You may not like it, but big phone and tiny keyboard is what peak performance looks like.
CEO Carl Pei had previously teased the date in a playful response to Apple’s recently announced event on the 4th, but now it’s official. With no Phone 4 this year, the 4A, and likely 4A Pro, should be Nothing’s biggest releases in 2026.
And neither one had noticeable AI. T-Mobile brought the actual Backstreet Boys in, while Coinbase broke things up with a weird karaoke-style presentation of “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” to highlight its crypto exchange without actually mentioning crypto.
The partnership will allow AT&T to use Amazon Leo — the ecommerce giant’s low Earth orbit satellite network — to deliver fixed broadband services to businesses. Amazon launched its gigabit-speed Leo Ultra antenna last November, but it’s only available for commercial use for now.
The acquisition includes “substantially all” of Lumen’s consumer fiber business, according to AT&T’s announcement. The company says it will add more than 1 million fiber customers across Denver, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and other cities as a result of the acquisition.
9to5Google spotted reports across Reddit that Pixel phones’ Take a Message live voicemail transcription is leaking audio from the recipient’s microphone back to the caller. It doesn’t seem to be affecting every Pixel — 9to5Google couldn’t replicate the bug — and could be limited to older handsets. Google says it’s investigating.
Redmagic’s new 11 Air just launched in China. Sounds thin and light, right? Well, sort of — at 8mm thick and 207g it’s smaller than Redmagic’s liquid-cooled 11 Pro, but a far cry from the 5.6mm, 165g iPhone Air. Still, not bad for a phone with a 7,000mAh battery and built-in fan.
The new “conversational” Bixby sounds similar to the one already rolled out on some Samsung TVs, bolstered by web search powered by Perplexity. It’s available in beta in One UI 8.5, which we’re expecting to launch alongside the Galaxy S26 series some time next month.
That’s how Google Play’s “chief product explainer” Matthew Forsythe describes the in-development Android sideloading workflow designed to allow “experienced users” to install apps from unverified developers, with multiple warnings to explain the risks.
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If you were tempted by the Unihertz Titan 2 when the Android-running 5G BlackBerry clone was announced last June but wanted a more svelte device to slip into your pocket, a successor is enroute. The company plans to announce a new smaller and sleeker Titan 2 Elite version at MWC in March 2026.
