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The US Department of Justice had long been expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. But when the suit arrived Thursday, it came with surprising ferocity.In a press conference, attorney general Merrick Garland noted that Apple controlled more than 70 percent of the country’s smartphone market, saying the company used that outsized power to control developers and consumers and squeeze more revenue out of them.The suit and messaging from DoJ and fifteen states and the District of Columbia joining it take aim at…

Andy Boxall / Digital Trends I like phones like the Nuu B30 Pro. Not because it’s a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra rival or that it does something spectacular we’ve never seen before — it’s because it is way better than I thought it was going to be. I admit that I may have judged the Nuu B30 Pro a little harshly before using it, but I’m also happy to admit my flash judgment was wrong. Here’s why you shouldn’t write the Nuu B30 Pro off as just another cheap Android phone to ignore. Why did I hastily judge the Nuu B30 Pro?…

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends Qualcomm is adding a new top-tier mobile chipset to its portfolio — one that takes the best bits of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 silicon, makes some concessions, and serves it all up in a more affordable package. The result of those efforts is the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, which is slated to appear inside phones from Xiaomi and Honor in the coming month. Qualcomm is once again pushing generative AI capabilities for its latest silicon, touting features like image expansion, support for AI…

ZTE ZTE has unveiled a bunch of new Nubia smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, which is being held in Barcelona, Spain. These devices are intended to be distributed in Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Each smartphone is designed to cater to a different type of consumer, including ZTE’s first flip smartphone. Although we may not see these devices in the U.S. any time soon, it is an interesting look at what other companies across the water are doing in the Android…

Tushar Mehta / Digital Trends Phones have become incredibly smart in recent years. Devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra now have chipsets powerful enough to run AI applications right on the device — something most computers, including my four-year-old MacBook, can barely dream of. Simultaneously, the surge in phones’ capabilities has also led to larger dimensions that not only congest our fields of view, but also affect our cognitive abilities. This has spurred the rise of alternatives, such as dumb phones,…

Tushar Mehta / Digital Trends “There’s plenty of fish in the sea.” Besides its usual romantic denotation, the idiom fits the segment of Android phones very well. Android phones come with countess variations that go unseen or underappreciated in the shadow of the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy phones. There will be an Android device for every (reasonable) permutation of specifications you can conceive. But, the Poco X6 Pro is unlike other fish in the sea. For its launch price of 350 euros (around $375 USD), the mid-ranger…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends The NSO Group raised security alarms this week, and once again, it’s the devastatingly powerful Pegasus malware that was deployed in Jordan to spy on journalists and activists. While that’s a high-profile case that entailed Apple filing a lawsuit against NSO Group, there’s a whole world of seemingly innocuous Android apps that are harvesting sensitive data from an average person’s phone. The security experts at ESET have spotted at least 12 Android apps, most of which are disguised as chat…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends When you buy a phone today, your first decision is to decide which operating system you want: Android or iOS. We’ve seen other platforms come and go over the years, from Windows Phone to Palm OS, but Android and iOS remain your two sole choices in 2024. One of the last things I saw at CES 2024 earlier this month was a smartphone operating system that’s trying to be that third choice between Android and iOS. It’s called Apostrophy OS (also referred to as AphyOS), and I got to play around…

Christine Romero-Chan / Digital Trends OnePlus launched the OnePlus 12 in China on December 5, 2023. On January 23, OnePlus will launch the OnePlus 12 and the lower-priced OnePlus 12R globally, including in the U.S. And it’s time to start getting excited about that. OnePlus has established itself as one of the bigger names in the smartphone world, and 2023 was an especially promising year for the company. Last year’s OnePlus 11 was a solid choice, and the OnePlus Open —the brand’s first foldable — was one of the best…

The Google Android 14 update was announced by Alphabet Inc in October and it promised various new features and capabilities for compatible devices. Now, it's time for the quarterly update, which has been dubbed as Android 14 QPR 2. It is under beta 3 testing and during this stage, it was revealed that Google might be planning to introduce a feature that enables users to convert the physical SIM on their Android smartphones to an eSIM. While Apple has discarded the SIM card slot option in the US in its latest iPhones,…