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The Samsung Galaxy Z foldables went on pre-order last week and are now heading into their second week. Open sales will begin soon, but in the meantime, you can have a free storage upgrade. Additionally, Amazon offers a £100 gift card – considering that Prime is £95 a year, it practically pays for itself.The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 is super thin, possibly the thinnest horizontal foldable. It has DeX multitasking on large 6.5” cover and 8.0” inner displays with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. The phone is equipped with a 200MP main camera (plus 10MP 3x tele and 12MP ultra-wide). The 4,400mAh...


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OnePlus refreshed the Nord series with two interesting models – one brings the first Snapdragon 8-series chip to the Nord family, the other has the biggest battery of any OnePlus phone yet... kind of.The OnePlus Nord 5 sports a Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, which showed great performance in our review. It comes with Android 15 out of the box and will receive 4 OS updates. It has a large 6.83” OLED display with fast 144Hz refresh rate and a sizable 6,800mAh battery, if we’re talking about the unit sold in India. The international model has only 5,200mAh capacity.OnePlus Nord 5The...


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While we wait for the Redmi Note 15 series, the Xiaomi sub-brand has a surprise almost ready to go: the Redmi Note 14 SE 5G. This model will be launching in India on July 28, as a new Flipkart microsite reveals.It's billed to arrive with "killer specs" and a "killer price". Spec-wise, the microsite has confirmed a screen with 120 Hz refresh rate, 2,100-nit peak brightness, and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on top, as well as an embedded fingerprint sensor.The device's dual stereo speakers promise 300% louder volume (not sure compared to what, though) and Dolby Atmos support. The...


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Yesterday we heard that MediaTek's upcoming Dimensity 9500 SoC's CPU would go past the 4 GHz threshold for the first time in the company's history, and today we have news about its main competitor.The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, due to be unveiled in late September, is now rumored to hit 4.6 GHz for its regular model, and a whopping 4.74 GHz in the "for Galaxy" higher-bin iteration that Samsung will be using in at least some of the Galaxy S26 devices next year.The SoC's GPU is rumored to be clocked at up to 1.2 GHz, and its AnTuTu score, even in the tamer, generally available iteration...


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Just over two years ago, we reviewed the Xiaomi TV Stick 4K. We found it to be a solid player, but its support for HDR formats was lacking. The company just unveiled the second generation model that fixes that and brings a host of other improvements.The Xiaomi TV Stick 4K 2nd gen is powered by a new chipset with a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU and an ARM Mali-G310 V2 GPU. Compared to the old chip (4x A35, Mali-G31 MP2), this one has 80% higher CPU performance and a whopping 150% boost to GPU performance. The memory capacity remains unchanged at 2GB RAM and 8GB storage, however.This now...


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As promised, iQOO today unveiled the iQOO Z10R, making it the sixth smartphone in the brand's Z10 series.The iQOO Z10R, "built for new-age content creators," is powered by the Dimensity 7400 SoC and has up to 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage onboard. The smartphone boots Android 15-based Funtouch OS 15 out of the box and comes with the promise of two years of OS upgrades and three years of security updates.The iQOO Z10R is built around a 6.77" quad-curved AMOLED display. It's a 120Hz FullHD+ screen with a 1,800-nit peak brightness and Schott Xensation Alpha glass...


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Google is hosting an event on August 20 to unveil the Pixel 10 series, which reportedly includes the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The Mountain View-based internet search giant recently gave us our first official look at the Pixel 10 Pro, and now, the entire Pixel 10 lineup has been revealed through the Google Play Store.While "poking around" the Google Play Store app on Android, the folks at Android Authority managed to uncover a banner showing the Pixel 10 series. The Pixel 10 is shown in Indigo color, while the Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel...


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Last year Xiaomi brought the Civi line into India with the Xiaomi 14 Civi, an upper-midrange smartphone that aimed to capture some of the magic of the Chinese Civi series, paired with a Leica-branded camera experience. How successful it was in doing that isn't clear, but if you've anxiously been waiting for its successor, we have some bad news.A new report claims the Xiaomi 15 Civi has been canceled. No reason is given, but obviously lackluster sales of the 14 Civi may be to blame. That model is in fact now heavily discounted.Xiaomi 14 CiviThe Xiaomi 15 Civi was in fact in...


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T-Mobile today announced the general availability of T-Satellite, its satellite communications service, to everyone, following months of testing with up to 30,000 daily active users. In total, 2 million people have already tried it in its testing phase.Interestingly, three times more messages were received on T-Satellite than were sent. T-Satellite uses more than 650 low-Earth orbit satellites to basically act like cell towers. T-Mobile bills this as "the largest satellite-to-mobile constellation".This works on over 60 phones with no apps required, both Android running ones and...


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One could make an argument that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is a slimmed-down version of the Galaxy S25+, sans the telephoto camera. After all, the two devices share the same displays and roughly the same dimensions, with the S25 Edge being considerably thinner, of course.So it's easy to assume that the Galaxy S25 Edge is almost identical to the S25+ with some minor improvements to the chassis that bring down the overall weight. However, a recent side-by-side teardown video reveals much more. It turns out that Samsung was able to shave off a few grams from every component, not just...


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The Qi v2.2.1 standard now has a fancy marketing name: Qi2 25W. And as that name implies, this is a wireless charging spec that goes up to 25W. It was officially unveiled today by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC).The WPC promises that "major Android smartphones" (whatever that means) are about to "join the Qi2 ecosystem for the first time with this launch", obviously in addition to Apple's iPhones. Fourteen devices, receivers and transmitters, completed Qi2 25W certification testing last week, and full-scale certification testing is now open to "several hundred devices waiting in...


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Welcome to your weekly news recap. Google's Pixel 10 series dominated your attention with a total of four top stories. They showed all four upcoming Pixel 10 devices in all of their colors. Google even jumped in on the action and teased the Pixel 10 Pro design officially, and showed the entire four-phone series in the Play Store.The Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and 10 Pro Fold are all coming alongside the Pixel Watch 4 on August 20. Google Pixel 10 Pro's design officially revealed The Pixel 10 series will be unveiled...


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Not sure that a foldable phone is right for you? Samsung and participating retailers like Amazon are letting you take the new Galaxy Z foldables for a spin with the Buy and Try program. This extends the return window to 45-100 days – you can return the phone (in good condition) and get a full refund if you decide that these phones are not right for you.The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 also kept its free storage upgrade offer from the pre-order period, though it seems to apply only to certain colors. Also, Prime and Prime Student members can get a £100 discount. ...


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The global smartphone market is developing at a healthy pace – it was up 10.5% in Q1 this year compared to the same period last year. In more concrete numbers, 45.6 million units were shipped in the first three months of 2025, of which 34.8 million were smartphones, the other 10.8 million were smart bands.This week we wanted to ask you – do you have a smartwatch or smart band? Let’s include smart rings in this too.They are designed to be perfect companions to your smartphone – must-have companions, if marketing is to be believed. There are several distinct categories that can serve...


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