Top 10 trending phones of week 13

The Samsung Galaxy A53 maintained its lead in our trending chart for a second week in a row, but its A73 stablemate lots a lot of ground and is now sixth. This allowed the Redmi Note 11 to get the silver medal and the Galaxy S22 Ultra to return to the podium positions. The newly announced BlackShark 5 Pro shot to fourth position, while the OnePlus 10 Pro captured fifth on the back of its global launch. Poco's X4 Pro makes a strong return to the trending chart and captures seventh position, while the Xiaomi 12 Pro - the company's most premium phone to come out this year slid down to...

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Realme Buds Air 3 review

Introduction Last year’s Realme Buds Air 2 impressed us with their good sound quality, active noise cancelation and affordable pricing. Realme spent some time refining their package and came up with the Buds Air 3. These new wireless earbuds bring Realme’s most powerful noise cancellation yet, a slight redesign with shorter steams and wireless charging for €60. So are Buds Air 3 a better buy than last year’s model and how do they stack up against competitors in the same price point? Let’s find out. Design Buds Air 3 bring a familiar design to their predecessor but with a few...

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Week 13 in review: Black Shark 5 Pro official, Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G, OP 10 Pro global

Another week down, so let's recap. Week 13 was an eventful one, starting with the global launch of the Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G (what a name, eh) went on sale globally, while the Redmi 10 5G and Redmi Note 11S 5G were announced. Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G comes in Graphite Gray, Star Blue, Forest Green colors. The baseline 6/128GB trim starts at $369. While the Redmi Note 11S 5G comes in Midnight Black, Twilight Blue, and Star Blue colors. It starts at $249 for the 4/64GB model. The Redmi 10 5G starts at $199 for the 4/64GB trim. Xiaomi unveiled the Black Shark 5 series of gaming phones. The...

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The charging study aftermath: Overnight charging is going out of fashion

Last week we looked into how fast charging affects battery capacity and asked you about your preferred charge rate. Fast charging clearly emerged as the preferred method, while slow overnight charging has clearly fallen out of fashion. It was already on its way out a couple of years ago, but it was still the preferred method for a quarter of voters. Now that number is down from 25% to 15%. The thing about slow charging is that it’s always an option – just use one of the low-power chargers you have in your drawer. We wish Android exposed better controls for charge speed, but even without...

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Flashback: Xiaomi's promising but ill-fated Android One phones

After the Google Play Edition program failed, Google worked with makers to create a new line of “pure Android” devices – Android One. Removing bloatware was only one of the goals, One phones differed from Play Edition models in several other ways. As you can tell by the headline, we want to focus on one particular branch – the four models released by Xiaomi – and what their ultimate fate was. The One program is still around, mostly kept alive by Nokia, but Google has moved on to other ways of trying to achieve the original goals. Those goals, if you who don’t remember, were to build a...

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