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The announcement of the Pixel 8a, Google’s latest affordable smartphone, caught the whole tech industry by surprise. The tech giant dropped the phone like a real boss on May 7th, stealing the thunder from Apple’s Let Loose event, where the company revealed its latest and greatest iPad Pro and iPad Air tablets. Now, all eyes are on the Pixel 8a, and chances are high for this bad boy to be on your radar, too, especially if you are in the market for a new Pixel phone that doesn’t strain the budget.In case you are wondering where to get your brand-new Pixel 8a from,…
Are you intrigued by clamshell foldable phones? Well, you should definitely check out the impressive mid-range Motorola Razr (2023), then. This bad boy is still available at a fantastic $200 discount at Motorola.com, with more savings available through trade-ins. In case you’re wondering, the massive price cut lands the clamshell foldable phone at its best price. However, this is far from the first time we’ve encountered the deal, as it first went live during Black Friday 2023. At the time of writing, however, only the model in Sage Green is 29% off via Motorola. If you want something else, we suggest…
The premium Sennheiser Momentum 4 may pack an awesome sound and a stylish design, but their price tag… Oh boy! Let’s say that it’s better for your bank account not to know the original price of these otherwise top-quality headphones.Instead, we should directly tell it that these handsome fellas in black are now available at a sweet $100 discount, allowing you to get a pair for 26% off their price if you take advantage of this deal while you can. This offer is even more enticing than the $80 (21%) markdown the headphones enjoyed around the end of April. And…
Although the 2024 edition of Google’s I/O developer conference is only scheduled to kick off later today, the search giant has taken everyone by surprise last week to announce the two new hardware products we expected to see daylight this week. Of course, one of the two went largely unnoticed, as unlike the Pixel 8a handset, it looks pretty much identical to its 2023 predecessor.We’re talking about a rehashed Pixel Tablet with a lower price point than last year generated entirely by the lack of a charging speaker dock. In other words, the “new” Pixel Tablet dropped the exact thing…
Google and Apple released a joint press release announcing what they should have delivered a long time ago: support for unwanted tracking alerts. Apple confirmed that it’s implementing this feature in iOS 17.5, while Google is launching the capability on Android 6.0+ devices.This life-saving feature will alert users if an unknown Bluetooth tracking device is seen moving with them over time. And since the feature is being implemented on both Android and iOS, it will be able to track the unknown Bluetooth device regardless of the platform it is paired with.Whenever a user gets such an alert on their iOS…
One of the most highly regarded apps made for Google’s Pixel phones is the Recorder app. Not only can you record meetings, and classes, you can read an AI-generated summary that gives you the highlights of a meeting or a conference. Quickly record that 3 am idea you got in your sleep or that song that just came to your mind. With summary keywords, you can quickly navigate to certain parts of your recordings that you want to hear or read (via the transcript). And because the Recorder app works offline, you can use it anywhere.When you edit the transcript,…
Samsung may be icing its plans to release an affordable Fan Edition model of the venerable Galaxy Z Fold line. The launch of the tentatively named Galaxy Z Fold 6 FE has reportedly that was slated to join Samsung’s 2024 foldable phones crop, has reportedly been rescheduled, and it is not clear if it will happen at all.Instead, Samsung will be focusing on polishing the Fold 6 and Flip 6 experience and apply the cost savings and lessons learned during the development of the Fold 6 FE to them. The reason? Chinese foldable phones. Apparently, Samsung was gunning for a thinner…
All five of Sony’s fans would be absolutely thrilled to find out that the Japanese giant’s new Xperia 1 VI flagship is days away from becoming official (the date is May 17).Recent rumors claimed the phone will bring a visual change many would appreciate – a wider display with “normal” proportions, or “aspect ratio” as we (the professionals) call it.Frankly, when I first heard of this possibility, I didn’t make much of it. However, having seen the leaked, official-looking renders of the Xperia VI, I must admit… The cliche might be true. Perhaps a little change really does go a…
At the end of this month, the Galaxy S24 Ultra will be only four months old but already we’ve been hearing things about the Galaxy S25 Ultra. We’ve been hearing that the phone could feature three different configurations including 12GB RAM with 256GB of storage and 16GB RAM with 512GB and 16GB RAM with 1TB of storage. This will be the first Galaxy handset to spot 16GB of RAM since the Galaxy S21 Ultra was available with 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM in 2021.We also hear that the battery on the Galaxy S25 Ultra will remain the same…
T-Mobile got a lot of 2.5 GHz spectrum when it acquired Sprint and it also dominated FCC’s Auction 108 of the mid-band spectrum in 2022. The company now wants to shore up more of the spectrum, reports Fierce Network.T-Mobile has proposed a spectrum swap with SoniqWave Network, a startup that provides private wireless and wholesale broadband services. According to the company, it has “accumulated a portfolio of prime 2.5 GHz mid-band spectrum (Band 41) in over 30 markets across the United States.”T-Mobile has signed an agreement to swap 3.45 GHz licenses it purchased in 2021 for some of SoniqWave’s 2.5…
Another photography king has been unveiled: the Vivo X100 Ultra is now official! It has been introduced at a live event in China alongside the Vivo X100s and the Vivo X100s Pro.This article is about the mightiest of the trio – the Vivo X100 Ultra.As promised, the X100 Ultra it’s chock-full of goodies, with the focus on the camera department. You might say this is Vivo’s first camera – a camera that also doubles as a smartphone!Rear quad camera setups are the thing these days, but the Vivo X100 Ultra is confident enough to come with a triple camera setup.Some…
The day before Google I/O, Google has posted a tweet showing in action a prototype of a conversational version of its AI Gemini chatbot that uses video input instead of text. Recorded while the crew was busy getting the stage ready for tomorrow’s event, Gemini is asked, “What do you think is happening here?” Quite impressively, Gemini responds, “It looks like people are setting up for a large event, perhaps a conference or a presentation.”Gemini then asks if there is something in particular that caught the user’s eye. He responds by saying, “Yeah, those big pretty letters on screen. What…
The moment we have been waiting for is here. For the longest time, the biggest discount you could find on the iPad Air M1 was $150 and while that wasn’t a small price cut by any means, it still didn’t make the $599 tablet affordable enough for a lot of us. Now that the slate’s successor has been announced, better deals are rolling in, with the latest ones slashing $200 off its price.Walmart has knocked the price of the iPad Air M1 to $399. Amazon is offering a discount of $200 on the tablet. We have seen a discount of…
Samsung is continuing its rollout of the One UI 6.1 update, now reaching the mid-range Galaxy A54. Following its recent re-release for several flagship models, the update is now being spotted on the A54 in Korea. Identified by build numbers A546SKSU4CXDC/A546SSKC4CXDC/A546SKSU4CXD1, the update is expected to progressively make its way to other regions in the coming weeks. However, as of right now, we know that it has been spotted in Korea as shared by Android enthusiast Tech enthusiast Tarun Vats on X (via Android Authority).One UI 6.1 has already made a splash by introducing Galaxy AI to Samsung’s higher-end devices, such as the…
GPT-4 offered similar capabilities, giving users multiple ways to interact with OpenAI’s AI offerings. But it siloed them in separate models, leading to longer response times and presumably higher computing costs. GPT-4o has now merged those capabilities into a single model, which Murati called an “omnimodel.” That means faster responses and smoother transitions between tasks, she said. The result, the company’s demonstration suggests, is a conversational assistant much in the vein of Siri or Alexa but capable of fielding much more complex prompts. “We’re looking at the future of interaction between ourselves and the machines,” Murati said of the demo.…
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Apple has released iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 today. Most iPhone and iPad users have probably forgotten all about these updates. Besides delivering plenty of security upgrades to patch potentially serious iPhone and iPad vulnerabilities, the updates add some interesting new features including a notification to alert you if a Bluetooth-powered item tracker you don’t own, running on any platform, has been detected. This feature could save your life.According to the release notes included by Apple in the update, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 includes:Apple News Offline mode in Apple News+ gives you access to the…