The foldable smartphone market continues to develop, and Honor has now officially introduced its new Magic V5. At first glance, the Magic V5 maintains a familiar aesthetic, closely resembling its predecessor. Digging a bit closer reveals a host of improvements like as insane reduction in thickness, down to 4.1mm when opened. This allows Honor to once again claim the throne of thinnest foldable away from Oppo’s Find N5.

In a new post on Chinese Social Media platform Weibo, one of the most consistently accurate tech tipsters has revealed what Apple’s first folding phone might look like as well as some specs.

When it comes to the form factor of a phone, everyone is going to have their own preferences for things like height, width, thickness, and weight. We're all going to have our own preferences, and each of these things are going to be weighted differently depending on what it is you actually do prefer. For me, when it comes to these folding phones, all I really wanted was to get to the point where we are about as thick as a standard phone when closed, and maybe just as importantly, where we weigh what a normal phone weighs.

I don’t know what it is about Chinese Android OEMs and multitasking features, but we’ve got another new way of jumping between two apps that I absolutely am going to need to see get copied. In a post on Weibo teasing the impossibly thin Vivo X Fold5, we got a glimpse of a new multitasking interface that looks totally different than anything we’ve seen on Android before.

The foldable phone scene is getting exciting with two new players rumored to be on the way: the Vivo X Fold 5 and the Honor Magic V5. Both are expected to bring some serious tech to the table, but let's break down the whispers to see how they might stack up.

The foldable phone arms race continues to heat up and Vivo is set to introduce its latest contender the X Fold 5. Expected to debut in China this month with a global rollout to follow in early July, Vivo appears ready to make an impression with its specifications in an increasingly competitive market.

Earlier this year the Oppo Find N5 became perhaps the most impressive overall folding phone available with a 4.2mm body that didn’t prevent Oppo from packing in a large 5,600mAh battery. However, according to a new leak from Yogesh Brar, the upcoming Vivo X Fold 5 appears set to compete at the top tier of the foldable smartphone market.

Not to be outdone, Samsung seems to have their own two-hinged folding device in the works as well. According the patents and other leaks, their Galaxy G Fold could feature a design that sees both hinges fold inward to fully protect the fragile folding glass. Users will have an independent cover display to use when it’s closed. While this should be the phone more durable, it will also remove the three-form-factor capability of the Mate XT.

Just yesterday, I posted a video and article discussing the escalating impact of tariffs on electronics, noting how they were beginning to affect both pricing and availability. We saw OnePlus increase the price of their Watch 3 in the U.S. from $329 to $499, and hardware OEMs like Framework and Razer halting sales of certain items. Framework explicitly cited tariffs as the reason.

OnePlus just raised the price of the Watch 3 by a huge amount and we all know why. The impact of these tariffs could be widespread and the dents are already beginning to accumulate.

There are few things I love more than when a tech company takes something that seems obvious, a standard that no one else is bothering to play with and takes things in a new direction just to see what would happen. With the Pura X, Huawei has done just that with the flip phone concept.

Google has officially announced the planned phase-out of the classic Google Assistant, confirming the shift towards its generative AI-powered successor, Gemini.