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Galaxy S27 Ultra could get a camera shake-up that drops the lesser telephoto Losing something? Early rumors say the Galaxy S27 Ultra's camera could shake things up.

My friends and I became the Ninja Turtles, and my Friday nights will never be the same again I've been blown away playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City for the Meta Quest, and you absolutely have to check it out for yourself.

Google AI is creeping into every app on your phone. Here is how to disable it Learn how to remove Gemini AI-powered features across apps like Gmail, Phone, Messages, and more from your phone.

I never thought I'd see a $199 phone ever again, yet the TCL NXTPAPER 70 Pro is better than phones twice it's price NXTPAPER phones have long been about great displays, but TCL's latest phone also drops the price in a year when everything's getting more expensive.

Google TV adds new ways to 'Create' with your family photos and AI, teases Shorts row Google TV's late April update wants you to "Create" wacky versions of your family photos, but teases something new for YouTube Shorts.

Stop the presses — the best entry-level LG OLED TV has dropped to only $599 at Best Buy The LG OLED B5 Series has crashed to just $599 during Best Buy's current sale, but how long will it last?

via Xiaomi releases open-weight MiMo-V2.5 AI model, claims "frontier-level agentic capability" Xiaomi is the latest company to release an open-weight AI model – MiMo-V2.5 claims to be a “major step forward in agentic capability and multimodal understanding.” Xiaomi has shared various benchmark results that compare MiMo-V2.5 against the likes of the recently released DeepSeek-V4, Kimi K2.6, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Xiaomi’s older MiMo-V2-Pro. The company claims that MiMo-V2.5 achieved best-in-class performance on its in-house agentic tasks benchmark. On the internal MiMo Coding Bench, the smaller V2.5 model matched the larger V2.5-Pro at half the cost. In other...

Google Translate turns 20, and it's making me practice my speech with AI Google celebrated its 20th anniversary of the Translate app, but this birthday bash gave users the gift of Pronunciation Practice.

Samsung Wallet gets a Trips timeline, so all you've got to worry about is your tan Samsung Wallet gets ready for a summer of traveling with a Trips timeline that keeps you on schedule without the worry.

via Samsung India expands Finance+ plans to include home appliances Samsung India is expanding its “Samsung Finance+” program to make it easier to buy new home appliances – ACs, fridges, microwaves, washing machines and so on. Finance+ is available even for first-time borrowers, including ones with no credit history. To get started, you will need to visit your nearest participating store and present your Aadhaar and PAN cards for identification. Samsung says that the process is quick and paperless – it will take you around five minutes. Once done, you will be able to buy appliances with various affordable Equated Monthly Installment (EMI) plans. The...

The #1 'best cheap Garmin watch' just got even cheaper with a 20% discount at Amazon The Garmin Forerunner 165, our favorite cheap Garmin watch, just scored a 20% discount for a limited time.

via Samsung Wallet's new Trips feature shows your travel timeline Samsung has announced a new feature for Samsung Wallet today. It's called Trips and it "consolidates travel plans", "offering a single access point for all travel details - eliminating the need to juggle multiple apps and confirmations", according to the Korean company. The new section comes with a Trip timeline, which brings all travel-related plans together in a single view, "adding structure to busy itineraries and providing a smoother journey from start to finish". When you add eligible items to Samsung Wallet, Trips will group them together based on time and location. Trips...

Gmail, Drive, and other Google apps are getting a major icon redesign Google is redesigning Gmail, Drive, and other app icons to make them more distinct.

via Google is rolling out a fully customizable Multiview in YouTube TV and testing new YouTube Live ads Let’s start with YouTube TV first – the company’s live broadcast TV offering exclusive to the US. Users might know that the platform already has a Multiview feature that allows viewing two, three or even four channels all at once. Why? Well, besides brain-rot optimization, there are actually some practical use cases, like during a busy sports season when you want to keep an eye on multiple matches at once. Google knew that was the typical case and originally rolled out Multiview through “suggested” Multiview setups that the platform curated automatically for the user. Those are still...

via Samsung's domestic chip manufacturing gets disrupted briefly by a labor protest We still don't know much about how the situation was handled or whether or not it was even amicably resolved, but Reuters reports that on April 23 and April 24, during the night shift from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., many workers in the Samsung factory complex in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, skipped work in order to protest. For reference, like pretty much every foundry out there, this facility works 24/7 on three shifts. Details, as we said, are scarce, but according to the workers' union, the attending workers demanded higher wages. While we don't know whether those demands were met or...

via Samsung Galaxy Buds4 Pro review Introduction and unboxing Samsung owns Harman, which is the parent company of several high-profile audio brands, many of which make headphones. Yet you will find very few Samsung-branded headphones outside of the Galaxy Buds series. The company hasn’t even released over-ear headphones in years – in short, Samsung is betting that the Galaxy TWS buds are the only headphones that most people need. We have the new Samsung Galaxy Buds4 Pro in our ears right now – they are the best of the three-tier structure that Samsung settled on (FE, vanilla and Pro). We think these are a notable...

via Weekly deals: Galaxy S26 series on discount, Pixel 10 and 10 Pro XL get big price cuts The Samsung Galaxy S26 series has been on discount since it went on sale in early March. And it looks like there’s no stopping the price cuts. Meanwhile, the recently launched Galaxy A57 and Galaxy A37 are available with free gifts. Notably, a couple of Pixel phones, the OnePlus 15R, and a few Xiaomi devices have also received price cuts on Amazon UK. Samsung’s Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and the Galaxy S26 Ultra are all available with £170 off, plus users are eligible to save another £100 at checkout. Samsung Galaxy S26...

via This Galaxy S26 series feature is coming to some older Samsung smartphones Samsung introduced a feature with the Galaxy S26 series, which is coming to some older Galaxy smartphones eligible for One UI 8.5. We are talking about the improved document scanning feature, called Document Scan. Previously, when you clicked multiple pictures of documents, they weren't saved as a single PDF document. Samsung made it possible with Document Scan, which is available to Samsung Galaxy S26 users. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Additionally, Samsung also made it easier to access Document Scan by allowing users to add its shortcut to their phone's homescreen. Just open the...

Samsung's XR glasses snuck into One UI 9, putting launch back on the menu Samsung's XR glasses to compete against Meta reportedly surfaced in an early One UI 9 build, and a launch is back on our minds.

via DeepSeek-V4 Preview launches with open weights and API access Chinese AI company DeepSeek caused quite a stir last year as it climbed to the top of the App Store charts and beat out incumbents like ChatGPT. That was over a year ago and now the company has launched a preview of its latest and much more capable model dubbed DeepSeek-V4. If you have a DeepSeek account, you can try out the new model here: chat.deepseek.com/. There are two versions available, Expert and Instant. Expert is a massive 1.6 trillion parameter model, Instant is a more reasonable (but still huge) 284 billion parameter model. DeepSeek-V4 Pro and Flash models And here’s...

Nothing's Essential Voice redefined how I talk to my phone, and it's about time someone fixed this problem The Nothing Phone 3 and Nothing Phone 4a Pro just launched a new feature called Essential Voice, and it's going to transform how Nothing users type.

YouTube on mobile makes livestream ads way less annoying, but there's a caveat YouTube now keeps livestreams visible during ads, but mutes the audio — so you won’t miss the action, just everything you’re supposed to hear.

This Garmin watch completely changed how I run, and it just got a massive discount at Best Buy Despite its age, the Garmin Forerunner 265S is a sleek, versatile fitness watch that could totally transform your exercise regimen.

via vivo Y6 5G unveiled with 7,200 mAh battery, Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC After launching the Y6t a few days ago, now vivo has also made the Y6 5G official. It is powered by the same Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 SoC as the Y6t. The Y6 5G comes in silver, gold, and black. It measures 166.64 x 78.43 x 8.39 mm and weighs 219g. It boasts a 6.75-inch 720x1570 LCD screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and 1,200-nit peak brightness, a 50MP rear camera, an 8MP front camera, and a 7,200 mAh battery with support for 44W wired charging. vivo Y6 5G official images The phone has 5G support, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner embedded into the power button, an IR blaster, and...

One Meta Quest game is reviving my love for multiplayer gaming Forefront is Battlefield on steroids, putting gamers in 32-player matches with giant maps, vehicles, classes, tons of weapons, and more, all in glorious VR.

via Microsoft drops Game Pass pricing after user complaints Microsoft has announced that it is revising prices for its Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Two of the four plans will now be cheaper, but with some changes to their content. The company is changing the price of the most expensive Ultimate plan from $29.99 to $22.99. However, this plan will no longer get new Call of Duty titles at launch. Instead, they will become available during the following holiday season, about a year later. The existing Call of Duty titles will continue to be available. The PC Game Pass plan pricing is also being revised, and it will now cost $13.99...

Google expands its browser assistant to more countries, and I can’t ignore how convenient this is Gemini is now baked into Chrome across APAC, making browsing smarter and faster.

via Redmi K90 Max arrives with Dimensity 9500, cooling fan and 8,500mAh Si-C battery with 100W charging The Redmi K series is consistently pushing the envelope in terms of specs, and the just-announced Redmi K90 Max is the latest example. It arrives with a flagship chipset, a built-in cooling fan and a generous 8,500mAh Si-C battery with 100W charging. Redmi K90 Max The K90 Max brings MediaTek’s flagship Dimensity 9500 chipset, armed with up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage. The chip is paired with a dedicated Xiaomi D2 graphics chip, with Redmi boasting a 4,161,374 score on AnTuTu v11. Redmi K90 Max brings a dedicated cooling fan and MediaTek's Dimensity 9500...

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T-Mobile is apparently giving away the Galaxy Watch 8 for FREE with new deal — here's how to claim yours Add a line with T-Mobile's Watch Plus plan and you'll get enough promo credits to make the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 completely free!

I tested the OPPO Find X9 Ultra, and it's undoubtedly the new king of camera phones I used the Find X9 Ultra as my daily driver for just under two weeks, and I'm convinced that this is the ultimate camera flagship of 2026.

Yeah, the OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra is a phone, but it's mimicking handheld consoles OnePlus has its eyes on mobile gamers with its Ace 6 Ultra, as new teasers showed off its handheld gaming console-like add-on.

via Huawei Pura 90 is also official with triple camera, 6,500mAh battery Tagging along with the Pros is the Huawei Pura 90. And while it's not nearly as colorful as the Pura 90 Pro and 90 Pro Max, it packs a mightier battery and also has a conventional triple camera setup on the back. Let's dig in. The Huawei Pura 90 comes in Snow White, Velvet Black, and Roland Purple. The phone weighs just 210 grams and is impressively thin at 7.0mm. The Huawei Pura 90 in all three colors It has a large screen upfront, spanning 6.8 inches. The 2856x1320px panel is an LTPO 1-120Hz OLED with a 300Hz touch sampling rate. It's covered by Kunlun Glass. The phone...

The 3 most important USB cables every phone owner should have If you own a smartphone, be it Android iOS, there are three USB cables that you need to own.

Fitbit Air leak points to a May launch and plenty of color options Google’s Fitbit Air is reportedly taking a direct swing at Whoop, ditching the screen and annoying subscriptions for a stylish, $99 tracker.

via Motorola Moto G Stylus (2026) in for review Motorola unveiled the Moto G Stylus (2026) at the beginning of April, and the phone went on sale earlier this week. So we're right on schedule to bring you a quick unboxing before we're off to review the phone. The Moto G Stylus (2026) is up for grabs on Amazon, Best Buy, and Motorola.com and costs $500. It ships with a USB cable and nothing more. That means you'd need to supply your own case and 68W charger. On the plus side, the phone has a pretty back panel that you don't need to cover up because Moto ensures the phone can handle some bumps and bruises, and it feels nicer...