Honor launched its first clamshell style foldable today, the Honor V Flip, with a Haute Couture Edition designed by the fashion legend himself. Apparently he’s taking advantage of the big 4.0-inch cover screen and embracing the whole phone-on-your-shirt concept I’ve been experimenting with. I think he wore it better.
The V Flip is up for pre-order today — but only in China. It starts at 4,999 yuan.
Earlier this year Motorola launched a trio of Edge phones internationally. Now, the budget-friendliest of the bunch will be making its way to the US as the Motorola Edge 2024. It’ll cost $549 unlocked when it goes on sale June 20th.
Fingers crossed that the Edge 50 Ultra makes it to the US later this year — I’m ready for a wooden phone revival.
According to Mark Gurman, noted Apple whisperer, we can expect a Settings redesign in iOS 18. Which, have you seen the settings menu in iOS recently? It’s chaos. We’d already heard that MacOS 15 might come with a settings overhaul, but news of a possible iOS cleanup is music to my ears.
This special edition Nothing Phone 2A isn’t coming to the US and it’s already sold out, but dang it, I want one anyway. In true Nothing style it comes with an overwrought design story about “distilling things down” to their basic form. There’s a big ol’ dose of Bauhaus in there, too. What can I say? The heart wants what the heart wants.
We’re expecting a bunch of AI features at WWDC, but phones can only run limited AI functions on-device. How will Apple square the need to process user data off-device with privacy?
According to The Information, the answer might be a “virtual black box.” By using custom M2 chips, it could claim user data remains just as secure as if it were processed on-device. That’s one way to think different.
