Top 10 trending phones of week 26

Week 26 saw us return to an all-Xiaomi top 3 in our trending chart with long-standing favorite Redmi Note 10 Pro leading from the vanilla Note 10 Pro and the Poco X3 Pro. We then have the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Galaxy A52 in fourth and fifth and it's the highest positions that phones by the Korean company have occupied in a good while. Last week's surprising runner-up - the Tecno Phantom X is still among the 10 most popular phones in our database, but it has fallen to sixth place this time around. That's still an amazing performance by the young brand that mostly specilizes...

Read More

Mony Mist - The smallest 4G smartphone hands-on review

Introduction In a world where smartphones get bigger and bigger, one company decided to go against the grain and launch what it claims to be the smallest 4G smartphone. Meet the Mony Mint - tiny in size, but promising to fully replace your phone, while also saving you a few bucks. The phone will eventually launch with Android Pie, although our early pre-release unit was running the very dated Android Marshmallow 6.0. That won’t stop us from doing a quick review because this phone is more about the size than offering the latest and greatest Android features. And it's not like...

Read More

Week 26 in review: MWC 2021, SD888+, One UI Watch, Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 renders and more

Another week down, let's recap. Infinix took up the fast charging numbers game and went pro. The Infinix Concept Phone 2021 supports 160W charging and can go from 0 to 100% in just 10 minutes - wow. Being a concept means you can't buy this Infinix phone, but the impressive tech could become part of a real product soon. We saw the fist live photo of the Huawei P50 in a dazzling pink finish. The dual circle camera array showed four lenses. One circle is occupied by a periscope, the other by three cameras. The P50 series are expected in late July. This week was the MWC 2021 and one of the...

Read More

Realme Buds Air 2 review

Introduction If you're looking for affordable true wireless stereo earbuds, take a good look at the Realme Buds Air 2. There's hardly anything wrong with these earbuds and a long list of things that are right. At €49.99/INR3,299 (regularly less), you get a comprehensive list of pros - active noise cancellation, 25 hours of playtime, Bluetooth 5.2, low-latency gaming mode, wear detection, a compact form factor and most of all - excellent sound. Unboxing and features The Realme Buds Air 2 come with a single USB-A to USB-C cable, 2 additional pairs of rubber tips (S/M/L) and the...

Read More

Weekly poll: is Tecno's new Phantom X the best camera phone for you?

Tecno unveiled its first premium phone last week, the Phantom X. This phone has a focus on camera features, which stand above anything the company has built before. The main camera has the first properly big sensor in the family, a 1/1.3” sensor with 50MP resolution. It has fairly large 1.2µm pixels (larger still with binning, 2.4µm), Dual Pixel AF and Laser AF. Still, that’s a lot of camera hardware for a $400 phone. It also features a 6.7” Super AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh rate, 1080p+ resolution (19.5:9) and curved sides. Gorilla Glass 5 guards both the front and...

Read More

Flashback: the Motorola Backflip and its crazy inside-out design

We miss old Motorola sometimes – it created some of the best phones of their day, but also crafted devices that had us asking “It does WHAT?” and staring in confusion. We’ve already covered the RAZR, the Moto X, the Nexus 6 and, of course, the Droid (aka Milestone) with its nifty slide-out QWERTY keyboard. If it wasn’t clear, those were the excellent models. But today we wanted to talk about one of the crazy ones instead – once you meet the Motorola Backflip, which is equally hard to forget. Motorola Backflip official images It came out in early 2010 when hardware...

Read More

Weekly poll results: rollable phones are the next big thing after foldables

What’s behind the corner is always more exciting – a while ago it was foldable phones, now rollable phones seem to be the next big thing. This form factor secured the first spot in last week’s poll, narrowly beating out horizontal folders. Rollable phones have some advantages. For one, they avoid the crease by using a bigger radius when folding the screen, also by design they pull it tight when extending. Another advantage is that they don’t need a secondary screen – it’s always just the main screen and the money that would have gone to a second panel can be put towards buying a better...

Read More

Google Pixel Buds A-Series review

Introduction and Unboxing This is Google's third attempt at the Pixel Buds. The change from the first-generation corded Pixel Buds to last year's true-wireless Pixel Buds was significant, and one that resonated well. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is very much Google's thinking with the Pixel Buds A-Series. These TWS earbuds look the same, have many of the same features, and cost $80 cheaper than the 2020 Pixel Buds. Pixel Bud (2020) [left], Pixel Bud A-Series [right] Google's "A-Series" is normally associated with its Pixel lineup of smartphones. Although the Pixel models...

Read More