The Rabbit R1 recently went viral with its post-smartphone design and voice-driven interface – and now a minimalist concept phone has similarly promised to save us from endless doomscrolling. The suitably named Minimal Phone, which will be part of a crowdfunding campaign that starts in early February, looks like a cross […]
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At CES 2024, I watched a Samsung representative open the shiny Flex In & Out Flip concept device and fold it in both directions. Unlike the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and other flip phones you can buy today, it folds completely backwards so that you use the phone’s 6.7-inch screen even when […]
Unless you can find the Pixel 6 series for $300 or less, you’re better off buying one of the newer phones we recommend above. Any older Pixel is not worth buying anymore. (The Pixel 5’s support window just ended.) You can still find some of them at various retailers, but […]
Foldable smartphones have mostly settled into book-style and flip phone form factors, but Motorola is still toying around with new ideas, including an “adaptive” foldable that can, among other things, be worn on your wrist. Shown off at Lenovo Tech World today, the “Adaptive Display Concept” is Motorola’s latest idea […]
Lenovo held its Tech World 2023 expo yesterday, with Motorola taking a second stab at a flexible smartphone concept that can be wrapped around the wrist like a bracelet, arched on a table top or stood on its own base. This is not the first time parent company Lenovo has […]
Zero judgment here—we all are victims of mindless scrolling. It’s practically muscle memory at this point. It starts with pulling out your smartphone and typically ends with perusing social media until you’ve lost all sense of time and space. However, we’re not here to bore you—we know first hand that […]
Chinese technology brand Honor has unveiled the Honor V Purse, a foldable concept phone that was designed to look like a handbag and features fixtures that allow straps and chains to be attached to it. Honor V Purse was one of two phones showcased by Honor at IFA 2023 in […]
Motorola made a big impression in 2020 with its clamshell-folding Razr, and it’s taken the flexible display to new heights at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Motorola rollable phone concept has a display that wraps around the bottom of the phone. That rolled-up screen can then automatically […]
This story is part of our end-of-year series This Year in Gear rounding up the most notable releases of 2022. For more stories like this, click here. 2022 is about to be in the books. Looking back, there were a bunch of smartphones (both iPhone and Android) announced — as […]
