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Teracube’s smartphone with a 4-year warranty has shipped to crowdfunding backers

Teracube’s first smartphone is an unremarkable device when you look at the specs — it’s a mid-range Android phone with mid-range hardware. But the Teracube smartphone unusual in that it comes with a 4-year warranty. It’s a phone designed to last a long time — and if you have problems, you can get them fixed […]

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Teracube smartphone’s killer feature is a 4-year warranty

Apple and Samsung dominate the smartphone space in the United States, leaving little room for competition… even from well-established players like Motorola, LG, Google, and others. From time to time a company you’ve never heard of launches a crowdfunding campaign to bring a new phone to market with some killer feature or other… but few […]

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Motorola’s new Razr is a modern flip-phone with a foldable display (coming in January for $1500)

As expected, Motorola’s bringing back its iconic Razr brand. The new Motorola Razr borrows some design cues from the company’s classic flip phones — it’s a slim phone that folds in half to take up less space in your pocket. But when you unfold the new phone you see a single large 6.2 inch foldable […]

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Database of 200+ smartphones that can run Linux (unofficially)

The vast majority of smartphones in the world ship with some version of Google’s Android operating system. And most of them are only supported by their manufacturers for a few years. Have a phone that’s 3-4 years old? Then you’re probably not getting any Android updates anymore. No more security patches. No new features. Of […]

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Meet the first smartphone with a 108MP camera

This year Samsung introduced the first 108MP camera sensor for smartphones, and now Chinese device maker Xiaomi has officially launched the first phone to make use of the camera. As expected, the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro features five rear cameras,including that 108MP primary camera. By default, it’ll actually save photos as 27MP images, combining data from four […]

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PinePhone “Brave Heart Edition” pre-orders open Nov 15th (Cheap Linux smartphone)

Pine64’s first smartphone is set to ship by the end of the year… sort of. The PinePhone is a $149 smartphone designed to run free and open source operating systems such as PostmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, KDE Plasma Mobile, LuneOS, or Sailfish OS. First unveiled in January, the PinePhone has been under development ever since — and […]

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RED shuts down its Hydrogen smartphone project, will continue supporting its sole phone

The first smartphone from high-end camera maker RED Digital Cinema is set to be the company’s last. A year after releasing the RED Hydrogen One, company founder Jim Jannard has announced that he’s retiring… and shutting down the Hydrogen project. Jannard says RED will continue to support the Hydrogen One and that development of “Komodo” […]

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Realme X2 Pro smartphone features flagship specs for under $400 (a 90Hz display, Snapdragon 855+)

As prices of flagship phones from Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and Google hover around the $1,000 mark, some Chinese phone makers continue to show that it’s possible to offer flagship-class specs for lower prices. Much lower. The Realme X2 Pro is a smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ processor, a 6.5 inch, 90 Hz, 1000-nit, FHD+ AMOLED display, […]

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Nubia’s dual-screen Z20 smartphone now available for $549

The Nubia Z20 is a smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus processor, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage support for 27-watt fast charging, and a 6.42 inch FHD+ curved glass display… on the front. There’s also a second 5.1 inch display on the back of the phone. First unveiled last month, the Nubia Z20 […]