Author: James

James is a long-time mobile phone fan who has been writing reviews of the latest phones and apps for the past few years. He has a particular interest in new features and how they can be used to improve the user experience. He is also a keen photographer and often takes pictures with his phone to show off the latest camera technology.

Last November, hell froze over and Apple finally agreed to support Caveat and RCS on iPhones, after many, many years of Google and others asking it. RCS brings iMessage-like features to messages sent between supporting devices, regardless of who created them. At that time, Apple only said that RCS will come to iPhones “next year”, so “later in 2024” ie. Today Google suggested a more specific launch date: “Fall 2024”. That seems like a pretty strong hint that RCS will debut with iOS 18, which will be announced on June 10 but will only be released with the iPhone 16…

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Following the recent leaks of Motorola's Edge 50 Pro and Edge 50 Fusion, today the three upcoming devices are rounded off with the leak of the Edge 50 Ultra. The Edge 50 Pro is being unveiled on April 3, and the Edge 50 Fusion may join it, according to the latest rumors on the matter. Interestingly, the Edge 50 Ultra displays below have the same April 3 date on the screen as the others. This means that all three devices are set to be introduced next week. However, April 3rd is next Wednesday, and these renderings say “Tuesday April 3rd”…

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When announcing Gemini, Google also revealed its tiers, one of which is called Nano and runs entirely on a device. The company initially wanted to keep the Gemini Nano and make it available only for the Pixel 8 Pro, even though the 'vanilla' Pixel 8 has the same chipset. There's been a lot of online backlash, and what do you know – Google has now changed its tune. feel like is it. The Gemini Nano could be brought to the Pixel 8 and will arrive as a developer preview alongside the expected Pixel feature drop in June. Google notes that…

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Samsung launched the Galaxy A55 smartphone earlier this month with Exynos 1480, but failed to reveal the full specifications of the chipset. The company finally gave us a full scope of the 4nm EUV Exynos 1480 SoC. The chip comes with Xclipse 530 GPU, based on AMD RDNA architecture, the first mid-range platform with this advanced technology. Samsung claims this Exynos brings 53% faster GPU performance compared to last year's Exynos 1380, Variable Rate Shading (VRS) and Super Resolution. Samsung has introduced a different CPU architecture than before, and now the Exynos 1480 has 2x Cortex-A78 units at 2.75 GHz…

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Google Maps is getting new features to help you on your summer travels. It's now easy to find helpful listings from the main pages and maps community, starting with “Select Cities” in the US and Canada. When you search for one of these cities in Maps, Google says, “you can swipe up to see curated recommendations from people who know the city well.” There will also be lists from “your favorite sites” — like The Infatuation's curated restaurants, Lonely Planet's guides, The New York Times' 36-hour itineraries, and OpenTable's guides to the best new restaurants. There will also be new…

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So, you find yourself looking for a Samsung midranger. At around €480, the Galaxy A55 is admittedly quite pricy and you notice that the Galaxy A35 gets you a lot of the way there at a more reasonable starting price of €380. But do some digging, and you will notice that last year’s Galaxy A54 is also worth considering in this price range. It has depreciated quite nicely (from consumer’s point of view) and can be found selling for less than the A35 on average. So that’s an interesting conundrum right there. There are certainly positives and negatives…

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April 1st might be April Fools' Day, but the upcoming OnePlus Nord CE4 is no joke, even though the company has chosen April 1st as its launch date. As we get closer, more details about the phone are starting to emerge, and today two trusted sources bring us some official-looking renders of the phone, specifications and, perhaps most importantly, the rumored price in India. . So let's dive right in. The Nord CE4 is said to have a 6.7-inch 120Hz LTPS AMOLED touchscreen, running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset, 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM, and 128GB or 256GB of…

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We've known for a while that the Poco F6 will be powered by Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, but now there's proof – in the HyperOS source code. Android headlines group. The Poco F6, codenamed “Peridot” (and model number N16T), follows the path of the recent Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro, which was the first phone with the 8s Gen 3. Xiaomi model, Redmi Note 13 Turbo (not yet announced). The 8s Gen 3 is an interesting design hybrid of the 8 Gen 2 and 8 Gen 3, although in some ways it's less powerful than either (no 8K video recording, for…

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Earlier today, Apple announced the date of its next big keynote. On June 10, the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off, and it's expected to do so when iOS 18 is announced, which will be released in the fall. A new report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman of all things advertising says that IS18 is “the most ambitious iPhone software update in history” and “people working on updates.” Those are huge words, let's see if he can really deliver. As previously rumored, Apple will talk about AI at WWDC – a lot, apparently, if we go by what “people…

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A few weeks ago, we heard rumors that Sony will drop the 4K display from the next Xperia 1 model – this will happen when the ratio changes from 21: 9 to 19.5: 9 (which means that the vertical resolution will no longer be 3,840 pixels). This will lead to a change in the size of the phone and a new leak Displays the new values. The Sony Xperia 1 VI is said to measure 162 x 74.4 x 8.45mm – that's 3mm shorter and 3mm (and a bit) taller than the Xperia 1 V's 165 x 71 x 8.3mm.…

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