Huawei Pura 90s Pro Max review

vivo X300 E is official with Zeiss-backed triple-rear cameras, Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC

vivo’s latest X300 series phone has gone official in China. The vivo X300 E comes with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset and features a Zeiss-backed triple-rear camera setup. It sports a 6.59-inch OLED screen that offers a 1.5K resolution, up to 144Hz refresh rate, and a peak brightness of up to 5,000 nits. The handset also offers an under-display ultrasonic fingerprint scanner. The vivo X300 E is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset and comes with LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.1 storage. It runs Android 16-based OriginOS 6 out-of-the-box. For photography, the smartphone offers a...

Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro review

Introduction, unboxing This is the new Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, which launched globally at the end of May. You can look at it as a successor to the Smart Band 9 Pro (review here), or as its own thing. If you compare the Smart Band 10 Pro to its predecessor, very little has changed. It has the same overall design (though it is a bit lighter and thinner), the same battery (350mAh), and mostly the same display - a 1.74-inch 60Hz unit (but a bit brighter - up to 2,000 nits vs 1,200 nits). Looking at the Smart Band 10 Pro on its own, it's a €75 wearable (it goes up to €100 for the...

Apple wants to save money on the iPhone 18 Pro Max's screen

According to a new rumor out of Korea, Apple is trying to offset some of the higher costs of memory and storage for its upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max by getting cheaper displays. In fact, its panel suppliers Samsung Display and LG are apparently selling Apple the iPhone 18 Pro Max's screen at an average price of $66.5, which is allegedly almost 20% below what Apple paid for the iPhone 17 Pro Max's screen last year (in the $80 range). Even last year, Apple was getting cheaper displays than the year before that, with the iPhone 16 Pro Max's screen reportedly costing above $100 at times....

vivo X300 E appears in an official trailer ahead of launch, processor confirmed

vivo will unveil the X300 E as the newest member of the X300 series in China on July 27. vivo already revealed the X300 E's design, and now it has posted a video trailer, showing the smartphone from multiple angles while also confirming its chipset. The vivo X300 E will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC, and fueling the entire package will be a 7,200 mAh battery. The smartphone will feature a triple camera setup on the rear, including a periscope telephoto unit. vivo also partnered with ZEISS for the imaging on the X300 E; however, it's unclear if all the cameras will benefit from...

Weekly poll results: the Motorola Edge 70 Max could be a hit, if it gets a price cut

Motorola is onto something with the Moto Edge 70 Max – the phone combines a large, high-quality display (6.83” LTPO OLED with 1440p+ resolution, 10-bit colors and 144Hz refresh rate) with a chipset powerful enough to drive it (Snapdragon 8 Gen 5), a large battery to last long streaming or gaming sessions (7,100mAh, 90W wired, 25W wireless charging – with magnets!) and a rugged build (IP69, MIL-STD-810H). However, last week’s poll reveals a flaw with the Max formula – and once you see the €800 / £700 / ₹55,000 price tag (for an 8/256GB phone), it’s easy to guess what it is. Indeed,...

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 in for review

Samsung skipped a Watch Ultra in 2025 in favor of the Classic; now it's the Ultra's turn to shine and the Classic's time to wait. Meet the Galaxy Watch Ultra2, the same wearable but better in the most important way - battery life! Samsung brought the battery up to 800mAh (up from 590mAh, or a 35% increase), which is the most on any Galaxy smartwatch (and pretty big compared to most watches). Samsung says you can get 60 hours out of the bigger battery, which is a lot for a Wear OS smartwatch (and laughable compared to something like the Honor Watch 6's 35 days). As before, you get a...

Deals: Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Z Flip8 go on pre-order

This week, Samsung unveiled its next generation foldables, which included the first wide foldable for the US market. The company is also launching a pair of new smartwatches. Currently, the foldables and watches are on pre-order – open sales start on August 7. Here are some of the offers we found for the new models. You can check out our hands-on review for a closer look at the Galaxy Z Fold8 (the new wide foldable), the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra (the successor to the Z Fold7) and the Galaxy Z Flip8. Starting with Samsung US, the company no longer offers free storage upgrades. However, there...

Honor Power3 may have aimed too high with its battery capacity

Honor launched the Power2 in January, and then, in May, we heard that the upcoming Power3 would have a battery capacity of 11,000 to 12,000 mAh, while the exact number wasn't decided yet. Today a new rumor from the same source is back to dial down our expectations, unfortunately. According to Digital Chat Station on Weibo, the Honor Power3 will have a battery of at least 10,000 mAh. The Power2 has a 10,080 mAh battery, so its successor may match it or surpass it every so slightly. But it seems like the aim to get to 11,000 mAh or even 12,000 mAh may have been too optimistic. Honor...

Samsung Galaxy F70 Pro pops up on Geekbench with its key specs

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy F70e in February, and we might see it launch a Pro model in the coming months, as the smartphone was spotted on the GSMA database a few months ago and has now popped up on Geekbench. The benchmark database reveals that the Samsung Galaxy F70 Pro, bearing model code SM-E476B, is powered by Qualcomm's SM6475 chip, which corresponds to the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 SoC. It consists of two quad-core clusters - one having a maximum clock speed of 1.8GHz and the other having a clock speed of up to 2.4GHz. GPU is likely Adreno 710. Samsung Galaxy F70e The Galaxy F70...

Xiaomi 18 Pro will get a global launch, new rumor claims

Last year the Xiaomi 17 Pro and Xiaomi 17 Pro Max were launched in China and never made it outside of the company’s home country. The situation is changing this year, however, according to a new report. The Xiaomi 18 Pro at least will allegedly be released in markets like Europe, Türkiye, Russia, Taiwan, and Japan. A few days ago a different report claimed that the Xiaomi 18 Pro would also launch in India alongside the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Xiaomi 17 Pro Today's rumor says the Xiaomi 18 Pro won't be coming to India, so the situation is still pretty confusing. Today's report also...

Facebook Verified is a new free badge that confirms there's a real person behind an account

Today Meta is launching Facebook Verified. This is a free badge that lets you know there's a real person behind an account. To get the badge, you need to go through a selfie-based verification process. You basically record a selfie video, which the company will check against your existing profile pictures to confirm a match. The process should only take a few minutes. If you get the badge, it will initially appear in Facebook Marketplace, Dating, Groups, and on your profile. In the future, it will also be seen in Feed posts. Obviously, the badge doesn't mean that Facebook "endorses the...

You can now log into your Google account with a selfie video

Google is now letting you log into your account with a selfie video. You of course first need to set this up, by recording an initial selfie video, in which you just look at your device's camera and complete "a few short, guided head movements to capture multiple angles", the company says. After that, you can log into your Google account with a selfie video, for example if you've forgotten your password. Google will compare the new selfie video with the one you recorded when you set up the feature and let you in. You can delete the saved selfie video at any time from your...

Samsung Galaxy S27 and S27+ could get a new main camera

The Samsung Galaxy S27 and Galaxy S27+ are now said to be in testing with a new 50MP main camera using a Sony sensor. This is notable because Samsung makes camera sensors itself, and obviously likes to use them in its own phones. Testing a new sensor this early in the development cycle does not guarantee that it will actually be used, but it's an interesting development nonetheless. The S27 and S27+ are expected to be using the same 12MP ultrawide camera that is in the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+. On the other hand, the S27 Pro and S27 Ultra will apparently be getting a new 50MP...

Honor and Arri will showcase the Robot Phone next week, Honor unveils a new logo

The Honor Robot Phone may arrive earlier than expected – Honor announced an “Imaging Technology Launch Event” for July 28 (that’s Tuesday next week). Honor, along with partner Arri, will present a phone that “packs a full-stack cinematic workflow”. Honor and Arri will hold an Imaging Technology Launch Event on the 28th They are really leaning into the phone’s video skills. If you watched the FIFA World Cup 2026 final, you may have spotted the Robot Phone. It also made an appearance at the Shanghai International Film Festival. And even though it was first unveiled months ago, the...

iPhone Ultra is now rumored to be delayed, again

In the latest episode of 'will it, won't it?', a new report claims the iPhone Ultra may be delayed after all. This comes after some recent rumors saying it was actually not delayed, which followed a few earlier reports that said it was. At this point, we can't be sure either way. Still, most of the latest rumors have at least agreed that the iPhone Ultra will be unveiled as scheduled in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. So now the question is just whether it will be available in stores at the same time as those two devices or not. Today's report claims...

Google Pixel Watch 5's key specs revealed via Google Play Console listing

The Google Pixel Watch 5 is expected to go official on August 12 alongside the Pixel 11 series smartphones. Recently leaked renders revealed the Pixel Watch 5 will look identical to the Pixel Watch 4. Now a Google Play Console listing reveals the Pixel Watch 5's CPU and GPU will also be the same as its predecessor. The Google Pixel Watch 5, codenamed "godric," is listed on the Google Play Console with Qualcomm's SW5100 SoC, the same base chip used by Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4. The Pixel Watch 5 also has four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.7GHz and an Adreno 702 GPU, like last year's Pixel...

Indian Redmi Note 17 runs Geekbench, reveals its chipset and RAM amount

Redmi unveiled the Note 17 and Note 17 Pro in China earlier this month, and now it looks like the Note 17 headed to India has just run Geekbench. As usual, this means there's a listing for it in the Geekbench online database, and that it reveals the chipset at the helm. It's the Snapdragon 4 Gen 4 SoC, same as in the Chinese Note 17. This is aided by 8GB of RAM in the specific unit that ran the benchmark. The phone runs Android 16. As you can see in the screenshot below, it managed a 950 single-core score and a 2,324 multi-core score in Geekbench 6.7.1. According to a recent rumor,...

Oppo Find X10 family is being tested against the iPhone 17 Pro, live shots prove

According to new information from a tipster on X, Oppo is currently testing the upcoming Find X10, Find X10 Pro, and Find X10 Pro Max alongside the iPhone 17 Pro, presumably to compare their camera prowess against Apple’s latest flagship. The images below seem to show all three devices in a rig with the iPhone 17 Pro, and even though the Oppos are inside a case that's meant to obscure their designs, we can make out the fact that they all appear to have an iPhone-like two-part rear panel design. Or, to put it another way, an iPhone-like gigantic rectangular camera island that stretches...

Sony launches FX5 cinema camera with open gate recording

Sony has launched the newest member of its compact cinema camera series in the form of the FX5. In another timeline, the FX5 may have just been an update to the Sony FX3 that launched in 2021, but in the current market it will be launching at a higher price, while the FX3 continues to be on sale. The FX5 launches with enough new toys to make the current and potential FX3 buyers jump ship. It has a new 16.6MP full-frame fully-stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor along with a BIONZ XR2 processor with built-in AI processing. You can record up to 5K 60fps and 4K 120fps video right now, and 5K...

Samsung unveils AI-powered Health Assistant

Today Samsung has announced the Health Assistant, which it bills as the "first fully integrated AI-powered personal health assistant". It is now available in beta for eligible US users of Samsung Health. Samsung promises that the Health Assistant will help you achieve your health and wellness goals by combining important health data with insights that empower you to ask questions about your health and "gain access to rich, personalized health guidance and recommendations". Health Assistant connects your health information from Samsung Health's "five pillars of wellness" - sleep,...

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

Today Google is launching its newest Gemini models. Gemini 3.6 Flash is described by the company as its "workhorse model that delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance". It's supposed to be more efficient and better quality than its predecessor. Google boasts that customers "have found it particularly capable at multimodal tasks like document parsing, chart and data analysis, and report drafting". Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is "designed for both low-latency tasks and tasks where high throughput is critical for developer workflows, like agentic search and document...

Apple Upgrade program is coming next week with up to 36-month payment plans

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is planning to launch a new device leasing program in partnership with Klarna. It will be called Apple Upgrade and will require a soft credit check. It will apparently work like a subscription, with iPhone and Apple Watch leases running for 24 months and iPad and Mac leases running for 36 months. The Apple Watch SE, the base iPad, the iPhone 16, and the MacBook Neo will be excluded from the program. You will be able to pay off the device early and upgrade early to a new model, as well as decide whether to return or keep the device at the end...

Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro 4G review

Xiaomi 18 series set for an early India launch, report claims

The Xiaomi 18 series is expected to debut in China this September. A new report now claims that the lineup will launch without an Ultra variant and instead comprise three models. The report also suggests the series could arrive in India earlier than usual. According to the report, Xiaomi's next flagship lineup will include the Xiaomi 18, Xiaomi 18 Pro, and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Leaked Xiaomi 18 render Xiaomi is said to have scrapped development of the Ultra variant with the 18 Pro Max expected to serve as the company's flagship model this year. The report also suggests the Xiaomi...