Category Mobile Tech

The share of iPhone buyers in the US that are paying up to upgrade from the base storage trim declined in 2024. The latest report from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) looks at the percentage of iPhone buyers upgrading…

This review brings back a bit of nostalgia. One of my all-time favorite MP3 players was the iRiver iFP-180T, pre-iPod, circa 2002. The Activo P1 I’ve been using for some time has iRiver roots, both owned by Korean parent company…

Samsung’s Now Bar is one of the big new additions in One UI 7 and it now supports Google Maps integration. Samsung phones running One UI 7 and the latest version of Google Maps will now get updates on navigation,…

What you need to know An X post by AI analyst claimed that the new DeepSeek AI is being powered by Huawei’s Ascend 910C chip. Although the model was first trained on Nvidia’s H100, the company is now shifting gears…

The AI wars are heating up with DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model that claims to surpass US competitors significantly when it comes to cost efficiency. Its open-source chatbot has propelled the app to the top position in the App Store…

What you need to know Samsung has reportedly launched its new “Magnetic Wallet” for the Galaxy S25 series. The case comes in black and features the required magnetic connection on the back of it for Magnetic Cases and other OEM-created…

Samsung Galaxy S24 FE owners are still waiting for the One UI 7 update, but now there is a way for the really curious to check out the new software. It’s a roundabout solution that involves the Remote Test Lab…

What you need to know The Google Pixel 9a will debut on March 26, with pre-orders opening a week prior, according to a report from Android Headlines. This is over a month earlier than the Pixel 8a released last year,…

vivo is working on two new smartphones for the Indian market, the T4x 5G and the Y59 5G. Both of these have been certified for sale in India by BIS, the former with the model number V2437 and the latter…

Wear OS Weekly My new weekly column focuses on the state of Wear OS, from new developments and updates to the latest apps and features we want to highlight. Ever since Fossil abandoned Wear OS, the Android smartwatch space has…