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Table of Contents Table of Contents Silicon as standard Trifolding or rollable screens Make AI more personal A revolution of the Ultra More buttons for all The phones to watch out for in 2025 It’s been a phenomenal year in phones, and competition has never been so fierce in every market segment. For the affordable bracket, the Google Pixel 8a was joined by the Nothing Phone 2a and OnePlus 12R, while the premium segment saw the launch of several excellent phones, like the Google Pixel 9 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro, Galaxy S24 Plus, and the OnePlus 12. Then there are…

Smartphone Durability Awards 2024! Zack Nelson of the popular YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has just announced his least — and most — durable phones of 2024. Now, as anyone who’s watched his videos will know, Nelson knows a thing or two about phone durability. Over many years, in the name of research, he’s scratched, scraped, burned, and bent a slew of new smartphones to see how they fare. And usually, the result is not pretty. Please enable Javascript to view this contentSpeaking at a table full of phones and tablets wrecked by Nelson over the last 12 months, the tech YouTuber…

We’ve been anticipating the OnePlus Watch 3 for a little while now, and thanks to a couple of new leaks, OnePlus’s upcoming smartwatch just got a lot more exciting. OnePlus is expected to launch two new smartwatches soon — including a regular OnePlus Watch 3 and a OnePlus Watch 3 Pro. Additionally, another recent report has highlighted the possible software features of these devices. Android Authority has uncovered details about the OnePlus Watch 3 and OnePlus Watch 3 Pro in the latest version of the OnHealth app. According to screenshots discovered, the OnePlus Watch 3 lineup is expected to support…

The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is great, but many users have been plagued by bootloops for a year or more. If you’re finding yourself among that number, don’t worry — you aren’t aloneand Samsung does offer a potential fix. A quick search of the r/SamsungGalaxy subreddit shows multiple posts reporting bootloops from the One UI 6.1 beta update and more posts from a year or more ago. This is far from an uncommon issue. The primary fix for this problem is to send your phone to Samsung for a replacement motherboard, although this comes at a cost since the S22…

The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is great, but many users have been plagued by bootloops for a year or more. If you’re finding yourself among that number, don’t worry — you aren’t aloneand Samsung does offer a potential fix. A quick search of the r/SamsungGalaxy subreddit shows multiple posts reporting bootloops from the One UI 6.1 beta update and more posts from a year or more ago. This is far from an uncommon issue. The primary fix for this problem is to send your phone to Samsung for a replacement motherboard, although this comes at a cost since the S22…

One of the most anticipated new phones for 2025, the OnePlus 13R, is expected to arrive soon. We have our best look yet at this successor to the OnePlus 12R, thanks to fresh images from tipster @MyseryLupin, The OnePlus 13R is anticipated to be similar to the Chinese-only OnePlus Ace 5. However, the newly released images indicate that this rebranded phone may not launch in the same green and gold options available for the OnePlus Ace 5. Instead, we might see black or dark gray variants. Nevertheless, as suggested by TechRadarit’s possible that the tipster didn’t have access to images…

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip FE is expected to launch sometime next year, most likely toward the end of Q2 2025. We don’t know a lot about the budget-oriented flip phone yet except that it’s expected to use the Exynos 2500 chip — and now, another leak suggests it will keep the same display as the Galaxy Z Flip 6. Ross Young, a known tipster and supply chain analyst, responded to a comment on stating the Z Flip FE would have the same panel as the Z Flip 6. For reference, that’s a 6.7-inch AMOLED panel with 2640 x 1080…

Table of Contents Table of Contents I flew too close to the cloud photo sun Apple Photos is moving in the wrong direction Google Photos is the better fit for me A little over a year ago, I wrote about a very silly purchase that I made. I signed up for a 2TB Google One plan, even though I was already paying for a 2TB iCloud plan. My intention was simple. I liked having all of my images in Apple Photos since I regularly use an iPhone, but I also wanted a reliable place to access all of my pictures…

Table of Contents Table of Contents The pink Pro phone I was looking for One of the best redesigns so far Ahead of the pack What a whirlwind 2024 has been for the mobile industry. We got all the usual suspects releasing their flagship phones for the year, and it was certainly an impressive slate of options. As you may know, I’ve been an iPhone user since the original, and I’ve had every generation of iPhone, including the iPhone 16 Pro this year. But since I joined Digital Trends a couple of years ago, I’ve got my fill of Android…

We’re a few weeks away from Samsung’s Galaxy S25 series reveal, which appears to be happening on January 22, 2025. But the latest report from Android Authority seems to shift focus from hardware specs to more AI goodies, as an APK teardown has revealed the possibility of the S25 including free Gemini Advanced. These trials for Gemini Advanced subscriptions would be unlocked when purchasing a Galaxy S25 device, which we expect to be the S25, S25 Plus, and S25 Ultra. The length of the trial depends on the device, similar to what Google did with its own Pixel 9 series.…