Samsung is now selling its brand new foldables, Galaxy Tab S9 series tablets and Galaxy Watch6 series smartwatches on open sale in over 50 markets including South Korea, the US, China, Germany, France, Singapore and the UK. The global rollout is expected to be completed later this month. All new Samsung devices are confirmed to go on open sale in India on August 18.
The Galaxy Z Flip5 starts at…
Xiaomi is officially unveiling the Mix Fold 3 on Monday, August 14, at a special event in China. Ahead of that, a prototype of the device has been spotted in the Geekbench online database, where it arrived with an overclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s CPU.
Samsung starts early deliveries of pre-booked Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5 in India
August 14, 2023
Samsung received a record amount of pre-bookings in India for the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5 foldable smartphones that it announced back on July 26. Over 100,000 pre-bookings in the first 28 hours, to be exact.
Now, to show some love to these people, the company has…
Instagram now lets you add music to photo carousels. Unveiled in partnership with pop star Olivia Rodrigo to promote her single “bad idea right?”, the feature allows you to pick licensed music to soundtrack your slideshows. In addition, the company announced that you can create Collabs with up to three co-authors and post audience-response prompts to Reels.
The carousel soundtracking feature…
Apple TV's MLS Season Pass subscriptions have doubled since Messi's arrival in the US
August 12, 2023
Lionel Messi has hit the ground running in Major League Soccer, and he’s boosting Apple’s bottom line in the process. Tickets for Inter Miami games have soared in price since Messi, the greatest soccer player of his generation and arguably the best of all time…
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 launched with an unusual CPU configuration – 1 prime, 2+2 performance and 3 efficiency cores. A Geekbench 6.1.0 scorecard just surfaced and it shows that Qualcomm is dropping one efficiency core to add an extra performance core and that the…
Lei Jun shares official Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 images
August 11, 2023
The Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 will be fully unveiled on August 14 (Monday), but founder and CEO Lei Jun offers an early peek at the refined design of the phone right now. The Jun describes it with three words: slim, elegant and premium.
The photos were posted on Jun’s Twitter account as well as on Weibo. Here’s a look:
Xiaomi Mix Fold 3
Zooming in on the four Leica cameras reveals the focal…
Apple's iPhone 15 event now tipped to happen on September 12
August 11, 2023
According to sources close to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and , Apple is currently deciding between September 12 and 13 for its iPhone 15 event date. However, the 12th is the more possible scenario.
One source of information are Apple’s carrier partners. Internal…
Galaxy Z Flip5 trounces Razr 40 Ultra in fold test, surpasses Samsung's official claims
August 11, 2023
Several days later and after over 400,000 folds, the Great Folding Test Vol. II is finally over. YouTube channel showed a multi-day livestream during which the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 went head to head with the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra (aka Razr+).
The Galaxy Z Flip5 was the…
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 aces bend test
August 11, 2023
It’s a familiar occurrence. A new smartphone launches, some time passes, but not too much generally, and then it’s put through the paces of the dreaded ‘durability test’. So here we are again. This time the star is Samsung’s latest large-size foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Z Fold5, announced late last month.
It too now has to endure some scratching, some burning, and…
