News and Updates about Smartphones

Xiaomi 17T Live Images Surface With Dimensity 8500 Benchmark

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.

Moto G Stylus 2026 Review: Great Stylus, Weak Support Promise

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

Motorola Razr 2026 Leak: Prices, Specs, and a 0 Ultra Hike

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...

The HONOR Power2 went on sale in China on January 9, 2026, making it HONOR's latest major entry in the 10,000mAh phone category after the HONOR WIN series, as reported by Gadgets 360. It starts at 2,699 yuan, or about $386, and no global release has been announced.

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.

Tipster Debayan Roy has ruled out a June or July launch for the CMF Phone 3 Pro, pushing the expected window to August or September. GSMArena reported the tip yesterday; Gadgets360 followed today. That puts the CMF Phone 3 Pro launch date roughly three to four months later than the April cadence CMF set when the Phone 2 Pro debuted last year.

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...

The Motorola Razr 2026 costs $800. That's $100 more than last year's model, a jump that CNET called "hard to stomach" this week. The friction is real. Based on what reviewers have found, though, the Razr 2026 still makes the strongest case among sub-$1,000 flip phones for buyers who prioritize cover-screen flexibility and battery life over raw processing muscle. It concedes clear ground on chip performance and software longevity. Buyers who understand that trade-off going in will be satisfied;...

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.

Nintendo announced Pictonico! on May 19, a mobile game for iOS and Android that pulls faces from your photo library and drops them into rapid-fire minigames. Nintendo lists Pictonico! for release on May 28, 2026, though the US App Store page currently shows an expected date of May 30, 2026. Pre-registration is open now on the App Store and Google Play. The catch is built into the name: the app is "free-to-start," which means some minigames are available as a free demo, while paid volumes unlock...

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 iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone model in Q1 2026, taking 6% of global unit sales, according to Counterpoint Research's Global Handset Model Sales Tracker. Apple also took the next two model slots with the iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Pro, while the top 10 smartphones together accounted for 25% of global sales. Separately, Counterpoint said Apple led the global smartphone market by vendor shipments in Q1 2026, with 21% share and 5% year-over-year growth, as memory...

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

Sony's press release for the Xperia 1 VIII carries the headline: "Sony Announces the Launch of Xperia 1 VIII with Newly Integrated AI for Better Photos Every Time." Not "Telephoto Rebuilt." Not "Xperia's Biggest Camera Upgrade." AI, every time. That framing choice reveals a real contradiction at the center of this phone.

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...

Amazon's head of devices and services, Panos Panay, addressed new Amazon Fire Phone 2 rumors this week in a Financial Times interview and stopped well short of a denial. Asked directly whether Amazon was building another smartphone, Panay said a flat "no" would be "accurate" but also "misleading." Reuters-sourced reporting from two months ago adds context: an internal Amazon team is already exploring a mobile device concept, codenamed "Transformer," built around Alexa Plus.

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

Two battery complaints. Two different problems. One conversation that almost always mixes them up.

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...

Xfinity Mobile New Plans Device Protection Explained: Mobile Plus vs. Mobile Select

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...

Trump Mobile has not shipped a single confirmed T1 smartphone to any customer, and updated legal terms published last month make clear the company does not guarantee the device will ever be produced or made available for purchase. The Trump Mobile T1 smartphone delay has now stretched nearly a year past the original delivery promise. An estimated 590,000 people have each paid $100 toward the device, a figure derived from reported deposit counts rather than any financial disclosure by Trump...

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.

TCL NXTPAPER 70 Pro: Display Features, Specs, and Who It's For

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

Apple's iOS 26.5 beta, seeded to developers and public beta testers earlier this month, enables end-to-end encryption for one-on-one RCS conversations between iPhones and Android devices. The encryption appears on by default. No settings change required. But the protection only applies when the Android side is running a messaging client that supports the GSMA's cross-platform encryption standard, and the Messages app will show whether any given conversation qualifies.

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.

For years, buying a NXTPAPER phone meant accepting a deal: a display that was softer, less glary, and lower in blue-light output than a standard OLED screen, in exchange for the contrast, color richness, and brightness that make OLED worth having. That trade-off kept NXTPAPER as a niche product with a loyal but limited audience. This piece breaks down the TCL NXTPAPER vs OLED question directly: what the old LCD-based version couldn't solve, what the new AMOLED version changes, and where the...

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.

Samsung Galaxy A37 vs Google Pixel 10a: Which to Buy?

Motorola has confirmed the Razr Fold goes on sale in the US on May 14 at $1,900, slotting between the $1,800 Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold and the $2,000 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, per The Verge. The Moto Pen Ultra stylus is not included and costs an additional $100. No preorder information appears in the available reporting on the Motorola Razr Fold price and availability.

Motorola has entered the book-style foldable market with the Motorola Razr Fold, its first device in the book-style format competing alongside the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold line and Google Pixel Fold. The device makes a specific, testable argument: that foldables don't have to sacrifice battery life or thinness to deliver flagship specs.

Uber has added hotel booking directly to its app, giving U.S. users access to more than 700,000 properties worldwide through a partnership with Expedia Group, paid via the Uber Wallet already on their phone, PhocusWire reports. The value is sharply tiered: Uber One subscribers get meaningful discounts and credit returns, while non-members are essentially browsing Expedia inventory through a different front door.