A package from China just delivered the clearest physical look yet at the rumored iPhone Ultra Fold. Lewis Hilsenteger, host of Unbox Therapy, walked through the dummy unit on camera, calipers and all, flagging the orange factory tape that’s become a familiar Apple supply-chain marker. The takeaway isn’t what most folding-phone watchers expected. Apple isn’t […]
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Everybody wants less screen time until the checkout page loads. The Light Phone III asks $699 to $799. A Mudita Kompakt with a barely usable camera lists at $439 and runs $379 to $399 in regular sale. The Wisephone II is $399 plus a $14.99 monthly subscription that, if it lapses, takes most of the
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The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are coming this September, and the rumor pile is too big to ignore. We’re tracking a 2nm A20 Pro chip, a Dynamic Island reportedly shrinking as Face ID moves under the display, a possible variable aperture, a Dark Cherry finish replacing last year’s orange, 12GB of RAM across
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Vivo’s most ambitious camera phone is finally heading to India. The X300 Ultra debuts there on May 6, more than a month after its China launch in late March and a few weeks behind its global rollout that started in mid-April. For Indian buyers, this is the first time an “Ultra” model from Vivo has
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The Apple cofounder made a surprise appearance in San Francisco this week at the launch of something most people didn’t see coming: the Dreame Aurora Nex, a modular smartphone from a company best known for cleaning your floor. Dreame Technology used the Connect Next part of its DREAME NEXT event at the Palace of Fine
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April finished with a smaller, weirder set of launches than usual, and somehow that’s where the good stuff hides. We pulled the 10 that kept showing up in real pockets and on real desks, not just in press kits. A few of these you’ve probably scrolled past, which is exactly why they’re on the list.
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Some weeks the gadget cycle is all incremental upgrades and color refreshes. This wasn’t one of them. The past few days brought a wide-foldable phone that breaks a six-year design pattern, Dyson’s first product cheap enough to call an impulse buy, a pool robot that empties its own filter, and a retro handheld that looks
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Honor unveiled the Honor 600 on April 22, 2026. It is a mid-range phone, but it packs the kind of camera, battery, and screen you usually see on flagships that cost twice as much. The new lineup also includes a Pro model with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip and a Lite model that runs on
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Most phones ask a lot of your eyes. Hours of backlit OLED scrolling can leave you squinting by the end of the day, and there’s been a quiet migration of readers, writers, and sleep-conscious users toward devices that treat your attention less like a product. Bigme’s been working that edge for a while with its
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The smartphone won. Six-hour screen times, bottomless scrolling, notifications you’ll never clear, and a growing crowd has had enough, trading their glowing slabs for something smaller, simpler, and built to do less on purpose. The dumb phone movement isn’t fringe anymore. Digital minimalism has gone mainstream, with younger users driving much of the shift and
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For six years, every book-style foldable phone has followed the same basic template: take a tall, narrow slab, fold it in half, and call it innovation. The inner screens got bigger. The creases got smaller. But the shape never really changed. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold line, Google’s Pixel Fold, and OnePlus Open all open into
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Amazon’s Big Spring Sale officially wrapped on March 31, but Samsung shoppers still have reasons to check back. Several discounts on Galaxy watches, phones, earbuds, monitors, and home audio remain active at the time of writing, and every one of them lands under the $250 mark. A few deals didn’t survive the post-sale window, including
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The Artemis II crew launched on April 1, 2026, and the gear they packed says a lot about how far space tech has come. Some of it was built for deep space. Some of it you could buy at a mall. All of it had to earn a spot on one of the biggest missions
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The first quarter of 2026 has been relentless. CES set the tone in January with transparent displays, tri-fold phones, and AI-powered everything, and the momentum hasn’t slowed. MWC added fuel in March, Samsung dropped its next flagship, and a handful of smaller companies showed up with products that have no business being this interesting at
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Most years, you leave Barcelona with a notebook full of announcements and a mental list of things you’ll forget by April. Incremental updates dressed up as revolutions. Concept phones that will never ship. Folding screens nobody asked for, made slightly less fragile than the ones from the year before. This year felt different. A few
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OPPO didn’t just update its foldable. The Find N6 launches on March 20, 2026, with a camera system that has no business being inside a phone that folds in half, and a hinge redesign that makes the crease practically vanish under your fingertips. Price: From ¥9,999 in China (approximately $1,450) Where to Buy: OPPO The
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Huawei picked MWC 2026 to bring the Mate 80 series to a global stage, and the Pro Max sits at the top of a four-phone lineup that includes the standard Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, and RS Ultimate Design. While the global event centered on the Mate 80 Pro, it’s the Pro Max pulling the
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Small phones don’t sell like they used to. Most brands dropped compact flagships years ago, chasing bigger screens and bigger batteries because that’s what moves units. Vivo didn’t get that memo. The X300 fits a 200MP Zeiss camera, a Dimensity 9500 chip, and a 6,040mAh battery into a body that’s 6.31 inches across and weighs
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Tecno has been building phones that overdeliver on camera hardware for years, but the Camon 50 Ultra feels like the one where everything clicks into place. Announced at MWC Barcelona 2026 and now shipping in select markets, this is the phone that earned DxOMark’s top camera rating for anything under $600. That alone would be
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Every phone promises a better display. Brighter peaks, faster refresh rates, more colors than the human eye can register. None of that solves the actual problem: your eyes still burn after three chapters of a book on a phone screen. Screen fatigue comes down to design, and most phones don’t bother solving it. TCL thinks
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