Samsung usually offers pretty substantial trade-ins for its new folding phones. I have an old Galaxy Z Fold 3 that’s held up really well, and I held firm on trading in for the Galaxy Z Fold 6. I think at one point, Samsung was offering up to $1,000 for it. Will the same offer stand this year?
Survival Unit is a “survival horror strategy” game for smartphones. That’s about all we know so far, apart from this teaser image that reveals it’ll be set in the timeline’s early days while the Umbrella Corporation is still around.
It’s being co-developed by Aniplex Inc and Joycity Corporation, and we’ll find out more when the trailer drops at 6PM ET on July 10th, including whether it’ll tie into next year’s Resident Evil Requiem.
Swiss minimalist phone manufacturer Punkt says it’s working with German company Gigaset on a line of “fully European-built mobile devices,” with the first to launch in Q4 this year.
Punkt makes both smartphones and feature phones, and we don’t know which it’ll be making in Europe, nor how much of the supply chain will be European. But it’s one up on the Trump T1 Phone, which no longer claims to be made in the USA.
Android Headlines says it has the specs for the two new Pro Pixels, a week after dropping the details of the base model.
It sounds like not much is changing from last year on the hardware side, but the XL model will reportedly start from 256GB of storage, double the 10 Pro’s 128GB, suggesting Google is trying the same ploy Apple used to justify the iPhone 15 Pro Max price jump in 2023.
[androidheadlines.com]
This week on The Vergecast, we revisited how the flagship Trump Mobile phone suddenly swapped out its “Made in the USA” claim for “Designed with American values in mind.”
We already had our guesses about who might really make the T1, but with new specs and screen size, we might have to do another round of investigation.
But it’s not for the faint of heart.
In an update on Monday, Google says Chrome 138 is the last version of the browser that will support Android 8 and Android 9, both of which were released over five years ago. The browser will continue to work on these versions, but it won’t receive additional updates.
Chrome 139 and up will require at least Android 10 when it launches in August.
We already got a glimpse at what seems to be the repair-friendly Fairphone 6 earlier this month, but now Winfuture is back with another leak that shows how you can remove the lower half of the two-part back cover to reveal the phone’s battery.
As reported by Winfuture, you still have to unscrew the battery, but it’s not glued in, making it far easier to replace. Fairphone is expected to launch the new device on June 25th.
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.
[actionnetwork.org]
Our money’s on one of these Chinese ODMs, but which phone is it?
