Mobvoi may have silently upgraded the TicWatch E3 and TicWatch Pro 3 to a different Snapdragon Wear chipset. There is no official confirmation from Mobvoi, but all its marketing materials reflect the change.

A new drop test of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 shows that it lives up to Samsung’s claims of improved durability. In fact, during the repeated drop tests, including onto the face of the foldable, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 continued to remain functional.

The FCC has published its Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro listings, which spans six devices. All models support Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, a jump from the Wi-Fi 5 coverage that the Pixel 5 and Pixel 5a offer. A UWB chip will not be available across all models though, and could be confined to just the Pixel 6 Pro.

Laptops have traditionally shipped with heinous 1 MP or 2 MP webcams that may as well be Polaroid cameras. The upcoming Spectre x360 16 will finally take a step forward to improving integrated laptop webcams with much higher native resolutions and useful features for teleconferencing.

The budget 14-inch laptop launches this October with just 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB eMMC for a presumably affordable starting price. It's going to have a lot to prove as Windows laptops running on ARM have never worked out very well in the past.

The affordable 2-in-1 will feature a rotating 13 MP webcam, bright 400-nit 3:2 touchscreen, and Windows 10 S for light workloads and office tasks.

An Italian YouTuber has revealed Mobvoi's next TicWatch Pro smartwatch. The device contains a few changes from last year's TicWatch Pro 3, including a refined design and an improved SoC.

Xiaomi is reportedly set to launch a new smartphone series: the Xiaomi Civi. The first phone in the series has now been tipped to feature a 108 MP camera. Not just any 108 MP camera either; the ISOCELL HM3 on the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. Rumors of the Civi's SoC may disappoint, however.

Xiaomi has now released a new teaser showing the upcoming Redmi G (2021) compared to what would be its closest rivals, the Lenovo Legion 5 and Asus TUF A15. As expected, the Redmi gaming laptop looks to have an advantage. On paper, at least.

50 MP cameras are set to be the trend for next-gen budget and mid-range smartphones. Xiaomi already equipped the Redmi 10 with a 50 MP shooter, and it appears Samsung is set to follow suit with the Galaxy A13 5G shortly.

Google seems determined to make its own Pay app the main equivalent of Apple Pay on Android. To this end, it has secured support for the often-contactless method from a number of additional banks in 9 countries worldwide. Most of them are located in Switzerland.

Samsung's "most anticipated monster", the Galaxy M52 5G, was slated to have launched by now in its target market of India. This event has now been pushed back; in the meantime, the OEM has revealed that it is to be the slimmest of its series to date and will have a premium mid-range processor.

Even though Apple is still expected to hold a keynote event to present new MacBooks in a few weeks, some analysts are already looking ahead to next year and share their expectations for two anticipated new Apple products.

Apple is yet to set a date for its next Mac event, having recently wrapped up its iPhone, iPad and Watch event. However, the company may have now provided a hint for when it will launch its next-generation MacBook Pros, which are expected to arrive in 14-inch and 16-inch screen sizes with mini LED displays and Apple M1X SoCs.

Huawei has started distributing some hefty updates for the Watch GT 2 and Watch FIT this month. The September 2021 updates also bring several security-related improvements to both smartwatches.

Microsoft has announced that Office 2021 will be released at the same time as Windows 11, and not just for its latest operating system. Office 2021 will be available without needing to pay a monthly subscription, too.

The prices of current AMD and NVIDIA desktop graphics cards are continuing to move away from MSRP, having bottomed out in July. Both the RX 6000 and RTX 30 series are now selling for around 1.7x MSRP, with second-hand prices remaining at inflated levels, too.

Renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo speculates that the iPhone 14 Pro could use a 48MP camera module. He also confirms an earlier leak stating that the smartphone will ditch the notch in favour of a hole-punch design.

Rumour has it that Lenovo is preparing to release another tablet, and one with a flagship Qualcomm SoC. The tablet is expected to also feature a 12.6-inch OLED display that can run at up to 120 Hz. Active pen support should be built-in, too.

The Google Pixel Fold has proven to be mostly elusive so far. Leaks from a while ago touted an imminent release, and new information from what should be reliable quarters now also point towards a conspicuous launch date.

Do you know how much time you spend on your phone every day? A new study suggests that users spend significantly more time on their smartphones than they think. The study also claims that smartphone use is a notable cause of relationship strain in over a third of the population.

OnePlus has announced that its plans to scrap OxygenOS, the OS it has used since 2015. A 'Unified and Upgraded Global Operating System' will arrive in its place, which also replaces Oppo's ColorOS. There will be no OnePlus 9T or OnePlus 9T Pro this year, either.

Huawei has already confirmed that the Nova 9 will launch a few short days from today (September 20, 2021). Now, a new in-the-wild-type leak points to an additional Pro sibling for this device that will conceivably debut on the same date. The images may also show the OEM has secured a typical premium mid-range Qualcomm chipset, albeit one without a potentially important spec normally seen in phones with the processor.

A regulator has now added official battery ratings for each member of the new iPhone 13 flagship series to its database. These stats indicate that the devices have improved in terms of the important metric in question by at least 11% per variant compared to their respective predecessors. The results might make Apple's claims of increased screen-on time in this generation a reality.

A post from the South Korean tech forum Naver tells us about the upcoming Microsoft Surface Duo 2. Its specs could include two 5.8-inch high-refresh-rate OLED panels, a Snapdragon 888 SoC, triple rear cameras and a 4,400mAh battery. The foldable is said to cost around US$1,500 at launch.

The launch of Microsoft's next foldable smartphone is just days away. In the meantime, Microsoft has certified the device with the FCC and has confirmed a few specifications in the process.

Billboards in NYC have confirmed some of the display differences between the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. While both devices are expected to rely on OLED displays, they will look completely different. Neither will have the Pixel 5's uniform display bezels, either.

According to a leak, Microsoft has settled on a US$799 starting price for the Surface Pro 8. Supposedly, a Chinese retailer has leaked numerous Surface Pro 8 details too, including a 13-inch display, a 120 Hz refresh rate and the presence of Thunderbolt 4 ports.

A new certification has revealed the wired charging wattage of the Pixel 6 Pro. There will be no power adaptor in the box this year, but the Pixel 6 Pro should recharge significantly faster than its predecessors do.

The Xiaomi 11T series is currently making its media rounds. A set of tests by a reputable media outlet has now revealed some important details about the performance of the Snapdragon 888 and Dimensity 1200 as implemented on the Xiaomi 11T Pro and 11T respectively.

In our review of the new Acer TravelMate P6, we observed that this business laptop's Iris Xe Graphics G7 iGPU in the Core i7-1165G7 is among the best implementations compared to the competition. The Acer TravelMate P6 also brings in several other improvements to the overall experience, which have been exhaustively detailed in our full review.

The upcoming AMD RDNA 3 Navi 31-based RX 7900 XT will be based on a 5 nm + 6 nm MCM and could use a 256-bit memory bus but stick to GDDR5 VRAM. Navi 33 (RX 7700 XT) will be a 6 nm monolithic die with 128-bit GDDR6 VRAM and offer more performance than the current RX 6900 XT. The Nvidia Lovelace AD102 RTX 4090 will continue to use 384-bit GDDR6X memory and have GPU clocks greater than 2.2 GHz.

Apple launched the iPhone 13 line alongside assurances that it would ship all of its variants on the same day in September 2021. Now, it has emerged that this is no longer the case. The delay affects the Pro and Pro Max only, and applies to their larger storage SKUs.

Xiaomi's Redmi K50 series is on the way, and a new leak has now revealed some salient details about the line-leading model, the Redmi K50 Pro. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 chipset is penciled in, as well as a rather lackluster main camera sensor.

The Mi 10T and the Mi 10T Pro are the latest devices to receive MIUI 12.5 Enhanced Edition. Xiaomi's OS update has reached the pair on MIUI's global branch as V12.5.4.0.RJDMIXM.

Apple is currently rumored to wait until 2023 to launch its first-ever mobile device with a folding display. A new report from the South Korean media backs this timeline up. It also purports to drop further details about the development of this kind of iPhone - or, possibly, iPhones.

Microsoft is projected to have a third-gen Surface Go ready for launch. This putative 2-in-1 has now leaked again, with virtually complete specs and a full set of renders this time. They paint the device as a very iterative update with Intel Amber Lake processors, although it might be more portable than its predecessor.

Microsoft could be internally testing the Windows Subsystem for Android on a variety of x86 and ARM hardware as evidenced by new Geekbench entries. The ARM results show scores equivalent to that of a Snapdragon 865 while we see some performance regression on x86 hardware, which is likely using Intel's Bridge Technology. A listing of the Amazon Appstore Preview has also popped up on the Microsoft Store.

Motorola is an OEM not typically associated with tablets. Nevertheless, a leaker now asserts that it will launch just such a device during Flipkart's upcoming Big Billion Day Sale, scheduled to take place in October 2021. The company is thought to get help from its owner Lenovo in pulling this premiere off.

A new device with a foldable main display has been patented by...Fujifilm. The iconic camera brand has indicated that it does indeed intend to move into this market with a first-gen product that looks most like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3. On the other hand, it may not have the exact same use-cases as this new premium phablet.

OnePlus has announced a major camera update for its OnePlus 9 series of smartphones. The headlining feature is a new wide-format mode with a special 65:27 aspect ratio dubbed Xpan Mode drawing inspiration from its partnership with camera specialists Hasselblad.

A cryptic tweet by @_Tom_Henderson_ from Dualshockers seemingly hints that Quantic Dream’s next title after Detroit: Become Human will be a narrative focused Star Wars game.

With Russia’s parliamentary elections ongoing, Apple and Google removed a voting app published by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, reported under pressure from the Kremlin, setting a worrying precedent for other international tech brands operating in the country.