ChatGPT for Android arrives next week, pre-registrations begin

OpenAI launched the standalone ChatGPT app for iOS in May and promised to bring it to Android soon. Well, two months later, OpenAI has announced it will release the ChatGPT app for Android next week. Those interested in giving ChatGPT's Android app a try can pre-register on Google Play Store. The app will be free to use and sync user history across...

Samsung Galaxy S24 series reportedly not getting selfie camera upgrade

Next year's Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is rumored to replace the 3x telephoto unit seen on the Galaxy S23 Ultra with a 5x telephoto camera. However, the selfie camera on S24 Ultra and the vanilla and Plus models in the lineup won't get any hardware upgrade. Word comes from Dutch publication GalaxyClub, which claims Samsung will continue to use the...

Redmi Note 13 Pro+ to adopt Xiaomi 13's design with flat sides and narrow bezels

Going by the usual Redmi Note lineup release schedule, the Redmi Note 13 will likely arrive this fall in China, but an interesting rumor about the top-tier model emerged sooner than expected. The Redmi Note 13 Pro+ is reportedly getting a Xiaomi 13-inspired design, leaked schematics on Weibo show. The post is courtesy of Digital Chat Station but...

The OnePlus Open foldable is probably based on the Oppo Find N2

OnePlus' upcoming foldable phone, dubbed OnePlus Open, has been in the news for the last couple of months and there's little we don't know about the device. We recently covered all the details surrounding the upcoming foldable, or at least those we already know of. A renowned tipster Max Jambor on Twitter summarized most specs in a single tweet but...

New teaser officially confirms: the Galaxy Z Flip5 folds flat

Ever since Samsung's Chinese competitors started churning out foldable smartphones that are able to fully close flat, we've been waiting, anxiously, for the Korean company to match them. And, just as many rumors over the past few months had anticipated, it looks like the wait will finally be over next week. Samsung's Indian arm took to Twitter today...

vivo X100 global model's specs leak

vivo's X90 family of smartphones made its debut last November, and it's expected that the company will stick to a very similar fourth-quarter launch time frame for the upcoming X100 models. Today details about the X100's specs have been leaked. Keep in mind however that we're talking about the international X100, not the Chinese one. That's important...

Apple would pull iMessage and FaceTime from UK if new privacy law gets passed

The United Kingdom has been planning to update its Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016, which would require messaging services to disable their security features upon request by the authorities in an attempt to “protect the public from criminals, child sex abusers and terrorists”. Apple voiced concerns that the new changes might compromise data security...

TSMC pushes back the launch of its Arizona plant to 2025

TSMC’s original plans for its semiconductor foundry in Arizona was to start mass producing chips next year. However, the company just announced a delay: “We expect the production schedule of N4 process technology to be pushed out to 2025,” TSMC Chairman Mark Liu told Nikkei Asia. Note that “N4” is one of TSMC’s 4nm nodes. The issue is the lack of...

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will reportedly be in very short supply upon launch

According to a new report, the Apple iPhone 15 Pro and especially the iPhone 15 Pro Max will be in very short supply once they launch in September. This apparently has to do with problems with screen manufacturing at LG Display. Those problems stem from the fact that a new manufacturing process is being used in order to shrink the bezel size. It's...

Motorola Razr 40 Ultra / Razr+ fails bend test in an unprecedented way

Last month Motorola made the Razr 40 Ultra foldable smartphone official for international markets, and the same device is being marketed in the US as the Razr+. It's one and the same, so when Zack from the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel performs his trademark durability test on a Razr+, know that if you aren't in North America what you're seeing...

OnePlus Ace 2 Pro appears on Geekbench

The OnePlus Ace 2 Pro we've been hearing about for the past few months is rumored to come with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC at the helm. And while there's no word from OnePlus about the Ace 2 Pro yet, a OnePlus device bearing model code PJA110 and believed to be the OnePlus Ace 2 Pro has passed through Geekbench, confirming key specs in the process....

Huawei to introduce its own Dynamic Island with the Mate 60 series

Huawei is preparing to bring back the pill-shaped punch hole, according to leaks. The feature was last seen in the Mate 40 and P40 lineups back in 2020, and now the company is preparing to separate the dual cameras and 3D ToF sensors from the bezel once again with the Mate 60 series this fall. This will also mark the first time Huawei launches this...

Oppo kicks off Reno10 pre-orders in India

Last week Oppo released the Reno10 Pro and Reno10 Pro+ in India, now the third member of the series, the Oppo Reno10 is joining the party. The phone is already up for pre-order on Flipkart, the first deliveries are scheduled for July 30 (Sunday next week). There is only one configuration available with 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage. This costs ₹33,000,...

nubia Z50S Pro goes official with 35mm lens, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 chipset

The ZTE nubia Z50S Pro has arrived and there was a last minute addition of a third colorway. The first two go for a serious camera look with a lens-like camera bump and a grippy leatherette texture. The third option is inspired by ice instead and the camera island is adorned with an opalescent ring. ZTE nubia Z50S Pro Whichever look you prefer, all...

OnePlus 12's global launch tipped for January 2024

Last week, tipster Max Jambor corroborated rumors of OnePlus 12's December launch in China, who now claims that the smartphone will launch globally - including in India - in January 2024 and not in February. There's no word from OnePlus about the OnePlus 12, but thanks to leaked renders, we know what the smartphone will look like. The OnePlus 12...

Google's Nearby Share for Windows is now out of beta

Google's interpretation of Apple's AirDrop, Nearby Share, is now officially out of beta for Windows. Following some testing, in which more than 1.7 million people participated, the company decided to release a stable version, and you can download it here. Nearby Share is a very apt name - it basically describes exactly what the entire point of it...

WhatsApp is now officially available for Wear OS smartwatches

WhatsApp is now officially available for Wear OS smartwatches. Previously, a beta version had been out for a few months, but this is no beta - it's a stable, finalized build. In order to install and use it, you need to have a Wear OS 3 smartwatch. The app lets you start new conversations, reply to messages with text, send voice messages, use emoji,...

Samsung unveils GDDR7: 40% faster and 20% more energy efficient than GDDR6

Almost exactly a year ago Samsung introduced GDDR6, which was capable of transmitting 24Gbps per pin. Now the company has completed the design of the next gen in graphics RAM dubbed GDD7. This one goes up to 32Gbps per pin for a total of 1.5 Terabytes per second, 40% faster than the 1.1 Terabytes per second that GDDR6 could achieve. The increase...

Realme Pad 2 is official - 11.5" 120Hz display, Helio G99 chip

Right on schedule, Realme announced the Pad 2 tablet. It's on pre-order from July 26 and will go on general sale from the 1st of August. Starting from the front, the Realme Pad 2 has an 11.5-inch 2000x1200px IPS LCD with a 120Hz variable refresh rate. There's an 8MP camera on the front and an 8MP camera on the back. There's also a fingerprint sensor...

Video shows Tecno Pova's new Arc Interface with RGB lights on the back

Tecno is apparently working on something called the Arc Interface – RGB lights on the back of the phone that light up for new notifications. Here “the phone” appears to be the Tecno Pova 5, although there is a chance that it is a different device instead. Here is a demo of Arc by Ishan Agarwal, which shows the light strips blink into life for an...

nubia Red Magic 8S Pro in for review

ZTE just went global with the nubia Red Magic 8S Pro and the phone will go on sale on July 27 in North America, Europe, the UK, Singapore, and Mexico. The key difference between the China-bound model and this one is the charging - the global nubia Red Magic 8S Pro ships with a 65W charger, instead of the 80W for the Chinese market. There's also a...

Canalys: smartphone market declines 11% in Q2 but is showing signs of recovery

The smartphone market is in a rough shape after six straight quarters of declining shipments, but Canalys reports that there is light at the end of the tunnel – the analysts have spotted the first signs of recovery. Global smartphone shipments still fell 11% year on year, a bit better than the 12% decline in Q1, though only a bit. However, inventory...

Hands-on video with the Lenovo Legion Y700 (2023) shows off the tablet's two USB-C ports

While Lenovo pulled out of the gaming phone market, it is still working on gaming tablets – next up is the Lenovo Legion Y700 (2023), a sequel to the Y700 from last year. The new model will launch on July 22 (Saturday). The Y700 (2023) packs a lot of power with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset and LPDDR5X RAM (capacity TBA). That’s big step up from...

Samsung Galaxy Watch6 series and Galaxy Z Flip5's pre-order perks leak

Samsung is hosting the Galaxy Unpacked event in South Korea on July 26, where it will unveil the Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5. The company is also expected to introduce two new smartwatches at the event - Galaxy Watch6 and Galaxy Watch6 Classic. While Samsung is yet to explicitly confirm the names of these products, thanks to reliable leakster...

Red Magic 8S Pro goes global, here are the prices

ZTE launched the Red Magic 8S Pro in China a couple of weeks ago – this was the first phone to use a boosted version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 outside of the special deal between Samsung and Qualcomm. The company simply calls it the “leading version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2”, we prefer 8+ Gen 2. Its prime core (Cortex-X3) runs at 3.36GHz (instead...

Rumor: the OnePlus Ace 2 Pro will have up to 24GB RAM and 1TB storage

The OnePlus Ace 2 Pro is expected later this month and we’ve already seen several key details leak. Now there are some corrections in addition to more details about the new phone. According to a post on Weibo, the phone will have a 6.74” display with “1.5K” resolution – presumably, that will be the same 1,240 x 2,772px as the regular Ace 2. However,...

Oppo K11's launch date revealed

Oppo unveiled the K11x in May with the Snapdragon 695 SoC and 108MP camera, and the company has announced it will launch the vanilla model on July 25. This revelation comes from Oppo's Chinese branch, which said the Oppo K11 will be introduced next week in China at 2:30 PM local time. A couple of images shared by Oppo reveal the K11's back cover...

New leak reiterates Google Pixel 8 Pro specs

If Google sticks to its usual schedule, and so far we've seen no indication it plans not to, then the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro should be getting official at a special event taking place in California in October. And yet, we've already seen multiple leaks regarding the upcoming duo, even though we're still about three months away from that point. Today,...

Huawei nova 11 Pro review

Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/huawe_nova_11_pro-review-2591.p...

Nothing Phone (2) and black Ear (2) are now available

The Nothing Phone (2) is now available in Europe, North and Central America, along with certain other regions. Joining the new phone are the Nothing Ear (2) buds in the new black color. You can find the Phone (2) in the US (starting at $600), Canada (C$930), Mexico (M$15,000), Australia (A$1,050), the UK (£580), Germany (€650), France (€670), Poland...

Airtel is working on "Xstream AirFiber 5G", a home Internet service based on 5G

Earlier this year Jio unveiled “JioAirFiber”, a home Internet solution that relies on the carrier’s 5G network instead of running a cable to your house. Now rival Airtel is preparing a competing service dubbed “Airtel Xstream AirFiber 5G”. This hasn’t been officially announced yet, but due to a slip up the Android app was posted on the Play Store...

nubia reveals Z50S Pro design and key specs

The nubia Z50S Pro is arriving on July 20, and today the ZTE brand showed the design of the new phone. The company also revealed some key specifications like the chipset, screen resolution and battery capacity. The main camera of the Z50S Pro should come with a new custom-made main camera with a 35 mm equivalent focal length and 1"-type sensor, and...

Original iPhone 4GB sells for $190,372 at auction

Many years ago Steve Jobs delivered a keynote address at Macworld 2007 and unveiled the Apple iPhone. This revolutionary device was quite pricey – the base 4GB model cost $500, the 8GB one was $600 and that was if you signed a 2-year contract with AT&T (which was going by Cingular at the time). Fast forward to 2023 and these are now pieces of...

Oppo K11 price confirmed as live shot leaks online

The Oppo K11 is right around the corner, and the phone popped up at multiple places over the weekend. The Oppo PJC110 phone appeared on Geekbench, revealing a Snapdragon 782G chipset and 12 GB RAM, but we already knew that from a TENAA listing. The new bit of info comes from Oppo China president Bobee Liu who stated midrangers around CNY2,000 are...

Realme Pad 2 arriving on July 19

Realme Pad 2 is arriving on July 19, according to a landing page on Flipkart. It will have an 11.5” display with thin bezels and a high refresh rate and will arrive for sale a week after the unveiling. The images are now taken down, and the page does not exist, but we were able to get them before it was too late. The Pad 2 will have a circular camera...

This is the Infinix GT 10 Pro, a gaming smartphone landing in early August

According to a seemingly very trustworthy tip we received, Infinix is working on a gaming-oriented smartphone that is due to launch in the first week of August, starting in India. This will be called Infinix GT 10 Pro, and is aiming to provide high gaming features at an affordable price. You can see it in the exclusive images below. The phone's back...

Top 10 trending phones of week 28

The king is dead, long live the king! The newly announced Nothing Phone (2) managed to do what few other phones have pulled off this year and took the top of our trending chart from the Samsung Galaxy A54. And as the Glyph goodness pushed the long-standing champion to second, the Galaxy S23 Ultra was down to third position. The Redmi Note 12 ranked...

Week 28 in review: Nothing Phone (2), Honor Magic V2 announced

The Nothing Phone (2)'s official announcement is where we start this week's recap. It's a bit bigger, and slightly curvier than its predecessor, and packs a flagship chip in the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. Nothing Phone (2) comes in white and dark grey colors and starts at $599/£579/€679 for the 8/128GB trim. There’s a 12/256GB variant going for $699/£629/€729...

Weekly poll: Nothing Phone (2) open sales are about to begin, are you getting one?

After successfully entering the phone market, it’s time for Nothing to grow – and the Nothing Phone (2) did just that, going from the 6.55” of the original to 6.7”. Since open sales of the second generation model begin next week we wanted to take a vote on whether this was the right direction for Nothing to take. Besides being larger, the new OLED...

Weekly poll results: OnePlus Nord 3 is well-liked, Nord CE 3 needs to prove itself

The one upgrade that OnePlus skipped on the Nord 3 may have been the upgrade that mattered the most – the camera. The phone has a bigger, better display than its predecessor, bigger battery and faster Dimensity 9000 chip too. It’s not like the camera wasn’t upgraded – the IMX890 sensor produced better images than the IMX766 inside the Nord 2. Not...

More specs of Tecno Pova Neo 3 revealed

Tecno recently revealed the design and key specs of the Tecno Pova Neo 3, including Helio G85 SoC, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, and a 7,000 mAh battery. Now the company has confirmed some more features of the Pova Neo 3, leaving little to the imagination. Tecno Pova Neo 3's key specs and design revealed by Tecno Tecno posted an image on Twitter that confirmed...