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After the affordable and unambitious Pixel 5, some people questioned Google's commitment to making its own hardware – but today it teased a new Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, built around a brand new Google Tensor processor focused on AI and machine learning.

Lenovo subsidiary Motorola has added three new members to its edge family of flagship smartphones. The edge 20 pro, edge 20 and edge 20 lite each come with a large OLED display, 5G mobile connectivity, and a 108-megapixel main camera module.

Back in May, Sharp announced the Aquos R6, a smartphone with a camera that rocked a 1-inch CMOS sensor developed with German imaging veteran Leica. Now Leica has essentially slightly repackaged that device for its first smartphone, the Leitz Phone 1.

Where your everyday smartphone might need a rugged case to survive the abuse that daily life can throw at it, the Nokia XR20 mid-range phone has been designed to withstand drops, bumps and submersion in the wet stuff to military standards.

When we hear about smartphones being used to perform analytical tasks, there's often also a device that's connected to the phone. According to a new study, though, a phone's own touchscreen could soon be used to test drinking water and other liquids.

The processing brains in most of the big players in the Android smartphone space come courtesy of chip maker Qualcomm. Now the company has partnered with Asus to make a model of its own for the Snapdragon Insider community.

Samsung Display has been teasing some of the screen technology that it's working on for future smartphones, as part of the Display Week 2021 virtual conference. We've got foldables, slideables, and an under-display camera.

As we've regularly seen, smartphone photography has yielded some impressive results given the limitations of relatively small sensor sizes. Now Sharp is set to bump image quality up a notch by squeezing a 1-inch CMOS sensor into its latest handset.

Asus might be better known for its laptops, but it has two new smartphones to show off. The Zenfone 8 packs flagship specs in a compact package, while the Zenfone 8 Flip sports the same nifty double-duty camera design of the Zenfone 7.

A study from the University of Oxford has analyzed 30 years of data tracking the relationship between young peoples’ technology engagement and mental health, from television watching to smartphone social media use, and found little to no association.

While serious photographers use a DSLR for most of their shots, smartphones are still handy for easily posting photos and videos. That's where a new "smart plate" comes in, as it lets users quickly mount either device on a tripod.

Sony has three new phones to show off: the flagship Xperia 1 III, the more compact Xperia 5 III, and the more affordable Xperia 10 III. As is traditional for Sony handsets, the devices are particularly appealing in the camera and display departments.