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Changing this setting on your phone can give you an extra 17 minutes of sleep a night and make your brain younger – here’s how
From doom scrolling eating into sleep time to blue light suppressing sleepiness, it’s well known that phones wreak havoc on our sleep but they can also decay our brains. According to recent studies, keeping your phone’s internet connection switched off could bag you an extra 17 minutes of sleep a night and boost your brain health. Thanks to the glymphatic…
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Oppo Launches “World’s Thinnest” Find N5 Foldable Phone
The foldable market has remained dull for a while now, with the only exciting launches being the Galaxy Z Fold 6, Vivo X Fold 3 Pro and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. While users thought it could be reignited with the OnePlus Open 2, OnePlus pulled the plug on it. Well, Oppo is shouldering the responsibility as it has launched…
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iPhone 16E: all the news on Apple’s new $599 phone
iPhone 16E back view Apple has announced an update to the iPhone SE, but this time around, it’s called the iPhone 16E. As the rumors predicted, Apple’s new budget iPhone model has an updated design with a Face ID-enabled notch, replacing the old model that had a home button and Touch ID interface. Another new element is that this is…
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Huawei Releases First Tri-Fold Phone to International Markets
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei launched its luxury Huawei Mate XT, a three-panel foldable phone, globally on February 18, the Associated Press reported from the launch event in Malaysia. The phone retails for $3,662. It isn’t available directly from U.S. carriers and won’t work with U.S. network bands, due to a U.S. ban on Huawei products due to cybersecurity concerns; however,…
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Nothing Phone 3a specs leak suggests this could be Android’s newest budget superstar
Since bursting onto the smartphone scene in 2022 with the Phone 1, the awkwardly-named Nothing brand has been a consistent fixture on our list of the best cheap phones you can buy. Founded by the co-creator of OnePlus, Carl Pei, Nothing’s handsets combine solid specs, a fair price and a truly unique design in a world of similar-looking black rectangles.…
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How to get TikTok back on your phone if you deleted it after the ban
TikTok’s app is still working for people in the US — as long as it’s already on their phone. While the service quickly returned after the brief shutdown in January, the app itself is no longer available on either Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store. That means that if you removed the app, never had it downloaded in the…
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OnePlus won’t release a foldable phone in 2025
OnePlus says it won’t launch a new foldable phone this year, axing expectations that the company was prepping a proper sequel to its Open foldable from 2023, 9to5Google reports. A new OnePlus “Open 2” could have followed the blueprint of its subsidiary company Oppo’s new ultra-thin Find N5 that’s launching in China and internationally next week, but it (like many…
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No, Google Is Not Scanning All the Images on Your Android Phone
Quick Links What is Android System SafetyCore? You may have recently stumbled upon an app called “Android System SafetyCore” in your battery stats or while digging through app permissions. It sounds important and a bit scary, but it’s not as worrisome as you might think. What is Android System SafetyCore? The fact that parents have to grapple with is you…
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Don’t wait around for Pebble founder’s Small Android Phone
“I really do hope someone else makes one so I don’t have to 😂,” writes Migicovsky. I’m now one of a contingent of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip owners who is seriously considering trading in my Flip for a Galaxy S25. It’s not small, but it’s the closest thing we’ve got and my Flip’s battery doesn’t remotely last until bedtime anymore.…
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Pixel 9a leak reveals Google’s budget phone keeps this disappointing design feature
The Google Pixel 8a is currently our pick of the best cheap phones, and only one handset looks capable of displacing its superb price-to-performance ratio: its upcoming successor, the Pixel 9a. But Google had to make compromises to get the Pixel 8a in at under $499, and one visibly obvious one is the size of the bezels impinging on-screen space.…
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