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Phone coverage for people who actually buy phones. New iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy launches, chipsets, battery life, carrier changes and the quiet software updates that change how your handset behaves. Comparisons stay practical: what it costs, what it does better than last year, and when the upgrade is worth skipping. Fixes for the phone you already own live in How-To Guides, and anything on your wrist in Smartwatch.
Why people are leaving AVG and which antivirus alternatives, from Microsoft Defender to Bitdefender and ESET, make sense for US users in 2025.
European listings put the Galaxy A17 4G at 289.90 euros and the A17 5G at 319.90 euros with 8 GB and 256 GB. Here is the full spec comparison and whether 5G is worth the extra thirty euros.
Huawei announced the Mate XT 2 Ultimate Design on September 7, a second-generation tri-fold that folds inward instead of wrapping around itself. It arrives five months after Samsung quietly stopped selling the tri-fold everyone said was the future.
Apple takes the wraps off its first folding iPhone on September 9, and the rumor pile has spent months building a list of what the phone will not have. Face ID, a telephoto lens, mmWave 5G and the Action button are all expected to be missing from a phone that starts around $2,000.
Motorola brought a Swarovski encrusted Razr to IFA 2026 and it took most of the attention. The more interesting announcement was the Edge 70 Plus, a mid-range phone with bypass charging, a battery feature that most flagships still bury inside a gaming menu.
The Xiaomi 18 Fold launches September 7 with a processor Xiaomi designed and memory made by a Chinese supplier. It is the first phone in the world to ship LPDDR6, and in a year when memory prices are reshaping every spec sheet, owning both pieces is worth more than any benchmark score.
The Poco F9 Ultra launched with the same Snapdragon as its predecessor, and Poco said on the record why: memory prices. It is the first time an Android brand has tied the DRAM shortage to a specific product decision, and it will not be the last phone this year built around the same math.
Oukitel brought a rugged phone with a 16,000mAh battery to IFA 2026, roughly triple what an iPhone 17 Pro Max carries, in a body 16.4mm thick. The battery gets the headline, but the thermal camera and night vision sensor are what make it worth understanding.
Google Messages now lets you give every conversation its own color and wallpaper. Unlike Apple’s version, the theme you pick stays on your phone and never changes what the other person sees. Here is how to set one up and why the option may be missing.
The Enough Phone targets a 5.3-inch screen, a battery you can swap by hand, and a Kickstarter campaign that needs 20,000 backers. It arrives four months before an EU rule that was supposed to make swappable batteries normal, and that rule has a loophole.