Karbonn makes a comeback in India with Rebel and Rebel Pro

Indian smartphone brand Karbonn has officially made a comeback in the country's smartphone market with the launch of its new Rebel series, which comprises the Rebel and Rebel Pro. The 4G phones will be available to purchase online in India starting November 4. The Karbonn Rebel is powered by the MediaTek Helio G81 chipset and features a 6.75-inch LCD with a 90Hz refresh rate. The rear panel features a large horizontal camera island with three cutouts. However, Karbonn has only confirmed a 50MP primary rear camera, suggesting that the other two cutouts may be decorative. We also...

OnePlus Turbo 6Vs debuts quietly with same specs as Turbo 6V

OnePlus has expanded its Turbo 6 series in China with the addition of a new variant, the Turbo 6Vs. The new phone is listed on the company’s official online store and offers similar specifications as the Turbo 6V. The only apparent difference between the OnePlus Turbo 6V and the new Turbo 6Vs is the color options. The latter is available in a new orange shade alongside a white option. The Turbo 6Vs is powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset and features a 6.78-inch AMOLED display with a refresh rate of up to 144Hz. It gets a 50MP primary rear camera and a 16MP front-facing...

Xiaomi 18 Pro series is going global this month

The Xiaomi 18 Pro and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max debuted in China in September, with Xiaomi subsequently confirming plans for a global launch. The company has now begun teasing their international debut, offering a tentative launch timeline. In a social media post, the company confirmed that the Xiaomi 18 Pro series will make its global debut later this month. Notably, the phones were recently spotted on Italian retailer Epto’s online store, revealing their specifications, colour options, and European pricing. According to the listings, the Xiaomi 18 Pro will start at €1,398.90 for the...

Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5 review

The Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5 are the company’s latest flagship true wireless earbuds. They are a major overhaul of the previous generation Momentum True Wireless 4 in nearly every way, with the company claiming improved design, comfort, audio quality, noise cancellation, and microphone performance. And they also happen to be Sennheiser’s first wireless earbuds with user-replaceable batteries. The Momentum True Wireless 5 are priced at $300 and go up against fierce competition in the form of the Apple AirPods Pro 3 and the Sony WF-1000XM6. How do they perform? Let’s find...

Here's how to reclaim 15GB of storage after iOS 27 update

With the arrival of iOS 27, Apple was hoping to make up a lot of ground in the AI space, but the new and improved Apple Intelligence comes with a huge caveat. Users who have already updated their iPhones to iOS 27 report that Apple Intelligence took around 15GB of internal storage. The exact amount of storage allocation varies from phone to phone - some see 16GB of their storage inaccessible after the update, others report as low as 9GB. Perhaps the more frustrating part is that Apple Intelligence takes up your storage even when you can't use it in your region, like EU iPhone owners,...

Lava smartphones will get expensive in India from November 15

Indian handset maker Lava has announced that its smartphones will get expensive in India from November 15, 2026, by up to INR3,000. Lava says the price hike is due to ongoing memory shortages and advises consumers planning to buy a smartphone to do so before the increase. In an official statement, Lava said, "In the current industry environment, ongoing memory shortages have necessitated a price revision of up to INR3,000 across our smartphone portfolio, effective 15th November, 2026. Consumers looking to upgrade their devices have a strong opportunity at this moment, as our...

Weekly poll: do touchscreens on laptops make sense?

“We’ve done tons of user testing on this and it turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives a great demo, but after a short period of time you start to fatigue and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. It doesn’t work. It’s ergonomically terrible.” This is what Steve Jobs said about laptops with touchscreens back in 2010 – it’s hardly a new idea, but sixteen years later Apple announced its first such laptops, the MacBook Pros with PROLED XDR displays. Do you agree with Jobs or do you think that Ternus & co. are right? Of course,...

Weekly poll results: the Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is too expensive and so is the Find X10

Oppo flagships were never cheap, but the latest generation may be too expensive to achieve the popularity that it deserves, given the excellent hardware of the phones themselves. The Oppo Find X models aren’t alone in this – memory prices rising hundreds of percent in a matter of months made this outcome inevitable. The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max is the clear winner of the two – this is how it goes usually when comparing very expensive flagships. People who think they are too expensive already voted “no, thanks”, which leaves the money-is-no-object crowd that just wants the best. Oppo Find...

iPhone Air 2 specs surface again in new leak

The iPhone Air 2 is expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e next spring. While recent rumours have pointed to a slimmer design and dual-rear cameras, a new leak has once again detailed the main specs. Well-known tipster Digital Chat Station has shared the upgrades expected to come with the iPhone Air 2. According to the tipster, the iPhone will sport a 6.55-inch flat OLED display with a standard aspect ratio, 120Hz refresh rate, and 1.5K+ resolution. It is also said to come with the 2nm A20-series chipset that was introduced with the iPhone 18 Pro series and the...

Honor X8e 4G quietly launches with a 108MP camera and a 7,700mAh battery

Is it true that you can’t have too many models? Maybe, maybe not, but here's one more – the Honor X8e 4G, a phone that is nearly identical to the Honor X7e Plus 4G from August. Honor X8e 4G The most eye-catching feature on this phone is the 108MP camera. The phone is an entry-level model that was spotted on the Honor Azerbaijan site. Local retailers sell it for AZN 820 – that’s $480, but for context, a Galaxy A08 4G is AZN 590. Plus, another retailer has the X8e at AZN 688. This is only 17% more than the A08 – and note that Honor prices are for a 6/256GB model, while the Galaxy...

SK hynix reports record Q3 numbers, warns that the memory shortage will last through 2030

SK hynix had a stellar quarter – the financial report for Q3 reports revenues of KRW 104.6 trillion. This is the first time that the quarterly sales have gone above the KRW 100 trillion mark. Better still, the company has margins that we can all be envious of – operating profit was KRW 83.3 trillion and net profit was KRW 39.8 trillion. This is an operating margin of 80% and a net margin of 38%. The company reports cash and cash equivalents of KRW 114.5 trillion at the end of Q3, up KRW 26.5 trillion compared to the previous quarter. Meanwhile, borrowings decreased to KRW 15.8 trillion,...

Motorola Edge 70 Pro starts receiving the update to Android 17

Motorola has started rolling out the update to Android 17 for the Edge 70 Pro, according to a report on Reddit. The update is currently going out to the European model, and it's a 3.42GB download, so make sure you grab it over a fast enough network. Once you've installed it, your phone will be on software version A171WMH.44-25. [#InlinePriceWidget,14620,1#] The changelog says you can expect "a fresh, expressive design", reduced clutter with smarter notifications, faster multitasking with more apps being accessible at once, and extra security with "enhanced protection and controls"....

Samsung's sleep apnea detection gets better on the Galaxy Watches and Galaxy Ring

Samsung first got its Galaxy Watch sleep apnea feature approved at home in Korea back in 2023, then received De Novo authorization from the FDA in early 2024. Since then it has expanded to many more markets, and the company says it's now available in 84 countries. Today Samsung announced that an upgraded version of the feature, which got FDA approval in July, has also been approved by Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). The new version doesn't just detect signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea. It uses an AI algorithm to count the number of breathing disruptions per hour...

Redmi K100 debuts with Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, 10,000mAh battery

The Redmi K100 has gone official in China with a massive 10,000mAh battery. It comes with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and a 6.83-inch OLED display. Redmi’s latest K100 series phone is available with a starting price of CNY 3,499 ($525) for the 12GB/256GB variant and is being offered in three color options. The display offers features such as a 165Hz refresh rate, Dolby Vision, and up to 3,200 nits of peak brightness. It also gets an ultrasonic under-display fingerprint scanner. For optics, the Redmi K100 gets a dual-rear camera setup with a 50MP Light Fusion 800 sensor with OIS...

vivo X500s screen details leak, testing is already underway

Today the vivo X500, X500 Pro, and X500 Pro Max went global, over a month after they debuted in China. But the company is apparently already busy with the next member of the family. Now, prolific tipster Digital Chat Station has revealed on Weibo that a "small s iteration" is in testing. According to DCS, the engineering sample has a 6.85-inch flat screen with 2K+ resolution, a 144Hz refresh rate, and equal-width bezels on all four sides. The tipster also says the device follows a "large-screen all-rounder" approach. He didn't name it, but people in the comments have taken it to mean the...

Samsung is being fined in South Korea over Galaxy S21 and S22's gaming performance

The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) sued Samsung over misleading marketing regarding the Galaxy S21 series, S22 series, and the Galaxy Tab S8 series, and the court decided to fine the tech giant. The reason is a marketing claim that the devices deliver "the ultimate mobile gaming experience," but fails to disclose that the so-called Game Optimizing Service (GOS) throttles the performance. Samsung's GOS automatically throttles the CPU and GPU performance on the said devices when playing demanding games. The throttling "feature" led to freezes, lags and lower graphics quality,...

New iPhone 18e leak covers its chip, cameras, and display

Digital Chat Station has shared details about the iPhone 18e before, and today the tipster is back on Weibo with a fuller picture of the iPhone 17e's successor. Apple launched the iPhone 17e in March, so a spring 2027 debut for the new model would fit the pattern, and the device has before been rumored to arrive alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone Air 2. According to DCS, the iPhone 18e will have a 6.12-inch LTPS OLED screen with a 60Hz refresh rate, so if you were hoping the "e" series would finally get a higher refresh rate, it looks like you'll have to keep waiting. It's also said to be...

Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max get listed by European retailer before their global launch

Xiaomi unveiled the Xiaomi 18 Pro and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max in China back in September, and a day later it confirmed that both are going global. Today, Italian retailer Epto has listed the two phones ahead of their international debut, revealing their European prices, colors, and specs. The Xiaomi 18 Pro is listed at €1,398.90 with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and €1,591.90 with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The 18 Pro Max only comes with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, for €1,783.90. Some Pro Max listings in white and Velvet Red, with different model numbers, are slightly cheaper...

Samsung's Exynos 2700 reportedly outpaces the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max's Snapdragon by up to 20%

Back in August, insiders claimed that the Exynos 2700 beat Qualcomm's next flagship chips in internal testing. Those Snapdragons have since become official, and Samsung has reportedly put its upcoming chip up against them once again. The Exynos 2700 is expected to power at least some models in the Galaxy S27 series, which should arrive early next year. This time, the tests were allegedly run against the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max and its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The Exynos 2700 reportedly scored around 13,000 points in the Geekbench 6.5 multi-core CPU test, compared to around 11,000 for...

OnePlus Buds Clip go official with dual drivers and up to 40 hours of battery life

Without much fanfare, OnePlus announced its first clip-on earbuds – the aptly named OnePlus Clip. And while the brand's smartphones are no longer available in Europe and the US, the Buds Clip will be available in some global regions, as evidenced by their listing on the global OnePlus website. They bring Dynaudio sound tuning, dual drivers and up to 40 hours of battery life. Buds Clip employ 11mm woofers and 9mm tweeters alongside dual DACs tuned by Danish audio brand Dynaudio. You get support for LHDC 5.0, AAC and SBC codecs. The buds pair over Bluetooth 6.1 and support simultaneous...