The Magic V5 will launch in China on July 2nd, and we know almost nothing about it except that Honor says it will be the slimmest around, allowing the company to reclaim the super-thin title it held with last year’s Magic V3.
That means it must be thinner than the Oppo Find N5’s 8.93mm when shut, but will it beat Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7, also launching in July and tipped to be slim?
The anti-Elon Musk protest organizers sent a letter to T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert demanding he “cut ties to Starlink,” citing T-Mobile’s use of the SpaceX subsidiary to power its T-Satellite direct-to-cell satellite messaging service:
By contracting with Starlink, T-Mobile is funding Elon Musk’s attacks on democracy in the US and around the world. We’re demanding T-Mobile pick a side. If they choose to continue in partnership with Starlink, they’re complicit in his assault on working people and his support of far-right authoritarian governments around the world.
The protesters are hinting that they’ll boycott T-Mobile if the company doesn’t comply. And given the brand damage that Tesla Takedown has inflicted on Musk’s company, it’s not a threat that T-Mobile can take lightly.
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Our money’s on one of these Chinese ODMs, but which phone is it?
They’re where a spokesperson says the new Trump Mobile T1 Phone will be manufactured, according to The Wall Street Journal:
“Manufacturing for the new phone will be in Alabama, California and Florida.”
We still think that pledge to make a $499 phone in the US in a couple of months sounds impossible, and note the “will be” up above: Eric Trump has admitted that “eventually” the phones can be built in the USA, which raises some obvious questions about what’s happening right now.
Founder Carl Pei had already teased as much, but now it’s official: when the phone launches next month it’ll go on sale at Amazon and Nothing’s own store. It won’t be available direct from carriers, but will support AT&T and T-Mobile, 4G and 5G. The same was true of 2023’s Phone 2, and that was mostly fine on Verizon too.
Oh, and don’t worry — Nothing’s first over-ear headphones are getting a North American release too.
Vivo claims its X Fold 5 has achieved an Android first: interoperability with the Apple Watch. According to product manager Han Boxiao the watch can display calls and texts from the X Fold 5, and sync health data. The phone can also receive calls and texts sent to an iPhone, access iCloud, and extend the display of a Mac.
How? We have no idea, but hopefully we’ll find out when the phone launches this month.
