Yesterday leaker Evan Blass shared renders of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A56, and today he’s followed up with the similar looking Galaxy A36. It has the same redesigned camera module and raised power and volume button island.
We’re more confident the A36 will launch Stateside — while the A55 skipped the US, the A35 launched as the best phone for under $400.
Sony sold 9.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide during the final three months of 2024, more than a million up on the previous year, bucking its downward trend. It’s now shipped over 75 million PS5 consoles since launch. Software sales and subscriber numbers are up too, with profits at the gaming division up by 37 percent overall.
Sony didn’t announce how many of those sales were the $699 PS5 Pro, which launched in November.
[sony.com]
The Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 offers the usual performance bumps, but the big change is support for on-device generative AI — a first for the Snapdragon 6 line, which usually targets phones priced at $200-400.
Oppo, Realme, and Honor have already pledged to launch phones with the new chip in the “coming months.”
The Google AI assistant’s Deep Research mode now works on both Android and iPhone, though is still exclusive to paying Gemini Advanced subscribers. The mode, which can produce relatively detailed research reports, launched as a web-only option in December. It expanded to Android last week and iOS yesterday.
ChatGPT has its own deep research feature, which we tested last week to mixed results.
[9to5google.com]
Boom’s XB-1 test craft has flown at supersonic speeds for a second time following its first flight last month, and this time nobody heard a thing. Microphones below the flight path confirmed no sonic boom was audible at the ground.
That matters because FAA regulations ban supersonic flight over land due to the risk of sonic boom damage. Boom hopes boomless flight could change that, and already has Elon Musk’s ear.
[boomsupersonic.com]
Here’s our first look at this year’s Motorola Razr Plus, courtesy of Android Headlines, and it looks an awful lot like last year’s Motorola Razr Plus. The design appears just about identical, so the only thing that’s really new here is the dark green color with a stitched faux leather finish.
Last year’s Razr phones launched in June, but apparently this year’s models could arrive much sooner.
