Samsung's 2026 top-end Galaxy S-series flagship smartphone, with a 5,000mAh battery and a US list price of $1,399.99.
OnePlus launched the OnePlus 16 in China with a 9,000mAh battery, 4,000mAh more than Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, after leaving the US and Europe. The runtime figures are OnePlus's own, and Gizmodo has not verified any benchmarks.
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OnePlus launched the 16 in China with a 9,000mAh battery and a price from about $850. The Verge reports the company has quit the US market, so American buyers would be importing a phone with no confirmed update policy.
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Huawei's Mate XT 2 is a third-generation tri-fold running a chip Washington's export controls were meant to prevent. Xiaomi has already published the yuan number Apple's first foldable will be measured against.
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PCMag's week with the $1,299 phone found no outward change beyond new colours and an unchanged 6.43 by 3.07 by 0.34 inch body. The weight went up by half an ounce, and US models take eSIM only.
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Xiaomi and Oppo together ship 23 percent of the world's phones and neither reaches a US carrier shelf, so a device matrix drawn from American analytics omits the hardware most users hold, at the prices they actually pay.
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