Introduction Another year, another T line release from Xiaomi – this is probably the most misunderstood family of devices in the Chinese company’s incredibly expansive roster, isn’t it? A lot of people still seem to either think the Ts are supposed to be incrementally better than the numbered T-less flagships (so the 13T Pro would […]
Read MoreIntroduction Smaller phones are rare these days, and the Galaxy S23 is one of them. A dying breed, perhaps, on the verge of extinction? Or maybe it’s just that there simply isn’t a ton of demand for them, in spite of what you may have read on the internet or heard on YouTube. Not to […]
Read MoreIntroduction People love Samsung’s Galaxy A5x series of mid-range smartphones. They love it so much, in fact, that each of its members has been the best selling model for the Korean company for a few years running. And the latest in the family is of course the Galaxy A54. It’s no surprise then that this […]
Read MoreIntroduction Poco’s F-series devices have, for the past few years, been its entrants into the ‘flagship killer’ realm, and recently the family has been split into two – a more affordable vanilla version and a Pro model that is the real ‘flagship killer’ with a higher-end chipset. That’s still true this year, but there’s an […]
Read MoreIntroduction Samsung was the first major player to create the Ultra segment. Right from the start in 2020, the Galaxy S20 Ultra established that Ultra means more than Pro (or Pro Max) – it means ultra-sized display and battery, an ultra-high pixel count main camera, ultra-versatile camera system, and ultra performance. The Samsung Galaxy S23 […]
Read MoreIntroduction No Pro, no Ultra, no Max, no Pro Max… OnePlus is clearly going a different way when it comes to naming its flagship device this year compared to pretty much all of its competitors. It’s just OnePlus 11. It’s simple, it’s a breath of fresh air, but because of how bloated all of the […]
Read MoreApple launched the Watch Series 8 last year, upgrading the Watch Series 7 with a new S8 chip, crash detection, and temperature sensor. And since rumors point to the Watch Series 9 carrying over the same design we figured we should inspect how the Watch Series 8 holds in the long run. Should you wait […]
Read MoreIntroduction It’s awkward to be a middle child, they say. You aren’t the first born, you aren’t the youngest, you’re just there, in the middle, constantly forgotten – the firstborn is the oldest and gets all the accolades, while the youngest is the smallest, requiring a lot of attention. You, on the other hand, are […]
Read MoreIntroduction The Galaxy Fold was the original folding smartphone, and so the line comprised of its successors has always been incredibly important throughout these past few years, especially as they have always been the most geographically spread folding smartphones you can buy. The most recent iteration is still the Galaxy Fold4, at least until Samsung […]
Read MoreNokia has announced it signed a new long-term patent cross-license agreement with Apple to replace the current license agreement signed back in May 2017, which is set to expire towards the end of 2023. The new patent license agreement covers Nokia’s inventions in 5G and other technologies. The terms of this agreement between the two […]
Read MoreIntroduction The world’s best selling foldable smartphone form factor is the flip style. Oppo has joined the fray on the global scale this year with the international launch of the Find N2 Flip – a device that’s very obviously meant to compete head-on with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip4, the latest iteration in the world’s best […]
Read MoreIntroduction The Nothing Phone (1) was definitely one of last year’s hype beasts, but was that hype warranted, or is it, in the end, just a Nothingburger? Is there something to it, or is it simply Nothing to write home about? We’ll stop now, but these puns really do write themselves. And that might be […]
Read MoreApple cancelled its planned AirPower accessory four years ago this week, but a similar solution is said to remain on the company’s long-term roadmap. Announced at the iPhone X event in 2017, AirPower was a wireless charging mat designed to charge an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods case simultaneously, regardless of each device’s position on […]
Read MoreIntroduction What do letters even mean? Is “S” supposed to stand for speed? And then, if so, does that mean “T” is for turbo? With the advent of electric cars, will that “turbo” reference even make sense to anyone in a decade or two? The Xiaomi 12T Pro answers none of these questions. But that’s […]
Read MoreThe new Surface Laptop 5 isn’t so new anymore. It launched in October, and I’ve been using it non-stop since then. I’ve been a huge fan of the Surface Laptop since the first one debuted in 2017, and at the time, it was the best-looking Windows PC on the market. I’ve since flip-flopped between the […]
Read MoreIntroduction Small smartphones are weird. And not just intrinsically – if the screen is the main point of interaction with the device, why would you want less of it? But also because everyone on the Internet (and especially on YouTube) seems to love them, and yet – sales numbers for the petite handsets out there […]
Read MoreIntroduction Back in its day, the Poco F3 was a huge hit, perhaps the biggest since the original Poco F1. While nowhere near that phone’s price point, it was still very nicely priced for a ‘flagship killer’, and the specs were on point. That naturally made us very interested in its successor, the Poco F4, […]
Read MoreIntroduction The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is an important phone. It’s Samsung’s flagship and its best smartphone in a conventional form factor. It arrives early each year and its sets the standard against which the entire Samsung device range, and most of the smartphone market, is judged. Traditionally, this is the phone with Samsung’s best […]
Read MoreIntroduction Gaming phones: they’re like regular phones, but more gamey. What does that even mean? What makes a gaming phone a gaming phone? More performance? Better cooling (sometimes with dedicated fans either on the inside or attached to the outside)? More gaming-centric features like dedicated buttons? A design that screams “gaming”? RGB lights? All of […]
Read MoreIntroduction Xiaomi’s top of the line, non-folding smartphone for 2022 may be the 12S Ultra, but its highest-end smartphone for 2022 that you can officially purchase outside of China is the 12 Pro. That’s an odd situation for sure, and it’s even odder still if you consider that the Mi 11 Pro, its predecessor, was […]
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