by dbadmin | May 23, 2025 | News, smartphones, Xiaomi
Credit: Weibo/Xiaomi Xiaomi has launched a coffee-scented smartphone in China. The Xiaomi Civi 5 Pro Iced Americano variant also has a vegan leather rear cover that includes coffee grounds. The phone is a China-only device for now and it starts at ~$416. We recently...
by dbadmin | May 22, 2025 | Deals, Google, Google Pixel 9, News, smartphones
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority All those fancy new premium phones are exciting, but I am not that hyped up about paying a grand or more for them. Especially when there are plenty of great phones for much less, especially if you can take advantage of a deal...
by dbadmin | May 22, 2025 | News, smartphones, Xiaomi
Credit: Weibo/Xiaomi Xiaomi has fully revealed the XRING 01, which is its first custom smartphone processor in several years. The new chipset has a powerful deca-core CPU and a cutting-edge Arm Immortalis-G925 MC16 GPU. The first devices with the XRING 01 are the...
by dbadmin | May 21, 2025 | Deals, News, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S25, smartphones
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority The brand-new Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is all the hype right now. As gorgeous as it looks, making a 5.8mm phone comes with its sacrifices. This means the best offering from the brand is still the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s...
by dbadmin | May 20, 2025 | News, smartphones
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority US phone satisfaction scores drop to a 10-year low, falling 4% to 78. Customers favor basics like battery life and call quality over new AI features. Apple and Samsung lead the satisfaction rankings, and 5G users are much...
by dbadmin | May 17, 2025 | Features, Photography, smartphones, Vivo
Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Several Android phone manufacturers have showcased concept phones with external camera lenses over the years. In fact, realme showed off a concept phone with 3x or 10x external lenses at MWC earlier this year. But vivo decided...