Weekly deals: the best smartphone deals from the UK, Germany, the US and India

Patience is a virtue – and savings too as smartphones both old and new have been slowly going down the price ladder. Also, this week there are a few bundles that include a free laptop, a free game or just a gift card. Use the links below to jump to your region. The UK Germany USA India UK The base Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (256GB storage) is £1,250 on Samsung.com. It costs that much on Amazon too, but the retailer will include a Galaxy Chromebook Go for free. This is as basic as it gets, an 11.6” laptop with an Intel Celeron N4500 (2 cores, 1.1GHz base, 2.8GHz...

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Huawei Watch Ultimate review

Introduction The Watch Ultimate arrived with the claim of being the best Huawei wearable yet. Coming with 100-meter water rating, Exploration Mode for the outdoorsy types and an incredibly durable build. We got to spend close to a month with a unit and test all its features, and here go our findings. The Watch Ultimate arrives in only one size - 1.5" or 48.5 mm in diagonal. It priced close to the Apple Watch Ultra and the Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Pro, but its user experience is unlike those two, so it will cater to a different audience. Design and build Our unit came in...

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Weekly poll: can the Asus ROG Phone 7 and 7 Ultimate win the battle for your heart?

As of a couple of years ago mobile games bring in more revenue than the PC and console markets combined. The scene has grown and evolved and there are proper AAA games on mobile, plus tournaments and Twitch streams featuring said games. Gaming phones evolved alongside those games too – phones like the Asus ROG Phone 7 and the ROG Phone 7 Ultimate. In fact, Asus ROG was the official sponsor of the CoD: Mobile World Championship 2022, which promoted the ROG Phone 6 and 6 Pro. All this build-up is to answer the question “Can’t I just play games on my flagship phone?” “Yes, you can” is...

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Weekly poll results: the Motorola Edge 40 Pro is off to a strong start

Nearly half of the voters in last week’s poll are interested in the Motorola Edge 40 Pro, though a lot of them were holding off on making a final decision until the reviews came out. If you’re one of them, check out our review (including on video). Spoiler alert: it’s a great high-end phone, though the camera isn’t up to the standard of some of the more camera-oriented flagships out there. And while the Moto is cheaper than those, it’s not exactly cheap at €900/£800. Around 17% of voters felt that the price could stand to be a bit lower and the cost of Edge models does fall over time...

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Flashback: Android makers tried to emulate the iPod touch, failed

Apple introduced the original iPhone in January 2007 and a few months later it leveraged the new all-touch interface to add a new branch to the iPod family tree. While the iPod touch was outsold by the iPhone, it was still highly successful – Apple celebrated 100 million units sold in mind 2013. Naturally, Android makers wanted to have their own iPod touch. In 2009 the Archos 5 Internet Tablet hit the scene. It was billed as a “PMP”, Portable Media Player, and it may have been the first of its kind to run Android (v1.6 Donut). It could play MP3, AAC, FLAC as well as various video formats...

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Samsung Galaxy F54 5G to arrive in India by the end of April

The Samsung Galaxy F54 5G has occasionally been popping up in the rumor mill. Last we saw the unannounced phone appear with the SM-M546B/DS model number in a certificate filing, as well as on official support pages in Bangladesh, India and Levant. All in all, the F54 5G seems right around the corner. According to an industry insider source, Indian buyers can expect to see the handset hit shelves in the last week of April. Samsung Galaxy F54 5G The source also reaffirms some of the specs for the F54 5G. As expected, it is quite similar to the Galaxy M54. The F54 5G is a rather...

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