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It’s a cliché of Apple’s iPhone launch cycle that the latest Phones are ‘the best ever’ but they don’t always take a large enough step forward. As you’ll be pleased to hear, this year’s Pro lineup does take a large step in the right direction. In terms of performance and versatility, this phone sits head and shoulders above anything else in Apple’s range – the standard iPhone 17 Pro comes close, but there are some appealing facets that make going Pro Max something of The Pro series still carries a price premium over the iPhone Air ($100/£100 more), marking the…
After the best budget camera phone to capture stunning photos without breaking the bank? We don’t blame you. With advancements in camera phone tech, you no longer need to spend a fortune to get a capable shooter. Whether you’re an aspiring photographer or simply want to upgrade your phone photography game, our hand-picked selection of affordable options below will have you snapping perfect portraits and laudable landscape shots in no time. With that said, here’s our guide to the best budget camera phones that all cost below $500/£500. Why you can trust Stuff: Our team of experts rigorously test each…
Google introduced support for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless protocol with the Pixel 6 Pro in 2021. But if you’ve been struggling to get your Pixel phone to precisely locate one of the few Android-compatible trackers that support UWB, it’s because that feature is only enabled on the Pro models of the Pixel 8 and above, Google confirmed to Android Authority.Google didn’t explain why UWB precise tracking isn’t enabled on the older Pixel 6 Pro or Pixel 7 Pro, despite both of those models having the necessary hardware. The Verge reached out to Google for an explanation and will update this…
I love the Echo Dot Max. It’s an excellent speaker, a good listener, and comes in purple — which is just fun. It’s got new, easier-to-use controls and more smart home sensors and radios than earlier models. It’s also one of the first devices designed for Alexa Plus. And while the AI-powered assistant isn’t mandatory (and is only available in the US), its presence is something of a letdown for an otherwise superior speaker.Despite the name, the Dot Max isn’t a replacement for the Echo Dot, which is sticking around; it’s a successor to the fourth-gen Echo, released in 2020.…
Introduction Up to now, Nothing had let its colourful sub-brand CMF have exclusive domain of the truly cheap phone class. The Phone 3a Lite is an about-face, pushing the firm’s budget-friendly mainline models into entry-level territory for the first time. It distils the Phone 3a and Phone 3a Pro’s trademark transparent styling and Glyph lighting down to £249/€249 (there was no word of a US launch at the time of writing), using a hardware blueprint established by CMF earlier this year. This isn’t just a CMF Phone 2 Pro in a Nothing suit; it’s more expensive, and even takes a…
After Nothing’s recent flagship Phone 3 ditched its trademark Glyph Lights in favor of a dot matrix display, the new Phone 3A Lite brings them back — but only one of them. The affordable phone launches today in the UK and Europe, but won’t get a release in the US.The 3A Lite features just a single small, round LED in its bottom-right corner, which Nothing says was “inspired by classic notification lights.” It still supports a lot of the same features as the more complex Glyph Light systems though: you can flip the phone face-down to get silent, light-only notifications;…
With just 100 days to go until the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina, Omega is marking the countdown in the only way it knows how – with a super-stylish new watch. The Swiss watchmaker, and official Olympic Timekeeper since 1932, has unveiled a limited-edition Speedmaster that perfectly captures the frozen beauty of the Italian Alps in steel, ceramic and ice-white tones. The Speedmaster Milano Cortina 2026 features a 38mm polished stainless steel case, topped with a deep blue ceramic bezel etched with a white enamel tachymeter scale. But it’s the dial that steals the show. Omega has taken…
On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life. Grokipedia is the brainchild of Elon Musk and his startup xAI, and the billionaire is promoting it as a supposedly less woke and less biased version of Wikipedia. Musk’s goal? “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”In both format and style, Grokipedia bears a striking resemblance to Wikipedia, albeit a very basic version. Entries are organized with headings, subheadings, citations, and a list of sources at the end. Each article also claims to have been fact-checked by Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot, though it’s not clear what this “fact-checking”…
Apple’s Vision Pro remains the best VR headset by a mile, and there are many moments when it feels magical to use. I love staring at 3D photos, watching movies on huge screens, and working across a bunch of floating windows. But I noticed something weird after I wrote my first review in 2024: I took the headset off, put it back in its box, and didn’t put it back on again.The new M5 model remains a very good headset, now slightly faster and more comfortable than its predecessor. But I’ve still found it hard to return to instead of…
Bill Gates wants us all to be more upbeat about climate change. He argues that we’ve made great progress on the problem, aided in large part by technological advances. So it’s time to focus more on improving people’s lives, particularly by fighting hunger and disease, he writes in a memo published Tuesday. Of course, he says AI can help.It’s supposed to be a hopeful message released ahead of high-stakes UN climate negotiations taking place next month. But it gave me whiplash reading it. Gates is a high-profile climate philanthropist, having invested billions of dollars into new technologies that are supposed…
It’s been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld “Xbox” that can’t be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there’s a problem with the white Xbox Ally or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. (Asus tells me it needs more time to test.)But if you want your white Asus handheld to start working reliably, you could do what I did: I installed the latest build of Bazzite, a SteamOS-like, Linux-based operating system that works…
Oppo has announced the international launch of its Find X9 and Find X9 Pro flagships, and both phones are going on sale in the UK and Europe. Best of all, unlike some other Chinese phones, there’s been no reduction in battery capacity for the global release, making these two of the longest lasting phones in the European market.The Find X9’s 7,025mAh battery would be impressive enough were it not for the Pro’s even larger 7,500mAh capacity. I’ve been reviewing the Pro, which ran for three full days with the always-on display off, and handled two fairly comfortably with it switched…