Author: Geek Planet

Thanks to Apple’s long-term supply chain contracts, your iPhone and MacBook have not seen any price increase at a time when all its competitors continue to raise theirs. However, that might be about to end.  According to a Financial Times report, memory costs for iPhones could jump from around 10% of the total component cost today to as much as 45% by next year, a rise of over 400%. Naturally, this will result in price hikes across Apple’s product lineup, especially the iPhone. So why is this happening? As it seems to be the answer for everything from past year,…

Uber wants to become your one-stop app for booking your ride, hotel, dinner, and even your morning coffee. At its annual GO-GET product event, the company unveiled a wave of new features, and hotel booking is the headline act. How does Uber’s new hotel booking feature work? Through a new partnership with Expedia Group, you will be able to search and book hotels directly inside the Uber app. There will be a new Hotels section on the home screen where you enter your destination and filter results across more than 700,000 properties globally. Uber One members will get the better…

After teasing it at the CES 2026 in January and formally revealing the phone at the MWC in March, Motorola has officially launched the Razr Fold today, on April 29, 2026. It’s the company’s first book-style foldable that competes directly with the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold.  The Motorola Razr Fold will be available for pre-orders starting May 14, 2026, via the company’s official website and Best Buy. Sales commence May 21, 2026, in line with a previous rumor. The foldable’s price is set at $1,899.99. Motorola has also confirmed that carrier availability at T-Mobile,…

While recent reports claimed that memory prices may not fall till 2027, it seems like the memory chip crunch isn’t a short-term headache. And that’s bad news for anyone hoping phone, laptop, and GPU prices will get cheaper again soon. Reuters reports that SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said the global chip wafer shortage is likely to last until 2030, with artificial intelligence demand continuing to outpace the supply. Chey said the current shortage could remain above 20%, largely because AI systems require huge amounts of high-bandwidth memory and therefore burn through a lot of wafers. Why memory price hikes…

Shopping on Amazon just got a lot more conversational. The company has launched Join the chat, a new interactive feature inside its existing Hear the highlights experience. If you have not come across Hear the highlights before, it is an AI-powered audio summary tool that lives on millions of product pages inside the Amazon Shopping app. It gives you a short audio rundown of a product’s key features, pulled from product details, customer reviews, and other publicly available information. Now, the ‘Join the chat’ feature takes it one step further by letting you have a conversation with the AI. How…

Google’s Photos app has been doing things that Apple’s Photos app couldn’t, for years, and the iPhone-maker has noticed. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in his latest report, claims that iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will come with a dedicated “Apple Intelligence Tools” section inside the Photos editing interface.  The “Apple Intelligence Tools” section will include three new AI-powered photo-editing features: Extend, Enhance, and Reframe. Before we begin with what the features actually do, all of them will run entirely on-device, and, in a typical Apple fashion, complete their edits in seconds.  What will the new Apple Intelligence photo editing…

Google is testing a new redesign for its Gemini Live experience on Android, aiming to make interactions with its AI assistant more seamless and less intrusive. According to a 9To5Google report, the update moves away from the current full-screen interface and instead integrates Gemini Live directly into the main app view, signalling a shift toward a more practical, everyday usage model. A Shift Away From Fullscreen AI Previously, Gemini Live operated in a full-screen mode, taking over the entire display during interactions. While this approach highlighted the assistant, it also limited multitasking and made it harder to use alongside other…

Lovable is pushing its AI-powered vibe coding platform beyond the desktop, with a new mobile app now available on both iOS and Android. The move brings its core promise, building apps by simply describing them, to a more casual, on-the-go workflow. Turn ideas into apps from anywhere According to TechCrunch, Lovable’s mobile app lets users generate web apps and websites using text or voice prompts, effectively turning rough ideas into working projects in minutes. Instead of working through a structured development process, users can describe what they want and let the system handle execution. The app also supports asynchronous updates,…

Amazon’s color Kindle lineup had been missing the budget Kindle models had for years: a system-wide dark mode. However, admitting its oversight, the company has finally released dark mode for both the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.  Before this update, the only way people could comfortably use the Kindle models for nighttime reading was the Page Color toggle, which inverted colors within supported books. However, the moment you left the book and returned to the home screen, library, settings, or any other page, everything snapped back to bright white. What can Colorsoft and Scribe users do with dark mode?…

If your Gmail inbox is a mess but you’re not quite ready to delete anything, archiving is usually the better move. It clears emails out of your main inbox without actually getting rid of them, which makes it a handy middle ground between keeping everything visible and sending messages to the trash. The confusing part is that Gmail doesn’t really give archived emails a dedicated home the way some other mail apps do. Instead, archived messages simply disappear from your inbox and remain tucked inside All Mail, where they can still be searched, reopened, and moved back whenever you need…