News and Updates about Smartphones

Nothing phones at Best Buy are now a real U.S. retail play. The London-based company has brought its phones and audio lineup to more than 500 Best Buy stores across the country, giving shoppers a much easier way to see and handle its hardware before buying.

Editor's note: This is an evidence-based analysis built from launch coverage and early hands-on reporting, not a full tested review. A complete assessment of the Honor Magic V6's software, camera quality, and long-term durability will require extended real-world use of the global unit.

Recent leaker and supply-chain reports point to Apple developing a Samsung-developed micro-curved OLED panel for its 20th-anniversary iPhone, targeting a bezel that effectively disappears from the user's line of sight rather than simply measuring smaller.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2026 Leaked Promo Video: Specs, Price, and Launch Details

The Trump Mobile T1 is shipping. That is the least interesting thing about it. After eleven months of missed deadlines and three separate redesigns, according to Times of India, what customers are receiving is a $499 gold-colored Android phone that experts say closely resembles a Chinese-manufactured mid-range handset T-Mobile originally sold for $249, per Salon. Eric Trump announced the T1 last June, promising it would "change" mobile calling, Salon reported. That phone, domestically built and...

A camera app built by Los Angeles wildlife creator Derrick Downey Jr. hit No. 1 on Apple's top paid apps chart within 12 hours of release, The Verge reported. The DualShot Recorder iPhone app records portrait and landscape video simultaneously in a single take, producing two synced files that save directly to the Photos library. No export step. No account.

If you searched "Motorola Razr Fold charging speed" and got contradictory answers, the naming is why. "Razr Fold" isn't an official product name it's shorthand for Motorola's clamshell foldable lineup, which currently spans three distinct devices with three very different charging systems. The Motorola Razr Fold wired charging wattage ranges from 30W on the base model to 68W on the Ultra, and that spread has real consequences: in lab-tested conditions, it's the difference between a 43-minute...

A claim has been circulating that WhatsApp now makes messages vanish the moment someone reads them. It doesn't. WhatsApp's disappearing messages run on timers 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days triggered by a clock, not a read receipt. No official WhatsApp announcement in the sources reviewed here introduces read-triggered deletion.

Honor confirmed this week that its Robot Phone will launch in China between July and September 2026, narrowing the release window for a device that has spent months behind glass at trade shows. The announcement came from the Cannes Film Festival, alongside a partnership with professional cinema camera manufacturer ARRI Image Science. Both choices tell you something about how Honor wants this phone understood.

The most revealing detail about Trump Mobile's flag problem isn't that the logo is wrong. It's that it was right first.

Light has announced a developer program that will let people create tools for the Light Phone III, bringing curated third-party app support to its deliberately stripped-down device. Light and Engadget describe a target timeline: Light says developer access begins in May 2026, Engadget reports the SDK should be ready in June, submitted-tool vetting is expected in August or September, and the user-facing platform is targeted for October. How Light enforces its principles once external submissions...

Sony Xperia 1 VIII Leaked Renders Show Camera Overhaul and Bigger Telephoto

Apple's biggest iPhone redesign in nearly a decade appears to be its weakest seller based on early buyer-share and supply-chain indicators. In the iPhone Air's first full quarter on sale, just 6% of US iPhone buyers chose it, according to a Consumer Intelligence Research Partners survey cited by CNN in January 2026. The standard iPhone 17 took 22% of purchases, the Pro took 25%, and the Pro Max took 27%. The Air captured less than a third of what the cheapest model in the lineup managed, and...

Place the Motorola Razr Plus 2026 and the Razr Plus 2025 side by side and you genuinely cannot tell them apart. Same 6.9-inch internal display, same 4-inch cover screen, same 73.99 x 171.42 x 7.09mm open dimensions, same 189g weight, per the spec table at Android Central. Yet the Motorola Razr Plus 2026 vs Razr Plus 2025 decision is not the same purchase at all, and the reason comes down to one number: $400. When CNET's first-impressions piece ran in late April, the 2025 model was selling for...

Qualcomm this week announced the Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 and 4 Gen 5, two chips designed to push capabilities previously limited to flagship devices into affordable Android phones. The 4 Gen 5 is the larger generational jump: Qualcomm claims a 77% GPU performance gain and says it's the first 4-series chip capable of 90fps gaming, per Notebookcheck. The 6 Gen 5 leads with connectivity: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and AI camera features, though it steps back on ISP hardware relative to its predecessor.

Sony Xperia 1 VIII Leak Reveals Mainstream Rear, Classic Front Design

Chinese outlets ZOL and Sina Tech reported in mid-April that Xiaomi had begun offering a Xiaomi battery upgrade service through Xiaomi Mall for select devices in China. This isn't a standard Xiaomi battery replacement service that restores a worn cell to its original capacity. It installs a higher-capacity unit than the phone ever shipped with. For Xiaomi 13 Ultra owners, that means swapping the stock 5,000mAh cell for a 5,500mAh replacement through official channels.

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone now has its clearest sign of life yet: federal records show a smartphone filed under the trade name "T1" was tested in late 2025 and granted FCC authorization in January 2026, the first official confirmation via a regulatory filing that a T1-branded device was physically tested, according to The Verge in March.