Saturday, July 4, 2026

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

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vivo X300e key specs surface, expected with SD8 Gen 5 SoC and a huge battery

Vivo has already released a bunch of vivo X300 phones and it's seemingly going for a sixth release under the X300 series and it's called X300e. We first heard about the vivo X300e back in February thanks to a leaked IMEI number in the GSMA database. And now, the well-known Digital Chat Station tipster from Weibo revealed most of the handset's hardware. vivo X300 FE The vivo X300e is said to offer a 6.59-inch OLED screen with flat design, while a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset is tasked to run the show, same as the vivo X300 FE. The camera system is expected to cover all bases with a...



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Check out the blind flagship camera test we did with Versus

We invited our colleagues from Versus to do a blind video test with one of the top-tier flagships of 2026 - the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, the Pixel 10 Pro XL and the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Will from our video team and Olive from Versus sit down and go through a series of blind video tests in an attempt to guess which video belongs to which phone and also share their opinions on which phone takes the best videos. This video blind test is an extensive one, though. The three phones go head-to-head in various scenarios like indoor and outdoor daylight scenes, portrait videos, zooming,...



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Samsung starts testing One UI 9 for more devices as we inch closer to its official debut

Samsung released the Android 16-based One UI 8.5 stable update for the Galaxy A26 in May, and now we learn the Korean brand has started working on Android 17-based One UI 9 for this smartphone. That's not the only Galaxy device Samsung has started developing One UI 9 for, though. You can check the table below for the new list of Galaxy devices being tested with One UI 9. Model Firmware Region Samsung Galaxy A26 A266MUBU9DZF1 - Samsung Galaxy A36 A366BXXUADZG1 Europe Samsung Galaxy A37 ...



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Friday, July 3, 2026

vivo X500 tipped to feature a 50MP main rear camera

vivo is expected to unveil the vivo X500, X500 Pro, and the X500 Pro Max in China later this year, likely around September. Ahead of the rumored launch, new details about the base X500 rear camera setup have now surfaced online. According to tipster Digital Chat Station, the vivo X500 will ditch the 200MP primary camera found on its predecessor, the vivo X300. Instead, the upcoming flagship is tipped to feature a 50MP Sony sensor measuring 1/1.28 inches. vivo X300 offers a 200MP main rear camera The handset is also tipped to feature a 50MP ultrawide camera and a 64MP periscope...



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Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro and Galaxy S27 Ultra to get a new selfie camera

Earlier today we found out that the entire Galaxy S27 family is rumored to have the Privacy Display feature that made its debut on the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Now, a new rumor brings some news about the Galaxy S27 Pro and Galaxy S27 Ultra, specifically their selfie camera. This will allegedly be a new 16MP one. The source of this information assumes that it might be a square sensor, emulating what Apple's done in the iPhone 17 series, but that's just speculation at the moment. The S27 and S27+ also getting the new sensor isn't entirely ruled out, but it's not clear whether that will happen just...



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Google loses final appeal at Europe's high court, to pay €4.1 billion fine

Google has lost its final appeal to the European Commission's €4.1 billion fine from 2018. The appeal was Google's last chance and was presented at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe's highest court. The record-breaking fine sat at €4.34 (later reduced to €4.1) was imposed on Google by the European Union's executive arm, the European Commission, back in 2018. The EC found that Google was abusing Android's mobile dominance and giving its own apps an unfair advantage by requiring phone makers to pre-install Google Search, Chrome, and the Play Store. The EU sees it as Google's...



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