Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra vs OnePlus 13

The Galaxy S25 Ultra is perhaps the most complete version of a smartphone you can get right now running Android, offering competent cameras, plenty of performance, solid battery life and display experience, all of the AI, and, of course, an S Pen. Not everyone needs all that, however, and if you're willing to sacrifice a feature here and there, a OnePlus 13 may be the more sensible option for you and perhaps even the better one in some ways. Let's compare. Table of Contents: Design Display Battery Life Charging Speaker Test Performance Cameras Verdict For...

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Weekly poll results: the Apple iPhone 16e is way overpriced

Apple, as the only maker of iOS phones out there, is responsible for providing entry-level models. Apple, a company that sees itself as a maker of premium products, has a hard time doing that. And the Apple iPhone 16e is a really bad entry-level model. Before we get to its qualities as a phone, however, we have to address the elephant in the room – its price. At $600/€700/£600/₹60,000, this is well above the $400/$430 starting price of the last two generations of iPhone SE, even if it has double the storage (it’s still 128GB, not a massive amount). For a whopping 39% of voters in...

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Our Oppo Reno13 Pro battery life and charging test results are out

Oppo unveiled the Reno13 Pro last November in China and began its international rollout in January. We shared our first impressions of the Oppo Reno13 Pro and are already working on its review. Now that the battery life and charging tests are complete, we thought to share those with you so you don't have to wait for our full review to see how the Reno13 Pro performed in these departments. The Oppo Reno13 Pro is powered by the Dimensity 8350 SoC and packs a 5,800 mAh battery, which is 800 mAh bigger than its predecessor Reno12 Pro's battery. That increase in battery capacity also...

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AMD announces pricing and availability for RX 9070 and 9070 XT

AMD today finally announced the pricing and availability information for the Radeon RX 9000 series of graphics cards. The RX 9070 is priced at $549 and the RX 9070 XT is priced at $599. They will be available starting March 6. The company also released full specifications for these cards. The RX 9070 has 56 compute units, 2.1GHz game clock, up to 2.5GHz boost clock, and a 220W power target. The RX 9070 XT has 64 compute units, 2.4GHz game clock, up to 3.0GHz boost clock, and a 304W power limit. Both cards have 16GB memory with 256-bit memory interface and 64MB of...

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Apple explains why the iPhone 16e doesn't have MagSafe

The recently unveiled iPhone 16e doesn't have MagSafe, and Apple has already explained that this has nothing to do with the use of its first in-house developed modem. So why did it happen? Well, Apple says it decided not to equip the iPhone 16e with MagSafe because "most people in the 16e's target audience exclusively charge their phones by plugging them into a charging cable". This statement allegedly comes from unnamed "Apple representatives" speaking to Daring Fireball's John Gruber. Those representatives go on to claim that these people, the ones who are going to buy the iPhone...

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge announcement date possibly outed

At its Unpacked event in January, where it unveiled the rest of the Galaxy S25 family, Samsung teased the Galaxy S25 Edge, and even let us go eyes-on with it. But nothing more than that. In case you've been wondering when to expect it to be fully unveiled, a new report from Korea today gives us an actual date: April 16. Since time zones exist, do note that it could actually happen on April 15 in some places. Either way, Samsung seems to have settled on mid-April to fully launch the thinnest member of its flagship line. The launch event will allegedly be online-only. The report...

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iPhone 17e is coming next year, research firm says

Apple recently overhauled its more affordable iPhone line, getting rid of the SE designation entirely and launching the iPhone 16e. According to a new report from research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, Apple is also changing the release schedule for its new "e" line of cheaper iPhones. Unlike the SEs, which launched every two years before being ignored for three most recently, the "e" models will come every year. So, the iPhone 17e will land in 2026, a year after the iPhone 16e. This is just a "prediction" by a research firm, but if it pans out it means Apple has big...

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Honor Magic7 RSR vs. Magic7 Pro camera comparison

The Honor Magic7 RSR Porsche Design is a special edition phone born out of the cooperation between Honor and Porsche Design. However, beyond the tweaks to hardware and software design, there are a couple of intriguing differences in the camera hardware that can potentially elevate the image quality even further than the great level that the regular Honor Magic7 Pro already provides. Originally, we didn't spend too much time examining the image quality in our Honor Magic7 RSR review because we thought the camera quality was already good enough and it's entirely beyond the point when you...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 leaks in CAD-based renders

Yesterday we saw the first set of leaked renders depicting the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7, and today the Galaxy Z Flip7 has received the exact same treatment. Like the Fold7's, these are also CAD-based, so minor details could still be different with the final product, but they do give us a very good idea of what to expect, design-wise, from Samsung's next flagship flip-style foldable. The source of the renders claims the Flip7 will measure 166.6 x 75.2 x 6.9 mm when unfolded (9.1 mm thick with the camera bumps). This means the device will be ever so slightly taller, much wider,...

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Oppo officially reveals when the Find X8 Ultra is coming

Earlier this week, a rumor told us to expect the Oppo Find X8 Ultra to launch in China in March, but apparently it was a bit too optimistic. Today Oppo Find series product manager Zhou Yibao officially revealed that the Find X8 Ultra is actually going to be unveiled in April, and it will also go on sale that same month. Zhou says this could very well be the only Ultra phone coming from a Chinese manufacturer this year with a flat screen. It will have the narrowest something in the world, he didn't want to divulge exactly what he's talking about. Bezels maybe? The Ultra has been rumored to...

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iQOO Neo 10R camera specs officially revealed

The iQOO Neo 10R will be made official on March 11. Ahead of that date, today the brand has revealed the phone's set of cameras. The Neo 10R will have a 50 MP main rear camera with a 1/1.953" type Sony sensor, an 8 MP ultrawide, and a 32 MP selfie snapper with support for 4K 60fps video recording. The device is officially confirmed to feature the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC. iQOO promises "a stable 90fps gaming experience for up to 5 hours" in the official press release it's sent us. The phone has a 6,043mm² vapor chamber, and an "industry-leading" 2,000 Hz touch sampling...

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New Oppo Find N5 promo videos focus on the folding screen, drop and water resistance

We've already shared the first round of official promo videos for Oppo's recently announced Find N5 a few days ago, and today we're back with three more that have been posted by Oppo since then. The first one is all about how immersive the Find N5's main screen (the one that folds) is. See for yourself: It measures 8.12" diagonally, so the size is definitely impressive. The video is a bit misleading, however, showing the person watching a video that has no black bars anywhere - that can be accomplished, sure, but by panning a lot into a video and thus cutting out big chunks of it....

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OnePlus Watch 3 delayed until April to fix Meda in China typo

Bad news if you wanted a OnePlus Watch 3 and wanted it fast. While the company has unveiled the new smartwatch last week, and promptly started taking pre-orders for it, the release date, which was supposed to be today in some markets, has now been pushed back all the way to April. And it all has to do with that hilarious Meda in China typo on the back of the watch. Apparently the entire initial production run has the typo, and OnePlus has already told people that they could get a free replacement if they receive this 'version' and are bothered by it. So with the release delay...

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Realme Neo7x and Realme Buds Air7 are official too

Realme just unveiled the Neo7 SE, and it's joined by the Neo7x. This device comes with a 6.67-inch 1080x2400 AMOLED screen with 120 Hz refresh rate, an up to 1,500 Hz touch sampling rate, and 2,000-nit peak brightness. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 SoC, paired with 8/12GB of RAM and 256/512GB of storage. It has a 50 MP rear camera with a 1/2.88" type sensor from OmniVision (OV50D40) and f/1.8 aperture, a 2 MP depth sensor, a 16 MP selfie camera with f/2.4 aperture, an in-display fingerprint sensor, stereo speakers, and a 6,000 mAh battery with support for 45W fast...

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Samsung's tri-fold phone won't come as soon as we hoped

It's the hope that kills you. Just yesterday, we heard a rumor suggesting Samsung is will announce its tri-fold smartphone during the summer Unpacked event alongside the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7. But a new report from today comes out to refute those claims. According to @MaxJmb on X, Samsung is indeed working on a tri-fold smartphone, but it won't arrive on time for the summer Unpacked event. Instead, Samsung is aiming to announce it later on. As of now, Huawei remains the only company offering such an exotic piece of tech called Mate XT Ultimate. So it's only natural to expect...

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Google Pixel 9a leaks in hands-on video

Google's Pixel 9a just can't stop leaking ahead of its rumored unveiling next month. Today we have a short hands-on video showing off its lack of camera bump. We can see the phone in its Obsidian colorway here, which to us mere non-Google mortals is just black. The Pixel 9a's very tiny camera bump (tiny in thickness, we mean) is also clearly visible, signifying two things - this won't be the thinnest phone around by any stretch of the imagination, and it won't have top tier camera sensors which require much larger camera humps. The Pixel 9a is rumored to be unveiled on...

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Oppo Reno13 in for review

This is the Oppo Reno13, the sidekick to the Pro with a very similar skill set. Both share the 4nm Dimensity 8350 SoC, and both feature a wide and autofocusing 21mm f/2.0 selfie shooter with a 50MP sensor. We'll talk about the differences in just a minute, but first let's do an unboxing. The Reno13 ships without a charger in the box, but you get an 8A USB cable, which you'll need to get the 80W charging speed. You'd need to supply your own 80W charger and a case too. Unboxing the Reno13 The Reno13 series is beautiful - Oppo created a butterfly shadow effect that appears on the...

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Apple to integrate its in-house modem into its main chipsets, but it won't be soon

The launch of the new budget iPhone 16e marked the debut of the long-awaited in-house, custom C1 modem. According to Apple, this is the most power-efficient modem on the market, and a report claims that the company plans to develop its modem further and integrate it into its future chipsets. The current C1 modem has a few limitations. First, it's an external modem that's not built into the SoC, which means it starts on the back foot when it comes to power management, performance, control and production cost. That's why Apple is planning to integrate its modem in the future. Second, the...

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Samsung Galaxy M06 and Galaxy M16 official teaser reveals new design

Samsung is preparing to launch the Galaxy M06 5G and Galaxy M16, and it has already set up a landing page on Amazon India. There is a single teaser image of the phones, revealing the M06 will have two cameras, while the M16 might have three, and they will sit on a dedicated island. Samsung ditched the camera island design from its Galaxy phones in mid-2022, the Korean maker moved to only the lenses protruding from the back panel. Yet the company is now seemingly ready to bring it back. The M06 is likely going to share much of its hardware with the Galaxy F06 5G, which arrived in...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 8

Week 8 brought two things to our trending chart - the end of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra's reign that started at the beginning of the year and one of the most diverse trending charts in recent memory. It was the newly announced Apple iPhone 16e that immediately jumped to the top, while second place went to a phone that's not even going official for another 10 days. The Nothing Phone (3a) is clearly the most hotly anticipated debut at the MWC though. This meant the Galaxy S25 Ultra had to settle for third place. We do suspect it might still be able to fight back the new names once the...

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Oppo Reno13 Pro hands-on

Oppo unveiled the Reno13 and Reno13 Pro last November in China, which were introduced for international markets - including India and Vietnam - earlier last month. We recently got our hands on the Oppo Reno13 Pro, and here are our first impressions of the smartphone. The Oppo Reno13 Pro has a 6.83" quad-curved display of 2,800x1,272-pixel resolution on the front. It's an AMOLED panel with a refresh rate of 120Hz, HDR10+ support, and 1,200 nits peak brightness. The display is protected by Gorilla Glass 7i, and there's a punch-hole up top at the center for the 50MP selfie camera (with...

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iPhone 16e and vivo V50 are official, Nothing Phone (3a) is coming, Week 8 in review

Apple has a new iPhone member - gone is the SE, say hello to the iPhone 16e. "e" for "economical"? Not if you're in Europe, where the phone starts from €700 - $599 if you're in the US. The iPhone 16e has an A18 chip, 8GB of RAM, a 6.1-inch display, and a single 48MP camera on the back - Apple says it does lossless 2x zoom. The phone has Apple's long-rumored first-ever in-house developed modem, the C1. It also supports satellite connectivity, including Emergency SOS, Roadside Assistance, Messages, and Find My via Satellite. The iPhone 16e will only be available in white and black. It went...

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Weekly poll results: the OnePlus 13R is off to a strong start

The OnePlus 13R can add last week’s poll to its resume – these results are something to brag about. The perception of this phone is that OnePlus fixed some of the major complaints about the 12R (mainly the camera). This led to a positive score on the poll and one major complaint – the price. The 13R matches the price of the 256GB 12R, but the 12R also had a cheaper 128GB model. Well, actually, in Europe and India the 13R got a small price hike. Anyway, while OnePlus phones aren’t regulars at the discount section in stores, they do get price cuts and promos often enough. Things...

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Deals: here is what you can get instead of an iPhone 16e

The iPhone SE is dead, long live the iPhone e! Okay, this may be an unfortunate development for some of you as the SE was the smallest iPhone and it was by far the cheapest. What now? The Apple iPhone 16e is the same size as the 16 and it is almost as expensive – it starts at $600/€700/£600/₹60,000 for a 128GB model. There are 256GB and 512GB options too, but those storage upgrades follow the same pattern as upgrades on Apple’s more premium phones. Pre-orders for the 16e started this Friday, sales will commence on Friday next week. Long story short, the 16e has a binned A18 chipset...

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Qualcomm partners with Croma to launch its first Snapdragon Experience Zone in India

Qualcomm has launched its first Snapdragon Experience Zone in India. The chipmaker partnered with India's leading retail chain Croma to open its Snapdragon Experience Zone in the country. It's located at Croma's store in Juhu, Mumbai, and Qualcomm plans to open more Snapdragon Experience Zones at Croma stores across India. With the Snapdragon Experience Zone, Qualcomm will showcase the devices from its partners powered by the Snapdragon platforms. These include smartphones, PCs, wearables, and hearables. The Snapdragon Experience Zone will also have expert staff trained to help...

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Nothing Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro star in leaked promo videos, new features revealed

Two official-looking promo videos of the upcoming Nothing Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro just surfaced online, revealing some tidbits that were previously unknown, but more importantly, they confirm the design and specs that were previously shared online. 3a pro pic.twitter.com/wDpwqhZDoi— Arsène Lupin (@MysteryLupin) February 21, 2025 According to the (3a) Pro's promo video, the device will feature a 3x periscope telephoto camera, which isn't surprising, but the computational capabilities are touted to achieve 6x lossless-like zoom. The video also reveals that the telephoto shooter can be...

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