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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Vapor vs. Zoom.

The latest ads featuring Apple and Google’s mobile flagships could combine for a Nike football cleat and appeared within hours of each other today, before likely going into rotation over the holiday.

Combined screenshot showing Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro vapor chamber on the top, and a billboard trumpeting the Pixel 10 Pro zoom.
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
The Honor 500 looks Air-y familiar.

In Honor’s defense, the China-only 500 and 500 Pro aren’t especially thin phones, so they’re not cribbing on the iPhone Air in that sense. But that camera module has certainly been copying some of Apple’s homework.

Honor 500 and 500 Pro in pink and blue
iPhone Air on a couch cushion
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The huge 8,000mAh batteries in the Honor 500 and 500 Pro will make up for being a little thicker.
Image: Honor
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Robot Phone in real life.

When Honor first revealed its outlandishly named Robot Phone — really a smartphone with a flip-out DJI Osmo Pocket-esque camera arm built into the back — it was only in a slick CGI video. Now it’s shown off prototype hardware at its Honor User Carnival in China, suggesting this concept is one step closer to reality.

Photo of prototype Honor Robot Phone inside a glass box at an event
Photo of prototype Honor Robot Phone inside a glass box at an event
Photo of prototype Honor Robot Phone inside a glass box at an event
Photo of prototype Honor Robot Phone inside a glass box at an event
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The gimbal camera unfolds from the top of the phone.
Photo: 厂长是关同学 / Weibo
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Faster AT&T 5G.

American Telephone & Telegraph says it has deployed the $23 billion worth of mid-band spectrum it acquired from EchoStar to nearly 23,000 cell sites in the continental US, which is now boosting 5G download speeds “by up to 80 percent.” Ya’ll seeing a difference?