Flagship smartphone designs are becoming more homogenous, but could this be a good thing? Cast your vote in our reader poll.

Still, if you dragged me into a room and told me to repair a Galaxy S25 Ultra, I would turn around and walk out the door. The ...

On the one hand, the Boring Phone is a slick piece of marketing, a clever way of drawing attention to the smartphone-fuelled desertification of pub chats and bar banter. On the other, it’s also an ...

This is good news for anyone bored by smartphone design, like me. Samsung is likely the next company to release a ...

The design tweaks on the Galaxy S25 Ultra are nice, but that's not a reason to upgrade. Neither are a bunch of new AI tricks.

There was a time, not too many years ago, when phone launches were exciting. All the smartphone companies would try to outdo each other with innovative designs, futuristic features, and cutting ...

Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen some truly stunning phone designs. Today, smartphones might seem to be mostly boring rectangles, but that hasn’t always been the case. Occasionally, companies create ...

The Galaxy S25 lineup is hardly different from the S24 or even the S23. The same is true of the iPhone 16 and the Pixel 9.

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Smartphones have always been designed around the screen. It's the centerpiece of interaction, from scrolling and typing to dragging and dropping. Meanwhile, the back of the phone remains an ...

It was an interesting approach to phone design, but also a rather catastrophic flop that cost LG millions. So, for the 2017 flagship G6, LG is doubling down on a boring, utilitarian smartphone for ...

Campaign encourages people to reduce their smartphone usage throughout the month of February, promoting healthier digital ...