Samsung Galaxy Ring 2 to arrive early with interesting improvements

Samsung fully launched the Galaxy Ring this summer, and so we were expecting its successor (if there was to be one) to arrive next summer. That, however, may not be the case, as one tipster now claims. According to this unverified rumor, the Galaxy Ring 2 is coming, and it's going to arrive sooner than initially planned. Unfortunately the source doesn't go into any more detail about the specific launch time frame, so we can only speculate - January alongside the Galaxy S25 family seems too soon, July with the next batch of foldables isn't early compared to expectations, so the next Galaxy...

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nubia Red Magic Nova review

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Honor Magic7 Lite is on the way but may not be entirely new

Last week Honor unveiled the Magic7 and Magic7 Pro, but there's at least one more member of the family on the way: the Magic7 Lite. This has been spotted in the Google Play Console, and its listing has revealed some of its specs as well as this image of its front: The Honor Magic7 Lite will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 SoC, paired with 12GB of RAM in one iteration (though more memory options could be offered). Interestingly, the Honor Magic7 Lite could be a rebranded Honor X9c, a phone that was made official yesterday. That's because its model number is identical to that...

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Gorilla Glass maker Corning is under investigation for anti-trust practices in the EU

Corning makes various kinds of tough glass, the most famous of which is Gorilla Glass – and it’s just this product that may have gotten the company into the sights of the European Commission. The Commission is concerned that Corning is abusing its dominant position as a glass supplier for smartphones, tablets and smartwatches to diminish the competition in this field. Specifically, the Commission is concerned about three things. The first is requiring that smartphone makers buy all or nearly all of their glass from Corning. If they do, Corning will offer them rebates. And finally,...

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Android 16's exact release date leaks

Google recently announced that Android 16 will be arriving earlier than its predecessor, with the launch scheduled to take place within the second quarter of next year, so between April and June. Today a new rumor claims to give us the exact release date: June 3. That's not just the day on which the code will be released to the Android Open Source Project, but apparently it's also when the over-the-air rollout of the update to Android 16 will start for Google's Pixels, unlike what happened this year when more than a month passed between the AOSP release and the actual OTA updates...

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The Pixel 9 Pro is much cheaper to make than the iPhone 16 Pro

A new report from Japan today claims to reveal the bill of materials (BOM) for both Google's Pixel 9 Pro and Apple's iPhone 16 Pro. The bill of materials is essentially an estimation of how much the parts that make up the smartphones cost - obviously these completely exclude R&D and marketing costs, it's important to keep in mind. If this report is accurate (and that's not a given because this isn't publicly available information), then it looks like Google's Pixel 9 Pro is much cheaper to make (when we look at the parts' costs) than the iPhone 16 Pro. The Pixel's BOM adds up to $406,...

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