Phones - Yanko Design

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

Two Samsung phones shown from the back with quad-camera modules, silver on the left and lavender on the right, against a light blue background.

Galaxy S26 Ultra Buried the Note’s Boxy Soul, and Fans Are Split

The race to make flagship phones thinner, smoother, and more visually unified has become one of the defining stories in premium smartphone design. Hard angles…

Phones, Product Design, Technology

Clear smartphone case filled with small plants and moss, placed on a cracked rock among green foliage.

Phone Cases Are Boring, This One Puts a Living Terrarium Inside

Phone cases have largely settled into two camps: the ones that protect your phone without anyone noticing they exist, and the ones that make a…

Accessories, Phones, Sustainable Design, Technology

Three Honor smartphones in black, white, and blue stand upright against a snowy, stormy backdrop in ice and snow.

Honor Is Building a 12,000mAh Phone That Proves the Battery-vs-Thinness Tradeoff Was Always a Lie

Seven years ago, Energizer walked into MWC 2019 with a phone that weighed as much as a small paperback novel and measured 18mm thick, all…

Phones, Product Design

Pixel 11 Leak: Tensor G6, 50MP Base Cam, and Nothing-inspired “Pixel Glow”

Every year, without fail, Google’s flagship Pixel arrives in the public consciousness twice. Once through leaks, and once through an official keynote that a significant…

Phones, Product Design

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