Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that the next version of Apple’s ultra-slim device could arrive in spring 2027, echoing a previous report from The Information. Apple is reportedly working to improve the iPhone Air’s battery life and may add an ultrawide camera.
We’ve had unboxings, hands-ons, and teardowns, but Bloomberg is the first publication to give the T1 Phone a detailed review. It might be kinder than you expect — Verge alumnus Chris Welch admits the specs aren’t bad — but still reaches the obvious conclusion: “It’s easy to find a better phone than this.”
Pixel foldables get the new feature first, which is being added to Android 17 alongside native controller remapping, but only rolls out “in the coming months.” We’ve seen control options like this in other foldables before, but it’s welcome to see Google bake it into the OS.
“This is just typical phone company stuff,” says Seth Green, reprising his role as “Scotty don’t.” Some of the Powers band is back together, including Mike Myers as “Dr. Evil,” Mindy Sterling as “Frau Farbissina,” and Rob Lowe as “No. 2.” (Lowe still pulls off the image and likeness of the original No. 2, Robert Wagner.) Stay tuned as we dissect Verizon’s new phone plans, which, weirdly, this is all about.
The X Fold 6 doesn’t launch until later this month, but we already know it’ll be compatible with the X300 Ultra’s 200mm telephoto lens. It’ll have a meaty camera of its own too, with a 200-megapixel, 1/1.4-inch main camera and a 50-megapixel, 1/1.95-inch telephoto.
It’s still unclear what the T1 Phone even is, or if it will ever ship.
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But the bigger battery is the only one that matters.
Quinn Nelson is one of the lucky (?) few to actually get their hands on the T1. The Trump Mobile emails kept going to spam, the site is broken, and a customer service agent asked for his password over the phone. Spoiler: Things didn’t get better once he turned it on.
If you’re in the US, you can now find the Nothing Phone 4A Pro, Phone 3, Headphone A, and Ear 3 in person at over 500 Best Buy stores across the country, giving you a chance to toy around with the devices before you buy one.
Dummy lenses are my least favorite design trend in cheap Android phones, so I have mixed feelings about the new Tecno Pova 8 5G. It has what looks like a third camera lens, but is really a Nothing-esque dot-matrix display for alerts and icons. That’s an improvement, I guess?
As spotted by The Mobile Report for new customers on T-Mobile’s “Rely” 5G home internet plan:
Hidden in the FAQ on the Home Internet plans page, T-Mobile details that the Rely plan will now have a maximum download speed of 354 mbps. All the other plans (and the prior version of Rely) lists no maximum speed, and instead offers a “typical” speed listing of 170 – 498 mbps.
In an 8-1 ruling, the justices found that the Federal Communications Commission’s in-house process to levy fines doesn’t violate companies’ right to a jury trial. The case involved AT&T and Verizon’s challenges to fines they faced during the Biden administration over allegations they illegally shared customers’ location without consent.
Luxury / trashy phone brand Vertu is back with its first book-style foldable, the Alphafold, an “AI command center” for busy rich people. It sounds like it’s found its audience.
Akarain8:
Finally a phone that fits my lifestyle at the intersection of Texan ranch owner, middle-eastern oil baron, and YouTube AI ‘content creator’.
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According to leaker and journalist Sonny Dickson, that is, who shared photos of iPhone 18 dummy units — though these look like Pro models, due this fall, with the regular 18 likely launching next spring. Dickson got last year’s iPhone 17 colors almost dead-on, meaning this brand new cherry color is probably accurate.
The Alphafold costs $6,880 (and that’s if you want to slum it with a calfskin finish), with more expensive options including alligator leather, gold, and diamonds. That gets you a year-old Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip, a five-megapixel telephoto (yes, five, not 50), and an AI agent called Hermes.
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It’s a gorgeous phone with excellent battery life, but sometimes standing out isn’t so great.
YouTuber Coffeezilla first reported the leak of customer details, now apparently fixed. Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien has now confirmed to The Verge there was a breach, which he blames on “a third-party platform provider.”
“The impacted information appears to be limited to certain customer details, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, order identifiers and mobile phone numbers.
Out of an abundance of caution, our third-party platform provider has implemented additional safeguards and enhanced monitoring measures while the matter continues to be investigated.”
Update: Added comment from Trump Mobile’s CEO.
The $500 phone-for-your-phone will now ship with a 4,450mAh battery and the new Android 17, reports Droid Life — good and unexpected upgrades over 4,000mAh and Android 16. Shipping in Q4.
The T1 Phone was supposed to start shipping last week. But our review units haven’t budged, and I’ve so far failed to find anyone online claiming their phone has shipped either. Maybe they’ve had to delay the launch to fix the flag.
The cheaper, performance-focused follow-ups to the Xiaomi 17 series launches on May 28th. We don’t know exactly where yet, but expect an international launch. The T phones usually drop a couple camera specs in exchange for bigger batteries and cheaper prices than the main flagship line.
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Back in 2000, people were legitimately wondering if anyone would want to use the internet on their phone. At a time when i-mode phones connected to primitive mobile-specific pages were cutting-edge, and the concept of a smartphone wasn’t really in the public consciousness, the skepticism is understandable.
