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As 2025 draws to a close, we look back at the most popular phones of the year. Here are the Top 20 phones that you searched for the most in the last 12 months – we’re including phones that launched in November 2024, as it wouldn’t be fair to them to only give them less than a quarter to climb the ranks. Is this list what you expected it to be? Seeing some of these phones make it in the Top 20 is certainly no surprise, but a few unexpected models snuck in. Also, there are industry trends around 4G/5G…

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the fintech, real estate, and proptech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition. Fintech Clox AI …

Introduction and unboxing Nothing’s CMF brand is moving fast. What started off as an affordable brand that relies on style to compensate for any technical deficiencies has now evolved into a market disruptor that covers everything up to the midrange. We’re now getting more and more “Pro” devices from CMF – a phone Pro, a watch Pro, and, yes, the Headphone Pro we have for review today. It’s a feature-rich set that looks Pro but costs less than you’d think. At just €99, it already undercuts a lot of its competitors. CMF even runs a 20% discount from time to…

When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In the same way that the Romans gradually amassed an empire of land spanning three continents and one-ninth of the Earth’s circumference, the CEO and his cohort are now dotting the planet with their own latifundia—not agricultural estates, but AI data centers.Tech executives like Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison are fully bought in to the idea that the future of the American (and possibly global) economy are these new warehouses stocked with…

Realme showed off a prototype smartphone with a 10,000 mAh battery in May and said it would launch a 7,500 mAh battery phone this year, while also revealing that a 10,000 mAh model was coming soon. Well, so far, we’ve only got 7,000 mAh battery smartphones from Realme, which include the flagship GT 8 Pro. While there’s no word from Realme on the commercial availability of a 10,000 mAh battery phone, the Editor-in-Chief of a Russian blog has shared a picture of it, revealing key details. This unnamed Realme smartphone, pictured below and having model designation RMX5107, packs a 10,001…

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the space and defense tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition.  Airbility  What it does:…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill this week that will require social media platforms to show warning labels to younger users before they’re exposed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling. State legislators passed the bill —  S4505/A5346 — back in June, with text calling for mental health warnings on “addictive social media platforms,” which are defined as platforms offering “an addictive feed, push notifications, autoplay, infinite scroll, and/or like counts as a significant part” of their services, though exception can be made if the attorney general determines those features are used for “a valid purpose unrelated…

It’s that time of the year again, when we who are lucky to have indulged in the best possible phones all year get to pick our favorites from the past 12 months. That I’m in a very privileged position is not lost on me either, so first and foremost, thank all of you for reading and watching us all year; it’s you who make this all possible! I’m Ivan, one of the editors here at GSMArena, and the guy who takes the majority of phone shots that grace our homepage! I look at the past entries in this list of…

India’s startup ecosystem raised nearly $11 billion in 2025, but investors wrote far fewer checks and grew more selective about where they took risk, underscoring how the world’s third most-funded startup market is diverging from the AI-fueled capital concentration seen in the U.S. The selective approach was most evident in deal-making. The number of startup funding rounds fell by nearly 39% from a year earlier, to 1,518 deals, according to Tracxn. Total funding slipped more modestly — down just over 17% to $10.5 billion. That pullback was not uniform. Seed-stage funding fell sharply to $1.1 billion in 2025, down 30%…

Tecno unveiled the Pova Curve in May, and we expected its successor to arrive during the same period next year. But it appears the Tecno Pova Curve 2 may launch early, as its render and specs have surfaced online. The source claims that the Tecno Pova Curve 2 will be powered by the yet-to-be-announced Dimensity 7100 SoC. The smartphone will run Android 16-based HiOS 16 UI out of the box and have three memory options – 8GB/128GB, 8GB/256GB, and 12GB/256GB. The Tecno Pova Curve 2 will pack a 6.78″ 144Hz curved AMOLED display of 1.5K resolution, and under the hood…