The new year is already here and Samsung looks to set off 2023 on a good note. In 2023,wd will be seeing quite a lot ...
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The past year was challenging, but we have to remember it's challenges that bring the best in us and help us grow! As we close the page with humility in our hearts we are ready to face the challenges and embrace the happy moments of the new 2023! Time flies when you’re having fun, and we enjoyed writing every single one of the 4,500+ news articles, as well as over 150 multi-page reviews. Almost every phone review got a separate video for our YouTube channel, which is a completely different challenge that we also really enjoy. We do not know what the future holds for us. However, we...
So here we are - after recapping the most popular reviews of the first three quarters, it's time to focus on the final three months of the outgoing year. It's just one of the ways we can take a look back and evaluate the current state of the mobile market and its most important aspect - what you, the readers, like. We kick things off with Google's latest and greatest Pixel 7 pair of phones. After the Pixel 6a made a veritable splash in Q3, the new Pixels dropped at the very beginning of Q4 and drew a lot of eyeballs. They bring a clean AOSP experience garnished with some exclusive...
Today, OnePlus announced that it will launch a 100W dual-port super flash charger for the first time. This charger supports up to 65W PD fast ...
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Oppo has revealed its ColorOS 13 update roadmap for Q1 2023 for 19 devices, 10 of which will receive the stable update. Let's talk about the ColorOS 13 stable update first. It will start rolling out from January 12, 2023, and six smartphones will receive it on the said date - Find X2 Pro, Find X2, Find X2 Pro Lamborghini Edition, Find X2 League of Legends Edition, Ace2, and Ace2 EVA Limited Edition. On January 13, 2023, the K10x 5G and K10 Pro 5G will receive the stable ColorOS 13, with the final rollout of the month beginning on January 31, 2023, for Oppo Pad and Oppo Pad Artist...
2023 already looks like an exciting year for the tech industry. We will see a lot of new products and innovations. Some may be updates ...
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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 explains why the leaks are intensifying right now. The phone has big shoes to fill - its predecessors have been Samsung's best selling phones, so the A54 needs to take that momentum forward. Samsung Galaxy A54 in green, purple, black, and white As you can see, it's expected to launch in at least these four...
In addition to the broader downturn in the global stock market, Apple’s iPhone 14 supply issues have contributed to the further decline of the stock ...
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Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has estimated that its 2022 revenue remains flat. They clarified the impact of the US Sanctions that slopes ...
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Microsoft wants to make its operating system flexible to fit a variety of devices. The company wants Windows 11 to be compatible with all devices, ...
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Keeping up with its yearly tradition, Apple has launched a limited edition variant of the AirPods for the Chinese New Year. This year it's for the new second generation AirPods Pro, which have been engraved with a special pattern for the Year of the Rabbit. The limited edition model features a custom engraving on the charging case. The same pattern also appears on the box but in color. Aside from that, the model is identical to the standard variant, including in price. Apple has been making these variants for a few years now. For 2022, Apple had released a limited-edition...
To join in the celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year in January 22. Apple has released a special edition of the Airpods Pro second ...
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Since its return in 2020, the POCO X-series is one of the most exciting for POCO enthusiasts. That lineup brought interesting devices like the POCO ...
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Oppo might be busy with the imminent launch of the OnePlus 11, but the development of the Oppo Find X6 goes forward at the same ...
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Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, phone SoCs, and other hardware, while streaming video services like YouTube and Netflix have begun serving AV1-encoded video to devices that support it.
Open-source software projects are beginning to follow suit, too. The Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) package has been expanding its AV1 capabilities in recent releases, and now the Handbrake video transcoding app has added AV1 support as well. Version 1.6.0, released yesterday, has added support for encoding AV1 video using both CPU-based SVT-AV1 software encoding as well as via Intel's AV1-capable QuickSync video encoder included in its Arc GPUs.
Nvidia and AMD's latest RTX 4000- and RX 7000-series GPUs also include hardware encoding support for AV1, but the software needed to use it hasn't been built into Handbrake yet.
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The rumors about a foldable iPad have been cycling through the mill for years now. While we did not see much evidence of a foldable ...
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New York state governor Kathy Hochul has signed the Digital Fair Repair Act into law, months after it had passed both chambers of the state's legislature with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. The bill had originally passed in June, but it was only formally sent to Hochul's desk earlier this month; the governor had until midnight on December 28th to sign the bill, veto it, or allow it to pass into law without her signature.
The Digital Fair Repair Act is the country's first right-to-repair bill that has passed through a state legislature (as opposed to being implemented via executive order), and has been hailed as "precedent-setting" by right-to-repair advocacy groups like iFixit. The law will require companies to provide the same diagnostic tools, repair manuals, and parts to the public that they provide to their own repair technicians.
But tech industry lobbyists and trade groups like TechNet had already worked to weaken the law as it made its way through the state legislature, and the bill as signed by Hochul contains even more conditions and exceptions.
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The top 3 smartphones of 2022 in my opinion are listed below. Find out which type of phone fits your needs and budget the best: ...
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Tecno went from an anonymous brand to part of the Top 10 Smartphone Brands on the global scene. The Transsion Holdings brand has been scaling ...
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Oppo took years to change the design of the Oppo Reno series, but we finally saw a change with the Oppo Reno 8 series. After ...
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The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is expected to be unveiled at a special event on February 1, along with the rest of the Galaxy S23 family. So at this point that's not even official, but today we have a new rumor... about the Galaxy S24 Ultra. The S23 Ultra's successor, which will land in early 2024. According to prolific leakster Ice Universe, the Galaxy S24 Ultra will replace the telephoto sensor used in its predecessors, and "adopt a new solution". While Ice Universe doesn't mention which telephoto sensor this concerns, we assume it's the periscope zoom one. Then again, the renewal could...
The latest smartphone to be graced with an update to Android 13 is OnePlus' entry-level Nord CE 2 Lite, which launched back in May. The handset is now seemingly receiving the stable update to OxygenOS 13, based on Android 13, in India. The update arrives over-the-air as a 4.5GB download, so it might be best to grab it from a reliable (and uncapped) data connection. After installation, you'll be on software version CPH2381_11_C.25, and you'll have the December 2022 security patch level. OnePlus updates are all staged, with a small percentage of units receiving the new build in the...
Reports claim that Apple is currently worried about how poor the iPhone 14 Plus is performing on the market. Due to this, the Cupertino company ...
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Another year has gone by, and with it, a slew of devices. One of the best parts of our job here at GSMArena is getting to experience new tech all of the time. This past twelve months, I got to spend a lot of quality with the best smartphones out there. Yet the list you are about to read is about phones that made a lasting impression on me, personally. That doesn't mean the phones are the best from the past year, nor should it serve as buying advice for anyone in particular. I personally like a phone with a clear purpose and I believe that will be evident from the justification of each...
From January 2023, Fitbit users will need to have a Google account in order to sign-in to their accounts. As part of this changeover, the ...
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Enlarge / An indie app can be used to change your iPhone's default font if you haven't already installed the latest OS update. (credit: Zhuowei Zhang)
If you like your iPhone but hate the San Francisco typeface, developer Zhuowei Zhang has posted a neat tool to Github—an app that can temporarily "overwrite" the iOS system font with another one, giving your phone a new, non-Apple-sanctioned look.
The app doesn't require any kind of jailbreak, but does need "iOS 16.1.2 or below" to work, since it relies on a kernel execution bug (CVE-2022-46689) patched in iOS 16.2. If you've already installed iOS 16.2—which we'd advise you to do, for security reasons—you won't be able to experiment with the hack. Any font changes will be reverted by a device reboot, and apps that don't use the default San Francisco typeface won't change.
The app includes a number of pre-installed fonts, many of which seem designed to irritate the eyes of Apple's UI designers. Comic Sans MS leads the charge in that regard, but Segoe UI (Windows' and Microsoft's default font of choice) and Samsung's "Choco Cooky" (a distant cousin of Comic Sans) are also included. Custom fonts can be installed as long as they're iOS-compatible.
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Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 is no one's idea of a powerhouse, but it's a decent 1080p GPU and it's still the cheapest way to buy into Nvidia's RTX 3000-series ecosystem if you want DLSS 2.0 support or Nvidia's ray-tracing implementation. MSI has published specs for a revised version of one of its RTX 3050 GPUs (via VideoCardz), advertising the same general features and performance levels but lowering the power consumption estimate by 15 W.
The lower power consumption appears to come from the GPU's use of a smaller graphics die, called GA107. Older RTX 3050s use the same GA106 die as the RTX 3060 series, but with many of that die's 3,840 CUDA cores switched off. This can allow Nvidia to reuse partially defective GA106 dies, but as chip yields improve and the number of defective dies decreases, it either means shipping fewer RTX 3050s or putting perfectly good chips in cheaper GPUs. The GA107 die includes a maximum of 2,560 CUDA cores, and it apparently needs a bit less power than a GA106 die with the exact same number of cores enabled.
The two MSI cards in question otherwise have almost exactly the same specs, power consumption aside: an 1807 MHz boost clock, 14 Gbps of memory bandwidth thanks to GDDR6 on a 128-bit memory interface, and 2,560 CUDA cores. One other change is that the newer revision has two DisplayPorts and two HDMI ports, rather than three DisplayPorts and one HDMI port, a small change that most likely has nothing to do with the GPU change. Another is that the card now requires a 6-pin power plug, rather than an 8-pin plug.
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Huawei can't use its own chipsets, nor 5G ones from Qualcomm, thanks to various US government bans. And so all of its latest phones, including the nova 9 SE mid-ranger launched in March, have to make do with 4G-only versions of Qualcomm SoCs, which is obviously not ideal. Enter Wiko. Known before primarily in Europe, as it's of French origin, the brand has decided to enter the Chinese market. Its first device is simply called Wiko 5G, and it's a Huawei nova 9 SE with 5G support. Seriously, that's pretty much the only difference between the two - well, the design has been slightly...
vivo was among the top smartphone players, even if Western markets once again only saw a fraction of its lineup. The company launched some impressive products in 2022, but it didn't go without missteps too. Winner: vivo X80 Pro The X80 series did not have a Pro+ variant, meaning the X80 Pro was the flagship this time around. It launched in April, and at the time, it was everything you would want from a flagship - the best chipset from Qualcomm (or Mediatek at home), four impressive cameras, Zeiss optics with T* lens coating, OIS, fast charging. Eight months later, it still is a phone...
As expected, Xiaomi went ahead of the usual schedule to present the new Redmi K60 series. Instead of a Q1 launch window, the company is ...
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Enlarge / Notepad, now with tabs. (credit: Microsoft)
Notepad is one of the very oldest Windows apps, and up until Windows 11 came out, it was one of the least-changed. It remains a barebones text editor, but it has learned some new tricks in Windows 11, picking up dark mode support, a customizable font, and a multilevel undo function. (A developer also managed to port Doom to Notepad recently, technically qualifying it as "a gaming platform.")
Another new Notepad feature is apparently being tested within Microsoft—a screenshot from an unnamed Microsoft employee shows a new tabbed user interface for the app, a feature that Microsoft also recently added to the venerable Windows Explorer. The screenshot was deleted shortly after it was posted (hilariously, it has a giant "confidential" banner running across the top of it), but it's been preserved by outlets like Windows Central that caught it before it was taken down.
Microsoft may or may not ever release this tabbed Notepad—these kinds of features often end up making their way into the public builds of Windows eventually, but even things available in Windows Insider builds of the OS don't always end up in the release version that rolls out to all PCs.
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Having gone through the most popular reviews of Q1 and Q2 it's now time to recap what phones of the third quarter got your interest. Let's kick things off with some of the obvious entries on the list, like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4. Samsung's foldables always generate a lot of hype, particularly the bigger Fold family and the Fold4 was no exception. After its announcement on August 10, we immediately got to work reviewing it and you, in turn paid a lot of attention. However, it is interesting to note that the Galaxy Z Flip4 didn't make the top ten. It was close, but still, it's...
Another strong year for Realme has come and gone as the company delivered attention-grabbing devices in multiple price classes. The one clear gap in the lineup is the lack of a proper flagship as the absence of the X-series continues to be felt. The company is headed in the right direction with its software and might establish itself as a maker of good tablets, if only it brings its slates to more markets. Winner: Realme GT2 Pro The year started off strong with the unveiling of the Realme GT2 Pro. You can think of this phone as a cheaper OnePlus 10 Pro – it lacks the 3.3x telephoto...
Let’s talk about games, shall we? The gaming industry has now become one robust and booming sector. Gaming has become part of almost everyone’s life. ...
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The past year brought out a number of memorable devices and while it was hard to pick out the five best ones, I finally managed it. A bit of background on my phone preferences - I like smaller or as I like to call them reasonably-sized phones. You know, ones that are comfortable to use with one hand. While small phones are my preference, I can’t deny transcendent devices that let you do more than just browse social media apps, take pictures and listen to Spotify – I’m talking about foldables here and I have two in my top-five list. Apple iPhone 14 Pro The iPhone 14 Pro is my phone of...
Having gone through the most popular reviews of the first three months of the year, it's time to recap what phones of the second quarter got your interest. We kick things off with the ever-popular Samsung Galaxy A53 5G. It is still hard to argue with its value proposition. Some of the things it brings to the table include a 120Hz AMOLED display, stereo speakers and a large 5,000 mAh battery. It also has IP67 ingress protection, which is quite uncommon in its price bracket. The same goes for the Galaxy A33, which is also water and dust resistant to the same degree and piqued...
Enlarge / ZHENGZHOU, CHINA — A staff member wearing personal protective equipment disinfects a factory at Industrial Park of Foxconn on November 6, 2022 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. (credit: VCG via Getty Images)
Apple’s business is under threat from a widespread coronavirus outbreak in China, with supply chain experts warning of a growing risk of months-long disruption to the production of iPhones.
The US tech giant has had to contend with more than a month of chaos at its main assembler Foxconn’s megafactory in Zhengzhou, China, known as “iPhone City,” following a Covid-19 outbreak that started in October.
Foxconn has moved some of its production to other factories across China, while Apple has worked with components suppliers to alleviate unusually long wait times—about 23 days for customers buying high-end iPhones in the US, according to research by Swiss bank UBS.
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The Sony LinkBuds S, also known as the WF-LS900N, are Sony's latest truly wireless earbuds. They are also Sony's smallest and lightest noise-canceling earbuds, 40% more compact than the flagship WF-1000XM4. Despite the smaller size and price, the LinkBuds S offer a feature set very similar to the more expensive WF-1000XM4, including active noise cancelation and ambient mode powered by the same Integrated Processor V1 SoC, LDAC and High-Resolution Audio Wireless, multipoint connection, 360 Reality Audio, and DSEE Extreme AI upscaling. It even includes what Sony says is its...
Welcome to our recap of the top news articles of 2022. We will now be looking back on the most popular stories from the secod quarter of the year with each subsequent quarter getting its own story. There was a heap of announcements in Q2. We got a pair of foldables - the vivo X Fold and the Huawei Mate Xs 2. We also got the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, which was 10% faster, and 30% more efficient than the SD 8 Gen 1. The vivo X80 and X80 Pro arrived with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and Dimensity 9000, respectively. The Nothing phone (1) started leaking and Nothing started its...
Redmagic 8 Pro series e-sports flagship will be released at 15:00 on December 26. While we wait for the official launch of this device, Redmagic ...
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Xiaomi is one of the three major players in the smartphone market, and while it had a turbulent 2022 financially it also saw some stellar products by the company. It also saw it invested significant sums into its EV business, which should hopefully bear fruit in the future. In the world of smartphones, we saw more than a dozen Redmi Note 11 phones, somve very competitive Poco phones and a few exciting Xiaomi 12 series beasts. Here's a list of Xiaomi's highs and lows from the past year as we saw them - the 13 series aren't included as they are too new to be judged yet. Winner: Xiaomi...
Chinese brand, Xiaomi, releases a lot of products to the market within a year. While many people know the company for mobile phones, it also ...
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Say hello to the Moto G72 - a capable mid-range phone with content consumption on its mind. It comes with a USB cable, protective case, and a 33W charger, though in some markets you will also get headphones. Those would end on the good old 3.5mm connector, as the Moto G72 has a built-in audio jack. And it's a useful one as well, supporting Dolby Atmos. The stereo speakers aboard the Moto G72 are also Dolby Atmos-ready. Unboxing the Moto G72 Continuing the thread of content consumption, the Moto G72 also has a great display - a 6.55-inch OLED with 1080p resolution, and HDR10+...
We’ve compiled a short list of the top 10 calendar apps for mobile devices so you can plan your year on both your smartphone and ...
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The sweet silver bells invite you to throw cares away, as Christmas is here! At this beautiful holiday we would like to thank you, our readers, for being an integral part of the website for yet another year. Keeping you informed about the world of mobile technology gives us joy, and we thank you for making it all possible! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and we’re wishing you, your family and your friends, peaceful moments, beautiful memories and the best of luck in every step through the next year. Merry Christmas, and thank you for being around! The GSMArena team
Redmi’s iconic K-series is about to make a comeback much earlier than usual. After two years stick with a Q1 schedule for new releases, the ...
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Xiaomi’s 2022 ends on a high note – last week’s poll shows that the new 13-series flagships are well-liked and each has its fans. The Xiaomi 13 Pro shines with its 1” sensor, something that was available only on special phones like the 12S Ultra before. The Ultra never got a wide release, but the 13 Pro is going global. Details on that are scarce for now and some people are concerned about the price – we don’t know the exact number yet, but based on the 12-series these will be out of reach for some. For those that can afford them, however, the Xiaomi 13 duo are serious...
YouTube has previously hinted on redesigning the user interface of the YouTube Cast. At the time of writing this, some users have already started seeing ...
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You can call it pampering if you want because that is what you get as a Twitter Blue subscriber. It may look as if all ...
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The end of the year is upon us, and as has become tradition we go over all of the reviews of the past twelve months and do a rundown of the ones that you found most interesting. Without further ado, let's kick things off with the first quarter of the year 2022. At the very beginning of 2022, Samsung made a rather big splash with the announcement of its budget flagship - the Galaxy S21 FE 5G. So much so that the phone's review almost made it to the top of the popularity list. We can definitely see why. With a reasonable price tag and really capable hardware, the S21 FE delivers big...
