Category: Gadgets

When people ask me why pay for an expensive smartphone, I answer with one word: optical zoom. Not the processor, not the amount of memory, not the body materials, and...

I’ve already talked about the wireless charger I’ve been using since last fall, and it still lives on my desk. But a single iPhone stand hasn’t been enough for a...

Xiaomi has officially unveiled the Redmi Note 17, and while the company is fine-tuning its new HyperOS 4 shell for its smartphones, the new device itself turned out to be...

Samsung’s phone shell adds many convenient features, like those that came with the One UI 8.5 update, but some of them run in the background and drain the battery even...

A familiar situation for everyone: you’re capturing a great moment at a concert, and then you realize that for stories you needed a vertical video, while a horizontal one would...

Recently, I was putting together a rating of the best value smartphones in 2026 and caught myself increasingly recommending 2024-2025 models rather than new releases. This is no coincidence. The...

Earlier this year, we published a ranking of smartphone manufacturers in Russia. As it turned out, aside from the Korean company Samsung and American Apple, all leading positions are occupied...

Every time someone’s birthday or a holiday approaches, I catch myself thinking: I’m not going to give yet another mug that says “World’s Best Dad.” You always want something practical...

Rating photos with stars right in the Photos app on iPhone wasn’t possible before. Now it is: the star rating feature has appeared in iOS 27 and works exactly like...

You can charge an iPhone from another iPhone, but it won’t work with all models. This feature is called reverse charging, where one smartphone gives energy to another. Below we’ll...