Samsung Galaxy S23 FE in for review

It took its sweet time but the Galaxy S23 FE is finally here, so let's unbox it. You get the phone, a USB-C cable, a SIM tool, and leaflets. The series skipped over an entire generation and left fans of the affordable flagship wanting for the last year or so. Now the FE is back with the same formula - get the base off the acting S series but with some older components to keep the price down, like the chipset and cameras. The Exynos 2200 (or Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 if you live in North America) is still a pretty capable chip, 'issues' with efficiency notwithstanding. We got the...

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Redmi 13C Teased to Launch Soon, Design, Colour Options Revealed

Redmi, via a post on X, announced the arrival of the Redmi 13C in Nigeria. It is confirmed to come in at least four finishes. It has a centrally placed waterdrop-style notch to house the selfie shooter. The Redmi 13C is expected to succeed the Redmi 12C that went official in India in March this year.

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Vivo X100 Price, Full Specifications Leaked Ahead of November 13 Series Launch

Vivo X100 series is set to launch in China on November 13. Like the preceding lineups, the Vivo X100 is also said to arrive with three models - a base Vivo X100, the Vivo X100 Pro, and Vivo X100 Pro+. Multiple key details of the smartphones have been tipped previously. Now, a new report claims to list the complete specifications for the base Vivo X100 model.

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Top 10 trending phones of week 44

Xiaomi 14 Pro was once again on top of our trending chart in week 44. Once again the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and Galaxy A54 completed the podium, but some way back from the leader. The Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max retained fourth, as the Redmi Note 12 rose to fifth position. The vanilla Xiaomi 14 also gained a spot to place sixth. We then have the Galaxy S23 FE, which slipped to seventh and the Redmi 12 going in the other direction in eight. Redmi Note 12 Pro and Galaxy A34 complete the top ten, relegating the Galaxy S21 FE. How long can the Xiaomi 14 Pro last on top? Keep watching...

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XREAL Air 2 review

Introduction If you've been following the AR space, you've probably come across the Nreal brand. The company has been one of the most successful in actually commercializing AR glasses, reaching 100,000 sales in 2022. The company's Air glasses are thus a rather popular product in the growing space. Following a trademark dispute with Epic Games, Nreal rebranded to XREAL and has since been expanding its portfolio, putting out the Beam accessory that extends the functionality of the Air glasses and now a new pair of Air models - Air 2 and Air 2 Pro. The two models are actually nearly...

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Weekly poll results: half of users have phones that are 1 or 2 years old

Based on last week’s poll, half of the voters are currently using phones that are a year or two old. But that’s not the average age of a phone and that average may be growing – going forward, half of users will have a phone that’s 3 years or younger. Let’s start with the first question we asked – how old is your current phone? The top answer was “1-year-old”, which suggests that a lot of people upgraded recently. There’s more evidence of that in the other charts too, but we’ll get to those. Beyond a year, it’s a fairly even split between 2-year-old and 3-year-old phones. There is a...

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Flashback: the Nokia N86 8MP was the last of the great Symbian sliders

The Nokia N95 was a high point for Symbian, but as we noted in our previous Flashback article, its success was never replicated. It was also the end for this form factor – the Swiss army knife slider phone. The original N95 came in early 2007, followed a few months later by the much-improved N95 8GB. Our destination for today’s story is the N86 8MP, but we have to take a twisty path to get there. 2007 also brought the more affordable Nokia N81. It launched in two versions – one with basically no built-in storage but with an included 2GB microSD card and one with 8GB of built-in storage...

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