Back-to-school is when the first-phone question stops being theoretical. A kid has practice pickup, bus changes, sleepovers, after-school clubs, and more time away from the adults who usually coordinate everything. If you are weighing a wearable before a phone, The Gadgeteer’s TickTalk 4 wearable phone for kids review is a useful nearby comparison. That does […]
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Phone makers settled on a safe answer years ago. A screen should be big enough to watch a show on, and small enough to use with one thumb. The nubia Neo 5 Max ignores that rule, with a 7.5-inch display and controls built for two hands. Price: About $427 Where to Buy: Nubia nubia calls
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Big batteries usually make phones feel practical before they feel premium. The vivo S2 flips that expectation by putting a 7,050 mAh battery inside a curved AMOLED phone that is being sold on design, portrait tools, and durability instead of looking like a chunky endurance device. Price: From ₹39,999.00 (About $420) Where to Buy: Vivo
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I wouldn’t choose a privacy phone until I listed the banking, transit, authentication, and government apps I can’t lose. That list turns a vague privacy upgrade into a buying decision, because GrapheneOS and Fairphone with /e/OS solve different problems. GrapheneOS gives a supported Google Pixel a security-focused operating system with app isolation, permission controls, and
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Samsung India’s product page for the Galaxy F70 Pro 5G carries a commitment that used to sit well above this price bracket. Six generations of OS upgrades. Six years of security updates. Put that policy on a Galaxy F device and the ownership math shifts before anyone’s had a chance to argue about sensor sizes.
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Evan Blass just gave Pixel 11 fans another reason to keep refreshing his feed. The leaker shared more than a dozen new images this week, and this batch goes beyond hardware shots into the features Google’s actually building the phone around: a 30x zoom claim, Gemini AI teasers, and camera samples straight from the device.
This Pixel 11 Leak Skips the Design and Goes Straight for the Features Read More
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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Samsung finally gave the Fold line a true Ultra, and it earns the badge. The Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, shown July 22, 2026 at Unpacked in London and on sale August 7, goes straight at the three complaints Fold7 owners repeated all year: a battery that quit early, charging that crawled, and an ultrawide that
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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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Phone upgrades used to be judged on the spec sheet. Lately the color you choose says just as much, and it is usually the first thing anyone notices when you pull the phone out. That is what makes the newest Pixel 11 leak worth a look, because a fresh wave of leaked renders and retailer
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Samsung revealed the Galaxy Z Flip 8 at Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22, 2026. Preorders are open now, and the phone ships August 7 starting at $1,199 for 256GB. The headline change is the FlexWindow cover screen, which gains new gestures, wider app support, and deeper Galaxy AI features rather than a larger
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Apple has spent the last decade making the iPhone better without making it look all that different. That streak is expected to end in 2027, the year the iPhone turns 20, and the reporting so far points to the most dramatic redesign since the iPhone X. Here is what the current wave of reports and
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Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked is set for July 22, 2026, and the company has already confirmed the date, the London venue, and a teaser line that reads “a new shape unfolds.” It’s Samsung’s first summer Unpacked staged in the UK capital, and the “new shape” wording has most people reading it as a hint at
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Selling out in minutes normally means a company has a hit on its hands. Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold spent three months proving that a phone can sell every unit it makes and still walk away from the market. At $2,899, it was the most expensive phone Samsung had ever sold in the US, and it
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Caviar took football’s biggest argument and turned it into a checkout page. The Dubai luxury house’s new Legends collection hands Lionel Messi a customized Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and gives Cristiano Ronaldo an iPhone 17 Pro, each finished with 24-karat gold plating and a hand-fired enamel portrait. Only 19 of each will ever
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Xiaomi’s X-series has always chased one thing, which is the most speed you can get for the least money. The Poco X8 Pro keeps that promise with a Dimensity 8500-Ultra chip, a 6500mAh battery, and 100W charging, all starting near $355. It landed on March 17, 2026 next to a larger Pro Max sibling, and
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Motorola made the wireless charging pitch a lot more interesting for Android buyers. The new Edge 70 Max is one of the first Android phones outside Google’s Pixel line to build in magnets for native Qi2.2 magnetic charging, so a whole ecosystem of magnetic accessories snaps on without a special case. That’s a small hardware
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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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Google has already confirmed the date: August 12, an event in New York teasing “the next generation of Pixel.” Everything else about the Pixel 11 series, from pricing to colors to the chip inside, is still coming from leakers, retailer listings, and the occasional Amazon slip-up. This year’s leak cycle has been unusually detailed, covering
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