exchange rates...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Samsung uses the FE (aka "Fan Edition") line to bring out devices with decent high-end specs at lower prices than its proper flagships, and it now looks like Asus is a fan of this strategy.According to new certification documents from Malaysia and Thailand, Asus is working on the ROG Phone 9 FE, to complement the already available (even in the US now) ROG Phone 9 and ROG Phone 9 Pro.There's no doubt about the name, this appears in the certification documents very clearly. Unfortunately, specs for the FE model haven't been outed by these certifications, nor have there been any...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] The Infinix Smart 9 HD, unveiled last November, will launch in India on January 28. This revelation comes from Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, which set up a promo page on its website for the Smart 9 HD. The Infinix Smart 9 HD has four color options, but in India, you'll get three - Mint Green, Coral Gold, and Metallic Black. The smartphone will have an IP54 rating, and the video shared by Infinix India reveals the Indian model will come with a 6.7" 90Hz display and a 5,000 mAh battery. Assuming the rest of the specs remain unchanged, the Indian Infinix Smart 9 HD will come...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Yesterday Nothing wanted to steal some of Samsung's spotlight, and so it unleashed a cryptic Pokémon teaser. Today, Nothing is back at it, this time outing multiple pictures showing... something. WIP ???? pic.twitter.com/L3c5K356W0— Nothing (@nothing) January 23, 2025 To be more precise, we get a lot of white-on-black scribbles. These probably depict an upcoming Nothing product, but what it is is anyone's guess. pic.twitter.com/GUSBR0i0hU— Nothing (@nothing) January 23, 2025 Sure, upon first glance, this could be the back of a new smartphone, sporting Nothing's trademark...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] The Samsung Wallet app is getting some new functionality later this year. First off, it will support peer-to-peer payments. This will be called Tap to Transfer, and will let you transfer money to a different device by tapping that one and yours together. Think of it like Apple's Tap to Cash, but for Android and with support for third-party digital wallets built-in. This will work because it will be linked to the associated debit card or account, not to your Samsung Wallet. So the transaction itself will be handled through Mastercard and Visa. Next up, Instant Installment - Samsung's...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ByteDance currently has until April 5, 2025 to divest its stake in TikTok to a US-based company as per US President Donald Trump’s executive order from earlier this week. While the app is still available to use freely in the US, it’s been removed from the App Store and Google Play. There are plenty of suitors ready to buy TikTok but one ByteDance board member believes there’s still a chance for a solution that does not involve selling the social media app. Bill Ford, who serves as chairman and CEO of General Atlantic equity firm and is also a member of ByteDance's board of directors,...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] The rumors were true - Samsung's flagship smartphone line finally supports seamless updates, with the release of the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. The Korean company has been a holdout for many, many years, and finally implemented the functionality in the Galaxy A55 last year. We assume that was meant to test the waters, and apparently everything has been fine with the A55, so now the feature finally made its way to the S line. What "seamless updates" means is that your device will be unavailable to use for less time when it's updating. That's because the update is...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Yesterday, we showed you a Galaxy S25 Ultra vs. S24 Ultra camera shootout – now it’s time for part two. Yesterday, we could only shoot photos at the event venue, but today we went wandering around San Jose with both Ultras in hand, so we have more photos to share. Many of the changes (if not most) will be coming from the new Snapdragon 8 Elite ISP – Samsung kept most of the camera hardware the same, all but the ultra-wide module. Starting with the main 200MP camera set to its default 12MP mode, the difference in image processing is more noticeable than it was indoors. The older Galaxy...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Samsung's big "one more thing" moment at yesterday's Unpacked launch event was the Galaxy S25 Edge, previously known as the Galaxy S25 Slim, a smartphone that wasn't announced on stage, only teased - and then showcased to the eager techie crowds. The Galaxy S25 Edge is officially coming "around April", according to a new report quoting an unnamed Samsung representative speaking at the event. That's reasonably in line with past rumors saying it would land in May at the latest. The phone's obvious main selling point will be its thinness, which has been rumored to be 6.4mm but hasn't...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] As usual with big launch events, some new features tend to fly under the radar. That’s the case with the Galaxy S25 series and its support for satellite connectivity. As it turns out, the three S25 series are the first phones to officially support Snapdragon Satellite which would allow users to send and receive messages via satellite over narrowband (NB) to non-terrestrial networks (NTN). Qualcomm confirmed the feature in a press release following the S25 series launch. Snapdragon Satellite is part of the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and more specifically its Snapdragon X80 5G modem....


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Over the past few weeks we've heard a lot about Samsung's upcoming tri-fold smartphone, its direct competitor to Huawei's Mate XT. And yesterday during its Unpacked event where it unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra (and teased the Galaxy S25 Edge as well), the company pretty much confirmed its plans to release such a device. It was one of those "blink and you'll miss it" things, where for just a few seconds during the presentation, the images you can see below appeared, clearly showing the tri-fold form factor as being part of Samsung's future alongside the Project...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Google has bought a part of HTC's team working on Vive and other XR stuff for a cool $250 million in cash. This amount also grants Google a non-exclusive license for HTC's XR intellectual property. This, HTC says, will drive the growth of the still very nascent XR ecosystem. Following the deal, Google and HTC will "explore future collaboration opportunities". For Google, this "helps to further strengthen its commitment to the Android XR platform and its acceleration across the headset and glasses ecosystem, which will help drive the XR industry", according to HTC's official press...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] There will be no prizes for guessing which series dominates our trending chart this week. With the Galaxy S25 Ultra rising to the top a few years ago and the Galaxy Unpacked dominating the headlines over the past seven days everyone is busy studying the new Samsung lineup.The Ultra ended up on top, followed by the vanilla Galaxy S25 in second. And if you thought the S25+ made it a clean podium sweep you were wrong - rather it was last year's S24 Ultra in third.[#InlinePriceWidget, 13322, 1#]In fact, the Galaxy S25 Edge, which was only teased, also got more attention than the...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] WhatsApp rolled out multi-account support for Android users in October 2023, allowing people to simultaneously use two different WhatsApp accounts on the same smartphone, eliminating the need to use the app clone feature or rely on the WhatsApp Business app trick. This feature is unavailable for iPhone users, but that should change soon.The folks at WABetaInfo report that WhatsApp is testing multi-account support for iPhone, which should allow iPhone users to use WhatsApp on their phones with two different numbers at the same time. The feature should work on iPhones similarly to Android...


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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] It was officially Samsung week in the past seven days and it culminated with Samsung's Unpacked January 2025 event, which saw the unveiling of the Galaxy S25 models and a tease of the Galaxy S25 Edge.The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra brought a new rounder design, added a 50MP ultrawide to its camera system, a Snapdragon 8 Elite, and a next-gen Gorilla Armor 2 display that's even more durable, yet still anti-reflective. Not the most inspired yet still not the worst update in the world.We can't say the same of the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+, which are mostly the same as their predecessors,...


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