Smartphones are extremely good at solving problems, but they are just as good at creating one: every useful tool shares a screen with an almost unlimited supply of notifications, videos, feeds, and apps competing for your attention. The obvious solution is to use your phone less. The difficult part is sticking to that decision when […]
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Giving a young child a phone creates an awkward problem. You want them to call when practice ends early, text when pickup plans change, and reach you when something goes wrong. But a conventional smartphone can also put social media, games, an app store, and the open web in their pocket. So before comparing parental-control
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A dead smartphone is more than a minor inconvenience. It can mean no calls, no messages, no maps, no ticket confirmation, and no easy way to reach family during a long travel day or power outage. Carrying a power bank helps, but it is also another device to charge, pack, and remember. Price: About $32
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A feature phone can keep your student reachable without handing over a full smartphone. That is the appeal of the Nokia 105: it is built around calls, texts, battery life, and a physical keypad instead of social apps, games, and constant notifications. We found three Nokia phones for students on Amazon that cover that basic
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The Minimal Phone 2 is trying to prove that a physical keyboard can make a modern phone feel quieter. Right now, it asks buyers to trust that promise before it shares the details that decide whether the phone will fit their lives. Price: TBD Join the waitlist: Minimal Minimal Company’s Minimal Phone 2 page is
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Nothing’s Phone (4b) has been out for a couple of weeks now, and the numbers tell a clear story: this is the mid-range phone Nothing needed to make. It launched July 7 and hit shelves July 17, pairing a battery that outlasts phones twice its price with a Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 chipset built for
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Every affordable version of a flagship phone ships with an unspoken warning: whatever made the expensive model good, expect less of it here. Smaller battery, slower charging, a camera bar that quietly drops a lens, a screen that looks fine only until you put it next to the version that costs more. Samsung’s new Galaxy
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You don’t need to have won a Commodore preorder to start putting your phone down. That itch to unplug was never really about one specific gadget. It’s about wanting your attention back, and there’s more than one way into that. The Commodore Callback 8020 became the internet’s shorthand for that urge this year, a $399
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For years, going minimalist with your phone meant paying flagship money to own less. The price was the real dealbreaker: every time a distraction-free phone started to sound appealing, the sticker talked you right back out of it. Wanting less shouldn’t cost more than wanting everything. Price: $299 Where to Buy: Light Phone The Light
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The entire appeal of a dumb phone is that it leaves the noise behind, no apps, no feeds, no assistant nagging for your attention. So it’s a little strange that HMD’s four newest Nokia feature phones ship with a dedicated AI button sitting right in the middle of the keypad. Price: TBD Where to Buy:
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Xiaomi just made the Redmi Note lineup a lot more interesting. On July 14, 2026, the company launched the new Redmi Note 17 series in China, and yes, you read that right, it jumped straight from the Note 15 family to Note 17. There is no Redmi Note 16. Xiaomi skipped the number entirely, likely
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Xiaomi’s next flagship is already generating serious buzz months ahead of its expected debut. If the leaks hold up, the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max won’t just be an iterative bump over the 17 Pro Max. It’s shaping up to be one of the boldest camera phones of 2026, headlined by a rumored dual 200MP setup
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There’s a phone at MWC 2026 that can start an actual fire. OUKITEL’s WP63 hides an electric igniter behind a tiny trap door on the top of the phone, and that’s only one of five products the rugged device maker brought to Barcelona last week. The full lineup spans phones, a tablet, a laptop, and
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ARTICLE – MWC Barcelona 2026 is in full swing, and the usual flood of announcements has arrived right on schedule. Dozens of phones, concepts, and AI-flavored everything are competing for attention across the show floor, each one louder than the last. But between the noise and the press release theater, a handful of genuinely interesting
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NEWS – Tecno arrived at MWC Barcelona 2026 with a spread that’s hard to ignore. Under the theme “Pioneering the Connection of Intelligence,” the company unpacked its CAMON 50 series, the POVA 8 lineup, a connected AI ecosystem stretching across multiple device categories, and a modular concept phone that might be the most fun thing
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Samsung had February. Apple has September. MWC belongs to whoever shows up with something worth talking about, and this year that was . Eleven products in one afternoon. Phones, tablets, a smartwatch, a Bluetooth tracker, a power bank thin enough to lose in a jacket pocket, a pair of earbuds with tech that belongs at
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After months of rumors, blurry pictures of prototype cases (or someone’s old loafer) it appears that Apple is going to introduce a new iPhone model and I see little reason for all this excitement. Okay, give me a few minutes before you grab your torches and pitchforks. The iPhone is a fine smartphone. It has
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The last several years have seen an explosion of mobile phones, more and more of which are able to access features and apps via wireless broadband. Most of the attention has been on the big players with their “smartphones,” such as Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry and the many Google Android-based devices from various hardware makers.
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Being born in the 1970s, I grew up in a world where landline telephones were a central part of every person’s life. Every teenage girl had a princess phone, and every family kitchen had a wall-mounted phone with a ridiculously long cord. Talking on the phone hands-free meant tilting one’s head sideways and using one’s
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A multitude of messaging mobile phones were launched in 2009, and the trend appears to be continuing in 2010. The recently-release Pantech Link offered through AT&T is one such device (see Press Release here). It is a new handset with nice hardware for a great price. Let’s dig in.
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