Worldwide smartphone market share remains largely unchanged as Samsung and Apple continue to battle it out for the top spot in global shipments. Partly due to a successful Galaxy Z Fold 7 launch, Samsung holds the top spot.
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The Galaxy S26 might mean a meaningful upgrade for the majority of users, as reports seem to indicate that Samsung plans on using its own M14 display panels, bringing it up to par with the iPhone 17 Pro. Samsung is also using a tech that’s already used in its foldables.
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Many users have been excited about Samsung’s new foldables, but the last expected mouthpiece for Samsung’s praises seems to be Apple. Apple’s official support page on a Chinese social platform has posted a Galaxy Z Flip 7 promo video, very likely by accident.
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Samsung continued to grow its global smartphone sales lead over this past quarter, even as the rest of the market began to experience slowdown amid the looming threat of tariffs from the US.
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Apple today unveiled its new design language, “Liquid Glass,” which will be a core part of the upcoming iOS 26 update, and Samsung didn’t waste a second in poking fun at the changes.
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The latest numbers are in, and Samsung’s lead in the global smartphone market keeps shrinking, with just a few million smartphones and 1% separating Apple from the top spot.
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Earlier this week, Apple’s Beats brand announced a USB-C cable that it is advertising as “universally compatible” and, in a rare event, sees an Android phone in an Apple-made ad.
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One of the downsides of RCS messaging for a while was a lack of support for end-to-end encryption but, now, the GSMA has announced that the latest update to RCS will add the long-awaited security layer, and both Google and Apple will support it.
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Apple just launched its latest app, Apple Invites, which allows for a quick and easy way to send out invitations to an event. But, how does that work for an Android user? We’ve tested out how Apple Invites will work for Android users, and it’s surprisingly well done.
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Samsung has held the crown of the world’s largest smartphone maker for years, but Apple has been challenging that for a while and, in 2024, the iPhone seemingly dethroned the largest Android maker.
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EU regulation has led to Apple being forced to open up iOS in ways that many never expected, but it’s not done just yet. In an effort to ensure “effective interoperability” with other platforms, the EU wants Apple to make native features of iOS being compatible with Android, including the likes of AirDrop and more.
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The early Made by Google event felt like a play to get ahead of the fruit company. Now that the iPhone 16 series has been unveiled — to less than usual fanfare — it proves that Google was right to bring forward the Pixel 9 launch, but let’s delve into the ‘why.’
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One of the things that’s annoyed me most about the iPhone for years now has been the lack of hardware access to the camera app, something that Android phones have been doing for around a decade now. Finally, that’s changing with iPhone 16, and in Apple’s classic fashion, it arrives with some meaningful improvements.
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Samsung has dominated the smartphone market for a while now, and the company is still sitting on that throne. However, Xiaomi is quickly closing in on Apple’s #2 spot on the global market.
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Google spends a huge amount each year to be the default search engine on iOS, but as that play draws scrutiny, the company is working to get iPhone owners using its apps, but is reportedly struggling to do so.
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In case you missed it, Apple announced a ton of new iPhone features at WWDC, though a lot of them are things Android phones can already do.
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With the debut of the new iPad Pro, Apple put out a controversial ad that saw creative tools crushed by a hydraulic press. Now, Samsung is firing back at the ad with a brief Galaxy Tab S9 spot that says “creativity cannot be crushed.”
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AirTag-like trackers are finally coming to Android in the coming weeks and, ahead of that, Apple has finally implemented alerts for “unwanted trackers” in iOS 17.5.
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Apple is expected to be using a third party to power some upcoming AI features on the iPhone, with Google Gemini reportedly being a contender. But, apparently, that deal is still not closed, but one with OpenAI is nearly ready.
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Apple is currently under fire from many regarding its new iPad Pro ad that shows creative items being crushed in a hydraulic press before revealing a new iPad underneath. But, as it turns out, Apple isn’t the first to use this concept – LG did it back in 2008.
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Five years ago today, Google launched the Pixel 3a at I/O 2019 with a cheeky “Purple-ish” color variant and, with its latest batch of iPads, Apple is channeling that color again.
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This week the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging that the company has built and maintains an illegal monopoly. Whether or not Apple actually has a monopoly over Android in the smartphone market is up for the courts to decide, but what’s clear is that Apple really wants one.
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The US Department of Justice has today announced a lawsuit against Apple that alleges the company has built and maintained a smartphone “monopoly” by locking customers in and making experiences worse for rival products and platforms, including ruining the experience of messaging with Android.
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Besides using Gemini to power features in its apps and services, Google offers its LLM to third-party developers. Apple is reportedly in talks with Google to license Gemini for the iPhone.
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