Rugged Cat phones look to crack U.S. market through new deal with Sprint

Cracked screens and chipped frames are an unfortunate reality for smartphone owners, which is part of the reason whyrugged smartphoneshave been steadily growing in popularity. King of this emerging category isCat phones, and U.S. carrier Sprint has spotted its progress and struck a partnership to develop and launch the new Cat S48c smartphone exclusively on its network. The Cat S48c is a rugged smartphone capable of shrugging off drop damage, dust, vibrations, submersion in water, and extreme temperatures....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 568 words · Tina Roberts

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review: the best Ultra ever

“Why you’re able to trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ If you asked the AI chatbot of your choice to help design a smartphone with the best specification possible, it might come up with something similar to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, which itself is packed full of AI smarts....

June 4, 2025 · 25 min · 5278 words · Diane Bailey

Save up to $1,150 on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra today

Tablets are great if you’re the sort of person who doesn’t want to lug around a laptop all the time and finds having a tablet an excellent alternative. If that’s the case and you want to use a tablet as a laptop replacement, then you’ll want to go for one of thebest tabletson the market, such as the Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra. Luckily, there’s a pretty substantial Memorial Day offer from Samsung that gives you a straight discount from $950 to $1,200, as well as up to $800 worth of trade-in credit....

June 4, 2025 · 3 min · 449 words · Chase Brown

Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 Art review

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ We probably could have written this review on assumptions alone and made only minor changes after actually shooting the new Sigma14-24mm F2.8 Art. Don’t worry, we didn’t do that — but the point is, we have yet to be let down by a Sigma Art lens....

June 4, 2025 · 8 min · 1679 words · Alicia Schmidt

Sony Ericsson C902 Review

“Why you’re able to trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ While packed with all the now-familiar cell accoutrements – music player, email, AGPS location-based services and navigation, the Sony Ericsson C902’s main drawing card is its 5-megapixel camera. It takes great pictures, among the best we’ve seen from a camera phone, but not as good as those taken by the Kodak-equippedMotorola ZINE ZN5from T-Mobile....

June 4, 2025 · 12 min · 2394 words · Jon Welch

Tesla gets permit to start production in Chinese factory

Tesla just received a permit to begin production of Model 3 sedans at its “Gigafactory” in Shanghai. Bloomberg reportsthat China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the permit on its website on Wednesday, November 13. The factory will be the first plant in China that is owned by a foreign carmaker, and it will be Tesla’s first factory outside the U.S. Tesla will have to compete with other electric car makers in China, such asZotye(pronounced zoh-tay), which also has electric vehicle models....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 348 words · Mrs. Jennifer Ford

The best iPad Pro games in 2023: the 26 best ones to play

It’s perhaps too easy to dismiss the iPad Pro as a legitimate gaming tablet. After all, it’s hard to believe even a 12.9-inch tablet can hold a candle to something like aPlayStation 5orXbox Series X. However, while games certainly play nicer on a bigger screen, the iPad Pro offers internals every bit as powerful as thebest video game consoleswhile giving you the freedom to take your games just about anywhere....

June 4, 2025 · 17 min · 3428 words · Gabriella Nguyen

The digital dollar: how AI is reshaping debt management

Artificial Intelligence is steadily altering the landscape of personal finance. It’s making tasks like budgeting, saving, and even managing debt smarter and easier to handle. While AI continues to evolve, it’s not only helping users gain greater control over their finances; it’s also acting as an early warning and intervention system, and it can even help users prevent their debt from spiraling out of control. The AI revolution in personal finance We live in a time where AI is currently busily re-landscaping how individuals manage their money through the use of various personal finance apps....

June 4, 2025 · 4 min · 736 words · Melissa White

The Fall Guy ending explained

The Fall Guy ending explained Turns out, there’s more to The Fall Guy than a bunch of explosive stunts, so here’s the movie’s full ending explained. Barbenheimer’s elite duo Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are ready to blow the socks off of movie lovers in a whole new way with the release of David Leitch’sThe Fall Guy. Taking the story from the 1980sTV showof the same name and adapting it into a feature-length film, Gosling and Blunt star as Colt and Jody, a stuntman and camera operator whose fling leaves a bitter taste when it’s time for Jody to direct her first film....

June 4, 2025 · 6 min · 1124 words · Peter Mcmillan

The next iPhone SE may get a surprising name change

TheiPhone SE 4is the long-awaited next entry in the iPhone SE lineup. Information about the device has been scarce, with only a few bits of information leaking out here and there, but now there’s a newer, more surprising rumor: that the name of the next iPhone SE might actually be the iPhone 16E. The news first broke in mid-Decemberfrom a sourcethat’s relatively unknown in the U.S. and was limited to just Weibo....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 320 words · Samuel Sanchez

The Red Hydrogen One: Absolutely everything you need to know

Cinema camera company Red first began teasing the Hydrogen One smartphone halfway through 2017, and since then the company has slowly been showing off more and more details of the device. The handset was originally slated to be released in August, but after a few setbacks and an event at which we were able tocheck out the Hydrogen One for ourselves, the device is now finally available. There are a number of things that make the Hydrogen One an interesting device, despite the fact that its specs are starting to seem dated compared to new flagship phones....

June 4, 2025 · 5 min · 934 words · John Henderson

This app will track disease-carrying mosquitoes by listening to their buzz

Our smartphones are pretty darn good at recognizing our voices and thecontents of what we say. Could they also be good at recognizing the sounds of different mosquitoes? Absolutely, suggest researchers from the University of Oxford. With the goal of helping identify the select mosquito breeds responsible for spreading diseases likemalaria, they developed a machine-learning algorithm and app that can identify the acoustic signature of different mosquito species, and categorize them accordingly....

June 4, 2025 · 2 min · 387 words · Sarah Moran

This free Android app gave my phone cloning superpowers

Today, we look at an Android app that lets you run two instances of the same app completely isolated from each other. Whether it’s to ensure that one Android app doesn’t read data from the other, have two different accounts for messaging orsocial media apps(like WhatsApp and Instagram), or play the same game with two different accounts,Islandcan remedy many restrictions imposed by your smartphone manufacturer or Android itself. It’s fairly common to have — and easy to get —a second phone number, even without owning a dual-SIM mobile phone....

June 4, 2025 · 6 min · 1155 words · Brent Knight