The Selfie Camera on Your Phone Has Always Been in the Wrong Place
Most budget phones have one screen you stare at and a back you think about. The Honor X5d s makes that back worth a second…
Smartphones
More Freedom Without the Scroll: A Phone Kids Actually Want Outside
A kid wants to bike to a friend’s house. A parent wants to know they can call if plans change. Neither of them particularly wants…
Redmi Note 17 5G Review: Built Around a Battery, Not a Benchmark
Phone prices went up this year, and not because phones got dramatically better. Memory and storage cost more, so every brand had to decide what…
A Fan Imagined Nokia’s Comeback With One Feature Worth Stealing
Nokia’s phone business has been fading for years, reduced mostly to budget handsets sold under license, so a concept calling itself the N90 Ultra was…
The motorola signature 27 Signs Its Camera With Bang & Olufsen
A smartphone’s camera bump usually exists to hold lenses and nothing else, a necessary bulge nobody asks to admire. The motorola signature 27 turns that…
Vivo’s X500 Series Arrives With a Pro Max Built for Creators
Vivo has unveiled the X500 series in Shanghai, introducing the X500, X500 Pro, and X500 Pro Max as the first phones built around its new…
Poco F9 Ultra Review: Great Sound, Grown-Up Design
The Poco F8 Ultra felt like a turning point for Poco. Up to that point, the brand had always been easy to understand. You bought…
MAKERphone 2.0 Assembles Like LEGO, Calls Like a Real 4G Phone
Most phones arrive finished, sealed behind glass before you open the box. MAKERphone 2.0 flips that script. It ships as loose parts that only become…
TECNO CAMON Slim 5G Review: Thinner than a Pencil, Tough as a Tank
Slim phones have always come with a catch. Shave down the body and something else usually gets sacrificed: usually the battery, sometimes the durability, occasionally…
Caviar’s $15,990 iPhone Duo contains a piece of Steve Jobs’ black turtleneck
Caviar is taking pre-orders for iPhone Duo starting at $15,990, well ahead of the official availability of the new phone form factor Apple unveiled earlier…
realme Built a Harry Potter Phone That Ships Inside Harry’s Own Trunk
Some phone collaborations slap a logo on a box and call it a day. This one goes further, treating a smartphone like a prop pulled…
5 Things the iPhone Duo Got Right That Samsung Still Hasn’t
Samsung has had the folding phone conversation to itself for six years now, tweaking hinges, shrinking creases, and figuring out what a cover screen is…
Huawei Finally Fixed the One Flaw That Followed Its Tri-Fold Phone
Huawei’s original tri-fold phone made headlines for unfolding into a tablet, but closing it back down left one part of the flexible screen exposed to…
Xiaomi 18 Fold Hands-On: Got Here Before Apple, Can It Beat Samsung?
Xiaomi has chosen an interesting moment to return to foldables. The company has not released a book-style foldable since the Mix Fold 4, which launched…
Most Rugged Phones Hide From Heat, This One Has Two Fans to Fight It
Rugged phones have always made a quiet trade-off. Sealing a device against water and dust means sealing in heat too, and that trapped warmth forces…
TCL’s P80 Pro and Ultra Are the Phones That Replaced Your Kindle Too
TCL’s P80 Ultra and P80 Pro prove a phone screen doesn’t have to pick one personality and stick with it. Unveiled at IFA 2026 in…