Sheldon Pinto
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Best Mobiles Under Rs. 25,000 in India: From the Moto G67 Power, Realme P4x 5G and More
Indeed, there’s no other smartphone segment that has changed as much as the lower end of the mid-range. With just a handful of devices launched in 2026, buyers will have to look at 2025 models that have made their way into the mid-range from the budget segment, and this is where things get tricky.
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Best Smartphones Under Rs. 15,000 in India: From Moto G37 Power to Poco C85 and more
Budget smartphones today may not entice any first time smartphone users, but they do handle the basics well. From running apps smoothly to offering big displays and delivering good battery life. This short list of capable budget devices can handle it all at an affordable price tag.
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BenQ’s Monitor Sales Have Strange Connection With Rising Memory Prices: Rajeev Singh, MD, BenQ India
BenQ currently offers a wide variety of monitors that cater to the general consumer, the professional and the gamer. While rising memory prices have affected sales, it’s not in the places one would expect and there’s a strange connection between them, explains Rajeev Singh, MD, BenQ India and South Asia.
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Pova 8 Review: Bold Design, Big Ambitions
The Pova 8 is Tecno’s brand-new offering in the mid-range. It has a new design, a massive high-capacity battery, but everything else remains similar to the previous model. Priced a lot higher and marketed as a mid-range smartphone, can it attract buyers with its new Alive Matrix Display? Read on to find out.
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Realme 16 Review: New Design, but Not Much Else
The Realme 16 is a half-baked attempt at taking on the competition. It comes with no real-world upgrades apart from its fresh new design. Its design is brand-new, but it does not feel very mid-range with its plastic parts. Where the phone still stands out is its battery, and it's the only area that impresses.
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Oura Ring 4 Review: An Always-on Solution to Effective Health Tracking
Oura’s Ring 4 arrives a bit too late to India, a good four years after its global launch. It offers good activity tracking and excellent sleep tracking, but has a few flaws in terms of functionality. And there’s also the fact that a lot of its features are blocked behind a subscription plan. Our review explains why it functions better as a pass...
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Oppo Find X9s Review: A Premium Smartphone That’s Almost ‘Pro’
Oppo’s Find X9s is a good attempt at tackling the ongoing memory crisis and coming up with the eventual successor to its Find X9. It offers a good balance of features and performance at a slightly higher asking price. But with several better premium devices available at a lower price, it might not find any takers just yet.
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Vivo X300 FE Review: A Strong Contender With a Catch
Vivo’s FE range started off as a sub-Rs. 60,000 smartphones, but has now been promoted to a high-end premium category with its new price tag. To justify this price rise, Vivo has thrown in premium features such as wireless charging and the ability to mount a teleconverter lens on the latest X300 FE. Does this move make sense? And do the new featu...
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Essential Voice: A Useful AI Addition to Nothing’s Intelligence Toolkit?
With every manufacturer already having a bunch of AI tools for composing text on the fly, Nothing has decided on introducing its own AI tool built specifically for its smartphones and to work within its ecosystem of apps.
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Motorola Edge 70 Fusion Review: A Brand-New Fusion, but Can It Be an All-Rounder?
The Motorola Edge 70 Fusion looks the part for a 2026 mid-ranger and comes with its fair share of upgrades. There’s a new design, a bright display, a new processor, a new primary camera, all backed up by a massive battery upgrade. While it seems like a mid-range all-rounder? How well does it stack up against the new and older devices in this segm...
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Best Mobiles Under Rs. 40,000 in India: From Nothing Phone 4a Pro, OnePlus Nord 6 and More
The lower end of the premium segment is not as exciting as it once was. There is not much to see here, apart from a few new devices that have made it in, mainly due to the ongoing memory crisis. The other devices available under Rs. 40,000 have also made it here because of price cuts. Obviously, not everything is perfect, but there’s still some v...
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: Privacy Matters
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra shows up in a new avatar this year, but goes with the same old formula. But it has a few new tricks up its sleeves, and one of them is the Privacy Display, which is said to revolutionise smartphone privacy. But the usual iterative upgrades applied to the rest of the phone, we find out what exactly has improved over the ...
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Best Mobiles Under Rs. 30,000 in India: From Motorola Edge 70, Realme P4 Power and More
The mid-range smartphone segment is where buyers usually get access to premium features and hardware. But things have taken a turn for the worse this year as prices have gone up due to rising memory costs. The mid-range is no longer a glimpse of the premium segment, but now the new budget segment where most devices meet basic expectations of users,...
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Xiaomi 17 Review: A Real Galaxy S26 and iPhone 17 Rival?
The Xiaomi 17 isn’t very different from its predecessor, the Xiaomi 15. In fact, it comes with a few downgrades as well. However, Xiaomi has played its cards well, packing in a new processor and going with some interesting camera upgrades. This, combined with a fresh design, makes it worthy of its higher-than-usual premium price.
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Nothing Phone 4a Pro Review: A Big Leap
Nothing’s Phone 4a Pro finds itself in a new segment against premium smartphones in 2026. It offers plenty of upgrades on paper, including a bigger and faster display, a new telephoto camera and a larger battery, to name a few. But how do these features add up? And how does it stack up against the competition?
