Galaxy S24 Ultra Andy Boxall / Digital Trends Sorry for using that tired old clickbait headline, but in a roundabout way, it’s true. You genuinely won’t believe that I’m about to tell you something so headbangingly obvious about smartphone batteries. Here we go. I’ve found that when I use my phone less, the battery lasts … Read more
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra battery test results In this test conducted by YouTuber XEETCHARGE, we see various long and short-form videos, X (app), games, video recording through default camera apps, and synthetic benchmark apps like 3DMark run on all 4 phones. At about 8 hours and 10 minutes mark, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (with a … Read more
Galaxy S24 Ultra (left) and iPhone 15 Pro Max Digital Trends Samsung has just released its flagship 2024 smartphone lineup in a surprisingly early Galaxy Unpacked event. While the usual assortment of rumors left us with few doubts about what was coming in the Galaxy S24 lineup overall, the premium Galaxy S24 Ultra is still … Read more
Joe Maring / Digital Trends It’s early January. You know what that means, don’t you? We’re curing hangovers from New Year’s Eve parties, committing to a new set of resolutions, and trying to remember how to work after multiple long weekends. For folks in the tech space, it also means that it’s time for the … Read more
Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, has lived in the shadow of Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa for a while. But recently, it proved more useful to me than any of its rivals by helping me out of an impossibly difficult situation. What Siri did was listen and, crucially, hear, — which … Read more
Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends Over the past few years, Apple has been leaning more into pushing the pricey “Pro” iPhones as a creative person’s best friend. Some of the marketing claims don’t sound that outlandish. For example, Cinematic Mode really blew my mind, as long as I had stable hands or a gimbal at … Read more
Christine Romero-Chan / Digital Trends When Apple launched the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, Apple decided to get rid of a hardware feature that has been around since the original iPhone in 2007. The change that I’m referring to is the replacement of the silent/ring toggle in favor of the new Action … Read more
