TL;DR Samsung’s older Gear wearables will not be supported by its 2021 smartphones. The devices affected include the Galaxy Gear, Gear 2, and Gear S. If you still own and use an early Samsung Gear smartwatch daily you may want to think twice about upgrading your smartphone in the new year. A notification in the Samsung Members app (via GalaxyClub) has warned users that the firm’s early wearables will no longer be compatible with its 2021 smartphones.

Anker is one of the few third-party accessory manufacturers with a 15W wireless charger. The V60 should work with a 15W wireless charger just fine, although 5W and 10W also work. However, we recommend going for a 15W because it should charge your phone faster. The charger is solid and it should work through cases that are less than 5mm thick. Luckily, the dual-screen case for the V60 is less than that so it’ll work fine with that as well.

TL;DR A set of leaked marketing materials gives us an idea of what the LG Velvet 2 Pro might have been like. The phone allegedly would have had a Snapdragon 888, 120Hz refresh rate, and other high-end specs. LG allegedly sold a few thousand of the phones to employees when it pulled out of the smartphone industry. In 2020, the LG Velvet was a fun and surprising new addition to the mid-range space.

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Pixel 6 Pro was apparently supposed to have face unlock at launch. 9to5Google claimed that the feature is now scheduled for the next feature drop. The Pixel 6 series is unarguably the most impressive Pixel phone line yet, offering competitive pricing, a semi-custom Tensor chipset, and great specs on paper. One feature you won’t find, however, is face unlock, despite a retailer listing this as an option at launch and a code commit being spotted in November.

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Whenever we talk about telescopic lenses on smartphones, we tend to focus (hah) on their ability to grab clear and noise-less pictures from afar. That’s what they’re made for, right? But in the past few months, I’ve found myself reaching out for my Pixel 6 Pro not just to snap a picture but also to simply just zoom. And zoom some more. And a bit more.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4The Redmi Note 4 is not perfect, but it is a well-rounded package that one wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to anyone looking for a budget or mid-range smartphone. Packed in a neat chassis, the smartphone performs great and is a compelling value-for-money smartphone. Table of contents The Xiaomi juggernaut now includes fitness bands, earphones, air purifiers, and more, but of course smartphones are its real stars. The company had a great 2016 in India selling over 3.

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Sony held another one of its virtual PlayStation Showcase events today, and as promised it offered up a number of new trailers and announcements for its PlayStation 5 games library. Here’s a quick look at what was revealed today. Marvel’s Wolverine Insomniac Games, the makers of the hit Spider-Man PlayStation games, is making another Marvel-based game, based on everyone’s favorite mutant Wolverine. No other details on the game were revealed.

TL;DR People are reselling iPhones with pre-installed Fortnite on eBay for as much as $10,000. There are hundreds of listings at lower, but still outrageous, prices. If you’ve been following the battle between Epic Games and Apple these past few weeks, you would know that the developer’s popular mobile game Fortnite is no longer available to download on iPhones. Apple removed the battle royale title from the App Store citing policy infractions, but those who already had the game installed still have access to the game.

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Shopping for a new display has never been more confusing. Between a myriad of competing standards and new display specifications, it’s often hard to tell which product is better. Even panels from the same manufacturer can boast vastly different features and specifications. Resolution Resolution is by far the single most prominent display specification these days. Marketing buzzwords aside, a display’s resolution is simply the number of pixels in each dimension, horizontal and vertical.

Dedicated AI chips have been a fixture on high-end smartphones and some mid-range devices for several years now, dating back to Huawei’s Mate 10 series offering a so-called neural processing unit (NPU) in 2017. Since then, we’ve seen MediaTek, Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung all adopt dedicated AI silicon on their smartphone chipsets. But do you think these AI chips have lived up to the hype though? That’s the topic of our featured poll today, so choose an option below.