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The hugely popular Samsung Galaxy A series got its annual overhaul recently. The headlining A56 didn't bring a whole lot of improvements over the previous generation, the most obvious being a chipset upgrade. Other than the A55 and the A36, the A56...

The Poco F series has taken a little shift in positioning this year, this time the Pro getting outdone by an Ultra, instead of having a vanilla model on its other side. That said, the F7 Pro retains all the goodness of the previous generation's Pro...

There's more than one way to skin a cat make an Ultra-grade smartphone and the Samsung way isn't the Xiaomi way. The Galaxy S25 Ultra is aiming to be the most feature-rich Android while, in the process, having a camera that's very good. The Xiaomi...

The Galaxy S25 Ultra is perhaps the most complete version of a smartphone you can get right now running Android, offering competent cameras, plenty of performance, solid battery life and display experience, all of the AI, and, of course, an S Pen....

Out of lockstep by a few months as always, the ultimate Galaxy and the best iPhone ever meet again. The S25 Ultra is low on dramatic changes, the 16 Pro Max was a polishing job itself - perhaps we've reached a point where we need to focus on and...

Google's Pixel 9 Pro XL is a few months old now and has to face a brand new Galaxy Ultra. Meanwhile, Samsung's latest S Pen-wielding flagship has lost some of its S Pen capabilities and doesn't bring major generational improvements. Is this battle...

The Galaxy S25 Ultra is out, bringing the usual set of small upgrades over the previous model. Alongside the mandatory chipset refresh and subtle design tweaks, we're getting a new camera (just one, and more of a sidestep than an obvious upgrade),...

The 2024 generation of Pro iPhones brings mostly minor changes - refinement and fine-tuning. That includes an even wider range of camera capabilities, a new button (possibly in the camera category, but also kind of its own thing), design tweaks, a...

Apple's latest Pro Max finds itself in the usual tough crowd, competing against the best offerings from all the big names in the business. Archrival Samsung has had its ultimate S24 Ultra on the market for what's approaching a year now, but it...

Two definitions of incremental upgrades, the iPhone 16 Pro Max and the Pixel 9 Pro XL nudge their respective lineups forward without rocking the boats too much. Both Apple and Google have done the usual yearly chipset refresh, minor camera updates,...

Unlike the 2023 pair of Pro iPhones, the 16 Pros don't differ in anything else other than size (and that one other aspect that comes as a result of it). What that means is the seemingly arbitrary choice to fit a 3x telephoto on the 15 Pro and a 5x...

The 2024 iPhone lineup poses some of the usual challenges in picking the right model for yourself. One of the more obvious dilemmas is between the vanilla iPhone 16 and the small-size Pro version. Sure, the iPhone 16 Pro is a more capable package,...

nubia has done a little facelift on the Z60 Ultra, treating us to a new 'Leading Version' of the high-end model. This new nubia Z60 Ultra Leading comes with only minor changes in the specsheet and we expect it to eventually replace the 'regular'...

Ah, summer... the best of all seasons. That is, if you live in an area that actually has it and have a soft spot for sand and sea - otherwise you may see things differently. But regardless of whether we enthusiastically storm towards the sea or get...

Google has the habit of dropping an 'a' model some time later than the regular flagship duo and such is the case now with the Pixel 8a. Sure, if you already have the Pixel 8, you don't need to be contemplating much around this time, but if you're in...

With the recent global release of the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, those on a quest for the ultimate cameraphone are presented with another option. Coming from a lineage of camera excellence, the Xiaomi builds on it with seemingly minor but, in fact, tangible...

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is quite possibly the most complete Android smartphone on the market but where does that leave Google, Android's very creator, and its own Pixel phone? Out of lockstep, the two lineups are bound to be somewhat mismatched...

There is no uncertainty in our minds that the S24 Ultra is the ultimate Galaxy - that is, if we exclude the Fold from the conversation so as not to complicate things. But does everyone need the ultimate Galaxy? Perhaps the more ordinary Plus is all...

The ultimate smartphone got (predictably) even better this year - Samsung updated the Galaxy Ultra, giving the 2024 model a tweaked design with a tougher build, a superior display, and a new telephoto camera, and also some new AI-based features. But...

The year 2023 started out slow for me, the Pixel 7 Pro remaining unchallenged in my pocket well into the summer. Things happened in July and August though, and the Google phone was needed elsewhere, so I temporarily ended up with the Xiaomi 13...