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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Oppo’s OnePlus is finished in the West: the CNY 5,999 OnePlus 16 skips the UK, US and Europe
OnePlus announced the 9,000mAh, Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 OnePlus 16 in China on 12 October 2026, and it will not be sold through official channels in…
Huawei and Qualcomm sign multi-year 5G and AI patent cross-licence, their first 5G deal
Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year patent licence on 5 October that cross-licenses their 5G, compute, AI and networking portfolios, with Qualcomm also buying certain Huawei US patents.…
Apple Pay launches in India with Axis Bank credit cards
Apple switched on Apple Pay in India on 30 September 2026, twelve years after the service debuted, starting with Axis Bank-issued Visa and Mastercard credit cards on iPhone,…
UK tribunal lets £289m-£306m Apple-Amazon consumer claim proceed
The Competition Appeal Tribunal certified part of Justin Le Patourel's collective claim on 28 September 2026, allowing allegations over a 2018 Apple-Amazon reseller agreement worth an estimated £289m…
Qualcomm renews Apple patent licence, effective April 2027
Qualcomm said on 24 September 2026 that its global patent licence with Apple has been renewed effective 1 April 2027, the day after the 2019 six-year agreement and…
Meta Connect 2026: Ray-Ban Meta Audio $349, VR Glasses $1,299.99
Meta used Connect 2026 to launch camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses at $349 shipping 13 October, put Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 on sale at $449 the same day,…
Beats 360 arrives at $349.99 with swappable cushions, IPX4
Beats' new flagship over-ear opened for order on 22 September at $349.99 and reached stores two days later, claiming up to 1.75x the noise cancellation of Studio Pro,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Oppo’s OnePlus is finished in the West: the CNY 5,999 OnePlus 16 skips the UK, US and Europe
OnePlus announced the 9,000mAh, Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 OnePlus 16 in China on 12 October 2026, and it will not be sold through official channels in…
Huawei and Qualcomm sign multi-year 5G and AI patent cross-licence, their first 5G deal
Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year patent licence on 5 October that cross-licenses their 5G, compute, AI and networking portfolios, with Qualcomm also buying certain Huawei US patents.…
Apple Pay launches in India with Axis Bank credit cards
Apple switched on Apple Pay in India on 30 September 2026, twelve years after the service debuted, starting with Axis Bank-issued Visa and Mastercard credit cards on iPhone,…
UK tribunal lets £289m-£306m Apple-Amazon consumer claim proceed
The Competition Appeal Tribunal certified part of Justin Le Patourel's collective claim on 28 September 2026, allowing allegations over a 2018 Apple-Amazon reseller agreement worth an estimated £289m…
Qualcomm renews Apple patent licence, effective April 2027
Qualcomm said on 24 September 2026 that its global patent licence with Apple has been renewed effective 1 April 2027, the day after the 2019 six-year agreement and…
Meta Connect 2026: Ray-Ban Meta Audio $349, VR Glasses $1,299.99
Meta used Connect 2026 to launch camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses at $349 shipping 13 October, put Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 on sale at $449 the same day,…
Beats 360 arrives at $349.99 with swappable cushions, IPX4
Beats' new flagship over-ear opened for order on 22 September at $349.99 and reached stores two days later, claiming up to 1.75x the noise cancellation of Studio Pro,…