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Counterpoint: Smartphone shipments in Europe saw modest growth in Q4 2025 but tough times lie ahead
The final three months of 2025 proved great for smartphone shipments in Europe as the market was up 2% compared to Q4 2024. According to Counterpoint Research’s Q4 2025 Smartphone Market Monitor, Apple was the leading brand in Europe with an estimated 33% share of all shipments. Cupertino saw strong demand for the iPhone 17 series, resulting in a 7%…
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vivo X300 FE gets more certifications, runs Geekbench and confirms its chipset
The vivo X300 FE was certified for sale in Europe back in October, and in the meantime it’s been given the go-ahead in India by BIS as well. Now, IMDA in Singapore has certified it too, along with TÜV in Germany. The phone has the model number V2537. The TÜV certification reveals that the phone has support for 90W wired…
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Sony LinkBuds Clip unboxing – GSMArena.com news
Sony was an early entrant into the open wear stereo (OWS) earbuds market with its original LinkBuds back in 2022 and its latest addition takes a different stylistic approach. The LinkBuds Clip arrive on the scene with the trendy clip-on design alongside claims of refined audio quality and up to 37 hours of continuous usage between the bud and its…
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Nothing’s personalized AI-generated Essential Apps now in Beta
Back in October, Nothing unveiled Essential Apps – AI-generated mini-apps and widgets based on prompts, that will live on your device and can be shared with others through Nothing’s Playground community platform. Today, Nothing is announcing the rollout of Essential Apps Beta, following the Alpha release from late 2025, which was only available for a small group of early adopters.…
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Honor 600 to come with a bigger screen and battery
The Honor 500 launched back in November, but Honor is already allegedly working on its successor. Now some details about the Honor 600 got outed in China. The phone will allegedly have a 6.57-inch screen. That would be marginally bigger than the Honor 500’s 6.55″ panel. Perhaps more importantly, the Honor 600 is now being tested with a 9,000 mAh…
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vivo V70 Elite runs Geekbench confirming its first-in-line chipset
The vivo V70 Elite has purportedly been spotted in the Geekbench online database today with the model number V2548. The prototype in question had 12GB of RAM, and ran Android 16. The V70 Elite is powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC, which is rather significant since this will be the first vivo V-series handset to be powered by…
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Oppo K14x 5G’s chipset and price bracket leak
A few days ago, Oppo started teasing an upcoming K-series device in India, and the URL for the teaser microsite revealed that the phone in question is the K14x. As the name implies, this should be the successor to the K13x, which made its debut in June of last year. Oppo hasn’t shared any official specs of the K14x, nor…
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Carl Pei: No flagship for 2026, Nothing Phone (4a) to offer flagship experience
Nothing has uploaded a new YouTube video to its channel where CEO Carl Pei discusses the company’s upcoming products for 2026. In the video, Pei confirms that there will be no new flagship launch this year, with the Phone (3) set to continue as Nothing’s flagship for 2026. The company will, however, introduce a new model in its (a) series.…
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Indian IT Minister claims we’ll see the first Indian smartphone brands in the near future
Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum 2026, India’s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is now claiming that the country will soon have its own smartphone brand (or brands, plural), and promises the Indian government has done all the “homework” required for such an endeavor. This brand (or these brands, it’s unclear if we’re talking about one or more)…
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Here’s what the Xiaomi Tag looks like, main specs spotted in HyperOS code
Last month, a report claimed the Xiaomi Tag was in development, basically intended to be the Chinese company’s version of Apple’s AirTag and Motorola’s Moto Tag. If you’ve been wondering what it would look like, today’s leak sheds some light on just that. Buried in code for Xiaomi’s HyperOS Android skin are references to it, as well as images and…
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