Published on: 2025-04-21 15:02:05
ZDNET's key takeaways This ruggedized smartphone has a huge battery, a massive 800-lumen flashlight, and a night vision camera. The massive battery does make the handset weigh a hefty 2 pounds. The display can be a bit washed out in bright sunlight. $249.99 at Amazon At Amazon, the Blackview BV7300 is on sale for $250, a 7% discount. You can also apply a $20 coupon, lowering its price further to $230. I remember when smartphones started to use the built-in flash as a flashlight - it was quit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 15:22:05
Amid all the back-and-forth turmoil surrounding tariffs, and ongoing sales struggles in China, Apple and the iPhone have at times appeared “doomed.” But new data from Counterpoint reveals the iPhone actually just hit a big sales achievement for the first time ever. iPhone won Q1 of global smartphone sales for first time ever Counterpoint just published its global smartphone sales report for Q1 2025. Through the first three months of the year, overall sales were slightly up. But the iPhone was
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 03:42:02
If you’re looking for a minimalist smartphone, you can still preorder the Light Phone III ahead of its August debut for $599 ($200 off). The charming phone is a bit of an upgrade over previous models — it’s got a 3.92-inch OLED panel, a 50-megapixel main shooter, and USB-C — but its main selling point remains its lack of features. It connects to all the major US carriers, but unlike virtually every other smartphone in existence, there’s no app store, no social media, and no browser. We just wish
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 11:51:00
ZDNET's key takeaways Ruggedized smartphone with a huge battery, massive 800 lumen flashlight, and night vision camera. The battery is a massive 15,000mAh in size, but this does make the handset weigh a hefty 2 pounds. Display can be a bit washed out in bright sunlight. View now at Amazon I remember when smartphones started to use the built-in flash as a flashlight – it was quite revolutionary. While the flash is good enough for a lot of situations, there are times when it is somewhat limited
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 13:00:11
Robert Triggs / Android Authority Over the years as I’ve tried different brands and switched between smartphone manufacturers, I’ve become a more scrutinizing consumer. For my first smartphone, I just bought what the sales representative suggested, because there weren’t that many brands available. This was around 2011 and while I was very happy with my HTC device, the market has developed significantly since. Over time I learned that there are hidden drawbacks to many flagships that may not be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 03:00:19
ZDNET's key takeaways The Doogee Fire 6 Max is on sale at Amazon for $479. Its massive battery allows over 100 days of standby, allowing the smartphone to act as a power bank, while sporting both thermal and night vision cameras. The display is vivid, but can be rather washed out in sunlight. $599.99 at Amazon Doogee are giving ZDNET readers a massive 30% discount on the Fire 6 Max -- just enter code OWRMNPAP at checkout and get $180 off the regular price of $599. Smartphones, in general, sh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 19:06:29
is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. While sharing screenshots and videos from the original Nintendo Switch has always been an excessively complicated process, it’s going to be much easier for the Switch 2. During today’s Direct presentation, Nintendo spent a lot of time talking about the Switch 2’s new built-in GameChat functionality that will give players a way to sha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 20:06:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Doogee Fire 6 Max is on sale at Amazon for $479. Its massive battery allows over 100 days of standby, allowing the smartphone to act as a power bank, while sporting both thermal and night vision cameras. The display is vivid, but can be rather washed out in sunlight. View now at Amazon Doogee are giving ZDNET readers a massive 30% discount on the Fire 6 Max -- just enter code OWRMNPAP at checkout and get $180 off the regular price of $599. Smartphones, in general, s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 11:51:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Doogee Fire 6 Max is on sale at Amazon for $479. Its massive battery allows over 100 days of standby, allowing the smartphone to act as a power bank, while sporting both thermal and night vision cameras. The display is vivid, but can be rather washed out in sunlight. View now at Amazon Smartphones, in general, share a similar aesthetic: delicate slabs of glass designed for easy portability. However, some manufacturers are willing to break the mold and create somethin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 15:24:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Blackview BL9000 Pro is available now on Amazon for $800. It's a rugged, feature-rich phone that's ready for anything you can throw at it, and has a very long battery life. Its thick, chunky form factor definitely isn't for everyone. View now at Amazon Amazon has discounted the Blackview BL9000 Pro by $180 when you apply the clip-on coupon. I've been a fan of Blackview smartphones ever since I first laid hands on the BV9000 Pro back in 2018. It's big, it's chunky, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 11:33:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Blackview BL9000 Pro is available now on Amazon for $800. It's a rugged, feature-rich phone that's ready for anything you can throw at it, and has a very long battery life. Its thick, chunky form factor definitely isn't for everyone. View now at Amazon Amazon has discounted the Blackview BL9000 Pro by $180 when you apply the clip-on coupon. I've been a fan of Blackview smartphones ever since I first laid hands on the BV9000 Pro back in 2018. It's big, it's chunky, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 15:00:00
“You don't drive a bus everywhere you go,” Kaiwei Tang tells me in a large startup lab in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City. He's a cofounder of Light Phone. The bus in this analogy is a smartphone, and all the seats are apps. As the driver, you're trying to focus on the road, but all of the notifications from your passenger apps on this very packed bus are vying for your attention, distracting you from what's right in front of your eyes. Tang believes you can get by with, say, a bicycle—one se
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 01:30:08
Earlier today, I told you about Google’s Pixel 9a, a mid-range smartphone release that’s supposed to compete with Apple’s iPhone 16e while offering a cost-efficient entry in the Pixel lineup. But by the time I poured my coffee, it was reported that Google was delaying shipment of the Pixel 9a to April. Usually, when a manufacturer reveals a new smartphone, the on-sale day follows closely behind the announcement day. That’s not happening with the Pixel 9a. Forget about pre-ordering it. You can o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 06:30:08
Earlier today, I told you about Google’s Pixel 9a, a mid-range smartphone release that’s supposed to compete with Apple’s iPhone 16e while offering a cost-efficient entry in the Pixel lineup. But by the time I poured my coffee, it was reported that Google was delaying shipment of the Pixel 9a to April. Usually, when a manufacturer reveals a new smartphone, the on-sale day follows closely behind the announcement day. That’s not happening with the Pixel 9a. Forget about pre-ordering it. You can o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 06:38:18
Google has officially unveiled the Pixel 9a smartphone, its new midrange phone that will retail for $499. The A-series smartphone’s biggest change is its appearance, as the latest model ditches the camera bar on the back of the phone. The smartphone is getting a chip upgrade, as the new model features Google’s Tensor G4 processor, while its predecessor had a G3 chip. The 9a also promises over 30 hours of battery life, features 8GB of RAM, and comes with either 128GB or 256GB of storage. It wil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 02:07:42
I wasn’t expecting to write about a smartphone that advertises itself as a tank, but here we are. Unihertz, the Chinese brand you probably know for making networking hardware and some of the most fascinating tiny smartphones, has announced the Tank 3 Pro. The “ultimate 5G smartphone” has an intriguing set of features that will pique the interest of anyone living who spends a lot of time outside. The release of the Tank 3 Pro is under a brand called 8849, which is known for its tough smartphones
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 12:00:00
The downsides of doomscrolling and screen addiction are well documented, but while many of us would like to spend less time glued to a smartphone, it’s easier said than done. Much has been written about the so-called dumbphone revival, where individuals regain some respite from pings and push notifications by downgrading to a basic feature phone. But the reality for most is that this is not a permanent workable solution, simply because so much of society today is built around internet-based too
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 07:00:51
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it's more powerful than most of my laptops. So why not use it as a laptop? Why not, indeed, says Google, which has introduced -- at long last -- a native Linux Terminal application in its March 2025 Pixel Feature Drop. Of course, Android is Linux. However, it's a mobile-first Linux
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 21:04:46
BARCELONA — China's Huawei isn't the only smartphone maker adding a third display to its devices. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, a number of firms were showing off their display technology innovations. The South Korean tech giant Samsung revealed its new "trifold" concept devices at the event: the Flex G and Flex S. The Flex G has three screens and folds flat inwards and outwards, a bit like a book. The Flex S, on the other hand, has a more zigzag-like shape. It's me
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 23:11:56
The Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC BARCELONA — Huawei is dipping its toes back into the international smartphone market, but analysts warn the lingering effects of U.S. sanctions is likely to hamper the Chinese company's ability to compete with leaders Apple and Samsung. Over the past few months, Huawei has launched two key devices outside of China. The first in December was the Mate X6, a foldable smartphone, followed by the Mate XT, Huawei's
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 00:00:01
Oppo is the sixth-largest smartphone maker in China, according to Counterpoint Research. BARCELONA — Chinese smartphone firm Oppo is taking a page out of Apple's playbook with the launch of a private cloud computing system to keep users' sensitive conversations separate from its own artificial intelligence products. The company on Monday announced a deal with Google that will see it use the U.S. tech firm's Confidential Computing software, which uses encryption to ensure user data can't be vie
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 01:00:00
Micron announced its first 1y (1-gamma) DDR5 memory chip samples this week, and it says this is part of its contribution to systems that keep up with AI processing. The company said being the first to market with 1y samples proves Micron’s continued technology and manufacturing leadership — and the Boise, Idaho-based company is extending the capabilities of this advanced node to its broader portfolio of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. Those are coming In the second quarter. Smartpho
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 00:30:01
Chinese smartphone company Honor has released devices that fold up to be nearly as thin as an iPhone. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BARCELONA — Honor on Sunday pledged $10 billion in artificial intelligence investments over the next five years and announced a deepening partnership with Google, as the Chinese smartphone maker looks to bolster its market share overseas. The investment plan, revealed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is designed to reposition the firm from a smartphone p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 12:20:19
The Moto G Stylus 5G elevates the mid-range smartphone experience with its built-in stylus, impressive camera system, and premium features typically found in more expensive devices. This latest model combines productivity tools with entertainment features, wrapped in a stylish design that includes a vegan leather finish and modern aesthetics. Currently available for $250 at Amazon, down from its regular price of $400, this substantial 38% discount saves you $150 on a feature-rich smartphone. Pl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 19:00:00
Deepnight co-founders Lucas Young and Thomas Li have been friends since childhood. Both were working as software engineers at Google when Young decided he wanted to crack the code, so to speak, on a problem that had plagued the U.S. military for decades: digital night vision tech. Most night vision technology is still analog. Goggles use optical lenses and a chemical process to convert the scant light at night into images, Young told TechCrunch. And they cost from $13,000 to $30,000 apiece from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 07:15:58
The unlocked smartphone is an amazingly underutilized bit of technology. While the overwhelming majority of cellular customers reflexively walk into the store of one of the major carriers and immediately lock themselves into a plan, a contract, and a long installment purchase of a new smartphone, anyone with an unlocked phone has the freedom to shop around and jump between plans and carriers at will. See at Amazon With that in mind, when a really good sale on a really good unlocked smartphone
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 22:51:36
I recently went to visit a friend in Washington, DC. Upon arriving at his swanky apartment building, I couldn’t help but notice that tenants have to use a smartphone to navigate all of the building’s features. If you want to get into the building, you have to scan your phone with an app. Use the elevator? An app. Get into your own apartment? Well, there’s an app for that, too; the apartment complex did not provide my friend with a physical key to his own unit. Such an apartment complex could nev
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 09:35:40
Now that the Galaxy S25 Ultra is out of the pre-sale phase and landing in the hands of consumers, the reviews are flying in fast, and it’s clear that Samsung has once again raised the bar with its latest flagship smartphone. Samsung’s also lowering the bar on the money you need to get a Galaxy S25 Ultra into your hands: Between a $120 price drop and up to $900 in trade-in credit, the 512GB model of the S25 Ultra can be yours for just $400, with an extra $80 in Samsung Credit also coming your way
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