Apple considers turning to LG for microLED smartwatch displays

Just a couple of days ago, we reported that Samsung is moving fast with its microLED panel development for smartwatches and some believe that Apple will use them for its future Watch Series. However, the latest report puts LG Display into the mix as well. An industry source says that LG Display has already set up operations and it's producing backplanes for microLED screens in small quantities. Production will likely kick off in the second half of 2024, so the first Apple Watch with a microLED display is supposed to arrive in 2025. This contradicts the recent report on Samsung's...

ThinkPhone to also be available to end users in some countries

The recently announced ThinkPhone by Motorola is expected to arrive to business clients in the coming months, but now Roland Quandt is reporting that the phone will also be available to regular consumers in some countries. Quandt specifies that the 8/256GB trim will set buyers back €999 ($1,080) and will be available from the end of this month through electronics retailers though no specific stores or countries were mentioned. ThinkPhone by Motorola The concept of a ThinkPhone has been rumored for years with fans of the ThinkPad line of laptops waiting patiently to finally see it...

iQOO 11 goes on sale in India as the country's first Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered smartphone

The iQOO 11 introduced in India earlier this week is now available for purchase in the country through iQOO's official Indian website and Amazon.in. It comes in Alpha and Legend colors with two memory options in India - 8GB/256GB and 16GB/256GB, priced at INR59,999 ($740/€680) and INR64,999 ($800/€735), respectively. However, with exchange bonus and bank offers, you can get the iQOO 11 at an even lower price. iQOO 11's India price and offers The iQOO 11 is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, making it the first smartphone in India having Qualcomm's flagship silicon at the helm....

Apple CEO Tim Cook takes a $35 million pay cut in 2023

Apple posted its proxy filing on the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and the 113-page report reveals that CEO Tim Cook is getting a salary reduction in 2023. It amounts to $35 million - the top executive will earn $49 million, down from $84 million last year. His base salary of $3 million and the annual cash incentive of $6 million remain unchanged, with the big difference coming from an adjustment of his equity award value. The other four senior executive officers at Cupertino did not receive a slash in their salary or incentives. Tim Cook at the launch of iPhone 14 series. Image...

Wear OS 3 update for Skagen Falster Gen 6 begins rolling out

A new Fossil-brand smartwatch is now receiving the Wear OS 3 update. The Skagen Falster Gen 6 was announced about a year ago in early 2022 and it launched with the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ Platform. The smartwatch was promised the new update since its initial launch and despite an original timeline of H2 2022, the update arrived about a couple of weeks behind schedule. Skagen Falster Gen 6 Users in a Reddit thread posted about the ongoing update. One owner reported there were fewer Skagen watch faces and none of the Pixel Watch faces are available with the update. Apparently, there are...

OnePlus Nord 2T is receiving Android 13-based OxygenOS 13 stable update

OnePlus announced the Android 13-based OxygenOS 13 Open Beta Test for the OnePlus Nord 2T earlier last month in India, and it seems the testing has gone smoothly since the Chinese brand released the OxygenOS 13 stable update for the Nord 2T in the Asian country. The update comes with firmware version CPH2401_11.C.23 and will be first available to users who participated in the Open Beta program, followed by a gradual push to more users. OxygenOS 13 brings Aquamorphic Design to the Nord 2T, along with the December 2022 Android security patch. You can check the screenshot of the...

Samsung Galaxy Buds2 Pro, Watch4 and Watch5 will enhance your camera experience

Today Samsung has announced new updates that are heading out to the Galaxy Buds2 Pro TWS earbuds and the Galaxy Watch5 and Galaxy Watch4 series smartwatches. These updates are intended to enhance your camera usage experience on your paired phone. The Galaxy Buds2 Pro get a new 360 Audio Recording feature, which picks up 360-degree sound using a microphone in each earbud, and adds that to your video recording. Apparently this means that those who view your videos will feel at the center of the action, hearing "lifelike and immersive sounds that emulate an in-person experience", Samsung...

Samsung has reportedly improved Galaxy S23 Ultra image stabilization and focus performance

Just by looking at the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra you may not see anything different from the 2022 model. However, the new flagship has several major improvements under the hood – the exclusive Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the new 200MP camera being the big ticket items. There will be other improvements too, leakster Ice Universe says that “focus is no longer a problem”. As you may remember, the Galaxy S20 Ultra, which was Samsung’s first 108MP phone, had some focusing issues at launch. Those were fixed with a software update and the cameras of the subsequent models were tweaked for...

Samsung Galaxy S23 press materials leak, new Purple shade pictured

The Galaxy S23 series is officially arriving on February 1, and we expect the vanilla Samsung Galaxy S23 to arrive in four colors. Today, we get to see the press images of the vanilla smartphone, including a new Mystic Lilac color that hasn’t been part of the rumor mill. The trio of cameras will be the only element protruding from the back panel, while the back panel will remain glass, likely a Corning product. Samsung Galaxy S23 According to WinFuture, the names of the four colors are Phantom Black, Botanic Green, Mystic Lilac, and Cotton Flower. The last time Samsung used...

Apple rumored to be working on a touchscreen MacBook

"Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It doesn’t work. It’s ergonomically terrible." These are the famous words of Steve Jobs from the MacBook Pro launch event in October 2010. A lot has changed since then but Apple has yet to launch a touchscreen laptop. Well, a new report from Bloomberg News suggests Cupertino is actually considering the idea with sources close to Apple saying the company is currently testing touchscreen MacBooks that could arrive in 2025. The touchscreen MacBook project is currently in its early stages of development and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman expects the...

New vivo X Flip mockup reveals details about the cover display

The vivo X Flip is expected to become the next clamshell foldable smartphone, with a launch scheduled for this quarter. Earlier reports suggested the external screen will be a rectangle, placed vertically under the camera island, and today a new schematic reveals more details. The phone will follow the design language of the X90 series, with the sliver of aluminum, which will be the hinge in the X Flip case. The external screen will be 682 pixels wide, and the cameras will be only two, with enough room for the ZEISS branding. The inner screen will be 1080 pixels wide, which is...

Samsung Galaxy A34 5G pops up on Geekbench with key specs

The Samsung Galaxy A34 5G we've been hearing about for over half a year is rumored to come with an Exynos 1280 SoC at the helm. But that likely won't be the case since the smartphone has popped up on Geekbench with a different chip. The Samsung Galaxy A34 5G, sporting model code SM-A346B, is listed on the benchmark database with MT6877V/TTZA, which we know is MediaTek's Dimensity 1080 SoC. It's based on the 6nm process and consists of eight CPU cores - 2x Cortex-A78 clocked at up to 2.6GHz and 6x Cortex-A55 clocked at up to 2GHz. The Galaxy A34 5G that passed through Geekbench runs...

Report: Samsung to launch two Galaxy S24 models instead of three

We’re on the cusp of the Samsung Galaxy S23 series launch and we’re already hearing a report swirling around the Galaxy S24 series. As per The Elec, Samsung is planning to reduce the number of Galaxy S24 models from three to two. Rather than have a vanilla, Plus, and Ultra model, the S24 may only come in vanilla and Ultra, dropping the Plus variant. Galaxy S22, S22+, and S22 Ultra According to the report, the Galaxy S24 is referred to as “DM” internally at Samsung. Two projects: DM1 and DM3 were spotted, but a “DM2” was absent, and it is speculated that the DM1 and DM3 may refer to...

Kuo: Apple will release an OLED MacBook by the end of 2024

Apple's first OLED MacBook is coming by the end of 2024. Per analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple plans to ship the OLED MacBook in the later stages of next year, so don't hold your breath for one sooner. Kuo says that OLED will bring a few advantages over the mini-LED Apple currently uses in the MacBook Pro 14 and 16, and the iPad Pro 12. It will allow for thinner and lighter devices with more diverse form factors. On a side note, OLED also allows for folding devices. (6/6)It's expected that with Apple's adoption, the growth of OLED laptop shipments will continue to surge in the coming years.—...

US fans can now get a Nothing Phone (1) for $300 as part of the Nothing OS 1.5 beta program

The Nothing Phone (1) still isn’t available for sale in the US, but you can get one through official channels as part of Nothing’s US-based beta testing program. This is billed as testing Nothing OS 1.5 (which is based on Android 13), but it is also very much a test of network coverage. Here’s the deal: for $300 you can get an 8/128GB Phone (1) for testing, though note that there is no warranty or after-sales service. You can return the phone within 14 days to get a refund, but only if it isn’t damaged. The beta program will end on June 30 and participants can keep the phone once it’s...

Bloomberg: Apple to switch to custom microLED displays in 2024

MicroLED is one of the most promising display techs today. It promises the benefits of OLED with deep blacks and great contrast but with better power efficiency, higher brightness output and most importantly its pixels won’t degrade over time. It’s still rare to see microLED outside of some fancy Samsung and LG TVs but a new report from Bloomberg suggests Apple is looking to design its own custom microLED displays to use in its Apple Watch first and later on its iPhone and other products. Apple will not be manufacturing these displays and will still rely on the likes of Samsung and LG...

Redmi Note 12, Note 12 Pro, and Note 12 Pro+ go on sale in India

The Redmi Note 12, Note 12 Pro, and Note 12 Pro+ introduced in India last week are now on sale in the Asian country. The Note 12 Pro can be purchased from Flipkart, while the vanilla and Pro+ models are available through Amazon.in. You can also buy the Note 12 trio through Mi.com, Mi Home, Mi Studio, and Mi Preferred partners. Redmi Note 12 • Redmi Note 12 Pro • Redmi Note 12 Pro+ The Redmi Note 12 has a base price of INR17,999 ($220/€205), whereas the Note 12 Pro and Note 12 Pro+ start at INR24,999 ($305/€285) and INR29,999 ($370/€340), respectively. You can check the table...

It's official: Samsung Galaxy S23 Unpacked event is happening on February 1

Last week, Samsung Colombia accidentally confirmed the Galaxy S23's launch date as it set up an event page on its website for the Galaxy Unpacked event on February 1, 2023. That page was later deleted, but the Korean conglomerate today sent out invites for its Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event on February 1, which will begin at 6PM UTC. The Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event will be held in San Francisco, which will be the first in-person Unpacked event in three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. It will also be streamed live on Samsung's official website and YouTube channel for those who couldn't...

Microsoft's Surface Duo 3 will have a foldable screen

To say that Microsoft misread the market with its Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 devices would be a definite understatement. Just as devices with folding screens have started to become prevalent, Microsoft went a totally different way by betting on the fact that people would rather have dual flat displays instead. Let's just say it outright: this did not work out. Phones with foldable screens are seeing sales grow year after year, while the Surface Duo devices barely sold any units. So Microsoft is finally ready to change its strategy, according to a new report from "sources who are...

vivo X90 series global rollout is about to start

The vivo X90 series smartphones unveiled in China last November is rumored to make its global debut on January 31. vivo hasn't confirmed the date yet, but its Malaysian branch has announced that the X90 lineup is coming to the Southeast Asian country soon. The vivo X90 series consists of three smartphones - X90, X90 Pro, and X90 Pro+. The press note we received suggest the Chinese brand will only launch the X90 and X90 Pro in Malaysia. vivo hasn't explicitly mentioned the Pro+ anywhere, and the event page set up on vivo Malaysia's website only shows the Pro model. The top-end Pro+...

Huawei Freebuds 5i now on sale in Europe

Huawei introduced the Freebuds 5i to the international markets right before the holiday season in December. And today, three weeks after the announcement, it the TWS earbuds are finally on sale in Italy and Spain for €100, while users in the UK can pre-order them at the online store for £90. The Freebuds 5i arrived as a massive update over the previous Freebuds 4i with improved ANC and longer battery life while keeping the light body. They also come with an attractive pebble-like case, that we loved in our review. Users in the UK can directly purchase the Freebuds 5i starting from...

Watch iQOO 11 5G Indian debut live

Right on schedule the new iQOO 11 arrives in India in partnership with Amazon. The phone made its debut in China a month ago and we already have a written review (also a video review) if you want to dive into the details. One piece of information that we’re still missing is the price for India – the event starts at noon local time and will be livestreamed on Twitter and YouTube (we have embedded the latter below). You can also visit Amazon’s landing page for the phone. Chances are that sales won’t start immediately so you may want to reserve a place in line. Amazon will hold a live...

Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2 now rolling out to participating Pixels

Google launched the first QPR2 beta last month, letting participating Pixel owners test upcoming ‘Pixel Drop’ features before they are released on a future OTA update. This week, Google is rolling out the latest version of the beta build with bug fixes, new emoji, and other tweaks. Pixels dating back to the Google Pixel 4a are eligible to participate in this beta round. The new tweaks to the OS included with QPR2 Beta 2 include the latest Unicode 15.0 with a handful of new emoji and there’s a new Google Home icon under device controls. Meanwhile, the lava lamp effect on the media...

OnePlus Ace 2 gets certified in China, could launch globally as the OnePlus 11R

The upcoming OnePlus Ace 2 has seemingly been certified for sale in the Chinese market, according to a new report on the matter. The Ace 2 will be the successor to the original Ace launched back in April of last year. Since it's already getting certified, the Ace 2 may arrive sooner in the year than its predecessor did. The new report also claims the Ace 2 will be sold in India, and perhaps other countries, rebadged as OnePlus 11R. The certification process revealed that it's sporting a 5,000 mAh battery with 100W fast wired charging support - just like the OnePlus 11. The Chinese...

Galaxy A series device with 120 Hz screen officially coming on January 18, A54 most likely

Samsung's official Indian website has just announced that the company is unveiling a new A-series smartphone on January 18, at 12 PM local time. You can register your interest if you want to be notified when the launch happens, and the microsite has a few teasers too. These reveal that the most likely star of next week's show is the Galaxy A54, which has in the past been rumored to debut earlier than its predecessor - in January, no less. So there's that hint. Then there's also the fact that Samsung teases a 120 Hz screen on the upcoming handset, in line with what the A54 should get....