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Luxurious Vertu smartphone with white crocodile leather back and gold camera module, Hermes edition, against a dark backgroundie.

Vertu AlphaFold starting at $6,880 makes the Galaxy Z Fold seem ultra-affordable

When mainstream smartphone designs became too generic, the next evolution took the form of foldable phones. These devices, targeted towards power users who want the…

Luxury, Phones

Samsung Galaxy smartphone lineup in black, blue, and silver backs, shown from rear with triple-camera modules; a front view is on the right.

$199 Galaxy A17 Beat the Galaxy S22 to One UI 8.5

Budget smartphones have always existed in a sort of software slow lane. Manufacturers have typically prioritized their flagship and upper-midrange lines when rolling out major…

Phones, Technology

Blue Xiaomi smartphone with a four‑camera square module standing upright on a stone ledge in a park.

Xiaomi 17 Pro Review: Refined in All the Right Places

Xiaomi is bringing back its T series with the Xiaomi 17T and Xiaomi 17T Pro, but this time the schedule feels unusually aggressive. Instead of…

Phones, Reviews, Technology

Smartphone standing upright on a wooden desk displaying a circular blue progress graphic on the screen, with blurred computer hardware in the background.

REDMAGIC 11S Pro Review: Gaming Phone That Shows Its Worth, Literally

Most premium smartphones are converging toward the same design language: a glass sandwich, a growing camera island, and a polished finish that looks good in…

Gaming, Phones, Reviews, Technology

Concept render of a modular smartphone with a bright orange protective shell and a transparent body showing blue-lit inner modules, including a circular SyncPal badge near the camera area and blue glowing connector rails at the bottom.

Forget iCloud. This Case Gives Your iPhone 2TB of Real Expandable SD Card Storage

For all the progress packed into modern smartphones, one missing feature still haunts creators who shoot on the go: the humble card slot. Cameras, drones,…

Deals, Phones, Product Design

Exploded view of an orange iPhone camera, showing lenses and internal components lined up in space against a black background and a phone edge on the left.

iPhone 18 Pro Max Leak: Mechanical Iris Camera, 2nm A20 Pro and Dark Cherry Finish

For the last several years, the premium smartphone camera has been a story about software eating hardware. Google’s computational photography turned mediocre sensors into benchmark…

Cameras, Phones, Product Design

Two white smartphones in a standing pose: one rear view with a large analog clock on the back, the other facing forward showing app icons on the home screen and time 14:38.

The $519 E-Ink Phone Hiding an LCD on Its Back

Scroll through any tech community online, and the same frustration keeps surfacing: people are exhausted by their screens. The perpetual brightness, the notification pull, the…

Editorial, Phones, Technology

Blue smartphone with a large multi-lens camera module resting on a gray box on a dark desk, background softly blurred.

Galaxy Z Fold 7 Hit 4.2mm by Killing the S Pen: Worth the Trade?

Foldables have spent the last two years chasing a simpler goal: to feel less like category experiments and more like normal premium phones that happen…

Editorial, Phones, Tablets, Technology

Woman holding an orange handheld device with a large external lens, looking upward against a blue sky.

24x Optical Zoom on an iPhone, Balanced Like a DSLR. REEFLEX’s 600mm Lens Is Brilliantly Absurd.

Zoom has won. Of all the specs that used to dominate camera phone conversations, optical reach is the one that stuck because it is the…

Cameras, Deals, Phones, Product Design

Back of a black Oppo smartphone with a large circular camera module labeled Hasselblad, held in a hand outdoors.

OPPO Find X9 Ultra Review: An Exceptional Camera Phone That Gets Everything Else Right Too

The OPPO Find X9 Ultra is a true flagship with a clear camera-first identity, but what makes it stand out is how little it sacrifices…

Phones, Reviews, Technology

Close-up of a pink smartphone back featuring a triple-camera module and a small flash on a dark background, highlighting the lenses and metal rim.

Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry

Rose Gold did not just sell iPhones. It rewired the consumer electronics industry’s entire relationship with color, spawning a decade of blush-tinted Samsung flagships, Beats…

Phones, Product Design

Four smartphones in beige, burgundy, gray, and black with large quad-camera modules on the back, standing on rocks.”

Most Phone Cameras Flatter Your Shots, Sony Xperia 1 VIII Doesn’t

Smartphone photography has come a long way, but there’s always been a tension between what these cameras can do and what serious photographers actually want…

Phones, Technology

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