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 … Read More “Xiaomi TV Stick 4K 2nd gen unveiled with much faster chipset, HDR10+ support” »
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 … Read More “iQOO Z10R unveiled with the Dimensity 7400 SoC, 4K selfie camera, and quad-curved AMOLED display” »
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 … Read More “Entire Pixel 10 series’ design revealed through the Google Play Store” »
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 … Read More “Xiaomi 15 Civi isn’t coming, new report claims” »
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 … Read More “T-Mobile’s T-Satellite service is now available to everyone” »
Today Apple has introduced AppleCare One. This is like AppleCare+, but for multiple devices (regardless of what they are). For $19.99 per month, it covers up to three products, and you can add more at any time for $5.99 per month each. Note that any device needs to be less than four years old, and … Read More “AppleCare One is AppleCare+ for more devices, now with theft and loss coverage for iPads and Apple Watches” »
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 … Read More “Galaxy S25 Edge teardown video compares it to the S25 Plus bit by bit” »
Introduction Bigger displays and more battery in a slimmer body – reads like a promising summary of the upgrades that the Galaxy Z Flip7 brings. Samsung’s better clamshell for 2025 is another one of those refreshes that won’t shake up the industry, but should be guaranteed to keep sales high. For the first time in … Read More “Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 review” »
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 … Read More “Qi2 25W is official, promises hundreds of devices will support it” »
Over the past few days we’ve seen the Google Pixel 10, and then the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL, portrayed in leaked renders purportedly showing all the colors in which they will be available after the August 20 official announcement. Today, it’s time for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold to get the … Read More “Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold will have some interesting color choices” »