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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...

Samsung has added a One UI 9 network speed indicator to the Galaxy status bar through an updated QuickStar Good Lock module, and both Android Authority and Sammy Fans confirmed the feature today through hands-on testing on Galaxy S26 Ultra hardware. The catch: it requires One UI 9, Samsung's Good Lock app, and the QuickStar plugin, in that order. None of that chain is available to most Galaxy owners yet, and the feature is off by default even for those who qualify.

Some YouTube Shorts users have opened the app this week to find the dislike button gone from the right-side action rail. No thumbs-down, no error message, no explanation. Recent reporting indicates it's not a bug but a live interface experiment, one that pulls the YouTube Shorts dislike button out of plain sight and routes it through an extra menu tap.

Google began notifying users this week that a new setting called Google Search Services History will govern how the company saves and uses the media submitted through Search. The change affects photos taken with Google Lens, recordings from the real-time Search Live tool, voice queries, spoken phrases entered into Translate, and uploaded files and video, The Verge reported Wednesday.

Google is rolling out a Gemini for Home smart display update in Google Home version 4.18, adding visual hourly weather forecasts, natural-language media browsing, and conversational news to Nest Hub displays. The changes are rolling out to Early Access users and may not be available to everyone immediately. Performance improvements — making responses faster — are included in the same release.

A new Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro battery leak suggests the rumored flagship could pack a 5,000mAh cell matching the Galaxy S26 Ultra's capacity in a noticeably smaller body. Tipster kro (@kro_itnyang) shared display and battery details via Digital Trends this week, adding to reports suggesting Samsung may expand its Galaxy S27 lineup from three models to four when it launches in early 2027.

Google announced at I/O last month that Search will automatically generate interactive visual tools, including diagrams, graphs, simulations, and custom interfaces, directly inside search results for all users, free of charge, later this summer. This is not a separate app or a paid feature. Search itself will assemble these outputs in response to ordinary queries, according to Google's I/O announcement.

Some Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 owners are reporting eSIM failures ranging from activation problems to severe lockouts, and Google is reportedly aware of the issue, but has not confirmed a fix timeline.

Apple is reportedly building a photo reframing tool for iOS 27 that would let users shift the apparent viewpoint of a spatial image after capture, not by filling in synthetic pixels around the edges, but by working with actual stereo depth data recorded at the moment of shooting. That's a materially different operation from anything Google Photos offers today, and it points to a category Google has not yet publicly addressed. If Apple confirms it at WWDC this month, Google's answer to the...

A Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra battery leak suggests Samsung may be reusing the identical 11,600mAh pack from its predecessor not just matching the capacity figure, but reportedly carrying over the same physical component. Reports from Android Authority and SamMobile, both citing GalaxyClub, landed today. Samsung has not confirmed any of these figures.

Google is marketing Gemini as "a next step toward a true generalist agent" — a tool that orchestrates complex tasks across Gmail, Calendar, and connected apps on your behalf. Months after that pitch, the Gemini multiple Google accounts problem remains unsolved. Gemini works within a single active account. That's it. Your work life and personal life stay invisible to each other, and Gemini acts as though the other half of your day simply doesn't exist.

Google's Android June 2026 security update patches 124 vulnerabilities across Android 14, 15, 16, and 16 QPR2, including one privilege-escalation flaw that is already being used in targeted attacks, according to Google's official advisory published this week. The exploited bug is CVE-2025-48595, a high-severity elevation-of-privilege flaw in Android's Framework component. The fix exists. Getting it to users is a different problem entirely.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra has a name, a model number, and a place in the regulatory record. A Bluetooth SIG certification filed this week lists the device explicitly as the "Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra," model number SM-F976, with five regional variants, according to Android Authority and Android Headlines, both reporting the filing today. That is what the certification confirms: the retail name Samsung submitted to a regulatory body, and nothing else. The specs, the two-device strategy, and...

Samsung didn't remove lockdown protection from One UI 9. It embedded the feature directly into the power menu, making Samsung One UI 9 lockdown mode automatic the moment you open and dismiss the menu without selecting anything. The phone drops to the lock screen, fingerprint and face unlock are disabled, and a PIN or password is now the only way back in. No dedicated button required, no second tap needed.

Google announced last month that Gboard is getting a Gemini-powered feature called Rambler, which the company says will filter out filler words, self-corrections, pauses, and repetition as you speak, so only cleaned-up text lands in the input field. That's a specific claim, and it matters because Gboard already has tools that correct dictated text after it appears. If Rambler genuinely processes speech before transcription is committed, it addresses a real gap in how voice input works today. If...

Google launched two targeted updates to its payments platform yesterday, and the split between them is worth understanding clearly. Google Pay direct checkout brings saved Google Wallet payment credentials directly into a retailer's checkout page, cutting out the separate Google-hosted flow that currently pulls shoppers away from the merchant's site. The second update, a revamped Secure Payment Authentication (SPA) system, replaces SMS one-time passwords and bank redirects with a biometric...

Google Photos is building a dedicated "Copy photo" button that sits directly on the image viewing screen, letting users send a photo to the clipboard without opening the share sheet at all. Code found in version 7.79 of the Android app points to the work being underway, Android Authority reported today. None of it is live yet, but Google could activate the Google Photos copy photo button via a server-side switch at any point without requiring users to install a new build.

Samsung's Samsung Health AI redesign begins rolling out today for Android users, with the app shifting its core purpose from displaying raw biometric data to interpreting what that data means. The update lands on Android 10 or later devices running Samsung Health v7.0, with a Samsung account required, per Samsung's Global Newsroom. The headline coaching features, though, are expected to debut first on the Galaxy Watch 9, anticipated in late July, according to 9to5Google.