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The race for the slimmest flagship smartphone is now on, and it seems like Apple will be taking the lead with the iPhone 17 Air, at least when it comes to thickness. A physical comparison between the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge and a dummy unit of the iPhone 17 Air shows a clear winner: Apple’s phone is much slimmer.Of course, …

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I’ve spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of …

Gear News of the Week: A New Privacy Phone Arrives, and Samsung Has a $30K 115-Inch Micro RGB TV  WIRED It has begun: a company starts assembling its smartphone in the US. Will your iPhone follow?  PhoneArena Unplugged Relaunches UP Phone under New CEO with a Powerful Privacy System and All-New Experience  WV News “They’re building it here, not hiking the price”: Unplugged’s …

With their supercharged processor and amazing cameras, the iPhone 16 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra are among the best phones you can buy right now. At least until the iPhone 17 comes along, anyway. While these elite flagships may represent the pinnacle of today’s mobile tech, you’ll have to shell out whopping amounts of money to get them. Even wallet-friendly phones like the …

Between numerous notifications, duplicate apps, bloated launchers, and settings buried five menus deep, my Android device started to feel like a junk drawer. I’d pick it up to check the time and somehow end up scrolling through three different apps before I remembered what I was doing. So, I decided to strip it back. I wanted to declutter my phone …

Joe Maring / Android Authority When you receive a call on your Android phone, you see a standard incoming call screen with that person’s name, number, and profile picture. Calling Cards let you spruce this up a bit, allowing you to select a full-screen picture and stylized text to display for each of your contacts. It’s basically Google’s version of …

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways Google will unveil the Pixel 10 series next week, making it the best time to consider which model – new or old – to purchase. Key upgrades with the new Pixel 10 series include a MagSafe-like charging capability, the Tensor G5 chip, and enhanced AI tools. The release of the newer model should further lower …

Those over 30 remember the pain: that jump scare of dialing a phone number only to be met with the piercing sounds of a fax machine answer tone — the uninvited cousin of the dial-up modem. That’s exactly what The Wonder Years star Fred Savage heard every time he tried to call Alicia Silverstone after they met filming an episode …

Back in 2005, nothing felt more high-powered and sophisticated than ending a call by snapping shut a clamshell flip phone. Now, two decades since they hit peak popularity, they’re back – with Apple rumoured to be working on its first ever flip phone. Little is known about how it will look. It could resemble Samsung’s Flip design – closer to …

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority We’ve heard that Apple is planning to shake up its iPhone lineup this year by dropping the Plus model in favor of a thinner iPhone Air — going from the least-hyped iPhone to what’s sure to be an attention grabber. Samsung, too, introduced the Galaxy S25 Edge to show off a slimmer design on the …