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Phone Cases Are Boring, This One Puts a Living Terrarium Inside
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (264+ words) Phone cases have largely settled into two camps: the ones that protect your phone without anyone noticing they exist, and the ones that make a statement with printed graphics, colors, or textures. Neither approach has found a way to make…...
Pixel 11 Leak: Tensor G6, 50 MP Base Cam, and Nothing-inspired "Pixel Glow
4+ day, 32+ min ago (223+ words) Image Credits: Sarang Sheth August will fill in the software story, the pricing, and whatever Google has planned for Pixel Glow beyond what a leaked render can show. Given how completely the rest of the phone has already been mapped,…...
vivo X300 FE Review: The Compact Flagship That Earns Its Keep
1+ week, 1+ day ago (698+ words) That's the gap the vivo X300 FE is aiming to fill. It pairs a 6. 31-inch flat display with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset, a 6, 500 m Ah battery, and a ZEISS co-engineered camera system, all within a compact design that stays remarkably light…...
This Google-Free Phone Is IP68-Rated and Has a Replaceable Battery
1+ week, 2+ day ago (555+ words) Most smartphones ship with an assumption baked in: that you're fine with your data running through Google's servers, your habits feeding its algorithms, and its apps occupying your home screen whether you asked for them or not. Privacy-first phones have…...
HONOR 600 Review: Looks Premium, Lasts all day, and Doesn't Cost a Fortune
1+ week, 3+ day ago (562+ words) HONOR's response to that trend with the HONOR 600 is to squeeze as much premium character as possible into a phone that doesn't demand a premium sacrifice from your wallet. On paper, it looks like a solid upper-midrange device. In person,…...
PITAKA Asked the World to Design Its Aramid Phone Cases. Here Are Some of the Best Entries So Far
1+ week, 2+ day ago (158+ words) EDC gear is converging. The knife becomes a multitool, the multitool becomes a bit driver, the bit driver becomes a pry bar, and somewhere in" Cyberpunk stopped being a design aesthetic and became a lifestyle signifier somewhere between Blade Runner…...
Kit Kat's New Wrapper Actually Kills Your Phone Signal Completely
1+ week, 4+ day ago (372+ words) How they did it was by adding multiple layers to the special packaging. The copper layer is the primary conductive material, while the polyester layers give it structural integrity. The polypropylene outer coating provides durability and everyday usability, while the…...
ecal x Google Just Imagined 10 Phones Beyond the Slab
1+ week, 4+ day ago (245+ words) Yanko Design At ECAL's collaboration with Google's Industrial Design team, the smartphone is no longer treated as a fixed icon of consumer tech. In A Message from Tomorrow, it becomes something far more fluid, a design question that deserves to…...
A "Social Only" Smartphone inspired by the i Pod lets you like, share, and scroll using hardware buttons
1+ week, 5+ day ago (59+ words) Go ahead and open your screen-time and see what the most-used apps are. Mine, by far, are Instagram and You Tube. Tik-tok's blocked where I live, so that's probably the only reason I don't have it there, but I log…...
PITAKA Is Letting the World Design Its Next Phone Cases, Royalties Included. Here's How To Participate
2+ week, 1+ day ago (509+ words) Yanko Design Tech accessories have hit a curious inflection point. The last year trained us to worship thinness and glass, but somewhere between the tenth identical "Air" or "Edge" smartphone and the fifteenth glossy case, a countermovement quietly took root....