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I can’t get no, oh, no, no, no, hey, hey, heyThat’s what I sayI can’t get no satisfaction!That’s some Rolling Stones for you, and that’s also what iPhone 15 Pro users have been humming these days.In fact, they’ve been humming it for months now – in late October 2023, we told you about the iPhone 15 Pro having the worst user-generated reviews of any premium iPhone model yet.Recently, the iPhone 15 Pro got even less love from the public, according to a February PerfectRec record. The vanilla iPhone 15, however, is getting more love. Back in late October 2023, a…
If you’re a T-Mobile subscriber, Friday morning you might have realized that something was going on with the carrier’s network. According to DownDetector, the number of complaints it received about the nation’s second-largest wireless provider having an issue soared 100 fold with 42 submissions at 4:41 am ET soaring to a peak of 4,748 exactly two hours later. A whopping 75% said that they could not get confirmation that an SMS text that they sent had been received although some of them did make it to the recipient. 19% of those reporting to DownDetector about the outage said that they could…
What the flip is going on with Apple? A little more than a week ago, the word on the street was that a foldable iPhone was looking more and more like a sure thing as Apple had reportedly developed a clamshell foldable iPhone prototype similar to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip series. Even though Apple had concerns over the durability and the utility of such a device, it was reportedly meeting with one Asian manufacturer to discuss the production of components for two foldable iPhone models.Today, a tech video blogger using the title Fixed Focus Digital, with a huge following on China’s…
Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. The big tech giants are in a race to be the top dogs in the AI revolution. Google just dropped its latest and greatest AI model, the Gemini Ultra 1.0, and rolled out a new Google One AI Premium. Now, its main rival, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, is ready to fire back. OpenAI is introducing a new video-generation model called Sora. According to the company’s blog post (via Reuters), Sora “can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.” This new text-to-video model allows users to create photorealistic videos up to a minute long,…
My trusty Fossil watch, still ticking after all these years (and let’s be honest, still looking pretty darn sharp), is a testament to that. So, when I heard Fossil was entering the smartwatch game, I was all in. Fashion + tech? Sign me up.But alas, like that regrettable frosted tips trend, Fossil’s smartwatch adventure didn’t quite achieve cult status. In 2024, the company exited the market, which made me want to look closer at what went down. Let’s dive in.First things first. If you are unfamiliar with the company (I am sure not everyone is such a big fan), you…
Because we know it can be overwhelming at times to try to keep up with all of the best deals on the most popular gadgets out there on your own and hard to make the wisest and most informed buying decision according to one’s personal preferences and budget, we’ve taken the liberty to put together yet another extensive list of bargains and steals across multiple divisions of the larger tech industry.These should cover pretty much any and all individual tastes as far as smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and various audio products are concerned, helping you save hundreds of dollars with minimal…
It’s Friday and today, we’re having some nice, easygoing, digestible prose about Wall Street, market capitalization, international economic feuds, and more. We’ve got to start with some financial news, but fret not – this is still PhoneArena and we’ll talk about phones in a moment. hot right now.I don’t have an economics degree, but I can put two and two together and make a fairly justifiable prognosis about the phone industry’s future based on current Wall Street trends.So, in short, in mid-February 2024, Nvidia is the talk of the town. The technology company that specializes in graphics processing units (GPUs),…
Another groundbreaking generative artificial intelligence tool from the company behind ChatGPT unveiled Thursday is expected to accelerate the proliferation of deepfake videos and have implications for virtually every industry. Sora, an AI application that takes written prompts and turns them into original videos, is already so powerful that one AI expert says it has him “terrified.” “Generative AI tools are evolving so rapidly, and we have social network — which leads to an Achilles heel in our democracy and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time,” Oren Etzioni, founder of TruMedia.org, told CBS MoneyWatch. The nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting AI-based…
According to those in the “know,” the price proposal from Samsung Display was the lowest with a $30 quote for each unit. BOE was next as the firm is asking Apple to pay $35 for each panel, and Tianma is seeking $40 for each OLED panel. However, Apple is trying to get one of these companies to supply them with OLED displays for $20 per unit and the negotiations will continue. The pricing is lower than what Apple pays for the iPhone 15’s OLED screen since the iPhone SE 4 is expected to use legacy technology and recycled parts. It appears…
Arriving a day later than originally rumored, the first developer preview of Android 15 (a.k.a. Vanilla Ice Cream) has finally made its debut. As announced today by Google, Android 15 Developer Preview 1 is now available for app developers to begin the process of getting their applications ready for the next version of the mobile operating system.Developer Preview 1 can currently be installed for testing on the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7, Pixel 6a, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet devices by manually downloading the factory images and flashing…
Following the release of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series and Galaxy AI last month, Samsung is now providing more ways for its users to interact with their devices’ AI features. Now, in addition to touch controls, users can use these new features through Samsung’s Bixby assistant. This hands-free capability was announced today by Samsung in an effort to give its users a way to quickly activate some of the Galaxy AI features with simple commands. For now, AI features that will be available with Bixby include real-time translation, spelling correction, creating webpage summaries and creating automated note covers.The chart below illustrates…
Google is currently rolling out a new feature in its Search Labs called “Talk to a Live Representative” that is very similar to its Pixel-exclusive “Hold for Me” feature, except it would make it available to other devices. This could make in many cases the dreaded task of calling customer service and waiting on hold a thing of the past.Here’s how it works: You can enable this in the Google App by tapping on the “Search Labs” button in the top left. Then a “request a call” button will appear for specific customer service search results. You will then see…
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On paper, the ultra-high-end and surprisingly affordable OnePlus 12R looked positively dreamy when it was formally unveiled and fully detailed a few weeks ago. In fact, the 6.78-inch powerhouse almost looked too good to be true, especially in the US, where you can’t find quite as many budget-friendly Android flagships as in India or China and where last year’s similarly impressive 11R was never officially released.The 256GB storage variant in particular blew us away with its apparent value, costing just $599.99 unlocked and with no strings attached stateside while packing a whopping 16 gigs of RAM in addition to a…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI teases an amazing new generative video model called Sora OpenAI has built a striking new generative video model called Sora that can take a short text description and turn it into a detailed, high-definition film clip up to a minute long. It’s seriously impressive-looking. Based on four sample videos that OpenAI shared with MIT Technology Review, the firm has pushed the envelope of what’s possible with text-to-video generation (a hot new research direction that we flagged as…
Are you having trouble choosing the smart speaker that best fits your needs, preferences, and budget from Amazon’s extensive Echo product lineup? Do you want something more powerful than the diminutive Echo Dot but more affordable than the high-end Echo Studio and don’t want your speaker to also be able to show you stuff on a 5, 8, 10, or 15-inch touchscreen? Then the “regular” old Echo (4th Gen) is probably right for you, especially at a huge 45 percent discount from what was never a very extravagant list price. Of course, this thing is pretty old, and although it hasn’t…