Mobile UX

Mobile UX

The Huawei Mate 80 Pro has officially made its long-awaited international debut. Malaysia is the first country outside of China to have the flagship on open sale, and it arrives with a MYR 3,999 price tag, which converts to around $1,017. That nets you the 16GB RAM and 512GB storage trim, which is available directly from Huawei's official online store as well as partnering retailers and can be had in Gold, Green, and Black colors.

Ask Maps works by allowing users to pose complex, contextual queries rather than searching for a specific place or category. 'Is there a public tennis court with lights on that I can play at tonight?' is the example Google offers. The system draws on personalisation signals, including a user's saved places and past searches, to weight its answers, so a user who has previously sought out vegan restaurants will find vegan-friendly options surfaced without having to specify.

The new update gives WhatsApp's chat bubbles a softer look by further increasing the bubbles' corner radius. The length of the bubbles is also becoming more consistent. WhatsApp's new focus on uniformity within their chats is applied to all types of messages in the app.

Amazon actually invested quite a bit in upgrading this new Ultra tier. It now comes with the option to watch 4K/UHD streams with optional Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. The concurrent device limit has been raised to five devices, and the offline download capacity has been raised to 100 items.

The source hints at a 7.6-inch internal display, probably in a 4:3 aspect ratio that will resemble a tablet when unfolded and facilitate easier multitasking, document work and the like. The obvious drawback is an extra-wide form factor while folded, making it potentially difficult to handle with one hand.

Samsung has finally opened the One UI 8.5 beta program to Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 users in India and South Korea. Until now, the beta update had been limited to the Galaxy S25 series.

The two cells, EB-BF776 and EB-BF777, have rated capacities of 1,150mAh and 3,024mAh, respectively. This adds up to 4,174mAh. Last year's Galaxy Z Flip7 had exactly the same rated capacity, though the split was slightly different - 1,189mAh and 2,985mAh.

The spammers are spoofing our email address - this means they are falsely setting GSMArena.com as the sender of the email. Specifically, it looks like the email came from tpjdlgcj@gsmarena.com, but that's not an active account on our server (that random jumble of letters is clearly randomly generated). Instead the emails are coming from a server owned by Microsoft (52.103.140.27) and one owned by Oracle (92.5.13.127), neither of which is part of our infrastructure.

The iQOO Z11x 5G succeeds last year's Z10x 5G and brings an upgraded chipset along with a larger battery and other improvements. The handset offers a 6.76-inch LCD panel that offers a Full-HD+ resolution, up to 1,200 nits in high brightness mode, and a refresh rate of 120Hz.

The integration of 5G, AI-enabled productivity features, and smart note-taking capabilities is repositioning tablets beyond media consumption toward everyday productivity. As notebook prices rise, detachable tablets in particular are emerging as a practical, cost-effective alternative for students and young professionals.

iQOO is refining its smartphone portfolio strategy due to rising component costs. Instead of launching a Neo series device in 2026, the company will be focussing on its flagship products.

The Xiaomi 18 Pro Max will have a 6.9-inch flat LIPO OLED screen with extremely narrow symmetrical bezels, which will be even narrower than the ones the 17 Pro Max had. The display panel will go down to 1-nit brightness in ultra low light, and will support the BT.2020 color space.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+ has a 12.4" display, a 120Hz OLED. It features a high-end (though now two generations old) Dimensity 9300+ chipset, expandable storage and a 10,090mAh battery. This one has full DeX support, including over USB-C 3.2 video out.

Oppo touts the Find N6's zero-feel crease technology, and it's a very apt name. The crease isn't gone - that's not currently possible. But it is smaller than on any other foldable, and more importantly, it feels like there's hardly any crease when you run your finger over the inner screen's surface.

The Xiaomi Pad 8 is priced at INR 33,999 ($370) for the 8GB/128GB variant, while the 12GB/256GB model costs INR 36,999 ($400). The tablet will be offered in Graphite Gray and Titanium Blue color options, with sales set to begin on March 17.

Shazam is now available within ChatGPT, if you don't want to launch the music discovery app on your phone for, well, reasons. You will have to link the Shazam app with the chatbot first from its Apps page, after which you can summon it in-chat to identify whatever song is playing.

The company has developed 16 gigabit LPDDR6 chips that will be used in smartphones and tablets with on-device AI. Bandwidth-hungry AI tasks will see a 33% speed-up in data processing compared to LPDDR5X. The new RAM has a base operating speed of 10.7Gbps.

25% of all new iPhones are now made in India. An estimated 55 million iPhones were manufactured in India last year, up from 36 million in 2024. India's rise as a top iPhone manufacturing hub began back in 2017 with the iPhone SE, with the iPhone 6s joining it a year later.