Year: 2023

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra only conceded the lead for a single week and it’s back in its customary top position this time around. The Xiaomi 13 Pro had to settle for second as the Galaxy S23 took third position. Two more Samsung phones follow with the Galaxy A53 in fourth and the Galaxy … Read more

After the well-acclaimed Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra in 2021, everyone was waiting for the 12 Ultra. But when the company announced the 12S Ultra, it decided not to release the handset worldwide, supposedly due to the chip shortage everyone was experiencing in 2022. This year, however, the alleged Xiaomi 13 Ultra is tipped to … Read more

It’s been a while since Samsung launched the last Fan Edition / “FE” smartphone. The Galaxy S21 FE came out back in January of last year. And since then… nothing. Rumors have been rampant, first about a Galaxy S22 FE, then, when that didn’t happen, we started hearing about a Galaxy S23 FE, which … Read more

While OnePlus is probably hard at work on the upcoming Nord CE 3 lower-midrange smartphone, which has been leaking a bit lately, the company also hasn’t forgotten the original Nord CE, the one that launched back in 2021. Today, OnePlus has started rolling out the update to OxygenOS 13 based on Android 13 for … Read more

Google’s VPN service has only been available to those who have one of the higher Google One tiers up until this point, but that’s changing. All Google One plans include the VPN going forward, although the rollout is ongoing and may take a few weeks to conclude. The service works for Google One members … Read more

Apple’s announcement of the yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus earlier today contained a lot of small interesting tidbits aside from the phones themselves. We already told you about Apple Pay finally landing in South Korea, effectively ending a near-monopoly held by Samsung in the country in the mobile payments realm. But there … Read more

According to a new rumor out of its home of South Korea, Samsung has assembled an internal team to work on developing its own custom, bespoke CPU cores. These will be ARM-based initially, and will be featured in a Galaxy-branded chipset in 2025. The more intriguing part of the report implies that starting in … Read more

Welcome to Week 9’s recap! This week’s headlines were dominated by the MWC 2023 – the industry’s largest event took place this week and had its busiest edition in several years. Honor announced its Magic5 series as well as the global rollout of the Magic Vs foldable. Meanwhile Xiaomi brought its 13 and 13 … Read more

Meta is initiating price cuts on its VR headsets. Starting March 5, the premium Quest Pro will be retailing for $1000, instead of its previous price of $1,500. The rather significant price drop was announced by Mark Zuckerberg himself on an Instagram channel. He says the move is meant to help “more people get … Read more

While we wait for its next smartphone, which will be a high-end offering boasting a chipset from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 series, Nothing is busy working on another product, which it’s started teasing a couple of days ago. The new teaser tweet that the company has released today seems to be about bugs, weirdly enough. … Read more