The Pixel 8a arrived a few months after its bigger siblings, offering mostly the same package at a lower official price point. But is it worth considering the Pixel 8a? We tested its performance, camera, battery life, and more to find the answer.
Be still, my beating heart. Xiaomi has offered a heart rate monitoring function on its smartphones since MIUI 13 (review) was released. Under HyperOS, this function is still available and lets you measure your BPM via your Xiaomi smartphone’s fingerprint reader. How does it work? Why does it exist? I will explain all of it in this tutorial.
Apart from the eagerly anticipated Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 foldable phones, Samsung was rumored to be working on the Galaxy S24 FE, which will be the successor to the Galaxy S23 FE (review). Now, a new finding has added credibility to the existence of the Android smartphone, even narrowing down the launch window.
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Android 14 offers a range of shortcuts to enhance your smartphone’s home screen, allowing you to quickly open a WhatsApp chat, call a specific contact, or create a TikTok story. This comprehensive tutorial will guide you on how to create these shortcuts and highlight the best Android shortcuts and widgets to add.
Sony has officially announced the Xperia 1 VI and Xperia 10 VI today, with little surprises left after the two devices were leaked extensively before. Both Mark VIs bring vital changes, including faster Snapdragon processors, upgraded multimedia capabilities ranging from camera to audio, and updated builds.
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC was confirmed to be unveiled this fall and is expected to power many high-end Android smartphones arriving later this year and in 2025, including the Samsung Galaxy S25. Based on the announcement, the flagship chip’s specifications continue to surface, with the latest one hinting at a new architecture and faster clock speeds for the CPU and GPU.
Samsung has been rumored to introduce two iterations of the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 6, which was touted to include a new entry-level device that could be dubbed as Galaxy Z Fold 6 FE and a new ultra-premium foldable model. As we progress towards the supposed Unpacked event in July, the chances of the cheaper butterfly foldable happening has gotten slimmer.
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Xiaomi may have smartphones with 16 GB of RAM in the market such as the Xiaomi 14 Ultra (review), but like money, there is always a need for more. It is a well-known fact that more RAM means a more powerful smartphone, isn’t it? No, it doesn’t. However, if you do not have 16 GB RAM on your Xiaomi, Redmi, or Poco smartphone but want more, HyperOS has a trick up its sleeve to increase your RAM count. I’ll show you how this magic happens in this tutorial.
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Following the launch of new iPads, the M1 iPad Air (review) is now significantly discounted across several retailers. For example, the base model of the Apple tablet is listed for $399 on Amazon, which is $200 (33 percent) lower than the original launch price of the device.
OpenAI announced ChatGPT-4o during its spring event on Monday. It’s the company’s brand-new multimodal AI model that supports ‘text, vision, and audio’ capabilities for input and output. The model and its features have started to roll out to free and paid ChatGPT versions, while voice and video are set to arrive in the ‘coming weeks.’