Samsung's tri-fold smartphone to be even more limited than previously suggested

Last week we heard that Samsung was working on its own tri-fold smartphone to rival Huawei's Mate XT. Samsung was then said to be unleashing this device in the second half of this year, with less than 300,000 units available due to the very complicated manufacturing processes required. Today a new report from Korea takes that number down even lower. Apparently, there will only be around 200,000 units made. Parts for the device will be produced starting in the second quarter (April to June). Allegedly, Samsung has now shared its plans with "major component manufacturers". The Samsung...

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Poco F7 Pro and Poco F7 Ultra get certified, vanilla model missing in action

Poco's X series has recently been refreshed for 2025, and next up is the flagship F series. Today, the Poco F7 Pro and Poco F7 Ultra have both been certified for sale in Indonesia. This process has revealed their model numbers. The Pro is 24117RK2CG while the Ultra is 24122RKC7G - and yes, there will be an Ultra this year. The Poco F7 Pro is rumored to be a rebranded Redmi K80. Thus, it should have a 6.67-inch 1440x3200 120 Hz OLED screen with 3,200-nit peak brightness, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, 12/16GB of RAM, 256GB/512GB/1TB of storage, a dual rear camera system (50 MP main with...

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Samsung Galaxy Ring now comes in two new sizes

Samsung announced new size 14 and 15 US ring sizes for its Galaxy Ring today. In addition, Galaxy Ring will debut in 15 new markets from February, including Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, Vietnam and Zambia. This will bring the total number of markets where Samsung offers its Galaxy Ring to 53. Samsung also announced new Galaxy Ring features coming to the Samsung Health app. These include the Sleep environment report, Sleep time guidance and Mindfulness tracker. Samsung will ship its new...

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New Snapdragon 8s Elite detailed, seen powering the iQOO Z10 Turbo Pro

A few days ago, we came across a report that iQOO is working on four Z10 phones: Z10, Z10x, Z10 Turbo and Z10 Turbo Pro. That last one, the iQOO Z10 Turbo Pro, is interesting because it will allegedly use the Snapdragon 8s Elite, a new entry into the more affordable 8s series of chips by Qualcomm. And this may be it – the vivo V2453A ran Geekbench 6.1.0 with an unknown new chip. It has one core at 3.21GHz, three cores at 3.01GHz, two at 2.80GHz and two more at 2.02GHz. Even more interesting is the GPU, Adreno 825, according to the benchmark. This lines up perfectly with Digital Chat...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 2

We are just 12 days into 2025, but our trending chart is already overrun by the phones of this year. On top we once again have the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, which will be introduced in less than two weeks. It's joined on the podium by the Poco X7 Pro and the newly launched global version of the Redmi Note 14 Pro+. [#InlinePriceWidget, 13582, 1#] OnePlus 13, another phone to just go global, sits in fourth, while the Galaxy S24 Ultra is highest ranked phone from 2024 in fifth. Galaxy A55, another 2024 favorite, took sixth this week, followed by the Redmi Turbo...

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Huawei Freebuds Pro 4 review

Huawei went over a year without introducing an update to its flagship earphones, but the Freebuds Pro 4 arrived in 2024's closing weeks. The announcement first took place in China, followed by an international launch just a fortnight later. They were overshadowed by the Mate X6's global reveal (review here) and the nova 13 series debut, but we believe they deserve attention so we took a pair for a test. So here's what we found out. Table of Contents: Design User Interface Sound Charging Battery life Verdict Design and build quality The buds and case of...

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