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Did you get everything you need from our latest weekly collection of sub-$200 bargains to end your week on a high note or get an early start to your summer on the right foot? If not, don’t worry, as we have another list of top mobile tech deals for you to feast on today. These are the best of the best promotions available right now at major US retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, as well as the official regional e-stores of device manufacturers like Motorola and Lenovo. We’re not going to lie to you, some of the “special” offers contained…
Sharing photos and videos from your phone should be simple, but it’s not always easy to find the exact item you’re looking for. Google’s Photo Picker, introduced in Android 13, aimed to streamline the process by allowing users to select specific media to share with apps. However, it lacked a key feature: search functionality.As reported by Android Authority, this significant shortcoming has been a source of frustration for many users, especially those with large cloud media libraries. Currently, the Photo Picker only offers two tabs: “Photos” and “Albums”. While this might be sufficient for those with smaller local libraries, navigating…
If you’ve been ready to pull the trigger on the purchase of an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max by trading in an older iPhone model, you might wait until May 20th to make the deal. That’s because starting on that date, and running until June 3rd, Apple will increase the value of the credit it will give someone who trades in an iPhone and uses that credit to purchase an iPhone 15 series model.While Apple hasn’t made any sort of announcement about this, and usually it doesn’t publicize any changes to trade-in…
Earlier this week Google revealed some of the new features coming to Android 15 such as Private Space. The latter is indeed a private space on an Android phone where sensitive apps can be hidden from prying eyes behind the protection of a biometric lock such as a fingerprint scanner or facial recognition. Another useful and cool feature, the Theft Detection Lock, uses AI to detect when your phone has been snatched from your hands by a thief who is running away on foot, via a car, or a bicycle. When the phone detects this series of events it will…
The Xiaomi 14 Ultra has just gone through the rigorous testing process for our PhoneArena Camera Score and the results are in. We have tested the camera performance of all lenses across a number of categories, and we have separate scores that will help you better understand the pros and cons of this new camera phone contender.Before we dive in the scores, let’s take a look at the camera hardware on board.Main Camera: Large 1-inch sensor, 50MP resolution, f/1.6-f/4 variable aperture, 23mm field of viewTelephoto Camera 1: 50MP sensor, f/1.8, 75mmTelephoto Camera 2 (periscope): 50MP sensor, f/2.5, 120mmUltra-wide Camera: 50MP sensor,…
WhatsApp, the popular and global messaging app owned by Meta, is constantly evolving to improve the user experience for its billions of users. In its latest beta update available via the Google Play Store (version 2.24.11.9) the app is introducing a new feature that prioritizes privacy: locked chats for linked devices. This new development was initially reported by WABetaInfo and is currently being rolled out to select beta testers, hinting at a wider release in the near future.In a previous version, WhatsApp had already started to develop a feature that would allow users to lock their chats on linked devices.…
Google’s popular “Circle to Search” feature, which was introduced earlier this year, allows users to search for objects simply by drawing circles around them within images. Initially confined to Samsung Galaxy S24 series and Pixel 8 smartphones, a recent finding suggests that this convenient tool might soon be coming to iOS devices via the Google Chrome browser.According to a report by The Mac Observer, Google has been hard at work on an enhanced version of Google Lens Search, internally referred to as “LensOverlay.” This update is expected to include Circle to Search functionality, potentially bringing it to iPhones in the…
Apple recently released the first iPad tablets to feature an OLED display. And this is not just any OLED panel, this is a tandem OLED display that stacks two layers of OLED to create a brighter and more durable screen. Without the need for a backlight, the top-of-the-line iPads are thinner with the 11-inch and 13-inch slates measuring 5.3mm and 5.1mm respectively. They are both powered by the 3nm Apple M4 chip.Apple went through all of 2023 without offering any new iPad models, the first time Apple has done this since releasing the original generation model in 2010. And while…
It was reported recently that a bug in iOS 17.5 was restoring deleted photos and while that was worrying on its own, it now appears that the bug could also cause pictures to reappear on devices that were wiped clean and sold. After iOS 17.5 was released on Monday, users started noticing that pictures they had deleted were surfacing again. The bug even impacted people who were not iCloud users, indicating that they were being restored from onboard storage. Many of the photos were years old and highly sensitive. What makes the bug truly scary is that it can give people…
Apple event announces a new line-up of products and software updates Apple event announces a new line-up of products and software updates 02:43 A cheeky new Samsung advertisement makes light of a recent Apple ad for its iPad Pro that was widely panned as insensitive and out of touch. The Apple spot featured a hydraulic press shown crushing instruments, paint buckets, an arcade game and other objects, seemingly to demonstrate that the latest iPad is at once powerful and compact. But Artists and other critics blasted Apple as tone deaf in view of mounting concerns about artificial intelligence and other technologies…
The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% of the tokens are in non-English languages, says Deedy Das, an AI investor at Menlo Ventures. He used language filters to count the number of tokens in different languages, and the top languages, besides English, are Russian, Arabic, and Vietnamese. “So the tokenizer’s main impact, in my opinion, is you get the cost down in these languages, not that the quality in these languages goes dramatically up,” Das says. When an LLM has better and longer tokens in non-English languages, they can analyze the prompts faster and charge the…
Google Maps is rolling out a revamped interface for Android users that simplifies the bottom navigation bar and introduces a new “You” tab. This update follows the company’s reveal at I/O 2024, where they showcased other upcoming AR advancements for Maps and a refined experience for EV drivers.As reported by 9to5Google, the new bottom bar now features only three options: Explore, You, and Contribute. The “You” tab is where the most significant changes are found, consolidating the Go (now labeled “Saved trips”), Saved, and Updates tabs. The “Explore” and “Contribute” tabs remain unchanged, providing users with familiar options for discovering…
Rumors/leaks about the battery capacity for the upcoming iPhone 16 series have already been disseminated. One leaker said that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will have the largest battery capacity of any iPhone ever released. But when it comes to such rumors or leaks, you normally can’t feel comfortable about them. Last year there were rumors about a massive hike in battery size for the iPhone 15 line which never materialized. But today we have information about the battery expected to keep the lights burning on this year’s iPhone 16 Pro Max and this information comes from Ming-Chi Kuo. For those…
Motorola’s undoubtedly fast-approaching Razr 50 Ultra is making headlines again today, and if that name doesn’t sound very familiar, you might know this unannounced foldable phone by its alternative Razr Plus (2024) moniker.Yes, we realize that can be incredibly confusing, but it’s definitely not surprising, as the device leaked in full today by WinFuture’s always reliable Roland Quandt is set to follow in the footsteps of a product released in Europe as the Razr 40 Ultra and in the US under a simpler Razr+ name.So what’s new here?At first glance, not much. Yes, the Razr 50 Ultra looks awfully familiar…
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. How cuddly robots could change dementia careCompanion animals can stave off some of the loneliness, anxiety, and agitation that come with Alzheimer’s disease, according to studies. Sadly, people with Alzheimer’s aren’t always equipped to look after pets, which can require a lot of care and attention. Enter cuddly robots. The most famous are Golden Pup, a robotic golden retriever toy that cocks its head, barks and wags its tail, and Paro the seal, which can sense touch, light,…
Earlier this month, we told you about a new iPhone model replacing the iPhone 17 Plus that would be called the iPhone 17 Slim. Based on a note to clients written by Jeff Pu, an analyst with Haitong International Securities, the iPhone 17 Slim would feature a 6.6-inch display. But today, we are hearing something different about the iPhone Slim based on a new report from The Information which says that Apple could price the new model above the iPhone 17 Pro Max model when the iPhone Slim is released in 2025.While Apple is reportedly testing different designs, the iPhone…