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Memory has overtaken the processor and display to become the single most expensive component in a smartphone, Nothing CEO Carl Pei warned this week, and he says phone prices are going up and will keep rising into next year. That claim matters beyond Nothing's own lineup: independent market data from IDC puts the memory shortage at the center of what it calls the steepest smartphone market contraction in recorded history.

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Peacock is launching its vertical video feed in the Peacock app, rolling out original Bravo microdramas and a swipeable short-form section built into the mobile app. According to Peacock, the two Bravo series are the first official originals in the microdrama format announced by a major U.S. entertainment streaming platform.

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A new leak suggests the iPhone 18 Pro aluminum casing will carry forward the same alloy Apple introduced with the iPhone 17 Pro, and if accurate, that means inheriting both the thermal performance gains and the cosmetic wear susceptibility that came with it. Leaks from Fixed Focus Digital described the 18 Pro as "still aluminum alloy, with really good heat dissipation" and the same color scratch risk as its predecessor.

Fox Corp. agreed Monday to acquire Roku for approximately $22 billion, gaining a foothold in the operating system running inside more than 100 million streaming households globally. As Deadline framed it yesterday: "Fox Corporation is buying an operating system." Analysts and executives have described it as a distribution and ad-tech play rather than a content-library acquisition, and the numbers bear that out.

The iPhone 18 release date delay is shaping up to be the biggest structural change to Apple's product calendar in years. If the reporting holds, there will be no standard iPhone 18 this fall. For the first time since Apple unified its Pro and non-Pro launches in 2019, the base model appears to be sitting out the September event entirely, pushed to spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18e, per MacRumors last month.

Tesla CarPlay support has long looked like a business decision dressed up as a product omission. For more than a decade, Tesla resisted CarPlay while competitors leaned on Apple and Google to compensate for weaker native platforms a dynamic that ABI Research noted last December when it confirmed Tesla was reportedly testing native CarPlay integration for the first time. But reporting over the past year points to something more specific than corporate reluctance: Tesla's driver-assistance...

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone turns one year old today. Here is the full ledger: the device has cleared FCC authorization, PTCRB certification, and Google Play certification. NBC tested its basic functions. Journalists have held it at events. And as of this writing, The Verge cannot identify a single ordinary customer, someone who placed a preorder through the public process and paid a $100 deposit, who has received one.

The debate over Apple AI privacy risks in Europe is being framed as a Brussels problem. Apple used part of its WWDC 2026 keynote to announce a product it isn't shipping: Siri AI, the most capable version of its assistant, demonstrated at WWDC pulling a FIFA World Cup schedule from the internet, searching a user's Messages history for a recipe, drafting a party invitation, and preparing to send it to a group chat, all without the user opening a single app. That assistant will not reach iPhones...

Apple is overhauling how Reminders accepts input in iOS 27. Instead of scanning typed text for recognizable keywords, Apple Intelligence now reads a full plain-language description and populates all the relevant metadata you mention — date, time, location without requiring you to confirm each value individually.

Strava rolled out a broad set of new hiking features covering route planning, offline navigation, off-route alerts, and route following on Apple Watch. The features that matter most on an unfamiliar trail, planning where to go, staying on route, and navigating without cell service all sit behind the subscription paywall. Free users get a more capable recording screen and better social tools. Subscribers get the navigation suite.

Apple has reportedly been exploring an autocorrect upgrade for iOS 27 that would go beyond fixing misspellings to suggest alternative words as you type. The approach is comparable to how tools like Grammarly surface vocabulary rewrites, 9to5Mac reported in late March. No final decision on shipping the feature has been made.

Tamil Nadu's pollution regulator has given one of Apple's most important Indian suppliers a formal ultimatum: explain alleged groundwater contamination near its Hosur iPhone parts plant, or face a power cutoff and forced closure. The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board served Tata Electronics a show-cause notice last month under India's Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, demanding a response within 15 days, per The New Indian Express this week. Tata says its own accredited...

Huawei reportedly unveiled HarmonyOS 7, a major upgrade to its self-developed mobile OS that the company is framing as its entry into what it calls the "agent era" positioning the platform less as a conventional Android rival than as an AI-agent system designed to coordinate complex tasks autonomously across devices. The announcement puts HarmonyOS 7 features directly in competition with Apple's iOS 27, according to South China Morning Post.

Waze is starting to show traffic light icons for some drivers, bringing the navigation app closer to Google Maps and Apple Maps on one basic road cue: knowing when a signalized intersection is ahead. The feature is now appearing for more users after months of testing, but it is not showing up for everyone yet, according to 9to5Google.

An An unreleased Apple Watch anniversary band has surfaced outside Apple, and only four units are known to have surfaced publicly. The Sport Band is engraved with "2014–2024: Ten Years of Apple Watch," two units sold on eBay still sealed in Apple's internal sample packaging, and a public release now looks highly unlikely.

Strava was recently down, with the company confirming an outage affecting login, the main website, and the My Routes feature. Investigation is ongoing. No cause or resolution timeline has been provided.

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This guide gets you to three decisions: which robot vacuum fits your specific home, whether Matter integration is worth paying for in your situation, and how to wire everything into a maintenance system using Apple Home, the vendor app, and a few targeted utilities. The best robot vacuum for Apple Home is not necessarily the one with the best Apple integration and that distinction shapes every recommendation below.

Siri has been a punchline for so long that skepticism feels like the responsible position. So here's the direct answer to the question everyone's asking after WWDC26 this week: is Siri actually good now? Not yet. But for the first time, there's a credible structural argument that it could be and that argument is worth taking seriously, with clear eyes about where it breaks down.

Close your MacBook mid-download and it goes to sleep. Open it again and the task is dead. Most people's first response is to install a "keep awake" app, and most of those apps won't help, because they're solving the wrong problem. If you're searching for how to keep MacBook awake with lid closed, the answer depends on which of three distinct problems you actually have: open-lid idle sleep, Apple's supported closed-lid desk mode, or an unsupported battery-only workaround.

Two Apple Photos executives gave their clearest public account yet of what the iOS 27 Photos AI features are built to do. The word they kept returning to was "refine." The flagship tool, Spatial Reframing, can shift the apparent camera angle of a photo after the fact and change where a subject appears to be looking. That's a harder sell for "refinement" than Apple's framing acknowledges.

Apple Music, Fitness, and Health have all gained landscape orientation support in iOS 27, ending years of portrait-only layouts for three of the company's most-used first-party apps, Macworld reported this week. For everyday users, that's a straightforward fix. The more significant story is what sits behind it: the same beta that quietly rotated those apps also contains framework strings referencing fold states and display angles, neither of which maps to any device Apple currently sells.

If you pay $8 a month for ChatGPT's Go tier, you still see ads. That single fact does more to clarify the ChatGPT ads vs Apple Intelligence comparison than any feature benchmark or privacy policy ever could. One company collects its AI return when you buy a new iPhone. The other has started collecting it mid-conversation.

Best Buy Canada's product page for the Google Home Speaker lists June 25 as the release date, according to 9to5Google earlier this month. Google has not confirmed the date. It does not appear on the American Best Buy site or the Google Store. That single retailer listing is, as 9to5Google noted, the only specific date signal available for a product Google publicly announced in October 2025 with a Spring 2026 target and a $99.99 price.

Huawei has set a firm date. The company published an official notice today confirming it will raise prices on its "intelligent collaboration products" starting July 1, 2026, citing memory chip shortages, rising component costs, and AI-driven chip demand as pressures it can no longer absorb, according to Huawei Central. That notice covers smartphones, tablets, and other devices across Huawei's lineup, and moves the Huawei price hike July 2026 from executive speculation to a dated, company-issued...

iOS 27 gives the Apple TV Remote a dedicated Home Screen icon for the first time since the app was pulled from the App Store in 2020. Users can add the Apple TV Remote to their iPhone Home Screen with a simple drag from Spotlight or the App Library, no Settings configuration required. The change ships in the current developer beta, as MacRumors reported this week.

iOS 27 adds two genuinely different ways to create custom iPhone wallpapers: one that generates a brand-new image from a text description, and one that expands an existing photo to fit the Lock Screen naturally. This is a pre-release guide to both. The step sequences are reconstructed from WWDC materials, Apple developer documentation, and pre-release reporting; exact UI labels may shift before the final build ships this fall.

The Spotify disco ball icon fix is now live on iPhone. The familiar flat green circle is back in the App Store today, 25 days after Spotify publicly told users the standard icon would return "next week." The update is available now, according to 9to5Mac.

The "which came first?" Wikipedia quiz is real. It's just not listed for iPhone. Wikimedia's own experiments page shows the daily historical facts game as Android only, with no iPhone version in any published materials, per the Wikimedia Foundation. A separate Wikimedia game is playable on mobile devices in a browser, but it's a navigation challenge, not a history quiz. If you're searching for one and land on the other, you'll know immediately they aren't the same thing.

Apple is moving Visual Intelligence out of a hidden gesture and into a named mode inside the Camera app with iOS 27, making a capability that has existed since iPhone 16 actually discoverable. The iOS 27 Camera Control improvement gives the feature a dedicated Siri mode in the mode selector alongside Photo, Video, and Portrait, according to MacRumors' hands-on developer beta coverage three days ago.

Apple Mail's search has been quietly failing users for years. Not dramatically, not in ways that make headlines, but consistently enough that most people stopped trusting it and started working around it. The iOS 27 Apple Mail search upgrade doesn't add a clever new button to the app. It claims to fix the underlying engine. That distinction is what makes it worth paying attention to.

Murena launched /e/OS 4.0 today with the company's most direct attempt yet to address the practical obstacle behind most failed attempts to leave Google: not finding a different phone, but untangling a decade of email, contacts, Drive files, and account relationships from Google's infrastructure. The release lowers that barrier. How much, and for whom, depends on what you need from your phone after the switch.

iFixit tore down a Trump Mobile T1 on Thursday and removed any remaining ambiguity about the phone's origins: the Trump Mobile T1 HTC U24 Pro connection goes deeper than cosmetics. Technicians pulled the mainboard from an HTC U24 Pro, placed it into the T1's chassis, and powered it on. It booted, according to Android Authority's coverage of the iFixit findings. The hardware is interchangeable.

Google confirmed Wednesday that a Play Store bug causing crashes on Wear OS smartwatches has been fixed, but the Pixel Watch Play Store crash fix has only been confirmed for Pixel Watch devices. Galaxy Watch owners reported identical behavior and have received no equivalent confirmation from Google or Samsung.