#foldables

#foldables

Honor enjoyed a great 2025! It's been hard to find any losers in the maker's lineup, thanks to thoughtful upgrades and great deals throughout the year. Let's look at how it did. Winner: Honor Pad X9a and MagicPad 3 Honor made a few solid tablets in 2025, but the affordable Pad X9a and flagship MagicPad 3 were able to stamp their authority on markets such as Malaysia, where Honor was the number one tablet maker!

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days 2025 are now a go - this sales event will last two days and requires you to have an active Prime subscription. However, the free month-long trial will work just fine and it unlocks discounts of up to 40%. Here we will focus on smartphones and we'll have a separate post for tablets, e-readers and smartwatches.

Alternative flagships from OnePlus and Xiaomi, including the Poco sub-brand, are on sale too. The OnePlus 13 costs about the same as the small Galaxy S25 - but if you want a smaller device, check out the Xiaomi 15. There's also the Poco F7 Ultra as the most affordable Snapdragon 8 Elite phone and the Xiaomi 15 Ultra to challenge Samsung's Ultra to a camera shootout.

The pursuit of the impossibly thin smartphone has undeniably become one of 2025's most compelling design narratives. This was not a subtle shift; the industry's pivot towards extreme slimness has been a clear and deliberate trend, a collective re-evaluation of what constitutes premium design after years focused on camera bumps and battery heft. With whispers of an iPhone "Air" variant potentially gracing our screens on September 9th,