News & Reviews
Launches, prices and announcements from phone and tablet makers worldwide. Each article lists the sources its facts were checked against.
Mini-LED laptop panels to lose 75% of shipments by 2027, Counterpoint says
Counterpoint Research expects mini-LED notebook panel shipments to fall 38% in 2026 and a further 60% in 2027, leaving roughly a quarter of 2025 volume, while OLED notebook…
Sony LYTIA 720: 50MP 1/1.56-inch sensor with 100dB HDR, ships early November
Sony Semiconductor Solutions has announced the LYTIA 720, a 1/1.56-type stacked CMOS image sensor with roughly 50 effective megapixels and 1.0 um pixels. A new Ultra High Conversion…
Apple posts M6 MacBook Pro at $1,999 and 24-inch iMac at $1,499
Apple announced three products by press release in three days: a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display on 26 October, and on 27 October the 14-inch…
iOS 27.2 arrives with Siri AI in five new languages and 160+ security fixes
Apple shipped iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2 on 26 October 2026, adding Siri AI in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish for iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro…
Korea fines Samsung 20bn won ($15.1m) over Galaxy S21, S22 and Tab S8 throttling
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has fined Samsung Electronics 20 billion won, roughly $15.1 million, for advertising the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S22 and Galaxy Tab S8 series as…
India smartphone shipments fall 20% in Q3 2026, worst quarter in a decade
Counterpoint Research says India's July-September 2026 smartphone shipments dropped 20% year-on-year to their lowest third-quarter level in ten years, with the sub-INR 20,000 segment nearly halving as record…
Apple confirms iPhone Duo inner displays crack, offers AppleCare replacements
Days after the iPhone Duo went on sale on 23 October 2026, owners began reporting inner screens cracking along the centre of the hinge, followed by a row…
Microsoft’s first Surface Laptop Ultra firmware fixes flicker and slow boots
Six days after the $2,599 RTX Spark flagship went on sale, Microsoft pushed System Hardware Update 200.0.7.0 through Windows Update to cure screen flickering, long reboot times and…
OnePlus 15 gets stable ColorOS 17 on Android 17 in India, 4 days early
OnePlus started pushing the stable ColorOS 17 build, based on Android 17, to the OnePlus 15 on 25 October 2026 as build CPH2745_17.0.0.102(EX01). The rollout is India-only for…
Nikon Z9 5.33 and Z8 3.12 firmware fix a lens-related camera freeze
Nikon has pushed "C" firmware 5.33 to the Z 9 and 3.12 to the Z 8, each carrying a single change: a fix for a bug that could…
Australia orders Apple to allow rival iPhone app stores from March 2027
The Federal Court of Australia ruled on 22 October 2026 that Apple must let iPhone owners signed in with Australian Apple Accounts install apps from third-party stores and…
OM System pushes PEN launch in Japan from 30 Oct to 28 Nov after pre-order surge
OM Digital Solutions has put back the Japanese launch of its retro Micro Four Thirds PEN from 30 October to 28 November 2026, its third supply notice in…
First N1X benchmarks: Apple’s M5 Pro leads Nvidia’s RTX Spark by 53% single-core
Notebookcheck's 21 October verdict on the first retail RTX Spark laptops finds Nvidia's N1X behind Apple's M5 Pro on single-core, multi-core and efficiency, while its Blackwell GPU beats…
Sony LYTIA 720: 50MP 1/1.56-inch sensor with 100dB HDR, ships early November
Sony Semiconductor Solutions has announced the LYTIA 720, a 1/1.56-type stacked CMOS image sensor with roughly 50 effective megapixels and 1.0 um pixels. A new Ultra High Conversion…
Apple posts M6 MacBook Pro at $1,999 and 24-inch iMac at $1,499
Apple announced three products by press release in three days: a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display on 26 October, and on 27 October the 14-inch…
iOS 27.2 arrives with Siri AI in five new languages and 160+ security fixes
Apple shipped iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2 on 26 October 2026, adding Siri AI in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish for iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro…
Korea fines Samsung 20bn won ($15.1m) over Galaxy S21, S22 and Tab S8 throttling
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission has fined Samsung Electronics 20 billion won, roughly $15.1 million, for advertising the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S22 and Galaxy Tab S8 series as…
India smartphone shipments fall 20% in Q3 2026, worst quarter in a decade
Counterpoint Research says India's July-September 2026 smartphone shipments dropped 20% year-on-year to their lowest third-quarter level in ten years, with the sub-INR 20,000 segment nearly halving as record…
Apple confirms iPhone Duo inner displays crack, offers AppleCare replacements
Days after the iPhone Duo went on sale on 23 October 2026, owners began reporting inner screens cracking along the centre of the hinge, followed by a row…
Microsoft’s first Surface Laptop Ultra firmware fixes flicker and slow boots
Six days after the $2,599 RTX Spark flagship went on sale, Microsoft pushed System Hardware Update 200.0.7.0 through Windows Update to cure screen flickering, long reboot times and…
OnePlus 15 gets stable ColorOS 17 on Android 17 in India, 4 days early
OnePlus started pushing the stable ColorOS 17 build, based on Android 17, to the OnePlus 15 on 25 October 2026 as build CPH2745_17.0.0.102(EX01). The rollout is India-only for…
Nikon Z9 5.33 and Z8 3.12 firmware fix a lens-related camera freeze
Nikon has pushed "C" firmware 5.33 to the Z 9 and 3.12 to the Z 8, each carrying a single change: a fix for a bug that could…
Australia orders Apple to allow rival iPhone app stores from March 2027
The Federal Court of Australia ruled on 22 October 2026 that Apple must let iPhone owners signed in with Australian Apple Accounts install apps from third-party stores and…
OM System pushes PEN launch in Japan from 30 Oct to 28 Nov after pre-order surge
OM Digital Solutions has put back the Japanese launch of its retro Micro Four Thirds PEN from 30 October to 28 November 2026, its third supply notice in…
First N1X benchmarks: Apple’s M5 Pro leads Nvidia’s RTX Spark by 53% single-core
Notebookcheck's 21 October verdict on the first retail RTX Spark laptops finds Nvidia's N1X behind Apple's M5 Pro on single-core, multi-core and efficiency, while its Blackwell GPU beats…