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One of the biggest battery drainers for any smartphone is the always-on display. Companies regularly tell you that this display setting only drains about 1% to 2% an hour, but let's be honest -- it's always way more. It may be nice to glance at your phone while it sits on a table to check the time, but it's probably not worth sacrificing battery life.

Thanks to the way Google's for years now been deconstructing Android and pulling OS-level pieces out of the operating system itself - so they exist as regular ol' apps and can consequently be updated quickly, frequently, and in a way that reaches everyone instantly, regardless of what phone or carrier they're using - even Android phones from eight years ago get updates numerous times a year that are all virtually equivalent to an entire iOS operating system rollout.

Amazon's new smartphone, Transformer, is set to focus on AI integration, aiming to enhance the usage of its AI products and potentially replace traditional app stores with AI-driven solutions.

At a press briefing attended by at Google's Taipei office, Eric Kay, Android's Vice President of Engineering, confirmed that AirDrop interoperability will expand in 2026. "We spent a lot of time and energy to make sure that we could build something that was compatible not only with iPhone but iPads and MacBooks," he said. "Now that we've proven it out, we're working with our partners to expand it into the rest of the ecosystem, and you should see some exciting announcements coming very soon."

The Google Pixel 10a is mostly the same as the 9a. It uses the same 6.3" 1080p+ display (slightly brighter) now with Gorilla Glass 7i (replacing GG3), runs on the same Tensor G4 chipset and has the same 48+13MP camera. The battery capacity is the same too, 5,100mAh, though Google increased the wired (from 23W to 30W) and wireless (from 7.5W to 10W) charging speeds.

The Xiaomi 18 Pro Max will have a 6.9-inch flat LIPO OLED screen with extremely narrow symmetrical bezels, which will be even narrower than the ones the 17 Pro Max had. The display panel will go down to 1-nit brightness in ultra low light, and will support the BT.2020 color space.

The Nothing Phone (4a) Pro drops (3a)'s plastic frame and brings a metal unibody design. It's also slimmer at 7.95mm (down from 8.4mm) but weighs the same (despite using metal instead of plastic). The phone is rated IP65 - Nothing couldn't quite hit the requirements for IP67, so it claims that the phone can survive submersion down to 25cm for 20 minutes.

The Poco X8 Pro and Poco X8 Pro Max are definitely both coming soon, since we've already seen them getting certified by various authorities across the globe. Today, the Poco X8 Pro has been spotted in the Geekbench online database, because a prototype has run the benchmark. As you can see from the screenshot below, it managed a single-core score of 1,708 and a multi-core score of 6,297.

The Google Pixel 9a Android smartphone features a 6.3-inch Actua display, a Google Tensor G4 processor, built-in Gemini AI capabilities, and an IP68-rated body. It also comes with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage, making for a seamless experience for users who want to stream, browse, and switch between applications continuously. Additionally, there is an Adaptive Battery designed to provide more than 30 hours of usage time,

Samsung's Galaxy A37 and Galaxy A57 are now listed in the Google Play Console, a sure sign that their official launch is very near. The listings confirm that the Galaxy A37 is powered by Samsung's Exynos 1480 SoC, paired with 6GB of RAM in one variant (though more will undoubtedly be offered). The phone will run Android 16 out of the box, unsurprisingly. Here it is in the official image revealed by the listing.

The RedMagic 11 Air uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, as confirmed by a Geekbench run of a device with the model number NX799J. This is most likely the RedMagic 11 Air. The prototype which ran the benchmark has 16GB of RAM, but of course more memory options could be offered upon launch (in fact, up to 24GB was rumored). The phone will run Android 16 from day one, unsurprisingly.