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After 12 years it was finally time to retire our original battery test – the smartphone world had evolved so much over that time that we felt it no longer produced relevant results. This is why we introduced the new Active Use Score. But as we...

Prices of flagship phones blew past the $1,000 mark a few years ago and unlike, say, the Asian market, the US doesn’t have a wide selection of “flagship killers”. But the right model at the right discount could be a great deal. The new Samsung...

The power structure inside Xiaomi’s flagship line has shifted – in a poll last year the Xiaomi 13 Pro was the more popular model when compared to its vanilla sibling. Fast forward to last week’s poll and you’ll find that more people are looking at...

Foldable phones have a reputation of being expensive – and for the most part, it is a well-deserved reputation. However, several Motorolas have a £200 discount applied, including the foldable Razrs, which makes them easier on the wallet. The...

The Samsung Galaxy S23 FE arrived on Australian shores recently and it offers a near-flagship experience at a lower cost. But there are other ways to get that as well. The local version of the S23 FE is the one with the Exynos 2200. Last year’s...

Earlier this year Samsung launched the English version of Bixby Text Call in select markets – now this includes India too. The feature still only supports English, but you may find it useful. Long story short, it transforms an incoming voice call...

With the introduction of the Mate 60 series Huawei resumed the manufacture of 5G-capable HiSilicon Kirin chipsets for use in its smartphones. Now it seems that the company plans to swap another chip with an in-house design, the image...

Just a couple of days after Qualcomm lifted the veil off the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Xiaomi announced the Xiaomi 14-series – the first phones to use the new flagship chipset. They will launch with HyperOS, the company’s next-generation software that...

Based on last week’s poll, half of the voters are currently using phones that are a year or two old. But that’s not the average age of a phone and that average may be growing – going forward, half of users will have a phone that’s 3 years or...

The Nokia N95 was a high point for Symbian, but as we noted in our previous Flashback article, its success was never replicated. It was also the end for this form factor – the Swiss army knife slider phone. The original N95 came in early 2007,...

We scour the web for good deals (almost) every week and we share them over the weekend of your perusal. However, we have heard your complaints that we don’t cover enough countries, so let’s try two new ones – Australia and Singapore. If there’s...

Fairphone is promising 8 years (possibly up to 10) of support for its new Fairphone 5. Google brought Android longevity into the mainstream with the new Pixel 8 series, which will be supported for 7 years, this includes both software updates and...

Economies of scale mean that once a product becomes popular, it costs less too. But that causes a Catch-22 – it’s difficult for an expensive product to become popular. Right now that is the problem facing foldables, especially the horizontal...

Samsung Week is nearly over - the sales event ends on Sunday, but there is still time to pick up a new phone, tablet, watch or another Samsung device, including laptops, SSDs and monitors. Obviously, we’ll look at the phone deals first. These...

Doogee is best known for its rugged phones, most of them are quite large. With the launch of the Doogee Smini the company proves that it can go small too - this is one of the smallest Androids around. And if you think that larger screens are better,...

The Samsung Galaxy S23 FE became available on Thursday (October 26) and if you missed the pre-order deals, you can check out this offer from Samsung US – you can get up to $300 worth of trade-in credit for the latest FE smartphone with $100 of that...

Xreal (formerly Nreal) is bringing the second generation Xreal Air 2 glasses to a wider audience with launches in Europe and the US coming up (they are already available in China and Japan). The new glasses are slimmer, lighter and more comfortable,...

Samsung Week has officially started, but it’s not like other weeks – for starters, it will last 10 days. This is a time for Samsung US to offer big discounts on its smartphones, tablets, accessories and other electronics. Obviously, we’ll look at...

Samsung’s rugged XCover line dates back to 2010 and started off with feature phones, but even when it switched to smartphones it was never a premium line. For tough + premium there was the Galaxy S Active line. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Active was...

This week the world welcomed the OnePlus Open, so we have a look at its pre-order offers and how it compares with other horizontal foldables. There are flip foldables too, some of them at tempting prices, and no shortage of bar phones in the...