Samsung's smart glasses have this important privacy feature

During its Unpacked event earlier this month, Samsung unveiled its AI smart glasses powered by Android XR. We've already gone eyes-on with them, don't miss our dedicated article. Now it's been revealed that the glasses will come with an important privacy feature whenever they do finally go on sale. And of course it's related to the camera. Whenever the camera is active and capturing photos or videos, or when you're in a video call in apps like Google Meet, the LED indicator on the glasses will turn on. This indicator is visible both to the wearer and to anyone else around them. So...

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Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro and S27 Ultra battery capacities leak

A few days ago we heard some new details about the Galaxy S27 family's cameras, and now the same source is back with information about the devices' batteries. It's good news, by the way. The Galaxy S27 Pro will allegedly have a battery with a rated capacity of 5,087 mAh, which will probably be advertised as a typical capacity of 5,200 mAh. Considering that this is a smaller device, that's already quite impressive for Samsung. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra But wait until you hear about the Galaxy S27 Ultra. This one apparently has a battery with a rated capacity of 5,534 mAh, which will...

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Apple releases iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 with tons of security fixes

Today Apple has released iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6. Both of these come with a whopping 78 security fixes, so it's definitely recommended that you install them as soon as possible. In case you haven't already been notified about the update, you can go to Settings > General > Software Update to manually check for it. It should then be downloaded and installed. Aside from the important security patches, the update also optimizes the Spotlight search index, getting it ready for iOS 27, which includes major changes to Spotlight and Siri, both of which depend on a new indexing system for the...

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Google will let your Pixel phone unlock your Pixel Watch

Google already lets you unlock your phone using a Pixel Watch through the Watch Unlock feature, but now it seems like the company is working on letting you do it the other way around as well. Strings of code found in the latest Connected Phone & Watch app show a "Phone to Watch Unlock" feature. When it launches, this will automatically unlock your Pixel Watch when your paired Pixel phone is unlocked. Unfortunately, this is very likely exclusive to a Pixel phone and Pixel watch pairing. Anyway, once you get it, you will be able to skip entering a PIN or pattern and simply unlock your...

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Nothing denies plans to exit 12 global markets, says it's "fake news"

Last week a report surfaced claiming that Nothing would be exiting "12 or more" global markets, following in the footsteps of OnePlus, the previous brand Nothing co-founder Carl Pei co-founded. In the meantime, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has denied the claims in the aforementioned report, calling it "fake news". He says the company is reorganizing its teams to prepare for its next phase of growth, introducing dedicated business units and "consolidating individual countries into regional hubs to operate much more efficiently". Evangelidis admits that these changes "have impacted...

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vivo X300 E is official with Zeiss-backed triple-rear cameras, Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC

vivo’s latest X300 series phone has gone official in China. The vivo X300 E comes with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset and features a Zeiss-backed triple-rear camera setup. It sports a 6.59-inch OLED screen that offers a 1.5K resolution, up to 144Hz refresh rate, and a peak brightness of up to 5,000 nits. The handset also offers an under-display ultrasonic fingerprint scanner. The vivo X300 E is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset and comes with LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.1 storage. It runs Android 16-based OriginOS 6 out-of-the-box. For photography, the smartphone offers a...

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Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro review

Introduction, unboxing This is the new Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, which launched globally at the end of May. You can look at it as a successor to the Smart Band 9 Pro (review here), or as its own thing. If you compare the Smart Band 10 Pro to its predecessor, very little has changed. It has the same overall design (though it is a bit lighter and thinner), the same battery (350mAh), and mostly the same display - a 1.74-inch 60Hz unit (but a bit brighter - up to 2,000 nits vs 1,200 nits). Looking at the Smart Band 10 Pro on its own, it's a €75 wearable (it goes up to €100 for the...

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