Sony Xperia 10 VI in for review

This is the Xperia 10 VI, Sony's annual midranger, and on the surface, not much has changed. It follows the blueprint of its predecessor almost to the letter. A mid-sized phone with great battery life, solid multimedia credentials, and the Sony experience for Sony faithful.

The Xperia 10 VI is environmentally conscious, which is to say that it ships in a recycled box without any plastic inside, but also sadly no accessories - hope you have a charger and USB cable lying around. Over 50% of the phone's own plastics are recycled too!

The new phone has lost the dedicated 54mm zoom...


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Google announces new features for Circle to Search and Gemini on Android

At its I/O conference today, Google has unveiled a new feature for Circle to Search. It can now help students with homework. When a student circles a prompt they're stuck on, they will receive step by step instructions to solve "a range of physics and math word problems without leaving their digital info sheet or syllabus".

And "later this year" Circle to Search will be able to help solve more complex problems involving symbolic formulas, diagrams, and graphs. This is all made possible by Google's new LearnLM, an effort to enhance its products and models for...


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Sony Xperia 1 VI leaks in full, all specs detailed

We are now only a few hours away from the official unveiling of Sony's Xperia 1 VI, its all-out flagship for this year, and as sometimes happens in these cases, a new leak has preempted basically all of Sony's event.

This leak fully details all of the phone's specs, most of which we've heard of before, and that's paired with some leaked images that seem to come from an internal source at the company - in fact, we wouldn't be surprised if some of these slides will be used at the presentation itself.

So let's dive in. The Xperia 1 VI will drop the 4K resolution screen, as has been...


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Poco F6 confirmed to feature Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

The Poco F6 is officially launching on May 23 but the brand just confirmed it will launch with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset at an event in India today. This would make the F6 the first SD 8s Gen phone in India.

Poco F6 will be the first Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 phone in India

Poco F6 features a 50MP main camera with OIS and looks to be identical in design to the Redmi Turbo 3 which launched in China back in April. That device features a 6.67" OLED screen (1220p resolution and 120Hz), 50MP main cam (LYT-600) + 8MP ultrawide lens, and a 5,000 mAh battery with 90W...


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Google shows off Gemini's conversational skills ahead of I/O

2001: A Space Odyssey is over 50 years old now yet its talking AI, HAL 9000, remains iconic. However, the reality of talking AIs has been pretty disappointing – Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant are useful, but they rarely feel smart. That is changing and changing fast.

Google is setting the stage (literally) for its annual I/O conference (you can watch the livestream here, it starts at 17:00 UTC) and shared a teaser of what’s to come – its Gemini AI has learned new tricks.

It’s a “multi-modal” AI, meaning that it can seamlessly incorporate text, audio and imagery. This allows it to run on...


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GPT-4o released with improved text, audio and vision capabilities

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is OpenAI’s latest multimodal large language model (LLM) and it brings major advancements in text, voice, and image content generation to offer more natural interaction between users and AI.

OpenAI claims its new AI model can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds and it is significantly faster in text response in non-English prompts with support for over 50 languages. You can also interrupt the model with new questions or clarifications while it is talking.

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Motorola Razr 50 Ultra / Razr+ 2024 specs leak

Motorola will soon unveil the next-generation of its high-end foldable smartphone. This will be called Razr 50 Ultra across the world, and Razr+ 2024 in the US. Following a price leak for the EU last week, today the phone's full specs have been leaked by a usually reliable source, so let's get into them.

The Razr 50 Ultra / Razr+ 2024 is said to sport a 6.9-inch 1080x2640 pOLED inner folding screen, a 3.6-inch cover display, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC at the helm, 12GB of RAM, and a minimum of 256GB of storage - though there will be a 512GB option too.

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vivo Watch 3 ECG goes official with unchanged design

vivo had a big day today, unveiling its all-out camera flagship for 2024, the X100 Ultra, alongside the X100s and X100s Pro. But that wasn't all - the company also officially introduced the vivo Watch 3 ECG.

As the name implies, this is a simple update to the original Watch 3, which made its debut in November of last year. So think of the vivo Watch 3 ECG as a Watch 3 with added ECG support, since that's what it is.

The new watch will be priced at CNY 1,699 (approximately $234 or €217). However, if you buy one alongside an X series phone, you'll only pay CNY 1,499 ($207 or €191) for...


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vivo X100s and X100s Pro arrive with Dimensity 9300+, X100s is thinner and with a flat display

While the vivo X100 Ultra stole the spotlight with its 200MP periscope, the company also unveiled mid-season refreshes for the X100 vanilla and Pro models. The two new models now wear an “s” tag in their name and feature the new Dimensity 9300+ chipset.

The original X100 series launched with the original 9300 chip. The plus model boosts the prime Cortex-X4 core to 3.4GHz (up from 3.25GHz) and improves the APU performance by 10% on AI tasks, however, the ARM Immortalis-G720 remains the same.

vivo X100s and X100s Pro with the new Dimensity 9300+

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra to have one less camera than its predecessor

We're many, many months away from the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, and yet here's a new rumor about it. According to a tipster over on X, the S25 Ultra will come with three rear cameras, not four like its predecessor.

The one that will be dropped is allegedly the 10 MP 3x optical zoom telephoto. As you may have expected, Samsung will instead aim to convince us that the main camera on the S25 Ultra is able to take 3x zoom shots as well, if not better than a dedicated unit would have.

For this, the main camera will apparently receive improved image processing. Speaking of...


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Realme announces launch date of GT 6T

Realme promised the GT 6T will be India's first Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 smartphone, and now we have an official launch date. The company revealed the smartphone will arrive next Wednesday, May 22 at 12 noon IST.

The official info came alongside the first image of the phone, revealing the design and a 50 MP camera we've seen on the Realme GT Neo6 SE – a phone launched in China with the same Qualcomm chipset. There is a reasonable suspicion then that the two are actually the same device.

Realme said the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chipset can score over 1.5 million on AnTuTu and even claimed it...


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Top 10 trending phones of week 19

Samsung Galaxy A55 scored yet another win in our chart this week, topping it for the second week in a row. The newly unveiled Google Pixel 8a came in second, while the Galaxy S24 Ultra completed the podium.

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The Redmi Note 13 Pro is down to fourth, while the yet-to-be-announced vivo X100 Ultra took the fifth spot.

The Xiaomi-made pair of Poco F6 Pro and Redmi Note 13 follows as the Galaxy A15 captured eight position.

The Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max retained its ninth position this week, while the Huawei Pura 70 Ultra rounds up this installment of the...


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Pixel 8a, OLED iPad Pros, M4 iPad Airs official, Week 19 in review

Week 19 is over, let's recap the top stories of the past seven days.

Google unveiled the Pixel 8a with a fresh new Aloe color. It's a phone with less squared-off edges and more rounded corners. It's IP67-rated and packs Gorilla Glass 3 upfront. It covers a 6.1-inch 1080p display with a 120Hz refresh rate. You get a 64MP f/1.89 main camera, and a 13MP f/2.2 ultrawide, and a 13MP f/2.2 selfie camera. Rounding up the specs is a Tensor G3 with 8GB of RAM and a 4,492mAh battery.

The Pixel 8a is priced at $499 / €549 / INR 52,999 for the 128GB model and $559 / €609 / INR 59,999 for the...


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Deals: Samsung Galaxy A55 and A35 prices fall even further

If the Samsung Galaxy S24 phones are too pricey, the A-series is the one to look at. Two weeks ago the Galaxy A55 was £440 for the 8/128GB model, the A35 was £340 for a 6/128GB phone, now they are £50-£80 cheaper. To be fair, the old offer included a free pair of Galaxy Buds FE, but not everyone needs new TWS buds.

The Samsung Galaxy A55 is a fairly premium device with an aluminum frame and dual Gorilla Glass (Victus+ on the front). The Exynos 1480 is efficient and powerful enough to drive the 6.6” FHD+ 120Hz OLED display. The A-phones have microSD slots for easy storage expansion, unlike...


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Lenovo and Motorola get a sales ban in Germany

After a court ruling, Lenovo and its subsidiary Motorola are facing a ban in Germany. The legal dispute is between Lenovo and the US-based InterDigital over a patent infringement regarding WWAN modules. These modules enable wireless mobile connection in smartphones and other portable devices.

As a result, all devices supporting GSM, UMTS, LTE and 5G connectivity will not be allowed on the German market. This includes some Lenovo mobile devices and Motorola smartphones, including the most recent Edge 50 lineup.

The court decided that Lenovo utilizes technology InterDigital has a...


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