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Spotify has been incredibly busy over the past couple of days. After officially launching Page Match, it's introducing About the Song, which it bills as "a new way to explore the stories behind music".This new feature puts short, swipeable story cards in your Now Playing view, which "explore the meaning behind the music you're hearing". The stories are summarized from third-party sources "to surface interesting details and behind-the-scenes moments", the official press release states.To see this, you need to open the Now Playing view and scroll down to find the About the Song...


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The Honor 500 launched back in November, but Honor is already allegedly working on its successor. Now some details about the Honor 600 got outed in China.The phone will allegedly have a 6.57-inch screen. That would be marginally bigger than the Honor 500's 6.55" panel. Perhaps more importantly, the Honor 600 is now being tested with a 9,000 mAh battery.Honor 500That's 1,000 mAh bigger than its predecessor's, and for a smartphone of this size, it would be record-breaking. Unfortunately, no other details about the Honor 600 have been leaked just yet, but stay tuned and we'll let...


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This week we will revisit some old (and some not so old) offers since the prices have been revised even further down.A couple of weeks ago, the Redmi Note 15 Pro was €350 for a 12/512GB unit. Now there is a €30 voucher, which brings the final price down to €320. An 8/256GB version is also available, though since it’s only €20 cheaper, we recommend getting the version with more RAM and double the storage.The Redmi Note 15 Pro has a 6.83” 12-bit 120Hz OLED display and a Dimensity 7300 Ultra chipset. The phone boasts a 200MP main camera (1/1.4” sensor, OIS), but the ultra-wide (8MP) and...


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The vivo Y21 launched in 2021, and now the brand is working on the Y21 5G. Weird, we know, but apparently vivo couldn't help but reuse this name, despite there being an infinite number of other options.The Y21 5G will come with a 6,355 mAh rated battery in India and Malaysia, and a 5,090 mAh rated battery elsewhere. These capacities will probably end up advertised as typical 6,500 mAh and 5,250 mAh, respectively.vivo Y21 5G EPREL labelsWe know all this because the phone has two model numbers for its two versions: V2553, already certified for sale in India and Malaysia by BIS...


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Telegram has announced that it's rolling out a fully redesigned interface for its Android app, making navigation and search quicker and more intuitive.The most notable change this redesign brings is the new bottom bar, which lets you quickly switch between the Chats, Settings, Profile, and other tabs.In addition to the UI redesign, Telegram "completely rebuilt" the interface code to maximize efficiency and increase responsiveness. You can head to the Settings > Power Saving menu to maximize performance and extend battery life. Telegram users on iOS also get a...


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Samsung expects that demand for its memory chips will remain high not just this year, but also in 2027. Song Jai-hyuk, the CTO of Samsung’s Device Solutions (which makes chips), spoke at Semicon Korea and revealed some interesting details.The so-called AI hyperscalers – companies building out absolutely massive cloud infrastructure to serve the ever-growing compute needs of AI – are ordering memory at unprecedented levels, which, in turn, has caused prices to skyrocket.Samsung is focused on mass-producing HBM4 (“High Bandwidth Memory”). Samsung reported booming sales in Q3 last year...


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The ongoing memory chip shortage is about to lead to a drastic drop in smartphone shipments this year. According to the latest forecast from TrendForce, the market will see a 10% drop in global smartphone shipments, which would result in an estimated 1.135 billion units shipped for the calendar year.There is, however, an even worse turn of events, which could see the drop go as low as 15%, which TrendForce describes as the “Bear-case scenario”. Under this scenario, global smartphone shipments are estimated to reach 1.061 billion units for the year. While 2025 wasn’t the strongest of...


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Google recently began rolling out the Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 update to eligible Pixel devices. At the same time, the company has confirmed that the first Android 17 beta is coming soon.In a Reddit post, Google revealed that the Android 17 Beta 1 will roll out to users soon with bug fixes and include improved performance and system stability.Users currently enrolled in the Android Beta program will automatically receive the Android 17 Beta 1 update once it rolls out. According to a report from last year, the Android 17 update carries the internal codename ‘Cinnamon Bun.’Those...


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Apple dominated smartphone sales in 2025 and according to a new report, it unsurprisingly had the largest installed base out of any smartphone brand worldwide. This metric takes into account the number of units that are currently in use by customers with factors like user retention, ecosystem loyalty and device longevity. According to Counterpoint Research’s Smartphone Installed Base Tracker, one in every four active smartphones used in 2025 was an iPhone.Global Active Smartphone Installed Base by Brand Share, 2025Apple and Samsung are the only two brands in the “billion active...


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Motorola is expected to unveil the Edge 70 Fusion soon. Leaked renders showed us the Edge 70 Fusion in Pantone Country Air and Pantone Silhouette colors. Now, a new set of Motorola Edge 70 Fusion's renders have surfaced, showing the smartphone in more colors and corroborating the design. You can check them below.Motorola Edge 70 Fusion's color optionsThese renders were shared by leakster Evan Blass, who also shared a couple of lifestyle images of the Motorola Edge 70 Fusion. We've attached those below.Motorola Edge 70 FusionPreviously, Blass said the Motorola...


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Samsung has officially confirmed the launch date for its upcoming Galaxy S26 series. The lineup is expected to comprise the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. Pre-reservations for the new devices have also begun.As previously rumored, the next Galaxy Unpacked event has been scheduled for February 25. The event will take place in San Francisco and will be livestreamed on Samsung’s official website as well as its YouTube channel.Meanwhile, Samsung has also opened pre-reservations for the upcoming devices. Customers in India can pay a small fee and secure early access to...


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A few days ago we heard the first rumored details about the upcoming Honor 600, and today the Honor 600 Lite has apparently appeared in the Geekbench online database.As usual, this has revealed its chipset, which is the MediaTek Dimensity 7100. In the prototype that ran the benchmark with the model number LNA-NX1, this was paired with 8GB of RAM.The Honor 600 Lite will run Android 16 from the moment it launches. It managed a single-core score of 994 and a multi-core score of 3,023 in Geekbench 6.5 as you can see.The Honor 600 Lite has already been certified by a few...


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Infinix's upcoming Note 60 series will use Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets, the brand has officially confirmed today. This is significant because it's the first time Infinix has gone the Snapdragon route for its phones in many years - all of the recent ones have been powered by MediaTek SoCs.Infinix says "select models" in the Note 60 series will choose Snapdragon over MediaTek, and through pre-order pages in some markets it's already confirmed that the Note 60 Pro will be powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4.Infinix "aims to achieve deeper integration of chipset capabilities" within...


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The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max will cost exactly the same as their predecessors, according to a new research note from GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu, a constant purveyor of Apple-related supply chain information.That is obviously very good news, if it pans out, since the pricing stability of smartphones is anything but guaranteed this year given how memory production seems to mostly be going to AI data centers.Pu says Apple is focused on cost management, based on his supply chain research, in order to keep the prices the same as last year. Pu thinks Apple has been...


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