Honor Magic V6 comes to the UK

The Honor Magic V6, unveiled at MWC and launched in China over a week later, made its European debut yesterday. Now, its availability has expanded to the UK as well, with sales beginning at 10 AM local time. The Honor Magic V6 comes in a single 16GB/512GB configuration in the UK, but has four color options: gold, red, white, and black. It has an RRP of £1,999.99, and if you buy it from Honor's website, you get a £500 coupon and a complimentary gift package. There are two gift packages you can choose from: the Business Essentials Package and the Entertainment Package. The Business...

OnePlus is now pushing Oppo smartphones, tablets, watches, and earbuds

OnePlus' slow transformation from independent brand to an Oppo sub-brand continues unabated. The latest example comes from Germany, where the official OnePlus website is now advertising Oppo products. Scroll down a bit once you land on the site, and you will see this - an ad pointing you to "a curated selection of Oppo accessories and IoT products". If you click on that you're taken to this page, where OnePlus says it's "put together a selection of Oppo products equipped with the latest hardware and powerful software you know and are familiar with", "all designed to give you...

Sony to permanently stop physical disc production for PlayStation in 2028

Following Rockstar's announcement that Grand Theft Auto VI will be a digital-only release, Sony has come forth with an even more ambitious plan to kill physical media forever. The company has announced that starting January 2028, production of physical disc games for new games will be ending for all games releasing on the PlayStation platforms. In simpler terms, every game launching on PlayStation consoles after January 2028 will only be available digitally through the PlayStation Store or as a PlayStation Store code through other retailers. This applies to new games only, and not for...

American Express members can now use rewards points with Apple Pay

If you are an American Express cardholder, you can now finally use your Membership Rewards points when you check out with Apple Pay for online purchases. You can redeem your points directly within the Apple Pay secure checkout experience online, without needing to leave checkout, open another app, or complete additional redemption steps. You just shop online or in apps on your iPhone or iPad as usual, select Apple Pay at checkout, then choose an eligible American Express card, select Use Rewards and enter the amount of points you want to use to cover all or part of your purchase....

Samsung Galaxy Glasses and their case showcased inside the Galaxy Glasses Manager app

Samsung's first pair of smart glasses running Android XR with One UI XR on top will be called the Samsung Galaxy Glasses, the company has already confirmed. They will apparently be managed on your smartphone via the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Glasses Manager app. Today the folks at SammyGuru have somehow managed to get their hands on this app, and inside it they found an image showing the glasses by themselves, as well as one showing them inside their case. Screenshots from the Samsung Galaxy Glasses Manager app The glasses shown here are the Warby Parker model. The app will let...

Nothing unveils Ear (3a) official launch date

Earlier this month, a leak revealed the fact that Nothing was working on the Ear (3a) TWS earbuds. Today, the company has confirmed their existence, and also revealed when they are becoming official. Rather unsurprisingly, the Nothing Ear (3a) will be unveiled at the same time as the Nothing Phone (4b), on July 7. Only dating DJs this summer.Ear (3a)7 July, 11:00 BSTShot on Nothingw/ Phone (4b) pic.twitter.com/srMb5bykNe— Nothing (@nothing) June 30, 2026 The quick teaser video you can see above also confirms that the new earbuds will be available in white, black, yellow, and...

Commodore Callback 8020 goes on pre-order for a lower price

Commodore announced its $499 Callback 8020 flip phone a couple of weeks ago, and apparently people didn't like the price. So now the device has gone up for pre-order as promised, but it starts at $399. That's some magic trick - making the product 20% cheaper before even launching it. Part of this is explained by the fact that the $399 price includes "eco-validated" RAM and storage, which means they're "remanufactured", aka reused, aka recycled, whatever you want to call it. If you want your RAM and storage to be new, you need to pay an extra $50 and then you're up to $449. Anyway,...

Comcast is spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky

Comcast is spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky into a new company. The split will leave Comcast with the cable, wireless, and business services, while the new company will handle the Universal theme parks, film and TV studios, NBC, Peacock, and Sky. This move practically undoes the 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal by Comcast. So after 15 years of consolidation, it's now time for some de-consolidation. Interestingly, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts will remain "actively involved" in leading both companies after the split. Roberts, whose father Ralph founded the company in 1963, controls...

BT and Verizon agree to combine their international enterprise operations

Verizon and BT Group have announced plans to combine their international enterprise fixed-line operations into a new joint venture. The move is expected to close in 2027, subject to regulatory approval. BT and Verizon say the new company will be "designed for a cloud-first world in the age of AI", whatever that means. It will be a 50-50 joint venture, and will serve over 3,000 multinational organizations in more than 180 countries. Verizon will pay BT an equalization amount of $625 million to guarantee even voting rights. Combining BT and Verizon’s international enterprise...

Leak suggests Xiaomi 18 will get only a minor battery upgrade

New details about Xiaomi's upcoming compact flagship, the Xiaomi 18, have surfaced ahead of its rumored launch in China this September. According to tipster Digital Chat Station, the Xiaomi 18 will pack a 7,200mAh battery in China. Xiaomi 18 render courtesy of Digital Chat Station That’s only a modest upgrade over the 7,000mAh battery found in the Chinese version of the Xiaomi 17. The global Xiaomi 17, however, shipped with a smaller 6,330mAh battery. It is, therefore, likely that the global variant of the Xiaomi 18 could feature a smaller battery than its Chinese...

Samsung Galaxy M47 goes official with SD 6 Gen 3 and 6,000mAh battery

As expected, Samsung launched its Galaxy M47 in India today. The latest M-series member brings some familiar looks and specs to the Galaxy A27, but it also features some upgrades. The main one is the larger 6,000mAh battery, which supports up to 45W wired charging. It also features bypass charging, allowing the device to sip power directly from the charger when plugged in. This is highly useful for gamers and helps keep the device cooler. Elsewhere, the M47 is quite similar to the A27. It features a 6.7-inch Super AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. The...

RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro confirmed for global markets as Astra 2

RedMagic's Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is set to launch in China tomorrow, and the company has now confirmed that the tablet will be making its way to global markets. As expected, it will launch internationally under the RedMagic Astra 2 branding. While RedMagic has yet to announce a global launch date, the Astra 2 is expected to retain the same specifications as its Chinese counterpart. The Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is confirmed to feature a 9.06-inch OLED display with a 2.4K resolution and a 185Hz refresh rate. It will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and equipped with a...

iPhone 18 Pro series, foldable iPhone likely to debut on September 8

A new report suggests Apple could hold its next iPhone launch event in the second week of September. The company's first foldable iPhone, rumored to be called the iPhone Ultra, is expected to debut alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. The information comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says Apple is expected to follow its usual launch schedule and unveil the new iPhone lineup on the first Tuesday or Wednesday after Labor Day. iPhone Ultra, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone 18 Pro dummy units. (Credit - @VadimYuryev) Based on that timeline, Gurman believes that Apple...

Galaxy M47 key specs, Tecno Camon Slim official, Week 26 in review

Samsung has confirmed the Galaxy M47 5G will launch in India on June 29. The phone packs a 6.7-inch 120Hz AMOLED display, a Snapdragon chipset, a 6,000mAh battery with 45W charging, and a 50MP main camera with OIS. Samsung is promising six Android updates and six years of security patches, making software support one of its biggest highlights. Tecno unveiled the Camon Slim to join the Spark and Pova Slim phones. This one is a tad thicker at 6.39mm, but it packs a large 6,000mAh battery, and is IP69/IP68 water-tight. The Nothing Phone (4b) is coming on July 7. This week, it showed off...

Samsung starts working on One UI 9 for the Galaxy A24 4G after releasing stable One UI 8.5 update

Samsung released the Android 16-based One UI 8.5 stable update for the Galaxy A24 4G a few days ago, and now we learn it has started testing the Android 17-based One UI 9 for this smartphone. The One UI 9 build for the Galaxy A24 4G spotted on Samsung's server has firmware version A245FXXUCGZF4, but we don't know when Samsung will release the One UI 9 beta or stable update for the smartphone. In fact, the only smartphones that have received the One UI 9 beta so far are the Galaxy S26 series smartphones, even though Samsung is working on One UI 9 for multiple Galaxy devices. While...

Google Wallet can now track your packages

While probably not the most obvious or sensible integration out there, it does sound like a pretty nifty one. Also, we are pretty certain that this is not the first time Google has experimented with package tracking. If memory serves right, the now-retired Google Now (or rather transformed into Google Discover feed) used to offer the very same thing. Anyway, the idea is simple – Google scans your Gmail inbox and automatically recognizes digital receipts and tracking numbers, then simply uses those to provide parcel tracking info as part of the Google Wallet interface. The UI places...

Foldable gaming mode is coming with Android 17

Frankly, we don’t see gaming-specific features come to the Android core all too often. Recently, ex-journalist and now Google employee Mishaal Rahman offered up a surprisingly detailed preview of a great new feature coming to Android 17. It is called Foldable gaming mode, and what it does is basically spawn a highly customizable virtual controller on the bottom half of your unfolded foldable device, with the actual game playing on the top half. For now, it’s just a 50/50 split, which you can’t adjust, but that could come in the future. The virtual joystick emulates controller...

Apple starts selling refurbished MacBook Neo, bringing the price down to its pre-hike level

Yesterday, Apple hiked the prices of all of its products except for iPhones, and the MacBook Neo didn't get spared - its price went up by $100 in the US. Today, Apple has started offering the MacBook Neo in its refurbished store, and the price for the entry-level model with 256GB of storage and no Touch ID is now back to $599. That used to be the price for the new laptop pre-hike, now you can get a refurbished one for the same amount. If you want the one with 512GB of storage and Touch ID, you'll have to pay $679, which is $20 less than this variant used to go for new before...

iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e now rumored to have a surprising amount of RAM

Apple is rumored to be launching the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e next spring, and today a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed some intriguing details about them. Let's start with the oddest bit of information Kuo has shared today: both the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e are allegedly going to ship with 9GB of RAM. That's not a typo. They will apparently be using six 1.5GB dies, compared to the iPhone 17's four 2GB dies. That's a weird configuration but hey, it's a RAM increase compared to the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17e, even though it's not a big one. And in case you were wondering -...

Samsung gets sued by another patent troll trying to make a quick buck

Yet another patent troll wants to get paid by Samsung. Tau Ceti Ventures LLC has filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the company infringed upon ten of its patents relating to making displays brighter, preventing screen burn-in, improving battery life, and reducing manufacturing costs. Samsung allegedly used the infringing display technology in the Galaxy S25, Galaxy Z Flip7, Galaxy Watch8, Galaxy Tab A9+, Galaxy Book4, and a whole range of smart TVs and monitors. Tau Ceti claims that Samsung was aware of the patents or...

Oppo Reno16 Pro review

Amazon US Prime Day deals: the Google Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL are on sale

In a separate post, we looked at the Samsung flagship series – now let’s have a peek at Google’s top Android phones (well, the non-folding ones, anyway). Google also has a small and a large flagship in its lineup. However, unlike the Galaxy line where the two models are quite different, the two Pixel Pros are as similar as possible. The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL has a 6.8” display and a 5,200mAh battery. Meanwhile, the smaller Pro has a 6.3” display and a 4,870mAh battery. Both are powered by the same Tensor G5 chipset. Google...

iPhone Ultra 2 is 'confirmed' while iPhone Air 3 could be in jeopardy

You know how sometimes a streaming service will renew a show for a second season even before the first one has aired? Apple owns a streaming service, so it definitely knows how that goes. And according to a new rumor from Digital Chat Station on Weibo, the company is doing just that with its foldable smartphone line. According to the prolific leaker, Apple has already 'confirmed' the iPhone Ultra 2, though it's unclear what exactly this confirmation entails. We assume it means that work has started on the successor to the iPhone Ultra, which is expected to be unveiled in September...

Redmi K90 Ultra to offer an 8,550mAh battery, more specs confirmed

Redmi has revealed more details about its upcoming gaming-focused K90 Ultra. After showcasing the phone's design and confirming several key specifications, the company has now disclosed additional features, including its battery capacity. The Redmi K90 Ultra will come with an 8,550mAh battery, the company confirmed via a Weibo post. It will support 100W wired fast charging, 22.5W wired reverse charging, and bypass charging. Redmi also claims the battery features a 16 percent silicon content. The company has also revealed that the K90 Ultra will sport a 6.83-inch AMOLED display...

Here's when the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, Fold8 Ultra, and Flip8 might go on sale

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 (Wide), Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip8 are rumored to be unveiled on July 22 at an event in London. If Samsung indeed unveils these foldables on that day, their sales could begin in early August. There's no word from Samsung yet on the unveiling or sale date for these phones, but if Latvian e-commerce platform PriceBee is to be believed, the Galaxy Z Fold8 will be available starting August 5. At least in Europe. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8's listing on PriceBee Alongside the Galaxy Z Fold8, the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra and the Galaxy Z Flip8 could also go...