Smartphones


Everyone Who Wants A Smartphone For Chrimbo Will Get One, But In The Real World Things Are Somewhat Different

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Global handset market slips in Q3 on sliding chipset availability, says Canalys Crippling component shortages caused sm... Read more

IFixit Prises Open The IPhone 13 Pro, Claims 'any Display Replacement Knocks Out Face ID'

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Battery still swappable – rest fiddly Updated  It wasn't only eager fanbois awaiting their Apple deliveries last wee... Read more

One-size-fits-all Chargers? What A Great Idea! Of Course Apple Would Hate It

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Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it' Updated  Smartphones, tablets, and came... Read more

World To Make 1.37 Billion Smartphones In 2021 Says IDC – About One For Every Six Humans

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Apple's growth outpaces Android's, and 5G shipments are surging despite hefty prices 1.37 billion smartphones will ship... Read more

Indian Tech Market Settles Into Second Year Of Coronavirus As PC And Smartphone Sales Soar

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Lighter lockdowns meant more effective manufacturing and logistics India PC and smartphones shipments grew significantl... Read more

GOP Lawmakers Ask For Former Huawei Handset Biz Honor To Be Placed The Entity List

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Potentially putting the squeeze on already constrained supply chains Nine months after Huawei sold off smartphone subsi... Read more

The Sideloader Weeps Tonight: Unsealed Court Docs Claim Google Said 'install Friction' Would Drastically Limit' Epic's Reach

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Plus: Google 'contemplated buying some or all of Epic' A freshly unsealed filing [PDF] in the Epic smackdown between th... Read more

Vivo X60 Pro: Branding Was Plastered All Over The Euros, But Does The Phone Perform Better Than The English Team?

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We reckon it'd snatch it in extra time thanks to camera Review  As England made it way to the final of the Euro 2020 f... Read more

Samsung Confirms No New Note This Year, But Does Have A Pen For Foldables Up Its Sleeve

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Hints at new Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip models too A Samsung rep has confirmed the Korean giant won't deliver a new Note ... Read more

OPPO Captures Second Spot In Global Smartphone Market In May: Report

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Global smartphone brand OPPO and its subsidiaries, including OnePlus and realme, captured the second spot in the global ... Read more

We Clock What You're Trying To Do Here: El Reg Strokes A Claw Across The OnePlus 9 Pro

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Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on Review  OnePlus has been under fire in recent weeks over benchmark... Read more

Xiaomi Parties Like A Winner After Coming Second On World Smartphone Sales Charts

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CEO predicts ‘many vicious and fierce battles coming, bulks R&D budget by 30 percent and hires 5,000 engineers to... Read more

ZTE Axon 30 Ultra: Strong Effort From An Entity-lister, But Your Tiny Child Hands May Struggle

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What a whopper Review  Most phones are compromised in some way, which makes it all too easy to overlook the good bits.... Read more

Samsung Galaxy A52 5G: Sub-$600 Midranger Makes Premium Phones Feel Frivolous

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Biometrics could be better but workhorse otherwise does the job Review  Samsung's Galaxy A series is the company's mid... Read more

Focus On The Camera, Mobile Devs: 48MP Shooters About To Become The Sweet Spot

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5G is messing with the market and keeping less-capable cameras snapping at the heels of 108MP monsters Developers focus... Read more

Fool Me OnePlus, Shame On Me: Chinese Phone Firm Fingered For Fiddling With Performance Figures – Again

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Company caught throttling everyday apps but leaving benchmarks, selected games alone Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus h... Read more

Galaxy Quest: Yet Another Sub-£500 Phone Comes To Trouble Mobile Big Dogs In The Form Of Realme GT 5G

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Big brand flagship performance, midrange price, 3.5mm earphone port Review  Over the past five years or so, a trend ha... Read more

Treaty Of Roam Finally In Ashes: O2 Cracks, Joins Rivals, Adds Data Roaming Charges For Heavy Users In EU

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That's £3.50 per GB for anything over 25GB Updated  We didn't see this on the side of a bus. Five years to the day th... Read more

Price Of Microsoft's Surface Duo Plummets To Better Represent Middling Hardware ... But Only If You're In The US

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The Special Relationship in the form of Android foldables Microsoft's latest foray into the world of mobile phones is g... Read more

Mind The Gap(ing Mouth): London's Underground To Get Ubiquitous Mobile Phone Coverage

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That's. Just. Great Mobile phone coverage is to be extended across the whole of the London Underground – including ev... Read more