Deals: vanilla and plus iPhones are £100 off at Amazon

Amazon has dropped the prices of the iPhone and iPhone Plus from the last three generations by £100, including the most recent 15 series. Let’s start with the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus as they received some serious upgrades compared to their predecessors. This includes a Dynamic Island (Apple talk for a pill-shaped punch hole), […]

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Vanilla Dark Souls 2 multiplayer servers are controversially shutting down on Xbox and PlayStation after 10 years, and man am I bummed

What you need to know Developer FromSoftware has announced that on March 31, 2024, the Xbox 360 and PS3 servers for the original version of Dark Souls 2 will shut down at 5 a.m. PT / 8 a.m. ET. This will effectively remove all multiplayer from this edition of the game on consoles, forcing Xbox […]

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Report: Samsung to use the S23’s 50MP sensor on the vanilla Galaxy S24 and S25

Samsung is tipped use the same main camera sensor it has used in the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy S23 and S23+ in the upcoming Galaxy S24/S24+ and the Galaxy S25/S25+. The report comes from Revegnus on X and stands to dispel an earlier report that Samsung will switch to a Sony-made sensor for the […]

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Ice Universe: the Galaxy S24+ is getting 12GB of RAM, vanilla S24 is sticking to 8GB

Leakster Ice Universe has some good news – the Samsung Galaxy S24+ will finally have an option with 12GB of RAM (the S23+ options begin and end at 8GB). However, The Cat has some bad news too – the vanilla Galaxy S24 is sticking to the 8GB, which has been the base capacity since the […]

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Weekly poll results: the vivo X100 Pro is a star, some doubts hang over the vanilla X100

The vivo X100 Pro might be the new king of the hill, it certainly came out of last week’s poll with glowing results. The company hasn’t announced its plans for the rollout outside of China and that was one of the primary concerns that people had – vivo has a wide distribution, but it’s not […]

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Taiwan gets a taste of the 1″ camera action with the Sharp Aquos R8s Pro, vanilla R8s tags along

Sharp introduced the Aquos R6 in mid-2021 and stunned the world with the phone’s 240Hz display and 1” camera sensor. It also stole Sony’s thunder as the phone launched a few months before the Xperia Pro-I. However, the R6 was exclusive to the Japanese market, so Sony had the rest of the world to itself. […]

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iPhone 15 dummies confirm Dynamic Island on vanilla models, Action button on Pros

Here we go again – more iPhone 15 dummies have surfaced and they offer an early look at the color options for the new generation. Apple Insider has some on hand and made a video to show off the colors, but also some of the design changes for the 15 series. Starting with the vanilla […]

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Kuo: the vanilla iPhone 15s will get stacked image sensors first, the Pros will wait for next year

The vanilla iPhone models are still stuck on 12MP resolution, but this year things are finally about to change – the iPhone 15 and 15 Max are rumored to have 48MP main sensors. Interestingly, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that this new sensor will be better than the one found in the iPhone 15 Pro pair. […]

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Kuo: the vanilla iPhone 15s will get stacked image sensors first, the Pros will wait for next year

The vanilla iPhone models are still stuck on 12MP resolution, but this year things are finally about to change – the iPhone 15 and 15 Max are rumored to have 48MP main sensors. Interestingly, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that this new sensor will be better than the one found in the iPhone 15 Pro pair. […]

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Kuo: the vanilla iPhone 15s will get stacked image sensors first, the Pros will wait for next year

The vanilla iPhone models are still stuck on 12MP resolution, but this year things are finally about to change – the iPhone 15 and 15 Max are rumored to have 48MP main sensors. Interestingly, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that this new sensor will be better than the one found in the iPhone 15 Pro pair. […]

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DSCC: No ProMotion (120Hz) on vanilla iPhones until 2025

Last year Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants made the prediction that the base iPhone models will switch over to the Dynamic Island style front facing camera with the 2023 generation, i.e. iPhone 15. Now DSCC has a forecast of when the base models will switch over to ProMotion displays, Apple’s brand name for […]

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Android 15 codename apparently revealed as ‘Vanilla Ice Cream’

The codename “Upside Down Cake,” which has a dessert motif, for Android 14 was initially made public not long ago. Even though Android 14 won’t be released to the public for some time, the codename revelation for Android 15 suggests that Google is already working on the 2024 edition of the OS. The codename for […]

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Android 15 codename apparently revealed as ‘Vanilla Ice Cream’

The codename “Upside Down Cake,” which has a dessert motif, for Android 14 was initially made public not long ago. Even though Android 14 won’t be released to the public for some time, the codename revelation for Android 15 suggests that Google is already working on the 2024 edition of the OS. The codename for […]

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Honor Magic5 Pro unveiled with a custom 1/1.12″ camera sensor, vanilla Magic5 follows

Honor detailed its new “dual flagship” strategy today – both product lines share the “Magic” name, one is the traditional number series, the other is the Magic V foldables. There are exciting developments for the Magic Vs, but we’ll cover those in a separate post. The focus today was on unveiling the new Honor Magic5 […]

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Weekly poll results: Poco X5 duo gets an okay start, the vanilla model more so than the Pro

Some of you have already bought a Poco X5 Pro and leveraged the early bird pricing, though judging by last week’s poll the phone is just as likely to turn people away as it is to draw them in. Surprisingly, the vanilla X5 ended up the more popular option. What happened? At a glance: Poco […]

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Vanilla Galaxy Book 3’s images and specifications leak

Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S23 series (pre-reserve now) and the Galaxy Book 3 lineup tomorrow during the Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event. Over the past few weeks, the design and specifications of the Galaxy Book 3 Pro and the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra have leaked. Today, the images and specs of the vanilla Galaxy Book […]

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Poco X5 Pro leaks with Snapdragon 778G, vanilla X5 with Snapdragon 695 follows

A week ago the upcoming Poco X5 was spotted in the hands of a cricket star, but did you know that there is a Pro version on the way as well? That was news to us too, but a European retailer already list the device as “coming soon” and has posted an almost complete specs […]

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Vanilla Galaxy S23 is getting a brightness boost

Unlike last year, there won’t be much difference between the specifications of the vanilla and Plus variants of the Galaxy S23. While the specifications of all three phones in the Galaxy S23 lineup were leaked last week, a new piece of information has surfaced showing that Samsung is reducing the gap between the Galaxy S23, […]

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The vanilla iPhone 15 models might get a 48MP main camera

The vanilla iPhone 14 pair was a bit of a disappointment as it arrived with the same old 12MP cameras among other complaints. That may change in the next generation as the vanilla iPhone 15 pair will get 48MP 3-stacked sensors in their main cameras, according to a report by Jeff Pu of Haitong Intl […]

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Weekly poll: is the Xiaomi 13 Pro your next flagship? What about the vanilla Xiaomi 13?

Xiaomi unveiled its new flagship series last Sunday and sales started this Wednesday – this is only the second mainstream phone to use the 1” Sony IMX989 sensor after the vivo X90 Pro+ from earlier. Before that it was featured on the China-only Xiaomi 12S Ultra and the Sharp Aquos R6, which is similarly limited […]

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