Deal: get 20% off the Ultrahuman Ring Air with our exclusive code‎

The Ultrahuman Ring Air impressed us in our review – it tracks heart rate (and variability), blood oxygen and sleep, it does exercise tracking too. The solid hardware is paired with a capable app that doesn’t require a subscription, unlike some other smart rings. And the ring has FDA approval for Atrial Fibrillation detection (aka arrhythmia). Together with Ultrahuman, we can offer you an exclusive 20% discount on the Ring Air using the code GSM20 – follow this link to ultrahuman.com to claim the discount (it works for all markets where the ring is available). The discount is valid...

Oppo Find X8 Pro review‎

Oppo Find X8 and X8 Pro global rollout officially begins‎

Oppo unveiled the Find X8 and Find X8 Pro last month in China, and today, the phones officially arrived on the international stage at a fancy event in Indonesia. They will be available for purchase on November 23. The phones have a Dimensity 9400 chipset and super bright screens, rated at 1,600 nits peak global brightness. The Find X8 series also has a versatile camera system across the portfolio. The vanilla X8 features a 50 MP triple-prism telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom, while the X8 Pro includes a second periscope lens with 6x zoom. Oppo Find X8 costs IDR 13,999,000...

Facebook Messenger gets HD video calls and AI backgrounds‎

Today Meta has announced a bunch of improvements for its Facebook Messenger. The app (finally) gets HD video calls, as well as background noise suppression and voice isolation "to help you make clearer, higher-quality calls" - a desperately needed feature in our book. The company promises that calls on Messenger will "feel more than ever like being in a room together". HD will be enabled by default for calls made via Wi-Fi, and you can manually turn it on for mobile data calls. Background noise suppression and voice isolation can both be enabled via call settings. You can also leave...

More Android phones will let you copy data from another device post-setup next year‎

Google's Pixel 9 family came with one unique feature in the Android world - the ability to copy data from another device at any point, even past the initial setup. This will finally make it to other Android devices in 2025, Google has announced today. It will be part of a suite of improvements that Google is brining to the Android Switch experience. Google says this will allow you to "check out your new phone first and transfer your data later", so you can "quickly complete your initial setup and get your data when you're ready". Whenever you do feel like you're ready, you can...

Watch the Oppo Find X8 series and ColorOS 15's global debut live‎

Oppo unveiled the Find X8 and Find X8 Pro last month in China, which will make their global debut at an event in Bali, Indonesia today, alongside ColorOS 15. The event will begin on at 5 AM UTC, and you can follow it live with us by tuning to the stream below. The Oppo Find X8 and Find X8 Pro are powered by the Dimensity 9400 SoC. However, the Find X8 comes with a 6.59" display, a 5,630 mAh battery, and three 50MP rear cameras, while the Oppo Find X8 Pro features a 6.78" screen, sports four 50MP rear cameras (has an additional periscope telephoto) and packs a 5,910 mAh battery. You can...

WhatsApp will let you mention group chats in status updates‎

WhatsApp is currently testing a new feature that will let you mention group chats in status updates. This is now live in the latest beta version of the app found in the Google Play Store for Android. This comes after WhatsApp previously started testing allowing you to mention contacts in status updates, so mentioning group chats can be seen as an expansion of that feature. When a contact is mentioned, they receive a notification and a message in your chat with them. With the ability to mention group chats in a status update, you will be able to notify entire groups in one step,...

Google reportedly cancels Pixel Tablet 3‎

Android tablets haven't seen anywhere near as much success as Apple's iPads, and Google's wares are included in that assessment. The company gave up on tablets in 2019 before it teased the Pixel Tablet in 2022 and then released it last year, and now it looks like it's ready to give up on the form factor yet again. According to a new report supposedly coming from "multiple industry sources close to the project", Google has decided to cancel the development of the Pixel Tablet 3, codenamed internally as Kiyomi. The decision was apparently made last week, which is when all of the teams...