Moto G Play (2024) is now official with $149 price tag, 50 MP main camera

Today Motorola has officially taken the wraps off the Moto G Play (2024). This phone will become available in the US at Amazon, Best Buy, and Motorola's online store on February 8 for just $149.99. Subsequently, you'll also find it at Consumer Cellular, Verizon, Xfinity Mobile, Visible, Cricket, AT&T, UScellular, Cox Mobile, Straight Talk, Walmart Family Mobile, Total by Verizon, and Simple Mobile. In Canada, it arrives earlier, namely on January 26, at "select carriers and national retailers" but unfortunately Motorola hasn't announced a price for Canada, only saying it varies by...

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Realme 12 Pro series' launch date announced

Realme set up an event page for the Realme 12 Pro series on its official website last week, suggesting the lineup would launch this month without revealing the date, which we now know is January 29. The Realme 12 Pro series will be unveiled on January 29 in India at noon local time. Realme hasn't revealed how many smartphones are included in the series, but it likely consists of the Realme 12 Pro and Realme 12 Pro+. Last week, the brand revealed the design of what's likely the Pro+ model. Realme partnered with luxury watch design master Ollivier Saveo to design the lineup, which...

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Galaxy Watch4, Watch5, and Watch6 finally get blood pressure and ECG support in India

Following approval by India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, Samsung's Galaxy Watch4, Watch5, and Watch6 models (including the Pro and Classic ones) can now finally, for the first time, measure your blood pressure and take an ECG in India. For this, you need Samsung Health Monitor installed on both your watch and your phone - which has to be a Samsung running Android 9.0 or later because why not gatekeep features when you can gatekeep features, right? Anyway, there are calibration steps involved before you take a blood pressure measurement - you are actually required...

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Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro review

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Galaxy S24 series pre-order benefits in Europe outed along with exclusive colors

Samsung's big unveiling event for the Galaxy S24 family is taking place this Wednesday, on January 17. So now, with mere hours to go, the last-minute leaks are starting to pour in. This one right here seems to have originated Samsung's Austrian arm - someone sharing a screenshot of its internal systems. This lets us know that, as a pre-order promo, in Austria (and presumably in a lot of other EU or at least Western European countries), you will get a storage bump for free. So if you buy the 128GB model, you'll get the one with 256GB instead. And so on - pay for 256GB, get 512GB. It even...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 2

At the halfway point of the first month of 2024, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra keeps leading our trending chart. The upcoming flaghsip will inevitably reach even higher popularity next week, when it finally goes official. Newly announced Poco X6 Pro was the second most popular phone in our database this week, pushing the Redmi Note 13 Pro down to third. Redmi Note 13 Pro+ is fourth now, but the duo will make its global debut later today so they might also get a boost of popularity in week 3. The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is down to fifth, ahead of the Galaxy A54 and another new face -...

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