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This time, it's all about its free plan. This will now let you listen to any track you want, either by picking it from a playlist or searching for it. If this sounds weird, note that previously, you couldn't do this - you had to listen to a shuffled playlist that contained what you wanted instead. Obviously, that was in a bid to get you to pay for the Premium plan.

Gone is the circular camera island that had been a key component of the high-end OnePlus models. Now there's a square with rounded off corners and painted in black - it holds three cameras, a pair and one on its own. We don't see the flip side, but it will allegedly have a flat 6.78" 1.5K" display with a higher 165Hz refresh rate. By the way, we heard that the phone will come in three colors: Dune, Absolute Black and Mist Purple.

According to leaks, the Find X9 Pro will have a 50MP main camera (LYT-828), a 200MP telephoto (HP5) and 50MP ultra-wide (JN5). Liu says that the main camera will be the first in the industry to support "dynamic triple exposure". Additionally, all three cameras have been tuned to produce consistent results across all focal lengths and various shooting modes (photos, live photos, videos).

Booking reward travel just got easier. American Express has announced the launch of a new Amex Travel App, available to customers starting Sept. 18. As a companion to the main American Express app, the travel app is designed to make it easier for users to book both reward travel with Membership Rewards points and regular travel. it will also assist with managing existing itineraries and provide streamlined access to partner travel websites.

Once the alarm sounds, users must complete a series of interactive missions to turn it off. These tasks include a variety of challenges, such as rotating the iPhone, completing a set of push-ups, or tackling math problems, puzzles, or even language lessons. By incorporating physical and mental activities, Awake aims to help break the cycle of hitting snooze and encourage a more active start to the day.

The Doogee Note56 Plus will feature a 6.56" HD+ 90Hz display and sport two usable cameras - a 50MP primary camera (OmniVision OV50D40) on the rear and an 8MP selfie camera (Sony IMX134) on the front. Keeping the Doogee Note56 Plus up and running will be a 6,150 mAh battery, which will draw power through a USB-C port at up to 18W. Other highlights of the Doogee Note56 Plus include an NFC chip, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner.

If you've been wondering what to expect from Samsung's next flagship smartphone in terms of screen size, the answer is allegedly - a very tiny improvement. The S26 Ultra is said to boast a 6.89" panel, which the company will most likely round up to 6.9" in its marketing materials. And guess what the Galaxy S25 Ultra's screen size is? Allegedly 6.86" exactly, but Samsung is rounding that up to the exact same 6.9".

According to this source, the device has a 6.3-inch LTPO OLED screen with "1.5K" resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, and a triple rear camera setup comprising a 50 MP main camera using an OmniVision sensor, a 50 MP ultrawide, and a 50 MP telephoto camera using Samsung's ISOCELL JN5 sensor. For selfies there's a 32 MP shooter. The phone is powered by the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and sports a 7,000 mAh battery with support for 100W wired and 50W wireless charging.

With Final Cut Camera 2.0, users on the iPhone 17 Pro series gain support for ProRes RAW and genlock, while the entire iPhone 17 lineup benefits from new manual controls for the front camera. Apple has included open gate recording support in the new update, which lets users record footage using the entire camera sensor at resolutions higher than DCI 4K. This means you can record in horizontal or vertical orientation without having to turn the phone.

PlayStation is launching a new PlayStation Family app for iOS and Android to help parents manage their child's playtime on PS5 and PS4. Parents can already set parental control features directly on a console, but this app gives parents another way to set limits and keep track of what their kid is playing. "The app includes a number of new customizable features for parents to manage their children's playtime, including an activity report, more visibility into what their children are playing, and approving extra playtime requests,"

The Magic V5 is doing extremely well, sales-wise, for Honor in Europe, and one of the main selling points of this phone, aside from the fact that it folds and how thin it is, has to be its battery capacity. Honor Magic V5 At 5,820 mAh, it's much larger than a lot of non-folding phones' cells today, especially from companies that aren't Chinese, not to mention their foldables. If you're wondering just how long that battery could last you, one answer apparently is 'longer than it takes an elite speed reader to read the world's longest novel'. There's video proof, Honor filmed it:

Apple is hosting its "awe dropping" event today, which will begin at 5 PM UTC.

Apple just unveiled the iPhone 17 Pro series, and these may very well be the most exciting new iPhones in quite some time. It all starts with an impressive new redesign that centers on a move away from titanium and back towards aluminum. Apple forged a unibody from Series 7000 aluminum for the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max that is then anodized on the outside. The aluminum comes in three colors: a refined silver, a deep blue, and a new striking cosmic orange.

These come with better bass and a wider soundstage, as well as twice the ANC performance of the AirPods Pro 2 thanks to the use of new foam ear tips (in five sizes) and improved tech. In fact, Apple boasts that they have the best ANC of any in-ear wireless headphones. And you get 8 hours of music listening on one charge with ANC on, 33% more than in the AirPods Pro 2.

Has anyone here actually tried downloading apps from a third-party app store? I've only ever used the Play Store and App Store, but I've seen people mention other options. Some say you can get apps that aren't available otherwise, but I also hear stories about security issues. If you've used one, how was it for you? Did everything work fine, or did you run into problems? Curious to know what others think before I try it myself.

Back in March we first heard that Sony was busy working on its first ever 200MP sensor for smartphone cameras, one meant for the main camera and one that could actually make its way to Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, as per another rumor. Today the upcoming sensor's specs have been detailed in China by prolific leaker Digital Chat Station. Will this be the next big thing in smartphone photography? Only time will tell, but it sure does look promising on paper.

Well, just like all the other 10s, it's got a new chipset that has an even stronger focus on on-device AI. There's a bit more battery on board too, a tiny bit more. The display is now even brighter (wasn't it bright enough already?). The Android OS on board is even nicer (but that's surely coming to the older Pixels too).

The pursuit of the impossibly thin smartphone has undeniably become one of 2025's most compelling design narratives. This was not a subtle shift; the industry's pivot towards extreme slimness has been a clear and deliberate trend, a collective re-evaluation of what constitutes premium design after years focused on camera bumps and battery heft. With whispers of an iPhone "Air" variant potentially gracing our screens on September 9th,

the company's head of the Find product line. He says the Find X9 Pro will be 8.25mm thick while incorporating a battery that's bigger than its predecesso r's by "more than 1,500 mAh". So let's do the math. The Find X8 Pro comes with a 5,910 mAh battery, so that means we should probably expect its successor to pack a 7,500 mAh cell or thereabouts.