Mysterious Google chipset shows up on GeekBench

There are a lot of interesting potential developments involving the future Google Tensor chips. A recent massive leak regarding the Tensor G5 and G6 clams that TSMC will be taking over production of the chips from Samsung. The G5 in particular, will be codenamed “laguna”, be manufactured on TSMC’s 3nm-class N3E process and use a 1x Arm Cortex-X4...

Oppo Find X8 Mini might be launching alongside the Find X8 Ultra

Oppo has unveiled the Find X8 and Find X8 Pro earlier this month, and the Find X8 Ultra is expected to join them in a few months' time. But now it turns out there could actually be a fourth member of the family coming alongside the Ultra. This is speculated to be a Find X8 Mini by Chinese Weibo user Digital Chat Station. If this is true, then Oppo...

OnePlus 13 and iQOO 13 rule AnTuTu in October, beating the vivo X200 Pro

On the first day of each month, AnTuTu publishes two charts for the previous month, one for flagship smartphones, the other for upper-midrange devices. Today we have the charts for October, with a bonus one at the end. The flagship smartphone chart shows the first entrants using the latest top of the line chipsets from both Qualcomm and MediaTek,...

Samsung users facing further One UI 7 delays

Even though the news isn't official, a renowned tipster on X revealed that Samsung will further delay the release of One UI 7 Beta. The stable release of the software is vaguely scheduled for early next year, probably coming alongside the Galaxy S25 series. The good news is that the Beta delay won't be long - just two weeks. This means that there's...

Google confirms: Android 16 is launching early and there will be a second release in 2025

At the beginning of this month a rumor claimed Google would launch Android 16 earlier than its predecessors. Today, Google itself has confirmed this. Android 16, the finalized version, will be out in the second quarter of next year, so between April and June. The company says it's doing this "to better align with the schedule of device launches"...

iPhone 17 to use Apple's own Wi-Fi 7 chip

The iPhone 17 coming in fall 2025 will use an Apple-designed Wi-Fi 7 chip, according to renowned Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The chip will replace the Broadcom chip that Apple currently uses for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Apple's Wi-Fi 7 chip will be built using TSMC's 7nm process. Apple apparently wants to move "nearly all" of its products...

WhatsApp introduces custom lists for your chats

Today WhatsApp has released a new feature - custom lists. These are the evolution of chat filters, introduced earlier this year as a way to find messages faster. With custom lists, you can filter your chats into custom categories of your choice - you can have a list for anything: family, work, your neighborhood, and so on. Creating a new list is...

ChatGPT Search is here to take on Google

The much-anticipated search function of ChatGPT is now live. It's called ChatGPT Search, and searches the web for you. The twist is that it's integrated into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT may choose to search for you for some things you ask it. You can also manually click/tap the Search option after you input anything into the text box. OpenAI says it "blends...

Google Pixel 11a and Pixel Tablet 3 to have inferior chips compared to the flagship Pixels

According to a new rumor, Google will only launch a new Pixel tablet every two years. The Pixel Tablet 2 is thus coming in 2025, and the Pixel Tablet 3 in 2027. Also in 2027, the company will launch the affordable Pixel 11a. These two devices will theoretically use the same Tensor chip as the flagship Pixel line, but in practice things won't quite...

Google Pixel 9a full specs and price tag revealed in new leak

Google might launch the Pixel 9a in March 2025, but a full specs sheet of the smartphone already appeared online. Multiple sources told Android Headlines that the new phone will have a big 6.3" display, which is the same screen from the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro flagships. Google is expected to equip the Pixel 9a with its latest Tensor G4 chipset,...

Realme GT7 Pro in for review

Realme is expected to launch the GT7 Pro with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and the device landed with us ahead of its official announcement next week. We just received the phone and can't wait to start testing it, so here are our quick impressions of the new phone. We received the orange color option of the GT7 Pro, which looks pretty impressively....

Apple unveils M4 Pro and M4 Max with up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores

Today Apple has officially announced the new MacBook Pro, and it's powered by a choice of M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. The M4 Pro and M4 Max are new, and have also been unveiled today "to form the most advanced family of chips ever built for a personal computer", Apple proudly boasts. The M4 Pro has an up to 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores...

Huawei Mate 70 series to have familar camera design, leak reveals

Huawei is working on the Mate 70 devices, and a new leak just revealed what the phones will look loke from the back. According to a photo that claims to have the camera covers of all the phones, all Huawei Mate 70 versions will have four cameras in a square formation mounted on a circular or octagonal island. The lineup will include Mate 70, Mate...

Samsung to hold another developer conference in November, might show One UI 7.0

Samsung unveiled One UI 6 last year at the Samsung Developer Conference 2023 (SDC23). However, One UI 7 has been hit with a series of delays and won’t be out until next year, likely launching alongside the Galaxy S25 series. So, this year’s SDC focused on other things. But we still may get a peek at what Samsung is cooking – the company just announced...

Xiaomi introduces HyperOS 2 with more performance optimizations and more AI

At its grand event in China today, Xiaomi unveiled the 15 and 15 Pro flagship smartphones, and it also presented the newest version of its Android skin: HyperOS 2. This introduces three "core technological innovations" to devices sold in China - HyperCore, HyperConnect, and HyperAI. Together, these should work to offer a "fresh, advanced experience...

Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Pro and Watch S4 are also official

The Xiaomi Smart Band 9 went official a few months back, and today it's received a sibling: the Smart Band 9 Pro. Like previous Pro versions in Xiaomi's best-selling line of wearables, this one has a larger, squarer screen compared to the non-Pro Smart Bands. The Smart Band 9 Pro's display is 1.74" in diameter, AMOLED of course, with 336x480 resolution...

Google Pixel Watch 5 to have a custom Tensor chipset

Google's Pixel Watch 5 might get a custom Tensor chip, giving up on Qualcomm as a supplier. This makes sense since Google is also using Tensor chips for its Pixel smartphones, but interestingly the switch will only happen in 2026, so the Pixel Watch 4 will presumably still use a Qualcomm SoC. That said, the roadmap document that this leak is based...

iOS 18.1 released with Apple Intelligence

Apple is now rolling out iOS 18.1, which, along with iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1, brings with it Apple Intelligence, Apple's suite of AI features. Apple Intelligence brings with it a raft of new features, which include Writing Tools that are available nearly everywhere you can type, and let you rewrite, proofread, and summarize text, new Siri...

Google Pixel 11 to borrow a forgotten feature from the Pixel 4

Google's Pixel 11, coming in 2026, is now rumored to resurrect a feature last seen on the Pixel 4 from 2019. Google is apparently considering adding an under-display infrared camera to the Pixel 11 generation, thus enabling secure face unlocking. The last time a Pixel had something like that was in 2019 with the Pixel 4. Google then gave up on the...

One UI 7 design changes showcased in early video

One UI 7 is expected to arrive in January 2025, alongside the Galaxy S25 series. We have seen leaked images of the interface, which will be based on Android 15, but now the YouTube channel Mobile Wala Bhai has revealed more about the UI in its latest video. The software is installed on a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and reveals some design improvements,...

Indonesia bans sale and use of iPhone 16 series

The Indonesian government has effectively banned the sale and use of iPhone 16 series and Apple Watch 10 series devices in the country. The ban is a direct result of Apple's unmet investment commitments in the country, as Cupertino had previously pledged to invest upwards of IDR 1.71 trillion ($109 million) in local R&D facilities. If there is...

Realme GT7 Pro full specs appear on TENAA

Realme GT7 Pro with Snapdragon 8 Elite will arrive on November 4, and we already know some key features of the new flagship. Today, we have the full specs sheet of the phone, including display size, battery capacity and memory options, after it was listed by TENAA. Realme is bringing a 6.78" screen with a 2,780 x 1,264 px resolution - per a previous...

Top 10 trending phones of week 43

The top two in our trending chart in week 42 are unchanged - the Galaxy A55 leading from the Galaxy S24 Ultra. However, in third we spot newly announced Oppo Find X8 Pro flagship. [#InlinePriceWidget, 13262, 1#] Behind it we see the Galaxy S24 FE and the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which climbed back to fifth. Redmi Note 13 Pro came in sixth, followed by...

Weekly poll results: vivo X200 Pro mini adored, X200 Pro also gets a warm welcome

Small-but-powerful phones tend to be quite popular on the Internet, even if “small” hasn’t been an accurate term in the last few years. And, boy, did vivo bring out one of the best small-but-powerful phones that we’ve seen yet. We’re talking about the vivo X200 Pro mini, of course. The phone received an overwhelmingly positive response that could...

iQOO Z9s Pro hands-on review

iQOO expanded the Z9 series by introducing two 's' models, called iQOO Z9s and iQOO Z9s Pro. Both smartphones are designed for young multi-taskers, primarily college students and young professionals. We already shared some pictures clicked with the Z9s Pro from our media tour in Baku, Azerbaijan, but we also used the smartphone for about a month...

The Blackmagic Camera app for iPhones now supports Camera Control, adds new features

Blackmagic Design has updated its popular Camera app for iOS, with version 2.1 bringing notable new features primarily aimed at iPhone 16 users. Key among these is the addition of Camera Control support, allowing users to adjust settings like zoom, exposure, focus, and ISO by simply swiping the Camera Control button. The update follows version 2.0,...

Deals: the new iPad mini is now available, the old one is still around and other Apple deals

The new iPad mini became available globally earlier this week, so let’s check out the prices and some alternatives. The Apple iPad mini (2024) now has 128GB storage in its base configuration and 8GB of RAM. The latter is paired with a downgraded A17 Pro chipset to support Apple Intelligence. These AI features will arrive soon as part of the iPadOS...