Author: Geek Planet

Huawei has officially shown off a wide-format foldable phone, and it is hard not to look at it and think about the iPhone Fold rumors all over again. The unreleased foldable iPhone just got an unofficial rival with the Huawei Pura X Max. Huawei has already started teasing it through official materials ahead of its China launch on April 20. Image posters shared by the company show an unusually wide foldable layout that looks closer to a compact tablet when opened than the taller, narrower foldables we have gotten used to. Why the Pura X Max has everyone talking The…

Apple’s MacBook Air has always been the laptop for everyone: students, creatives, and people who want something that works without drama. After upgrading the iPad Pro and the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 chips back in October 2025, the Cupertino giant has finally refreshed the MacBook Air with the new M5 chip.  Beyond the new chipset, the M5 MacBook Air also brings upgraded storage, a new wireless chip, and a higher starting price. Here’s everything that’s new with the M5 MacBook Air. M5 chips bring significant improvements The headline upgrade is the new M5 chip, and the number that stands…

Baseus PicoGo AM31 Qi2 Power Bank MSRP $50.00 “A no-brainer, low-fuss, everyday carry that your iPhone will love.” Pros Light, tiny, and well-built Strong magnetic attachment Built-in kickstand is a sweet bonus Qi2 charging doesn’t disappoint Cons Slight stability woes for kickstand Warms up during wireless charging It’s not ready for a full tank top-up Instant Insight The Baseus PicoGo AM31 Qi2 power bank is a lovely everyday carry (EDC) if you want something pocketable for the last-gasp power shot to your phone. It has a terrific build with strong magnets and offers the convenience of a built-in kickstand, as…

This republished article first appeared in New English Review “Hi, my name is Steve, let’s talk about phenomenology.” That would be a bad chat-up line for any single man to say to a woman, despite it being an interesting concept worth discussing. Interestingly, the person who utters such words would see the ‘object’ of his desire as more than a sack of molecules in motion, but instead someone endowed with beauty in motion as well as, hopefully, having a loving heart. On first sight, he would see her immediately in a phenomenological way and not scientifically. I refer here, of course,…

We all know staring at your phone for hours isn’t great for mental health. But what about your fingers? Previously, researchers couldn’t measure this. A new AI model, Log2Motion, from Aalto and Leipzig Universities, now changes that. The model converts smartphone logs into simulated human movement, like a digital skeleton moving its finger across a phone screen, mirroring real users.  Through a software emulator, it can even use real apps in real time, mimicking logged interactions to study what’s physically happening during each swipe, tap, and scroll. Is scrolling affecting our health? Yes, according to researchers, scrolling adversely affects your…

OnePlus could be getting a smarter way to surface live information before you unlock your phone. Images shared by OnePlus Club show a new bottom-aligned lock screen element, described in the post as a Lockscreen Island, that appears designed to show media controls and call details. That would give OxygenOS 16.1 a more active lock screen without turning it into a mess of alerts. The same post also points to a redesigned lock screen media player, which suggests OnePlus is reworking this part of the interface more broadly rather than adding a single floating widget. What matters now is what…

The Pixel 10 is getting a security upgrade that won’t show up in speed tests or signal bars, but it could matter more than either one. Google has integrated Rust into the phone’s modem firmware, pushing memory-safe code deeper into one of the hardest parts of a smartphone to secure. That matters because the modem is always handling network traffic, and bugs in that low-level software can create openings for attackers. In this case, Google is targeting memory-safety flaws such as buffer overflows, which are a common path to remote code execution. For most buyers, nothing about the Pixel 10…

Apple has made a meaningful change to its MacBook Pro lineup with the launch of the new M5 Pro and M5 Max models. While most of the spotlight is understandably on the performance gains delivered by the more powerful chips, the company has also updated the base storage across the range. The higher-end M5 Pro and M5 Max configurations now ship with more internal storage, with the M5 Pro models starting at 1TB and the M5 Max models beginning at 2TB. More notably, the company has quietly extended that same shift to the standard M5 model, raising its base storage…

At some point, we all stopped memorizing phone numbers. It happened gradually, and now most of us can barely recall two or three phone numbers off the top of our heads. So when your iPhone contacts vanish, whether after a software update or an accidental delete, it can feel like a minor crisis. Thankfully, if you act fast, you can easily restore deleted contacts on your iPhone. So, before you start texting people asking for their numbers again, try these methods to get your contacts back. These methods will work on all latest iPhone models. Recover contacts using iCloud on…

Samsung Galaxy S26+ MSRP $1,099.99 “A middle child that’s perfectly fine, but fails to excite.” Pros Excellent display Great Performance Battery life Cons Zero innovation Design Too much AI The middle child is out. For years, Samsung has stuck to its holy trinity formula for the Galaxy S lineup: the regular, the Plus, and the top – tier Ultra (formerly known as “we killed the Note but kept its soul”). And somewhere in that evolution, the Plus model quietly lost its identity. Quick Take Once upon a time, the Plus was Samsung’s version of today’s Pro Max – big screen,…