Nothing Phone (1) gets stable Android 14 update

Following the release of stable Android 14 for the Phone (2), Nothing started beta testing the update for the Phone (1) last month. And now the testing is over. Today the Nothing Phone (1) gets its Android 14 update, as part of the Nothing OS 2.5 release. This comes with a lot of new features, as you might expect. Here's the full changelog, straight from Nothing: Redesigned a joint Home Screen and Lock Screen customization page and improved the edit wallpaper flow for a more comprehensive view of options. New Atmosphere wallpaper effect. Transform your background photo...

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End of an era: HMD is dropping its Nokia branding for smartphones

Human Mobile Devices (HMD Global) will start selling its own devices without the Nokia branding marking an expected end to Nokia Mobile smartphones. The news was shared by HMD which is also teasing its upcoming product portfolio of devices. These include smartphones, tablets and wireless earbuds with rumors suggesting we may see the first HMD-branded smartphones at MWC Barcelona which is taking place February 26-29. HMD’s official website states that the Finish company are the “Makers of Nokia phones” which may imply upcoming Nokia branded feature phones. Teaser for an...

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Our Samsung Galaxy A15 video review is out

The 4G-only version of Samsung's entry-level Galaxy A15 dropped in mid-December, alongside the 5G model. We have now finished our video review of the former, and are inviting you to take a look. Let's find out if the 4G-only version has what it takes to compete in this day and age. As usual for our video reviews, Will is taking you on a fast and concise journey through the phone's ups and downs, giving you all the information you need to know about its design, build quality, display and speaker quality, the side-mounted fingerprint sensor, the storage options, the software, the...

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Google's Alphabet Q4 and FY2023 report shows flat revenue, increasing profits

Google's parent company Alphabet posted its fourth-quarter and full year 2023 report. While far from a disaster the numbers came short of the expectations, sending the stock tumbling down 6% at time of writing. Alphabet's revenues in Q4 were $86 billion - up 13% compared to Q4 of 2022. Meanwhile, the company's total unaudited revenue for 2023 is $307 billion - 9% more than in 2022. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said "We are pleased with the ongoing strength in Search and the growing contribution from YouTube and Cloud". He added that both already benefit from the company's investment...

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Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra passes bend test with flying colors

Samsung's official shipping date for the Galaxy S24 Ultra is today, even though we've seen it become available a bit early in some places. So now that you can just go and grab one from a store without the need to pre-order, you may be wondering how that titanium build holds up - the new Gorilla Armor too. Thankfully, Zack over at JerryRigEverything has just the video for you, making the S24 Ultra undergo his traditional 'durability test' which involves scratches, burns, and of course - the bend test. Let's grab some popcorn and watch it together. In case you couldn't watch for...

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 to have a bigger battery than the Flip5

One of the issues people have constantly had with Samsung's Flip line of foldable smartphones is battery life, owing to the rather small cells fitted into all of them - the Galaxy Z Flip5 launched last summer has to make do with just 3,700 mAh, for example. Samsung seems to have been listening, and will increase the capacity for the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip6, expected to become official at the middle of this year. According to a new report, the next Flip will reach 4,000 mAh. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 That's still less than Oppo's Find N3 Flip which features a 4,300 mAh battery, but...

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Samsung Galaxy One UI 6.1 (Android 14) on Galaxy S24 review

One UI 6.0 has already arrived as the Android 14 update to many Samsung devices out there. The latest One UI 6.1 debuted on the Galaxy S24 generation, but Samsung has already confirmed that it will be coming as an upgrade to other Galaxy devices as well. The Galaxy AI part of it is probably the most intriguing part. Before we dive into the juicy AI bits, let's review some of the UI basics of One UI 6.1 since there are changes to discuss. Lock screen and Always On Display While the Lock screen hasn't changed all that much, the optional Always on display has and is now much more...

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Death Stranding: Director’s Cut now available on iOS, iPadOS and macOS

Death Stranding: Director’s Cut is a video game by Hideo Kojima about a courier tasked with delivering supplies in a desolate post-apocalyptic world. The eerily beautiful game has been available on PlayStation and PC for some time, and starting today, it is also available for devices with Apple silicon - iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The Director’s Cut version was announced for Apple devices back at WWDC 2023 and was demoed on an iPhone 15 Pro during the phone’s launch in September. Now, it can be played on an iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad with M1 or later (that’s the...

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Here's Apple's new ad for the Vision Pro headset

Apple made the Vision Pro headset official last June, following years and years of rumors about such a product. On January 19, the company finally started taking pre-orders, with initial shipments scheduled for February 2. In the meantime, however, the shipping estimates have slipped into weeks, given the headset's popularity - it's estimated that over 180,000 units have been pre-ordered. So clearly, people are intrigued by the Vision Pro. While it may not be a mass-market product yet, with its price and convoluted ordering procedure, it's definitely making a lot of people interested. Now...

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Tecno Pova 6 Pro 5G is launching at MWC with Dolby Atmos support

The Tecno Pova 5 Pro came out last August, and its successor is already on the way. According to Tecno itself, the Pova 6 Pro will be made official at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of next month. It will be the first Tecno phone to come with support for Dolby Atmos, following Tecno and Dolby Laboratories signing a partnership deal for this exact purpose. It's not just the Pova 6 Pro - other, yet-unnamed members of the upcoming Pova 6 series will get Dolby Atmos too, along with all future Camon and Phantom series devices. Tecno says this will provide its users with "a...

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G review

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Samsung Galaxy S24 battery life test

The latest phone to go through our battery testing cycle is the Galaxy S24 – Samsung’s 2024 compact flagship offering. Armed with a 4,000 mAh battery, this year’s smallest S-series phone managed an impressive 12:07-hour active use score which positions it ahead of its predecessor. Our review unit is equipped with Samsung’s Exynos 2400 chip for what it’s worth, but we'll try and procure a Snapdragon unit for comparison purposes when we get the chance. Breaking down the scores by category, S24 posted a 23:26-hour talk time endurance which falls short of the Galaxy S23 and S23 FE models....

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Top 10 trending phones of week 4

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra makes it 4 out of 4 this year, occupying the top of our trending chart in every week of 2024. There is a change behind it as the vanilla Galaxy S24 is now third, trading places with the Redmi Note 13 Pro that took the silver medal this time round. [#InlinePriceWidget, 12771, 1#] OnePlus 12's global debut helped catapult it to fourth, while the Redmi Note 13 Pro+ retains the fifth position from last week. Poco X6 Pro slides to sixth, ahead of the Redmi Note 13. Samsung Galaxy A54 takes eight, while the Realme 12 Pro+ reached the ninth spot even though it's...

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro+ battery life test

We're done testing the battery life of the Redmi Note 13 Pro+ - the highest standing member of the current Redmi Note lineup. It packs a 5,000mAh battery and manages to pull numbers nearly identical to its predecessor, the Redmi Note 12 Pro+. With an Active Use Score of 10 hours and 38 minutes, the Redmi Note 13 Pro+ has good battery life but not great. The likes of the Poco X6 Pro, and Xiaomi 13T managed better numbers in all four tests with the same 5,000mAh battery packs. Browsing and video playback, in particular, were underwhelming. On a positive note, the Redmi Note 13 Pro+...

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OnePlus 12 and 12R go on pre-order in the US, Amazon and Best Buy offer gift cards for Galaxy S24 phones

OnePlus launched the 12 and 12R for the international market this week (they were already available in China). This includes the US, where the market isn’t as competitive as Europe and Asia and is dominated by Apple and Samsung. But check this out – $800 buys you a proper flagship with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, plenty of memory (16/512GB thanks to a free upgrade) and a 6.82” QHD+ LTPO display. The cameras are quite good (50MP main, 64MP 3x tele and 48MP ultra wide, plus a lovely 32MP selfie camera), though daytime video recording could have been better. Our only other complaint is that the phone...

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The Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro renders arrive, Exynos 2400 benches: Week 4 in review

Here we are at the end of Week 4 of 2024. The top stories continued to be about Samsung's Galaxy S24 series but Google's upcoming Pixel 9 series managed to steal some of the spotlight. We saw renders both of the Pixel 9 Pro and of the Pixel 9. Here's the summary - the Pixel 9 Pro will adopt a flat display and sides, shrink the screen from 6.7" to 6.5", and do away with the visor camera island in favor of a pill-shaped one. There are three cameras inside - likely a wide, ultrawide, and periscope zoom. The Pixel 9 renders reveal that the 6.1-inch device will also be flat front and back. The...

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Weekly poll results: Galaxy S24 Ultra is great but pricey, S24+ attracts owners of older S+ phones

Which phone is the shining star of the Galaxy S series? Last week’s poll shows that it’s still the Ultra, but plus model is gaining ground – especially when it comes to people looking to upgrade from an older model. Galaxy S24 • Galaxy S24+ • Galaxy S24 Ultra The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is a moderate upgrade over the S23 Ultra, itself not a huge improvement over the S22 Ultra. So, when it comes to the S24 Ultra (and the vanilla S24, which we will look at in a minute), around 15% are sticking with their current Galaxy S phone. Around as many are looking at other flagships...

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nubia Z60 Ultra battery life test

We're done testing the battery life of the nubia Z60 Ultra. It scored a solid 16 hours in our active use score, which breaks down in 30 hours of calls, 13 hours of browsing, nearly 21 hours of video playback, and nearly 11 hours of gaming. The gaming number is among the most impressive we've seen, only really bested by the Z60 Ultra's stablemate nubia Red Magic 9 Pro, another Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 phone, but one with nearly 10% more battery at 6,500mAh. The nubia Z60 Ultra did well in the web browsing too, although it didn't top the charts there. Its 13 hours are more than the vivo X100...

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Infinix Smart 8 Pro unveiled with a 50MP camera and 5,000 mAh battery

Infinix introduced the Smart 8 last year in some markets, but the one launched in India a couple of weeks ago came with the Helio G36 SoC, 50MP camera, and XOS 13 based on Android 13 Go. Now, the brand has announced the Smart 8 Pro, which isn't a new smartphone but the Indian Smart 8. That means the Infinix Smart 8 Pro comes with the Helio G36 SoC, a 6.6" 90Hz HD+ LCD with Dynamic Island-like Magic Ring, and a 5,000 mAh battery with 10W charging. The smartphone also runs Android 13 Go-based XOS 13, and it has a feature that lets you call people on WhatsApp without adding their numbers....

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Fossil is exiting the smartwatch business

Fossil announced the Wear OS-running Gen 6 smartwatch lineup back in August 2021. The company unveiled some Wellness Edition watches later but kept everyone waiting for the Gen 7, which we now learn is never coming since Fossil has confirmed it's leaving the smartwatch business. “As the smartwatch landscape has evolved significantly over the past few years, we have made the strategic decision to exit the smartwatch business. Fossil Group is redirecting resources to support our core strength and the core segments of our business that continue to provide strong growth opportunities for us:...

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