Author: Marcus Bennett
Marcus Bennett is GeekBlog's Android expert, covering everything from Google's Pixel line and Samsung Galaxy flagships to OnePlus, Nothing, Xiaomi and the broader Android ecosystem. He follows each Android OS release, One UI and Pixel Feature Drop, custom ROMs and the foldable wave, translating spec sheets and beta builds into hands-on guidance for readers choosing their next Android phone, tablet or wearable.
Chinese flagships are shipping 7,000mAh and larger silicon carbon batteries while Apple, Samsung, and Google stay near 5,000mAh. The split comes down to one tradeoff: capacity now against cycle life later, and both sides have a real argument.
Brave 1.94 on desktop adds Email Aliases, disposable addresses you can generate inside any signup form. Five are free, mobile is coming, and a paid tier is planned. Here is what it actually fixes and what it does not.
Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage shirt genuinely stops YOLO object detectors from registering that a person is there. The pattern is not decoration, it is math. Here is what it beats, and the much longer list of what it does not.
Sponsored listings are now live in Apple Maps across the US and Canada, and there is no toggle to remove them. The Personalized Ads switch in Settings does nothing here, and the one setting that does work breaks the app.
Qualcomm has confirmed two Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips for September 22, including the first phone CPU to reach 5GHz. The split is not generosity, it is a response to 2nm wafer costs and a memory crisis, and it changes what the word flagship means on an Android spec sheet.
WhatsApp replaced its six digit two-step verification PIN with a full alphanumeric password, opened up multiple passkeys per account, and started telling Android users who is calling. Here is what each change actually protects you from.
Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro and its first foldable, the iPhone Ultra, at a September 9 keynote. Pre-orders are reported to shift to Saturday the 12th because Apple avoids September 11. Here is every date, every product, and what is still uncertain.
After the FBI and NSA disrupted a Russian GRU network of hijacked home routers, everyone was told to reboot. A restart genuinely helps, but the specific attack in that advisory is one a reboot does not touch. Here is the difference.
Global smartphone shipments are on track to fall close to 14 percent in 2026, the sharpest drop ever recorded. Manufacturers are absorbing the memory crisis by quietly cutting RAM, storage and chipsets instead of raising prices further. Here is what changed and how to spot it.
Mattel’s UNO Championship Series ends in a Twitch streamed final in Los Angeles on November 11 with $50,000 on the line, and the qualifying route that costs nothing runs through the free mobile app. Here are the dates, the routes and the official rules most players get wrong.