I am still in awe that we have foldable screens. We’re living the future, and Samsung is one of the market leaders in this sector. Its hottest ones right now are the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. They are both on sale right now, and they come with free storage upgrades!
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When it comes to foldables, the hinge is one of the most important parts of the device. How the hinge is designed can dictate how the rest of the smartphone is made. For the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, Google decided to change the design of the hinge. The tech giant has now explained how the new hinge benefited the Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s development.
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If the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are the future of wearable tech, that future’s going to be hard to fix. The teardown specialists at iFixit have taken apart Meta’s new $800 augmented reality specs and found cutting-edge optical engineering, but not much thought for repairability.
According to iFixit’s teardown, every component of the glasses is sealed tight, with the entire frame glued and no easy way to replace the most obvious wear-out part: the battery. The teardown revealed a 960mWh battery, but the process of reaching it required specialist tools and a dose of luck to avoid damaging the delicate ribbon cable underneath. iFixit did say that “battery repair isn’t totally impossible here, provided you can get your hands on a replacement battery (which Meta hasn’t yet made available).”
From low-cost Pixel phone deals to aggressively priced annual promos, US Mobile has had a good year when it comes to offering its customers solid deals. Now it’s offering one of its most impressive deals to date. Simply put, if you buy an annual Unlimited Premium or Unlimited Starter plan, you’ll receive two additional lines for a year at no cost. Depending on the plan, this works out to around $11 or even less a month per line.
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It’s well known that Samsung has been busy working on an XR headset known as Project Moohan. It’s believed that the device will ultimately be branded as Galaxy XR. While the device has been shown off officially several times throughout the year, there’s still plenty that remains unknown about the headgear. But a massive leak has helped to fill in many of those gaps.
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YouTube policy enforcement isn’t great, to put things mildly, and the platform has a reputation for often being unnecessarily difficult for creators, exposing them to spurious copyright claims and the like. But for all the ways YouTube struggles there, we’ve had to give Google credit for the steps it’s taken to silence some of the worst people you’ll find both on- and offline, spreading politically motivated lies and doing real harm through their messaging. And now, in all its wisdom, it’s letting them back.
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This week has already been an exciting — if not a little overwhelming — one for fans of deals on their favorite tech, with tons of October Prime Day sales over at Amazon keeping us busy. While that formally wrapped up yesterday, there are still plenty of fantastic deals left to be found, and not just on Amazon.
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Google’s still engaged in a years-long project to replace the legacy Google Assistant with its newer Gemini AI assistant across its entire ecosystem. It looks like Google Maps navigation is next in line for that treatment.
Experimenting with version 25.41.03.815390258 beta of the Google Maps app, we were able to activate a new Gemini integration. When enabled, this integration sees Gemini respond when you tap the microphone icon in the top right corner of the navigation interface, rather than the the Google Assistant. This is the second in-progress Google Maps/Gemini integration we’ve spotted this week.
WhatsApp briefly stopped working on Wear OS smartwatches this week, with many users suddenly finding the app unusable. Opening it brought up a message stating that the version had become “obsolete” and needed updating, despite the users believing that the latest version was already installed. Thankfully, it appears that the issue may have now been resolved.
Motorola has already confirmed that it is joining the thin-and-light-phone club alongside the likes of Samsung, Apple, and Tecno. After all, Motorola’s flagship lineup already has an Edge over the others. The slim phone, likely called the Edge 70 globally, is set to arrive in China first as the Edge 70 Air. And while its decently sized battery and fast charging speeds have already been confirmed officially, a recent leak has spilled the beans on the rest of the specifications.
The Edge 70 has already been listed for sale by the Polish e-commerce website X-Kom (via GSMArena). The listing reveals the design of the Edge 70, along with different color options and a comprehensive list of specifications. It also echoes the officially revealed battery capacity and charging speeds.
