Chipolo has a big update on its Find Hub trackers for Android, with the battery life rating having just doubled because, as it turns out, they last longer than anyone expected. In a post shared this week, Chipolo says that Chipolo Loop and Card both now have a 1-year battery life rating, up from 6 months. The company says that the initial estimate came from “energy consumption simulations” that are “designed to be conservative.” After “enough time” to use and test its trackers in rea...

Amazon this week announced a new collection of Ring Doorbell models that include upgrade 4K and 2K video on battery-powered hardware, something Google has yet to do in its Nest lineup. The Nest Video Doorbell (battery) we have today launched almost five years ago at this point, and is missing the 2K video update that the wired version, which we really liked, picked up last year. Needless to say, updates on Google’s side are overdue, but the timing is unknown. Nest’s biggest competition, Amaz...

According to a new report, Samsung’s first Android XR glasses, “Galaxy Glasses,” may end up having the same battery size as the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. SamMobile reports that the “Galaxy Glasses” will be powered by a 245 mAh battery. That’s roughly the same size as the Meta Ray-Ban Display which have a 248 mAh battery in the glasses. Meta says that should last six hours. It’s not yet clear how long the battery on Samsung’s glasses would last, but the battery capacity alone...

Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 Ultra doesn’t have the best battery, nor does it have the fastest charging, but a recent experience reminded me that faster charging isn’t useful if you can’t easily use it. This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google’s rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox early! Fast charging has been a priority on smartphones for years now, with num...

Samsung has, for the past five years, been releasing essentially the same phone over and over again: a big screen, the latest Snapdragon chip, an S Pen, a 5,000 mAh battery, and the company’s best* camera setup. It’s undoubtedly attractive, and the formula clearly works. After two weeks with the Galaxy S26 Ultra, as much as I might want something more, I also can’t help but really like this phone. But if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting d...

Google is working on some behind-the-scenes changes that should make Android phones feel faster while also improving battery life. Announced by the Android LLVM toolchain team this week, Google is updating the Android kernel with “AutoFDO” – Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimization. What is that? In short, your phone has to make “thousands of small decisions” behind the scenes, which end up taking up a considerable portion of CPU usage. AutoFDO changes this by guiding the compiler alon...

Following its announcement at MWC 2026 earlier this month, the Honor Magic V6 is now available in China and with an even bigger battery than the global release. The Honor Magic V6 isn’t a huge upgrade from its prior iteration, but the massive 6,660 mAh battery combined with thin and refined hardware was enough for it to take home one of 9to5Google’s Best of MWC awards. It’s an impressive foldable through and through, but it was always going to be releasing in China before the rest of the w...

Smartphone batteries have been getting bigger and bigger, meanwhile Samsung Galaxy devices have been completely stagnant with the exact same battery size in every Galaxy Ultra phone for the past six generations. Yet, someone just proved just how much bigger the battery capacity can go by doubling the battery capacity of Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold. “Strange Parts,” a YouTube channel that, among other things, has embarked on several projects including making a foldable iPhone five years earl...

Following up on its first release in the States, Lenovo is back with a new Legion Tab, Gen 5, which brings back the compact 8.8-inch form factor but this time with a much bigger battery, new colors, and a way higher price too. The Lenovo Legion Tab (Gen 5) is familiar in a few ways. It has an 8.8-inch LCD display, but now with much higer resolution of 3040×1904. It’s also powered by the latest flagship Snapdragon chip, this time the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (paired with 12GB or up to 16GB of...

In the lead-up to Samsung’s Unpacked event next week, a major leak of promo materials confirms a few key details such as faster charging, while also showing the Privacy Display in better detail than we’ve seen. Official-looking Samsung promo materials posted on Twitter/X by @ya_sking12767 show off Samsung’s new phones – Galaxy S26, S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra, alongside the Galaxy Buds 4 series. There’s prominent Galaxy AI branding, of course, as well as a quick look at Samsung’s Phot...