A chat with Corning: what are the challenges of making tough glass?

Corning unveiled Gorilla Glass Victus 2 this week, a sequel to 2020’s Victus (and Victus+ from last year). The focus with this generation was to improve drop performance, i.e. increasing the chance that the glass will be okay after you drop your phone. Rough surfaces like asphalt and especially concrete were the main challenge. We got to speak with...

Samsung Galaxy A14 5G passes through FCC, confirming its battery capacity

The Samsung Galaxy A14 5G is well on its way to market, as affirmed by recent leaks. Now the still unannounced phone has passed through the FCC as well confirming its battery capacity in the process. The A14 5G will, indeed, as rumors have suggested, rock a large 5,000 mAh pack. Samsung Galaxy A14 5G FCC document Thanks to leaked images, we already...

Tecno Pova 4 is launching soon in India

The Tecno Pova 4 unveiled in October will launch soon in India. Tecno hasn't revealed the launch date yet, but the company confirmed it will be sold through Amazon.in. The Tecno Pova 4 is powered by the Helio G99 SoC and has 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage onboard. The smartphone runs Android 12 out of the box and packs a 6.82" 90Hz HD+ LCD with a punch...

Oppo Find N2 Flip render surfaces online

Evidence about the existence of the Oppo Find N2 Flip foldable phone has started to pile up. If you are not in the know, we expect the flip phone to debut alongside the Oppo Find N2 at this year's Inno Day 2022 later this month. The Find N2 Flip was already spotted in a live hand-son video a couple of days ago wearing a big and chunky pre-release...

Apple iPad (2022) undergoes iFixit teardown

The tenth generation iPad launched back in October with a redesigned look and specs that closely resemble the fourth gen iPad Air from 2020. The new baseline iPad was subjected to a teardown by iFixit which revealed some interesting bits like why it lacks support for the second-gen Apple Pencil and the degree of difficulty for repairs. Removing the...

Lava Blaze NXT goes on sale in India

The Lava Blaze NXT unveiled last week is now on sale in India. It comes in Glass Blue, Glass Red, and Glass Green colors and can be purchased from Amazon.in or Lava India's website for INR9,299 ($115/€110). The Lava Blaze NXT is powered by the Helio G37 SoC, sports a 6.5" HD+ LCD, and runs Android 12 out of the box. It has 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage...

Nokia confirms Android 13 is coming to five more phones

Nokia revealed recently that it has completed migration to Android 12 and if any smartphone hasn’t received the OS, won’t be getting it in the future. The announcement was followed by a confirmation of which devices are first in line for Android 13. The list includes five devices - Nokia X10 and Nokia X20, Nokia XR20, Nokia G50, and Nokia G11 Plus,...

OnePlus announces Android 13 Open Beta for Nord 2T

OnePlus has announced the Android 13-based OxygenOS 13 Open Beta Test (OBT) for the OnePlus Nord 2T. Those who can't wait for the OxygenOS 13 stable update's rollout can enroll in the OBT by navigating to their Nord 2T's Settings > About device menu, tapping Up to date, tapping the icon in the top-right, then going to Beta program > Beta, and...

Apple trademarks "xrOS" as the new name for its XR headset operating system

Analysts expect Apple to launch its first mixed reality headset in 2023. The company has reportedly come up with a new name for the platform – “xrOS” instead of “realityOS” or “rOS” – which Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman sees as a sign that the launch is near. “XR” stands for eXtended Reality, a term applied to headsets that are capable of both VR (Virtual...

Google announces new Android and Wear OS features

Google’s latest feature drop for Android and Wear OS brings several new features for Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches. The new features will be available to users in the upcoming weeks right in time for the festive season. Cast to watch on Google TV The Google TV app will now allow you to cast content directly to your TV with a single tap....

Samsung Galaxy M42 5G is receiving Android 13-based One UI 5.0 update

Samsung continues to roll out the Android 13-based One UI 5.0 stable update for its devices, and the latest smartphone to get upgraded is the Samsung Galaxy M42 5G. The update is rolling out for the Galaxy M42 5G in India sporting model code SM-M426B. It has firmware version M426BXXU3CVK5 and comes with the usual One UI 5.0 goodies and November 2022...

Infinix Zero 5G 2023 officially launches with Dimensity 1080 and 120Hz display for $239

After a not-so-secret announcement of its newest phone last month, Infinix is “officially” announcing its latest Infinix Zero 5G 2023 powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1080. For $239, the Zero 5G 2023 comes with 256GB of storage paired with 8GB of RAM or up to 13GB when you extend it, reserving some of the storage for this purpose. The device is...

Spotify Wrapped 2022 is here to reveal this year’s musical trends

Spotify Wrapped is a yearly overview of user habits on the audio streaming platform, allowing subscribers to share their own favorites on social media in an engaging way. The company also releases an aggregated edition, revealing the top songs, artists, podcasts and listening trends of 2022. Spotify Wrapped 2022 features The top artist for the third...

Oppo Find N2 Flip leaks in hands-on video

Oppo’s first foray into the world of foldables came out nearly a year ago with the Find N which was unveiled during the annual Oppo Inno Day event. There’s talk we’ll see a successor at this year’s Inno Day 2022 later this month and it may be joined by a flip foldable phone. The alleged Oppo Find N2 Flip now appeared in a short hands-on video on...

Lenovo K14 and K14 Note surface on Google Play Console

Two Lenovo phones have surfaced on the Google Play Console – the Lenovo K14 and K14 Note. You may not be familiar with the K-series as it focuses on low-end in select regions. And they don’t use unique hardware, rather they are rebadged Motorola phones. For example, the Lenovo K13 proved to be a Moto E7i Power variant. The Lenovo K13 Note was a rebadged...

Motorola Moto X40 Pro design revealed in new renders

The Moto X40 Pro appeared on TENAA last month with full specs and some low-quality images. Today, the phone’s design was revealed in more detail by OnLeaks in a 360-degree video, giving us a better look at the curved sides of the screen and the triple camera island on the back. The Moto X40 Pro is coming with a square camera island, but the lenses...

Nothing starts taking sign-ups for Phone (1) Android 13 update beta

Nothing previously stated it wouldn't bring Android 13 to its Phone (1) this year, but now it seems like it's ever so slightly changing its tune. We're not talking about a full, stable release rolling out to everyone, mind you, but there will be a beta before 2022 is over. A closed beta is in fact already in testing, but the open one will arrive...

Netflix mobile app gets seven new games

Netflix is steadily expanding the games portfolio on its mobile app for Android and iOS and there are seven new additions to the catalog. All games on the Netflix app are free to play and don’t have ads or in-app purchases. Skies of Chaos is a new take on the classic airplane shooter genre with colorful visuals and characters. Flutter Butterflies...

Samsung Galaxy M04 appears on Google Play Console, confirms Helio G35 chipset

Samsung released the Galaxy A04 and followed it with the Galaxy A04e in October and it's now looking to add a third very similar model to its roster. A device with matching specs called Galaxy M04 appeared on Google Play Console. The yet unannounced M series smartphone will have a Helio G35 chipset that is limited to LTE connectivity. The smartphone...

iQOO Neo7 SE's battery size and charging speed officially confirmed

iQOO launched the Neo7 in China last month with the Dimensity 9000+ SoC, and on December 2, the company will unveil the SE model. iQOO previously revealed that the Neo7 SE will be powered by the 4nm Dimensity 8200 chip, and now the company has confirmed the smartphone's battery capacity and charging speed to build more hype around it. The iQOO Neo7...

Kuo: Apple facing shortage of 15-20 million iPhone 14 Pros ahead of holiday shopping season

A new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo points to a major shortage that Apple will be facing in the weeks left of this holiday shopping season. According to Kuo, Apple is expected to ship between 70-75 million iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max units, 15-20 million short of what was initially expected. The number is significantly more than Bloomberg’s...

Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G and Galaxy M62 are the latest to taste One UI 5 with Android 13

Samsung has been the fastest ever with updates to Android 13 this year, and amazingly enough the company plans to do even better next year. In the meantime, it's working on issuing the update to the new One UI 5 skin based on Android 13 to all of the devices destined to get it, and finish all rollouts by the end of the year. That's a tall order indeed,...

Google Pixel 7a leaked renders showcase a Pixel 7-like design

Google's next affordable smartphone, the Pixel 7a, has been leaked in all its glory in some nifty looking renders today. The Pixel 7a unsurprisingly borrows massively from the Pixel 7 in terms of the design of its back, which makes sense considering they're theoretically part of the same generation of smartphones from Google's stable - even though...

Samsung Galaxy A14 5G design revealed in leaked images, key specs confirmed

The Samsung Galaxy A14 5G appeared in CAD-based renders back in October, and today the first leaked press image revealed they were close - the new phone will look a lot like its predecessor with the triple camera and the waterdrop notch. According to the source, the screen is a 6.8” LCD with HD+ resolution, and we can see the fingerprint scanner...

iQOO 11 teasers confirm flagship capabilities

The iQOO 11 is scheduled to arrive on December 2, and today the vivo brand revealed all key specs and features that will make the phone stand out. A lot was already teased, and today we have an official confirmation it will run on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 while bringing the latest in memory and display tech. vivo iQOO 11 The vivo iQOO 11 brings LPDDR5X...

vivo Y02 goes official with 6.51" screen and 5,000 mAh battery

vivo launched the Y02s in August, and now the company has unveiled the vanilla model, dubbed vivo Y02. The vivo Y02 is powered by an unknown octa-core processor paired with 3GB RAM. It runs Android 12 Go Edition-based Funtouch OS 12 out of the box and has 32GB of internal storage, expandable up to 1TB via microSD card. The vivo Y02 is built around...

Apple announces the Oceanic+ app that makes the Apple Watch Ultra into a diving computer

The Apple Watch Ultra was unveiled last September as a highly durable and ruggedized Apple Watch. One of the first scenes shown during the livestream announcement was the Apple Watch Ultra as it was descending into water. The display showed ambient water temperature and the depth level in feet. Apple is announcing the Oceanic+ app for Watch Ultra...

Meta gets a €265 million fine in Ireland for 2021 Facebook data leak

Today Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it has imposed a fine of €265 million on Meta's Irish subsidiary. The reason is a 2021 data breach on Facebook that exposed the phone numbers, locations, and birthdates of 533 million people who were Facebook users from 2018 to 2019. The DPC started its investigation into the matter...

Our Nokia X30 video review is now up

HMD Global's Nokia is apparently done playing the specs game with its Chinese competitors in the mid-range and has thus started focusing more on sustainability and 'eco-friendliness'. The new X30 is its most eco-friendly phone yet, in fact, including recycled and recyclable materials wherever possible, and not including a charger in the box. You...

Galaxy S23 Unpacked will be in the first week of February, Samsung exec reveals

Samsung is planning to unveil the Galaxy S23 series at its first Unpacked event for 2023 in the first week of February. Per a Korean report citing an executive with knowledge of the matter. The event will the first in-person Unpacked since the pandemic and will reportedly happen in San Francisco. The Galaxy S23 series are expected to then launch...

Apple facing shortfall of 6 million iPhone 14 Pro units due to ongoing factory turmoil

The recent turmoil at the Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, China will likely result in a shortfall of an estimated 6 million iPhone 14 Pro units according to the latest Bloomberg report. The figure is based on people familiar with Apple’s assembly operations. The exact number is still to be determined and will depend on how Foxconn handles the situation....

Oppo Find N2 will have E6 120Hz displays - 5.54" cover and 7.1" inner

The Oppo Find N2 will have a 5.54-inch 2120x1080p Samsung E6 AMOLED display on the outside with 120Hz refresh rate. On the inside, the Find N2 will feature a 7.1-inch 1920x1792px unfolding screen, also an E6 AMOLED with a 120Hz refresh rate. The info comes from prolific tipster Digital Chat Station. The Oppo Find N2 will have a pair of 32MP selfies...

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 Maison Margiela Edition will cost KRW 2.25 million

Earlier this month, Samsung announced its Maison Margiela EditionGalaxy Z Flip4 and now Samsung confirmed its pricing. The exclusive Z Flip4 is priced at KRW 2,255,000 which converts to $1,688. Samsung is selling a total of 100 units in South Korea and official sales start on December 1. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 Maison Margiela Edition Potential buyers...

Xiaomi 13 series and MIUI 14 launching on December 1

Xiaomi finally confirmed the launch date for its upcoming Xiaomi 13 series phones. The launch event is scheduled for Thursday, December 1 at 7 PM Beijing time. We also got confirmation that MIUI 14 will be announced at the event alongside the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro phones. Xiaomi 13 series launch poster Xiaomi boss Lei Jun shared an official render...

Top 10 trending phones of week 47

After four weeks at the top the Redmi Note 12 Pro+ is now replaced by another Pro+ model, only this time it's from the Oppo Reno9 series. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra retains its second spot and the Galaxy A53 once again rounds up the podium positions. That leaves the Redmi Note 12 Pro+ down in fourth, ahead of the Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max, which...

Week 47 in review: Vivo's X90 series, Honor's 80 and Oppo's Reno9 series debut

Another week down, this one culminating in some Black Friday madness, so let's recap. Vivo unveiled the X90 series, starting with China. The vivo X90 Pro+, X90 Pro, and X90 share a lot of similarities but also some differences - the flagship X90 Pro+ has a 50.3MP 1.0-inch type main camera, a 64MP 90mm 3.5x zoom, a 50mm 2x zoom, and a 48MP ultrawide,...

Weekly poll: the vivo X90 series temps with cutting edge chipsets and cameras, are you interested?

In one fell swoop vivo unveiled the first phone with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and the first phones with the Dimensity 9200 SoC. We are talking about the vivo X90 series, of course, which will go on sale in China over the next few weeks. And while seeing the new chipsets in action is exciting, the X90 series main focus is being the best camera...

Weekly poll results: flagship chipsets still matter, but most people don't need the latest one

The result from last week’s poll shows that more than half of our readers think flagship chipsets are an important consideration when picking out the next phone. Not everyone cares if it’s the latest flagship chip, however. In fact, most prefer to get an older version as those tend to offer far better value for money. It takes a while for mid-range...

Motorola Moto G82 in for review

The Moto G82 debuted earlier this year with a 6.6” OLED display and a 50MP camera with OIS as its highlights. The phone is a key mid-range device for its maker across the globe and now that we finally got a unit we can see if it should make your shopping shortlist. The Moto G82 shares a lot of design cues Moto G52 and Moto G62. These three phones...

Realme 10 Pro+ teased to launch in India for under INR 25,000

The Realme 10 Pro and 10 Pro+ unveiled in China last week will debut globally on December 8. The smartphones will also launch in India on the same day, and while their exact prices in India haven't been revealed yet, Realme VP Madhav Sheth took to Twitter to tease the Realme 10 Pro Plus' India price. Sheth posted a short clip on Twitter with the...