Oppo Find X9 Ultra is coming to India next week‎

After weeks of teasers, Oppo has finally confirmed the India launch date for its camera-focused flagship, the Find X9 Ultra. The smartphone was originally unveiled in China and select global markets on April 21. The Oppo Find X9 Ultra will debut in India on May 21, the company confirmed via a social media post. As per a recent leak, the phone could retail for around INR 1,69,999 in the country. Notably, one of its main competitors, the vivo X300 Ultra, was launched in India at a starting price tag of INR 1,59,999. The Oppo Find X9 Ultra packs a quad-rear camera setup that...

Apple won't be able to get F1 rights for the UK and Italy for at least six years‎

Starting with the 2026 season, the broadcast rights holder for Formula 1 in the US is Apple, which is offering the competition through its Apple TV+ streaming service over there. Apple hasn't officially declared that it wants to do a similar deal internationally, but it stands to reason that it might have at least looked at some of the biggest markets. Unfortunately, three of those are now out of consideration since Sky has just renewed its agreements for broadcasting F1 in the UK, Ireland, and Italy. The contract has been renewed through 2032 in Italy and through 2034 in the UK and...

Samsung's next Unpacked launch event now has a rumored date‎

Samsung's Galaxy Glasses will be unveiled this July alongside the Galaxy Z Fold8 and Galaxy Z Flip8, a new report from Korea now claims. The grand Unpacked event where all of these products will be introduced is said to be taking place in London on July 22. The Galaxy Watch9 series will also be made official on the same stage. The much-rumored Galaxy Fold Wide is also likely to be there, since Samsung may want to pre-empt the arrival of the iPhone Ultra in September with a very similar form factor. The Galaxy Glasses are designed in partnership with Gentle Monster, and are running...

Dimensity 9600 leak suggests major single-core gains and class-leading GPU performance‎

The next wave of flagship Android phones and tablets will, for the most part, use chipsets from either Qualcomm or MediaTek. We’ve already seen some details for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, and we are now getting our first bits of info for the Dimensity 9600. Tipster Digital Chat Station revealed that the upcoming flagship SoC from MediaTek will be fabricated on a 2nm process node, without confirming whether it will be TSMC’s N2P or Samsung’s SF2. Either way, the chip is expected to utilize a 2+3+3 all-big core CPU architecture with a focus on delivering top-notch single-core...

Sony Xperia 1 VIII review‎

Sony Xperia 1 VIII unveiled with larger 48MP telephoto sensor, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5‎

The new Sony Xperia 1 VIII has a new 1/1.56” sensor inside its telephoto camera – it’s four times larger than the sensor inside the Mark 7 model and it has four times the resolution too. The new model also redesigns the camera island, jumps to the latest Qualcomm chipset all while still maintaining trademark Xperia features like the expandable storage, the 3.5mm headphone jack and the two-stage shutter key. Let’s go back to the cameras – Sony changed course in a major way. The Mark 7, 6, 5 and 4 had continuous optical zoom like on a point-and-shoot camera. Even the Mark 3 could switch...

eBay rejects GameStop's takeover offer‎

eBay has rejected GameStop's offer to buy it for $56 billion, calling it "neither credible nor attractive", Bloomberg is reporting. The offer came last week, when GameStop said it would pay $125 per eBay share. Intriguingly, GameStop's market value is about $11 billion, while eBay's is $45 billion, so this is definitely a case of a small fish wanting to eat a much bigger one. The GameStop bid is half cash and half GameStop stock, and represents a 20% premium over eBay's current stock price. GameStop will have to borrow $20 billion to finance the acquisition, but when asked its CEO couldn't...

Deal: the Samsung Galaxy S25+ is 30% off right now on Amazon US‎

In our head-to-head comparison article, the Samsung Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S26+ traded blows – well, “blows” may be too strong a word considering how similarly the two performed. And as we noted in that article, the older 2025 Plus is cheaper. Right now, Amazon US has a 256GB Galaxy S25+ at $700 – that’s $300 less than when the phone launched. Meanwhile, the S26+ got a price hike and the 256GB model normally costs $1,100, though that is discounted to a more reasonable $925 at the moment. Samsung Galaxy S25+ ...

T-Mobile MVNO lets an AI clone your voice, handle some of the calls for you‎

A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) on T-Mobile's network, called REALLY, announced a new AI-based pilot project. It aims to build an AI assistant trained on your voice to handle trivial calls for you. The company's CEO says the AI clone is not meant to replace you, but to help focus on what's important. The feature is pretty straightforward. The AI trains on your voice, speaking style and communication preferences. Your AI clone will then pick up calls you don't want to handle, like reservation confirmations, sales agents, customer support, etc. Once the call is over, the AI will...