Weekly deals: the best smartphone deals from the US, the UK, Germany and India

This week was pretty quiet, save for the Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday – there were a few other launches, but most companies gave Samsung a wide berth. So, of course, this week’s deals post features the new Galaxy S23 series (and we have a special deal for US buyers), but we found solid discounts on plenty of 2022 phones as well. Use the links...

BLU G72 Max announced with Helio G37 and 5,000 mAh battery

The US-based company BLU announced its latest smartphone dubbed G72 Max. Unfortunately, BLU hasn't shared any pricing or availability dates yet, but the specs clearly suggest a low price point. The device is built around a big 6.8-inch 90Hz IPS LCD panel with a modest 720 x 1600px resolution and runs on a MediaTek Helio G37 chipset. There's a single...

Samsung cuts Galaxy S22 prices in India

As it's usually the case with older flagships, prices drop once their successors launch and that's what Samsung did in India for its Galaxy S22 smartphones. However, only the biggest and smallest of the S22 family can be purchased at a discounted price, whereas the Galaxy S22+ is not available at all. The vanilla Galaxy S22 now goes for INR 57,999...

OnePlus Pad leaks in new official-looking image, has a camera protrusion you can't unsee

The OnePlus Pad is expected to become official on February 7 at the same event where the OnePlus 11 is making its global debut. The tablet has so far been portrayed in some dark "speculative renders", and then the company itself teased it in late January. Today, courtesy of the always on point Evan Blass (a.k.a @evleaks) we get a better look at the...

Honor Magic5 certification confirms 66W charging speed

We have another certification listing for the upcoming Honor Magic5 flagship which confirms the phone will bring 66W fast charging as per China’s 3C agency. The new listing for the Honor Magic5 (PGT-AN00) shows the device will support up to 66W wired charging (11V/6A) via its bundled charger. This is the same speed as its predecessor Magic4 while...

Google reports 10% YoY revenue growth with great momentum on Pixel devices and cloud subscriptions

Alphabet posted its Q4 and FY 2022 earnings report earlier today and reported revenue earnings of $76 billion for the October-December 2022 period and $283 billion for the fiscal year. The Q4 figure is a mere 1% increase compared to Q4 2021 while the FY revenue figure saw a 10% gain. Net income/profit for Q4 2022 ($13.6 billion) is down 33% compared...

Apple's Q4 report: iPhone sales are down, but 2 billion active devices reached

Apple posted its financial report on the last three months of 2023, which is the first quarter of its fiscal year. Total revenue and sales are down on a yearly basis as supply chain issues limited inventory. The company highlighted some of the positives in the bleak scenario - it now has 2 billion devices in active use and recorded an all-time high...

Apple's Q4 report: iPhone sales are down, iPad increases

Apple posted its financial report on the last three months of 2023, which is the first quarter of its fiscal year. Total revenue and sales are down on a yearly basis as supply chain issues limited inventory. The company highlighted some of the positives in the bleak scenario - it now has 2 billion devices in active use and recorded an all-time high...

Oppo Reno8 T 5G and Enco Air3 launch in India

A day after its global launch, Oppo’s Reno8 T 5G is now available for pre-order in India starting at INR 29,999 for the 8/128GB trim. The phone will be available in Sunrise Gold and Midnight Black colors from Oppo India and partnering online and offline retailers. Open sales start on February 10. Oppo Reno8 T 5G in Sunrise Gold and Midnight Black...

Sony Xperia 1 V image leaks, it might literally be the hottest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 device

Sony's Xperia 1 V may or may not be made official at MWC in Barcelona at the end of this month. While we wait to see if that actually happens, let's enjoy the first leaked image purportedly showing the upcoming flagship smartphone. If you compare this camera island to the Xperia 1 IV's, you'll instantly notice that the ToF camera and the RGB IR sensor...

Twitter discontinues its free API access, paid version in the pipeline

In a new tweet from Twitter's developers' account, the company announced that it's closing its free API access starting February 9 - a week from now. A new paid basic tier will be available soon. Twitter is bleeding money each year and Elon Musk and his team are scrambling to save the social network from bankruptcy. This, in turn, means that some...

Samsung Galaxy S23 trio has improved cooling with larger vapor chambers

If you watch the Galaxy S22 and S22 Ultra disassembly video, you will see that the Ultra brought a new, bigger vapor chamber to cool its chipset. The small S22? It just had graphite pads (you can also watch this video for the S22). This year Samsung made the vapor chambers larger and even gave one to the lowly Galaxy S23. Check out this animation...

Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola edition is launching on February 10

We finally have some more details on the rumored Realme x Coca-Cola phone. The device in question will be a custom Realme 10 Pro 5G and is set to launch in India on February 10. Bookings are now open on Realme India’s official website. Realme 10 Pro 5G Coca-Cola edition will don a matte dual-tone back with black and red colors and the iconic Coca-Cola...

Samsung announces Galaxy S23 prices, launch bundles in India

Samsung launched the Galaxy S23 series yesterday, but it's only now that the Indian division released the detailed pricing for the Asian country. And it brings good news and bad news. The bad news is all versions got a price increase compared to the Galaxy S22 series. It's relatively minor INR2,000 on the vanilla S22, more noticeable INR10,000 on...

Galaxy S23 Series smartphones sold in India will be manufactured at Samsung's Noida factory

The Samsung Galaxy S23 flagships are finally official and with all the announcement commotion out the way we can delve deeper into some more miscellaneous facts. Samsung has confirmed all Galaxy S23 series smartphones sold in India will be manufactured at the Samsung Noida factory. Samsung already produces a majority of the smartphones sold in India...

Anker admits lack of encryption on Eufy security cameras

Anker got itself in a big debacle over its Eufy security cameras which were caught uploading footage from users’ cameras to the cloud without their consent as uncovered by information security consultant Paul Moore back in November. The bigger problem was that the uploaded user content from Eufy cameras was accessible via media players such as VLC...

Watch the Samsung Galaxy S23 and Book3 series announcement live

Samsung is hosting the first Unpacked event for 2023 today, and we will see the Galaxy S23 flagships get announced. We also expect five new Galaxy Book3 notebooks - vanilla and Pro, each of them with a different variant with a 360-degree hinge, and a top-of-the-line Ultra version. The event begins at 6PM UTC, which is 1PM EST/7PM CET/11:30PM IST....

Netflix details how it plans to stop password sharing outside family

Netflix finally revealed details on its plans to stop people from sharing their family plan passwords - a practice that violates its terms of service and hurting its overall revenue. The streaming platform updated its Help Center to say that only accounts within one household will be shareable. To ensure devices are associated with the primary location,...

Honor readying a mid-range phone with SD 6 Gen 1 SoC and big battery

According to the latest rumors on Chinese social media, Honor is working on a mid-range smartphone powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset. And if Honor gets it done fast, it could very well be the first handset with this SoC on the market. In addition to the chip, the shared image also mentions curved OLED screen, up to 12GB RAM, 256GB...

Xiaomi Pad 6 and Pad 6 Pro rumored specs emerge

The Xiaomi Pad 5 and Pad 5 Pro revitalized Xiaomi’s tablet range back in 2021. We’ve since seen the Pad 5 Pro 12.4 and a Redmi Pad in 2022 and there seem to be new Xiaomi tablets planned for 2023. Tipster Digital Chat Station is here to fill us in on the Xiaomi Pad 6 and Pad 6 Pro specs. Both Pad 6 models will bring 11-inch IPS LCD displays with...

Samsung unveils new “Over The Horizon” ringtone for Galaxy S23 series

Samsung is launching its Galaxy S23 series later today, and sticking with tradition the company introduced a new version of its iconic “Over The Horizon” ringtone, crafted for the new flagships. This year’s edition is developed with Yaeji, an American music artist of Korean descent, to celebrate “positivity and optimism in an evolving world”. The...

Tecno Pop 7 Pro arrives with familiar looks

Tecno brought a new phone to its African markets called Pop 7 Pro. Retailers in Nigeria and Uganda already have the phone up for sale, and it is a super affordable device with a Helio A22 chipset. The big square island for the dual camera and the fingerprint scanner looks familiar, and after further investigation, we realized this is the Spark Go...

Poco X5 has all of its specs leaked, won't be launched in India

Yesterday Poco India officially announced that the Poco X5 Pro will be launching in the country on February 6. Missing from that reveal was any mention of the non-Pro Poco X5, and according to a new leak today, that's for good reason. It turns out that the Poco X5 won't be launching in India alongside its Pro sibling. Instead, we'll see the X5 in...

Spotify had a record 205 million premium subscribers at the end of 2022

Spotify posted its financial report for the final quarter of 2022 and there is some good news and some bad news. First, the good news. It beat expectations and had 205 million paying subscribers at the end of the year, making it the first streaming service to cross the 200 million mark. Its monthly active users (MAU) reached 489 million, this includes...

Sony solves PlayStation 5 supply issues ahead of PSVR2 launch

Sony is preparing to launch its second generation VR headset on February 22 and an important part of those preparations is announcing that the PlayStation 5 supply issues are finally over. Fans in the US, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg can pick up a PS5 online from direct.playstation.com, which also offers games and...

Manu Kumar Jain leaves Xiaomi

Manu Kumar Jain left Xiaomi, revealed the now-former executive on Twitter. He served the tech company for 9 years and played an integral role in Xiaomi’s rise in India as a leader of the company's operations in the Asian country. In a long letter, Jain revealed he would take some time off before taking on his new professional challenge, ideally in...

Samsung posts record revenue in 2022, but dwindling profits

Samsung published its financial results for the final quarter of 2022 and the fiscal year, and once again, it managed to reach record revenue for the full 12 months - KRW 302.23 trillion (about $244 billion). This is an 8% increase compared with 2021; however, operating profit was KRW 43.38 trillion, 15% less than it was the previous year. The Q4...

Nothing Phone (2) coming to US this year, says CEO Carl Pei

“We decided to make the U.S. our No. 1 priority in terms of markets,” said Nothing CEO Carl Pei in an interview with Inverse. This won’t happen with the Phone (1), it’s just not built with support for bands used by US carriers (you can get one for $300, but it’s intended as a beta test). It will be the Nothing Phone (2), coming in late 2023, that...

Galaxy S23 pre-booking campaign in the US closes in 2 days, last chance for up to $100 credit

Three weeks ago Samsung US kicked off a pre-booking campaign for the Galaxy S23 flagships and the Galaxy Book3 laptops. This campaign is almost over – there are only 2 days left – which means that this is your last chance to secure $50 or $100 in Samsung Credit. The so-called “reservation” is really just an email reminder with a prize attached. You...

128GB Samsung Galaxy S23 to use slower UFS 3.1 storage

As the future Galaxy S23 series approaches, the vanilla Galaxy S23 is set to keep one foot in the past – it will launch with 128GB base storage. Leakster Ice Universe brings some more bad news for would-be S23 buyers, apparently the 128GB version will use the older UFS 3.1 storage format. The higher 256GB version will utilize the new, faster, more...

Honor confirms MWC event on February 27 for Magic 5 series, Magic Vs global launch

As anticipated, Honor scheduled an event on February 27 during MWC in Barcelona. The company confirmed it will launch the Magic5 series and finally bring the Magic Vs to the global scene. The arrival of the foldable is hardly a surprise, as Tony Ran, President of Honor EU, already promised in an interview the phone will arrive in the first quarter...

Canalys: 2022 sees China smartphone market decline to worst levels in a decade

Canalys published its latest report on smartphone sales in China regarding the final quarter of 2022 and the full calendar year. The results are bleak, as the market saw a 14% decline in overall shipments, dipping below 300 million units for the first time since 2013. During Q4, Apple was the top maker with a 22% market share, although shipments...

Samsung One UI 5.1 features leak ahead of Galaxy S23 launch

As if the Samsung Galaxy S23 series leaks so far weren’t detailed enough, we now have a fresh new one about One UI 5.1 and all the new features coming alongside it. WinFuture posted a detailed changelog of the new Samsung OS which will be based on Android 13 just like One UI 5.0. Based on the provided list of new features, One UI 5.1 will be a minor...

OnePlus Ace 2 is launching on February 7 in China

OnePlus is having a big event on February 7 in New Delhi, India, where we expect to see the global versions of the OnePlus 11, and the OnePlus Buds Pro 2. It will also be the landing stage for the first OnePlus Keyboard, OnePlus Pad tablet, new OnePlus TV Q2 Pro in several sizes, and the OnePlus 11R smartphone. At a separate event in China, OnePlus...

Top 10 trending phones of week 4

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra kept its spot on top of our trending chart ahead of the Unpacked event that is taking place on Wednesday. It's joined on the podium by the entry level Galaxy A14 and another yet-to-be announced phone, the Poco X5 Pro. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra takes the fourth spot, while the Galaxy A53 makes it four smartphones by...

Acefast Crystal (2) Earbuds T8 review

Introduction Acefast isn’t a name you hear often in the wireless earbuds market but its latest TWS earbuds bring a flashy transparent design, an LED display on the case and six bold color options which piqued our attention. The Acefast Crystal (2) Earbuds T8 are in for review and we’ll be taking a detailed look into what they offer. Acefast T8 certainly...

Week 4 in review: Galaxy S23 series prices revealed, camera samples arrive

Next week we'll finally witness the unveiling of the Galaxy S23 series alongside the Galaxy Book3 laptops. But for now, it's back to regular leaks as we recap the last week's stories. The Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra will all be slightly more expensive than their predecessors were (only the Galaxy S23+' starting Indian price is lower...

Weekly deals: the best smartphone deals from Germany, the UK, the US and India

January is an interesting time in the smartphone world – the first next-gen flagships are just starting to hit the market, others are yet to come. And with their replacements months (or even weeks) away, older flagship and premium phones are about as cheap as they are going to get while still being somewhat current. We have picked out deals from...

Samsung's Galaxy S23 Unpacked - what to expect

Samsung's first Unpacked event for 2023 is nearly upon us and despite the myriad of leaks that have taken most of the curiosity away from us, it's still one of the most important events the year. So let's summarize all of the leaks to get a better idea of what we expect. Galaxy S23 series We'll see the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, along with the S23...

Weekly poll results: Wired charging needs to be super fast, wireless not so much

After we posted last week’s poll about smartphone charging speeds, we kept an eye on it. After a few hours the 15-30 minutes and 30-45 minutes options were evenly matched, both outpacing the other answers in the poll. But then things started to turn. In a surprising result the poll ended with the 15 minutes or less option on top and by quite a margin...

Flashback: the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite punched above its weight

By early 2020 the Galaxy S10 series was preparing to retire. A year earlier it had introduced the world’s first 5G phone and brought the surprisingly popular S10e model along with the usual S10 vanilla and plus phones. But there was just enough time for one last hurrah before the S20 series launched in February. The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite was announced...