iFixit’s FixBot helps with repairs ‘the way a master technician would’
iFixit's FixBot helps with repairs 'the way a master technician would' The iFixit app rolls together its guides, battery health tools, and a new AI chatbot. DIY repair site iFixit has launched its own app for iOS and Android, featuring its extensive library of repair guides and resources, a battery health monitor, and a new […]
Trump Mobile’s refurbished iPhones are an unsurprisingly bad deal
Trump Mobile's refurbished iPhones are an unsurprisingly bad deal 2023’s iPhone 15 is the most recent that Trump Mobile offers. It’s been well established that the Trump Phone doesn’t exist. But that isn’t the only phone Trump Mobile sells. It also offers a range of refurbished Apple and Samsung handsets that you can buy right […]
Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos
Google's AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos These aren’t real people! | Image: Nano Banana Pro I’m starting to understand where Google’s visual AI model gets its name, because after playing around with it for a couple of days, that’s how I’d sum it up: bananas. The images it generates are […]
Samsung’s Z TriFold is official and it looks like a tablet with a phone attached
Samsung's Z TriFold is official and it looks like a tablet with a phone attached I kind of wish they’d called it the Z Fold Fold. Samsung is officially announcing the Z TriFold, its much-anticipated foldable with not one, but two hinges. It’ll launch first in Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned […]
India is ordering Apple and other phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app
India is ordering Apple and other phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app India‘s Department of Telecommunications is giving phone manufacturers 90 days to comply with an order to pre-install a state-owned app on new phones and push it to existing phones through software updates, reports Reuters. The government order was privately sent out to […]
Anker’s handy little 3-port charger is just 35 bucks
Anker's handy little 3-port charger is just 35 bucks Is there anything quite like the satisfying snap of folding prongs? Earlier this year, I decided to level up my travel game and invest in a charger to bring on trips, rather than raiding my desk outlets every time I packed. I needed a multitasker, something […]
All the places I used my Trump Mobile wireless service this week
All the places I used my Trump Mobile wireless service this week Hey, I got my SIM card. Where’s the Trump Phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone’s whereabouts. As usual, we’re still waiting for a response. In the meantime, we’re […]
Strong iPhone 17 sales may push Apple ahead of Samsung this year
Strong iPhone 17 sales may push Apple ahead of Samsung this year Counterpoint Research is predicting Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup will help it nudge Samsung out as the number one phone manufacturer in the world this year, as reported by CNBC and Bloomberg. The report estimates Apple will ship 243 million phones this year, while […]
Poco partners with Bose to put a subwoofer in its latest phone
Poco partners with Bose to put a subwoofer in its latest phone Poco is at pains to admit that this “denim blue” version of the F8 Ultra includes no actual denim fabric. Xiaomi spin-off brand Poco has partnered with Bose to help its new F8 phones stand out in an increasingly crowded market. Both the […]
Qualcomm reveals its not-so-elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
Qualcomm reveals its not-so-elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Qualcomm still sees this as a flagship chipset, just not an “Elite” one. When Qualcomm announced its high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset in November, it mentioned that a non-Elite version was on the way, designed to power a more affordable tier of flagship phones. Now, […]