Smartphones

The OnePlus 15 offers specs you simply don’t find on other smartphones outside of China. U.S. carriers aren’t offering this one, either, but consumers can buy them directly. Finally. After a month of teasing and then a formal announcement, OnePlus had to wait for the U.S. government to reopen so the FCC could rubber stamp its approvals for sale in the U.S. In the meantime, OnePlus has started talking about the OnePlus 15R – a lower spec’d model – and the OnePlus Pad Go 2 tablet, but the OnePlus 15 is now available for general sale and it’s worth considering. …

Samsung just announced the foldiest of its foldable phones yet: a 6.5″ phone that folds out in two directions into a 10″ tablet. The 2160 x 1584 inner screen can be configured with three 6.5” phone-sized app windows or any number of other configurations, including a fully windowed on-device DeX environment. When open, it is just 3.9 mm thick; closed it is 12.9mm, roughly equivalent to a Galaxy S25 Ultra in a case. It weighs 309g, about a third heavier than a Galaxy S25 Ultra with that case. Like the Galaxy S25 Ultra, the Galaxy Z TriFold is powered by …