At the risk of sounding like someone who’s old before his time, I have a fairly substantial list of tech pet peeves. At the lower end of the scale, I don’t understand folks who hold their phone at a distance when having a conversation, nor am I a fan of using a phone without a

The Fairphone 6 is apparently launching on June 25, and ahead of that we’ve already seen it in a leaked render, and then its specs got leaked a couple of days ago. Today, a lot more official-looking images of the phone have been outed, showing it in all of its three colors – Forest Green,

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Trump Mobile, the newly launched line of smartphones produced by the Trump Organization for “real Americans,” has become a target for Internet mockery yet again

Xiaomi’s self-developed chipset, the Xring O1, made its debut inside the Xiaomi 15S Pro smartphone, which launched last month along with the Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra tablet. Now it looks like Xiaomi is developing another tablet, the Pad 7S Pro. This one will use the Xring O1 just like the Pad 7 Ultra, but given

Samsung’s first XR headset, currently codenamed Project Moohan, has already been showcased by the company a bunch of times, but it’s still not fully official. A new report out of Korea claims the company has now set a date for its unveiling: September 29. Then, it will become available for purchase on October 13, in

Honor is unveiling the Magic V5 foldable smartphone on July 2, and alongside it the MagicPad 3 tablet. The brand has now started teasing the new tablet and posted the official images you can see below. Honor MagicPad 3 official images Honor also confirmed the MagicPad 3’s most important specs. It

NFC Forum introduced version 15 of the NFC (Near Field Communication) standard. The most notable upgrade is the extended communication range. It’s now 2 cm, up from 0.5 cm. This makes tasks such as contactless payments faster and more stable. With the increased range, the NFC no longer requires precise device alignment and enables more

Earlier this week, Samsung announced the One UI 8 Watch, which will debut with the next Galaxy Watch coming in July. The One UI 8 Watch update brings new Samsung Health features, including Bedtime Guidance, Vascular Load, Running Coach, and Antioxidant Index. While Samsung Health features have been free to use until now, things could

Garmin’s latest health tracker is a smart sleep band that attaches to your upper arm. Garmin Index Sleep Monitor offers detailed sleep tracking with sleep stages, sleep score, heart rate variability (HRV) status and breathing variations. There are no screens or buttons; you simply strap the band to your arm before sleep and it starts

The vivo X Fold5 will be announced on June 25 (Wednesday next week), but the company is already teasing some key aspects of the phone. For example, earlier this month it posted this image that compared X Fold5’s thickness against the iPhone 16 Pro Max. Another teaser showed that the new model is lighter than

Poco has been drip-feeding us with information about the Poco F7, which will be unveiled on June 24. The brand previously revealed its battery size (7,550 mAh) and charging speed (90W), and yesterday, it gave us our first official look at the smartphone. Today, Poco confirmed that the F7 will be powered by the Snapdragon

The Redmi Pad 2 has arrived in India – the 11” LCD tablet will be sold through Mi.com, Amazon, Flipkart and partner retailers starting on June 24. The tablet is available in Wi-Fi only (Wi-Fi 5/ac) and 4G variants. The latter has Dual-SIM/Dual-Standby capability and supports the following bands: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7,

Back in 2024, US Congress passed a law to ban TikTok unless parent company ByteDance divested most of its US-based operations with 80% going to companies headquartered in the US. The US Supreme Court upheld that law, but it really only resulted in a blip – a 13-hour blackout. Soon after returning to office, President

The iQOO Z10 Lite is the latest addition to the series, and it slots in as the most affordable entry with its INR 9,999 ($115) launch price. The device is also expected to launch soon as the vivo T4 Lite. iQOO Z10 Lite Z10 Lite is built around a 6.74-inch IPS LCD with

According to the latest iPhone 17 rumors, Apple is tipped to shake up its flagship smartphone lineup this year with new designs, new specs, and an entirely new model. Indeed, the much-rumored iPhone 17 Air has been speculated by many to take the place of the iPhone 17 Plus, swapping it for a thin-and-light version

Honor revealed the launch date for its upcoming Magic V5. The device is set to go official on July 2 at a dedicated launch event in Shenzhen, China. The event is set to begin at 7PM local time (2PM UTC) and will also include other new Honor devices. Magic V5 is expected to offer some

The Pixel 9 smartphones launched last year came with upgraded biometrics as Google switched some models from an optical fingerprint scanner to an ultrasonic type. The upcoming Pixel 10 series will continue to feature ultrasonic fingerprint readers, but they will be better than the ones we have on the Pixel 9 series. According to a

Honor is working on the X70 according to a new leak out of China. This mid-range device will be the successor to the X60 launched last year, and is tentatively scheduled to be unveiled next month. It will have a 6.79-inch OLED screen with “1.5K” resolution, and support for 80W wired charging. It will allegedly

The Trump Organization says a new T1 Phone will launch in August It will apparently be “designed and built in the United States” But experts say the phone is more likely to have Chinese origins The Trump Mobile T1 Phone is undoubtedly one of the strangest phones ever made, mixing odd specs (a 3.5mm headphone

Nothing is getting into the over-ear headphone business. It will unveil the Headphone (1) on July 1 at its launch event where it will also make the Phone (3) official. Both the phone and the headphones will be offered in the US officially, and a past rumor told us to expect the Nothing Headphone (1)