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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Over the past 15 years, we've seen a lot of beautiful smartphones. We thought we should celebrate the beauty of those phones!

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On The Vergecast: what happened at the latest Samsung Unpacked, what’s happening with the TikTok ban, and more.

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 ...