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Google and Motorola are still the only Android brands shipping phones with Qi2 magnets inside the chassis. Samsung’s Galaxy S26 and Z Fold 8 are labeled Qi2 Ready, which means a magnetic case is required, and on the S26 the Hall sensor ties faster wireless charging to having one fitted. Here is who has what, and what the S27 leaks suggest.

Samsung’s One UI 9 Watch beta has now reached the Galaxy Watch 8, Watch 7 and Watch 6 lines in about two weeks. Here is what the Wear OS 7 update adds and how to enroll.

Samsung raised US list prices across the Galaxy S26 line on October 1, roughly seven months after the phones went on sale, with the 1TB Ultra jumping $200. South Korea got the same increase on the same day. Nothing about the hardware changed, and the widely reported Galaxy S27 price leak turns out to describe today’s numbers rather than next year’s.

Leaker Ice Universe says the Galaxy S27 Ultra will ship with three rear cameras instead of four, with the 3x telephoto being the one that goes. Run the numbers on light gathering and depth of field and the cut looks far more defensible than the spec sheet suggests. The part worth worrying about is the camera Samsung is keeping.

A supply chain report says Samsung will embed PUF-based authentication chips in around 50 million Galaxy A batteries starting in 2027. The stated reasons are counterfeit safety and smarter recycling. The unstated consequence is that a phone can now tell whether the battery inside it is genuine, and 2027 is the same year EU rules force those batteries to be user replaceable.

Apple and Samsung both teased blood glucose features in September 2026, but neither shipped one. Here is what Apple Watch, Galaxy Watch, and Garmin actually show today, and why the FDA still says no smartwatch can measure glucose on its own.

A leak of the full Galaxy S27 memory and storage lineup shows every model matching its Galaxy S26 equivalent, with the 128GB tier removed entirely. The cause is the memory shortage driven by AI data centers, which now absorb an estimated 70 percent of global output. The one genuine upgrade is LPDDR6 and UFS 5.1, and it may be limited to the top tiers.

One UI 9 landed on the Galaxy S26 in mid September and went global this week. The S25 and the Z Fold 7 are next on September 28, older flagships follow in October, and the A series is still in beta. Here is the full schedule and what actually changed.

watchOS 27 just cut off five older Apple Watch models, and Google’s Pixel Watch 2 and Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 line are aging out of updates around the same time. Here’s who is affected and what to actually do about it.

A 5 ATM rating is the floor, not the finish line. Here are the best smartwatches for swimming in 2026 for pool laps, open water tracking, and the accuracy details that actually decide which one is worth buying.