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I’ll admit it upfront: I’m a bit of a badge snob. Years of testing everything from Bentleys and Aston Martins to Breitlings will do that to you. So when Jaecoo offered me a day with its new flagship car, the Jaecoo 8 SHS-P, I wasn’t expecting to come away impressed… boy, was I wrong. I spent the day threading it through the lanes around West Wycombe, to fully test it out. Here’s how I got on. The hybrid system is the star of the show Jaecoo calls it the Super Hybrid System, and while that does sound like a gimmicky…
Smartphones that transform into sizeable tablets used to be pure sci-fi… but now bendable screens are our tech reality. Besides the obvious wow factor, these book-style foldables offer innovative flexibility that could change the way you use your mobile – while also packing in hardware to rival the best phones with more traditional form factors. Think folding phones are just a hinged gimmick? Think again. The best foldable phones are about as versatile as handsets get, even if they almost exclusively come at prices that make regular flagships look cheap. We’ve tested them all to work out which is best,…
Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating in low-Earth orbit to light up its Starlink internet competitor. With last night’s launch, Amazon Leo has 396 satellites deployed, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes,” according to Chris Weber, VP heading up business and product for Amazon Leo. That puts the company on track to meet its “mid-2026” target for commercial availability. Just don’t expect miracles on day one.SpaceX went live with its “Better than nothing beta” back in 2020 when it had almost 900 satellites operating in low-Earth orbit. It initially served a narrow band of…
Trying to work out who owes what after a group dinner could soon become a lot less painful. Apple is preparing a Wallet feature for iOS 27 that will let iPhone users split a bill, simply by taking a photo of a receipt. The tool will be built into Apple Wallet and Apple Cash, letting iPhone users photograph receipts and automatically generate payment requests. It was announced as part of Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote and will arrive later this year as part of iOS 27. The feature reportedly goes beyond simply dividing the total cost equally, and users will reportedly…
That’s it then. Game over for game discs. Sony has just confirmed it’s going to stop making physical games media from 2028. Apparently player habits have shifted enough that discs just don’t make sense anymore, so the firm is calling time on production. Microsoft is rumoured to be following suit with the next-gen Xbox. Sony’s announcement was a timely one, with Rockstar having only just revealed Grand Theft Auto 6 ‘boxed copies’ would just contain a download code. It’s also just one week removed from Sony mass-deleting hundreds of digital movies from gamers’ consoles, reminding us that anything you can’t…
Introduction Domestic rivals might regularly skip Europe, due to foldable phones being more of a niche proposition to Western audiences than Chinese ones, but Honor has been happily bringing the fight to Samsung for five generations now. That makes the Magic V6 the latest in a string of book-style handsets that’ve gotten slimmer and slicker with each new iteration. This year’s effort has an even bigger battery than the retiring Honor Magic V5, along with class-leading resistance ratings and a new CPU generation. Software that’s better suited to multitasking and a legitimate claim to being the World’s Thinnest Foldable should…
Apple is working on a “revamped” version of its entry-level MacBook Pro that it could launch as soon as the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company is also testing four new iPad Pros that are set to launch in the spring with a focus on “internal improvements.”The updated MacBook Pro, which will keep the 14-inch screen size, will have a design that’s “in line” with what Apple is planning for the touch screen MacBooks it also has in the works, Bloomberg says. Those new touch screen laptops are set to be released between “the end of this year…
The device was “slimmer than an iPhone,” and they were told it would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, according to the WSJ. It would also reportedly use its own AI-enabled operating system with features powered by the SpaceX-owned xAI.Last week, the Financial Times reported that SpaceX chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell told investors that the company is considering launching a mobile service in the US that would connect to its Starlink satellite network. Meanwhile, some analysts speculate SpaceX could acquire T-Mobile. Starlink is currently SpaceX’s only profitable business.Musk has brushed off the idea of creating a phone in the…
Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a way to digitise your physical Xbox games collection, as the era of disc-based games appears to be coming to an unceremonious end. The Verge reports Xbox employees have begun testing the new feature, which would make it more convenient to preserve the physical games in forthcoming era where games consoles will not carry discs at all. Indeed, it seems this is more evidence that the next-generation Project Helix console will be digital only too. Windows Central‘s sources claim the disc drive is going the way of the dodo. Today’s report from The Verge…
Apple’s Find My Email security feature – which is designed to prevent marketers, trackers, and nefarious parties from getting hold of your real email address when signing up for apps and services on iPhone, Mac and more – isn’t really doing its job properly, according to a security researcher. According to Tyler Murphy, he has been able to reveal the real email address through the generated proxy iCloud email address used as part of the feature. That kind of undermines the feature somewhat, right? Murphy says he reported the issue to Apple over a year ago. However, he has now…
Sony has surprisingly announced it will cease the production physical discs for PlayStation games, starting with new games launching from January 2028. Sony says that the policy only applies to new games launching on PlayStation consoles from 2028 onwards. From then on, new games will only be available digitally from the PlayStation Store and from retailers selling digital codes. PlayStation adds that games being released in physical formats before that date will not be affected. It appears, but isn’t explicit, that discs will continue to be made for games arriving before January 28. In a blog post today, PlayStation claimed…
Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections.Xbox employees recently started testing this new feature, after references to “enable Disc2Digital” appeared in the Xbox PC app code in May. I’m told that Microsoft’s disc-to-digital feature will work on Xbox One and Xbox Series X discs only, and not those for the Xbox 360 or original…