If you have an iPhone 13 or earlier device with a degraded battery, this may be the best time to get a battery replacement. On its website, Apple has announced that out-of-warranty battery service for all iPhone models (except iPhone 14) will be rising by $20.
For instance, the iPhone battery service by Apple will increase from $69 to $89 starting in March. The iPhone 14 line is not included in…
Wireless Android Auto adapters are becoming increasingly common, but are rarely found at a discount. Ringing in the new year, though, the Motorola MA1 adapter for wireless Android Auto is seeing a $30 discount at Best Buy.
The Motorola MA1 first launched in 2022 as the first…
There are probably almost as many ways to organize your iPhone apps as there are iPhone users, and most of us have probably experimented with a bunch of them. But more than eight years later, I’m still using a method I first tried back in 2013 (that screen size! those…
New Honor 80 Pro appears in renders, will sell only offline
January 1, 2023
The Honor 80 family has four members, and it looks like a fifth is on its way. A new device appeared online with a flat display and camera island just like the 80 Pro, and sources claim it will also be named “Honor 80 Pro.”
However, the upcoming device will have a new screen with a single selfie camera inside the punch hole, and a slightly different set of shooters on the back. The…
Samsung is preparing to launch the Galaxy F04, and the first market will be India. According to leaked teasers, the device will be exclusive to Flipkart and will sell for less than INR8,000, which is about $100.
There are no official specs yet, but the device is expected to…
Ice Universe: Oppo is working on its own smartphone chipset
January 1, 2023
Smartphones are constrained by batteries and thermals and perform optimally when specialized hardware does the heavy lifting – hardware like Oppo’s MariSilicon X ISP and the new MariSilicon Y Bluetooth chip. Of course, these are partial solutions, for best results a…
The first OnePlus 11R images leaked earlier this month, and we saw some key details such as the three-cam setup on the back, as well as the return of the alert slider. The device was in a pre-production shell, made to keep the overall design from leaking, but now new photos come to fill us in on that.
The new photos revealed the OnePlus 11R will have a screen with curved edges and a single punch…
New Samsung Galaxy A54 renders leak showing four colorways
January 1, 2023
We’ve already seen the upcoming Galaxy A54 in some leaked renders back in November, but today a new set got out. And this time, we get to see the device in four colorways instead of one.
The Galaxy A54 has been rumored to get its official announcement in January, which…
Realme has released the Android 13-based Realme UI 4.0 stable update for the GT Neo 3T and Narzo 50 Pro 5G in India. The update for the GT Neo 3T comes with firmware version RMX3371_11.C.04, while the update for Narzo 50 Pro 5G has firmware version RMX3395_11.C.04. But note…
2022 Winners and losers: Oppo
January 1, 2023
Another twelve months are behind our back, and Oppo once again remains among the leaders in the smartphone world. It announced a custom NPU called MariSilicon X in the final days of 2021, but it was only this year that it made it to smartphones.
Oppo unveiled foldables, regular flagships and a lot of mid-rangers. Here are the winners and losers in the Oppo portfolio for 2022.
Winner and loser…
