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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Vivo’s X300 Ultra arrives this month.

The flagship launches in China on March 30th, though we don’t know if the promised international launch will be at the same time. We’ve also gotten our first good look at the phone, which includes a snazzy two-tone body. It’ll launch alongside the more affordable X300S, and both phones will support Vivo’s telephoto converter lenses.

Render of Vivo X300 Ultra
Render of Vivo X300s
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Vivo has already revealed the new 400mm telephoto converter attached to the X300 Ultra here.
Image: Vivo
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Here for a good time, not a long time.

Samsung has discontinued its TriFold phone after just a few months on sale, amid speculation that it only ever manufactured a few thousand devices. So long, TriFold, we barely knew ye.

macfixer:

RIP Galaxy Z TriFold

2026 — 2026

🫡🫡🫡

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
AT&T plans to invest $250 billion in building out its network.

The company says it will put the investment toward expanding fiber, 5G home internet, and satellite connectivity across the US over the next five years. It also plans on hiring “thousands” of technicians this year to support the buildout.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
A quarter of iPhones are now made in India.

Bloomberg reports Apple manufactured 55 million iPhones in India in 2025, up from 36 million a year before, following a concerted effort to move production after Trump’s tariffs. Its aim is reportedly to build the 60 million annual US iPhone sales to India by the end of this year.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
The Oppo Find N6 is going international.

Oppo says its latest flagship foldable will be getting a “global launch” on March 17th. A promo for the Find N6 was also posted by Oppo’s official X account, though specific regional availability hasn’t been confirmed. The Find N5’s “global” release never went beyond Asia, will this make it further afield?

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
I charge my phone on a racing car. Do you?

The Infinix Note 60 Ultra, launching today in Malaysia, was codesigned with Italian auto designer Pininfarina. I’m not sure I see much of its influence in the phone’s dot matrix rear display or odd inspirational lockscreen quotes, but the sports car-shaped SIM tool and wireless charger do give off a very specific energy.

Photo of Infinix Note 60 Ultra showing it resting on a car-shaped wireless charger
Photo of Infinix Note 60 Ultra’s car-shaped wireless charger
Photo of Infinix Note 60 Ultra showing a red glowing “taillight”
Photo of Infinix Note 60 Ultra showing a cat on the dot matrix display
Photo of Infinix Note 60 Ultra showing an “inspirational” lockscreen quote
Photo of Infinix Note 60 Ultra showing a car-shaped SIM tool lying on the phone’s back alongside the ejected SIM tray
Screenshot from The Simpsons showing Kirk Van Houten pointing to his race car bed
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The Note 60 Ultra’s race car wireless charger is… unique.
Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Tecno’s impressive modular phone.

It’s just a concept, but it’s fully functional at the big MWC show. Even the mix-and-match magnetic accessories seem to all work on the prototype we tested.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Oppo is going Ultra in Europe too.

Not to be outdone by yesterday’s news that the Vivo X300 Ultra will launch in Europe, Oppo has confirmed its Find X9 Ultra will also get the series’ first release outside China. And… that’s all we know, except that it’s coming “later this year.” Will it beat the Find X9 Pro’s excellent 7,500mAh battery?

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
GrapheneOS and Motorola collaboration could lead to more secure smartphone options.

The privacy and security-focused Android fork currently only has official support for Pixel devices, but that could be changing. Motorola announced on Monday at MWC that it has struck a long-term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to “strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.”

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Four shades of Nothing.

We already knew what the Nothing Phone 4A would look like, including its pretty perfect pink option and new Glyph Bar lighting, but now we’ve seen it in a sharp blue and the inevitable black. We’ll see more, including its Pro sibling, at Nothing’s full launch on Thursday.

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Oh great, here comes 6G

We could be in for some wild stuff come 2030. But is this the 5G hype industrial complex all over again?

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