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iPhone 18 Pro Color Leak Shows Apple’s Real Marketing Edge
07 Jun

iPhone 18 Pro Color Leak Shows Apple’s Real Marketing Edge

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The iPhone 18 Pro Color Leak Is Doing Apple's Marketing Job A single chassis photo is dominating Apple coverage this week. Dark Cherry, a purplish-hued finish confirmed by multiple leak sources, is being positioned as the iPhone 18 Pro's "hero color"—the kind of visual statement that typically gets reserved for the keynote's climactic moment. Except Apple didn't need to wait for September. The leak did the work for them. This isn't a bug in Apple's PR strategy. It's a feature. And it's a telling sign that the iPhone Pro line has fundamentally shifted what it sells. Photo by Andy Brown…
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Xiaomi 17T Pro Makes $1,200 Flagships Indefensible
31 May

Xiaomi 17T Pro Makes $1,200 Flagships Indefensible

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Xiaomi's $1,200 Flagship Problem for Samsung and Apple When Xiaomi announced the 17T Pro at €999 (roughly $1,170) with a Dimensity 9500, Leica triple-camera system, and 7,000mAh battery, the pricing calculus for premium Android flagships broke in real time. This isn't a mid-range phone masquerading as premium. This is a near-flagship at sub-flagship pricing that forces an uncomfortable question: what exactly are you paying for when you buy a Galaxy S26 Ultra or iPhone 17 Pro at $1,400+? The 17T Pro just made the $1,200 flagship look indefensible—and that matters because it's revealing where the actual buying power in the…
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Samsung Z Fold8 Wide: Seven Years Too Late
30 May

Samsung Z Fold8 Wide: Seven Years Too Late

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Samsung Z Fold8 Wide: An Admission of a Decade-Long Mistake Samsung just announced the Galaxy Z Fold8 with a quiet structural shift that speaks louder than any press release ever could. The company is promoting a wider, shorter variant to mainline status—rebranding the traditional tall book-fold design as the "Ultra." After seven generations built on a particular vision of what a foldable should be, Samsung is finally admitting that vision was wrong. This isn't a mid-cycle refresh tweak. This is a strategic concession. Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and OPPO figured out the wider form factor years ago. Now, just weeks…
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Apple’s Foldable iPhone Manufacturing Wall
30 May

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Manufacturing Wall

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Apple's Foldable iPhone Hits Manufacturing Wall—Three Months to Prove Samsung Wrong Apple's September 2026 foldable iPhone launch is now a race against the calendar. The company faces serious surface mount technology (SMT) yield problems in pre-assembly that it has exactly three months to solve before mass production kicks off in July. Meanwhile, Samsung—which has spent six years refining folding screens, hinges, and manufacturing workflows—is watching from a position of competitive luxury that Apple itself enabled by waiting this long. This isn't a story about whether Apple can make a foldable phone. It's about whether Apple can ship millions of them…
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01 Dec

Anker’s Laptop Power Bank is $32 off for Cyber Monday, its biggest discount yet

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Anker’s portable charger is about the size of a soda can and can charge multiple devices for less than $90. If you’re planning to head out of town for the holidays, now is a good time to stock up on chargers so that your devices don’t die in transit. Lucky for you, we’ve already rounded up some of the best charging accessory deals available for Cyber Monday, with Anker’s Laptop Power Bank being one of them. Right now, you can buy the versatile gadget from Amazon, Best Buy, and Anker for $87.99 ($32 off), which matches the all-time low we…
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30 Nov

My favorite Cyber Monday TV deals from Samsung, Sony, and others are up to 50% off

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Black Friday might have passed, but that doesn’t mean the holiday deals are gone. You can still find low prices on excellent TVs, streaming devices, and soundbars through Cyber Monday. I’ve found the best of these deals to level up your home theater setup, and make sure that your holiday season (and every day after) is filled with the best picture and sound quality for your space. Cyber Monday usually offers great deals on products from last year, as retailers attempt to clear their inventory, but this year there’s also amazing pricing — more than I’ve seen in the past…
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30 Nov

The 201 Black Friday deals you can still get

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Black Friday is technically a thing of the past, but many of the best deals we told you about yesterday — including deep discounts on the AirPods Pro 3, the Pixel Watch 4, and the latest Kindle Paperwhite — are still kicking for now. In some cases, gadgets are out of stock at certain stores, or certain configurations are tougher to find at this point. You don’t have to worry, though, as we’ve confirmed that every deal below is both in stock and selling at a great price. Below are the results of our weeks spent sifting through deals and…
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29 Nov

Anker’s handy little 3-port charger is just 35 bucks

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Is there anything quite like the satisfying snap of folding prongs? Earlier this year, I decided to level up my travel game and invest in a charger to bring on trips, rather than raiding my desk outlets every time I packed. I needed a multitasker, something that could power my MacBook Air, charge my phone, and accommodate the random USB-A cord I always seem to need for some reason (I’m looking at you, electric toothbrush). That multitasker turned out to be Anker’s Prime 67W charger, and I haven’t looked back since. Anker Prime Charger (67W) The 67W Prime charger includes…
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The best gaming headset I tried this year is $60 off for Black Friday
29 Nov

The best gaming headset I tried this year is $60 off for Black Friday

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Earlier this year, I reviewed the Fractal Scape, a wireless gaming headset made for PC (also compatible with Switch 2) that really wowed me. Frankly, I wasn’t expecting much in this debut headset from a company known mostly for making PC cases, but it’s one of the most thoughtfully-designed models that I’ve tried recently. If you’re in the market for an elegant headset that sounds great and docks to recharge (keeping cable clutter to a minimum on your desk), I suggest checking out the Black Friday special on the Scape. The discount on these initially brought them down to $169.99,…
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29 Nov

The Fujifilm X Half is on sale for what it should have originally cost

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Fujifilm knows how to commit to a bit. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Fujifilm’s unusual X Half elicited a lot of feelings from photographers when it came out earlier this year — from “That looks like so much fun,” to “Wait, it costs how much?“ Its $849.95 list price felt way too high for what is, by all accounts, a fun, unserious little point-and-shoot. But its $649 sale price? Much easier to stomach. The X Half comes with a 1-inch sensor, a fixed 32mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens, and a whole lot of nostalgia-inducing features, designed to make it feel…
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