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A new leak has now revealed key information on the release and global availability of next-gen flagship phones from Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi. No Ultra model from those companies will launch globally, but it's not all bad news.

The successor to the Vivo X300 Pro is the Vivo X500 Pro Max; the Vivo X500 Pro will instead be a more compact flagship this time around with a nearly complete Zeiss camera system, as a Vivo product manager has now confirmed ahead of the launch event. All the differences between the two telephoto camera solutions.

Xiaomi has revealed an even more affordable variant of its Redmi 17 budget smartphone. Dubbed the Redmi 17C, the MediaTek Dimensity 6300-equipped 5G smartphone comes with up to 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB storage.

The unrestricted access ChatGPT Plus users recently enjoyed is now over. The strict five-hour usage limit for Codex and Work features is officially back as the company wants to stop users from draining resources.

It’s more or less official: Samsungs's flagship camera will undergo major changes next year, not only in terms of its appearance. Gone is the iconic quad cam that has been with us since the Galaxy S21 Ultra. Instead the Galaxy S27 Ultra will adopt a design that is currently mostly associated with Apple's iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Nothing OS 5.0 is official and will be available on the Nothing Phone (3) as early as Wednesday, at least as a beta version. Nothing has already confirmed all the details today regarding the new features, supported smartphones, and the launch schedule.

Recent CAD renders of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S27 series reveal an ergonomic design shift regarding speaker placement. The standard Galaxy S27, Galaxy S27+, and the rumored Galaxy S27 Pro will relocate their bottom-firing speakers to the right side.

A high‑quality stereo speaker system is becoming an increasingly important factor in smartphone purchase decisions, as many users rely on their devices for videos, gaming, and music playback. Read this review summary of the German Android phone to find out why the Gigaset GS6 Pro isn’t a suitable choice for audio enthusiasts.

The Vivo X500 Pro Max not only features a dynamic Zeiss main camera with a LOFIC sensor but also significantly more effective 3° image stabilization. A Vivo product manager has now confirmed details in advance about the improved OIS in the next-generation flagship camera.

Xiaomi has officially revealed its second-generation flagship chipset, Xring O3. While the new SoC is built on a 3nm TSMC node, official benchmark results show it blowing past every other mobile chipset on the market, with third-party performance numbers proving similarly impressive.

Sony has officially launched the Xperia 10 VIII in the global market. Unfortunately, Sony fans aren't getting any major upgrades with the latest generation of the Xperia smartphone. It still offers the same design, screen, and Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor as the last-generation model.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 has appeared on Geekbench with a 2+3+3 CPU layout and two prime cores rated at 5.01 GHz. It is powering what looks like an iQOO 16, the company's next flagship phon, with 16 GB of RAM.

Vivo has revealed key details about its upcoming V80 Lite. The smartphone is confirmed to feature a large 10,000mAh battery. Official images also show that the phone will have a square rear camera housing and come in three color options.

Leaked benchmark data from a Vivo X500 Pro Max engineering sample points to the Dimensity 9600 Pro's core layout, revealing a dual-prime-core design for the first time in a flagship MediaTek chip.

One of Sony's next Xperia smartphones has been spotted in a fresh listing. Presumed to be the Xperia 1 IX, the listing offers a new insight into the state of the smartphone's global release plans before Sony makes an official announcement.

According to a leaker, the 20th anniversary iPhone will be developed with the same glass manufacturing process as Apple's ultra-thin iPhone Air.

The Honor Play 20A aims to set itself apart from the competition as an affordable mid-range smartphone featuring a secondary display in the camera module. Among other things, the secondary display allows users to take selfies with the higher-resolution main camera.

Due to numerous issues, the Google Pixel 11 isn’t as good a choice for smartphone photographers as the Apple iPhone 17. While the base model of the Pixel 11 series delivers very good image quality in certain situations, the tiny sensors in the ultra-wide-angle and telephoto cameras are a compromise.

With the Poco X8 5G and the Poco X8 Power 5G, Xiaomi is set to launch two brand-new mid-range smartphones very soon. A leak has revealed the smartphones ahead of their official launch, showing that Xiaomi will offer a battery with a capacity of up to 10,000 mAh, a water-resistant body, and six years of updates.

HMD Global has integrated the power bank directly into a feature phone, which is designed not only to deliver extremely long battery life but also to charge other devices. The phone features a particularly bright LED flashlight, a microSD slot, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

On paper, the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL doesn’t offer quite as impressive cameras as the flagship models from many competitors, but in DxOMark’s in-depth analysis, Google’s latest flagship can almost keep pace with the best camera flagships.

Xiaomi is set to present its new Poco flagship phones shortly. The Poco F9 Pro and Poco F9 Ultra will launch globally next week, and will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset.

The Xring O3 has now been detailed, and one of the first devices to be powered by this flagship SoC has been confirmed. It will be the Xiaomi 18 Fold, which was previously rumored to be called the Mix Ultra.

A brightness comparison shows that the Pixel 11 Pro's camera flash and torch are dimmer than those of rivals like the Galaxy Z TriFold and iPhone 17e. The likely culprit is the same diffuser that powers the HiLight notification ring, which sits directly over the main flash LED.

Mark Gurman, a reliable analyst, has revealed that early testers who have been fortunate enough to play around with Apple's first foldable, likely called the iPhone Ultra, have nothing but good things to say about their experience - unless someone wants to shoot using a telephoto lens.

While users are limited to just five color presets in settings, a new Pixel 11 Pro teardown reveals what is actually under the hood. Disassembly confirms the HiLight module features a dedicated ring of eight physical RGB LEDs surrounding the camera flash.

Leaker Ice Universe has shared a new render suggesting the Galaxy S27, S27+, and S27 Pro will stick with the vertical camera layout seen on the current S26 series, leaving the Ultra as the only model to potentially receive an overhaul.

Contrary to previous years, there will be at least three, most likely even four flagship Zeiss camera phones this year: In addition to the Vivo X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max, there will also be the regular Vivo X500 and X500e. New images and information from a leaker highlight some of the differences in specs and design.

The next-gen Xiaomi Xring SoC has been officially announced, and the company is set to offer some initial details about the chipset on a live stream scheduled for August 23, 2026. Its name hasn’t been confirmed yet.

(Update: Smaller model is actually the Galaxy S27 Pro) After a well known leaker revealed what appears to be the final camera plateau design of Samsung’s next flagship camera phone a few hours ago, additional CAD models have now surfaced, suggesting two different sizes for the Galaxy S27 Ultra.

The Xiaomi P25 has been leaked. It's a high-capacity power bank with the reported capacity being 27,000mAh. The leaker also shares that the multi-port fast charging support is at 250W, while single-port power output maxes out at 140W. There's reportedly a built-in retractable cable as well.

Initial support will arrive on standard flagships before expanding to Razr foldables, backed by 7 years of full updates and direct porting help from Motorola. Powered by flagship Snapdragon chips, the new Graphene-powered phones will offer improved hardware isolation, mature MTE, and faster performance than Tensor-powered Pixels.

(Update: CAD model also shows other Galaxy S27 variant) Using a sketch and a cryptic message, one of the most well-known leakers appears to have revealed the final design of the Galaxy S27 Ultra Triple-Cam months ahead of the launch. According to the leak, the horizontal bar design reminiscent of a Google Pixel, that has been shown repeatedly lately is out. The potential new design, while looking a lot like recent iPhones, could still offer advantages in everyday use.

A fresh Geekbench AI listing for Samsung's S5E9975 (Exynos 2700) shows the same 1+4+1+4 CPU cluster spotted in April, now clocked dramatically higher.

The Honor Turbo is the company’s new mid-range smartphone and is now listed on its official website. It features a Snapdragon chipset, 5G connectivity, and a large battery.

Fall is approaching fast, and with it, the second Xperia phone of the year. Sony has already announced a launch event for next week and just a few days before that, we’re now getting our first look at the Sony Xperia 10 VIII in an official looking promo image. Seems like Sony fans are not getting any major changes with this years Xperia midranger.

Google can't be bothered with hardware and hasn’t learned anything about proper foldable design in four years. This harsh conclusion of durability tester and teardown expert Zack Nelson is scathing. Unlike Samsung’s significantly thinner Galaxy Z Fold 8 foldables, even the comparatively thick Pixel 11 Pro Fold cannot withstand the bend test—for one simple reason.

Following earlier price hikes in April in the US, YouTube Premium is set to get more expensive across multiple European nations and additionally Singapore, requiring subscribers to agree to the new rates by October 10 to avoid service interruptions.

A new leak suggests Qualcomm is borrowing the "Extreme" branding from its laptop chips for its next flagship mobile platform, ditching the "Pro" name that had circulated for months.

A prototype identified as the Poco F9 Ultra has reportedly appeared on Geekbench 7, scoring 2,980 in single-core and 10,030 in multi-core testing. The listing shows a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset paired with 16GB of RAM and Android 16.

Xiaomi has launched the new Poco M8x smartphone in the Indian market. The new 5G-enabled smartphone features a Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 chipset and a large 7,900 mAh battery with 45 W wired charging support. Interestingly, the device also supports 22.5 W reverse-wired charging.

Just how fast are the most powerful smartphones, really? Geekbench 7 aims to provide an answer with new tests and more realistic workloads. We take a look at the current performance elite and put the results into perspective.

Leaked street photos allegedly showing Jay Chou with an unreleased vivo phone in Melbourne match design cues rumored for the X500 Pro Max, which is expected to launch in September.

The Google Pixel 11 Pro is powered by the 3nm Tensor G6 chipset. The flagship phone has now been put through consecutive benchmark tests, overall showing off mediocre CPU by 2026 standards but, more importantly, significant GPU thermal throttling.

Samsung ships a security patch every month. It does not renew the preinstalled browser, which gets its updates through the Play Store and the Galaxy Store instead. And which Chromium base it builds on there is something Samsung has not published for Android in more than two years. What researchers found on a Galaxy S25, and how to check which build is running on your phone.

ThreatFabric has documented Manic, a new Android threat that watches 169 apps, among them banking, eID and authenticator apps across Europe. Manic lifts the PIN straight off the app's real keypad, so no fake banking screen ever shows up. And when the phone is offline, it pushes the data out through a second infected phone nearby.

HMD’s Nokia 125 4G 2nd Edition is reportedly on the way, according to recent leaks. Plus, the feature phone might come as a rebranded model of the recently launched Nokia 210 4G AI. The upcoming phone is said to feature a 2.4-inch LCD screen, 64 MB of RAM, 128 MB of storage, and the S30+ operating system.