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Nothing is preparing to bring its next flagship, the Nothing Phone (3), to the United States. The company will make the device available for purchase through its website and Amazon. And apparently, the Nothing Phone (3) won’t have its fancy glyph lights at the back; maybe it’s time for something …

Apple had a headstart in the smartphone era, but Android quickly caught up and is now the most popular computing platform in the world—larger than iOS, of course, but also surpassing Windows and macOS. Android is powerful, but a bit hard to keep up with. Google is always making tweaks …

Smartphones used to have a lot of buttons—there were call and end buttons, trackballs, menu buttons, and even full keyboards. Even Apple used to have a big physical button on the front of its phones. No one has managed to get rid of the power and volume buttons, but Xiaomi …

Motorola seems to have called in a bit of the 90s kid spirit with its new slap bracelet smartphone concept. That’s right: When you’re not operating the prototype with both hands, you can curl it around your wrist, transforming it into a watch-like wearable device. You can also make it …

Creating art normally takes skill and dedication, but now it just takes a few keystrokes to create original AI art good enough to win contests. Most of the AI tools you’ve seen have been running on powerful servers in the cloud. Qualcomm just showed what’s possible on a smartphone with …

Qualcomm announced its next flagship mobile processor just a few days ago, and Vivo is wasting no time while the new chip is still top of mind. The Chinese smartphone giant has announced the new X90 Pro Plus, the first smartphone to ship with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It …

Oppo is one of the largest smartphone makers in the world, but you’d never know it if you buy all your phones in the US. Oppo is part of the Chinese megacorporation BBK Electronics, which also runs Vivo, Realme, and OnePlus among others. Smartphones in this family are about to …

  High demand for the iPhone 12 allowed Apple to one-up Samsung in Q4 2020 smartphone sales, giving the Cupertino-based manufacturer its first leadership position since Q4 2016. Samsung still kept its position as the largest manufacturer based on full-year results, shipping 253 million smartphones against Apple’s 199.8 million devices. …

  Smartphone charging technology has improved dramatically in the last few years with some phones sucking down 65W of power or more. Xiaomi has been one of the companies to push both wired and wireless charging speeds, and now it says you don’t need wires at all. The company’s Mi …

It’s CES 2021, and although we’re not live from Las Vegas, there’s plenty that companies want to share with us in digital form. Take Panasonic’s new wireless phone charger for the car, which forgoes in-place charging coils for mobile ones. To make clear what I mean by that — this …