Apple recently made its grand (re)entrance to the mid-range smartphone market with the iPhone 16e, replacing the older iPhone ...

For years, Google’s Pixel A-series line has been one of the best deals in smartphone-land. As long as you can tolerate (or hell, even prefer) Android to iOS, these are generally the best phones that ...

This year’s colors are Obsidian, Porcelain, Iris, and Peony. The Pixel 9 was released in August 2024 and costs $799 for the 128GB version or $899 for the 256GB version—a $100 price bump over ...

The Iris color is a purple color ... which is the same chip that Google is using in its Pixel 9 flagship series smartphones. This chip is in now way inferior to that chip, it’s exactly the ...

and vibrant finishes like Iris and Peony — all feel decidedly Google, even if the choice of materials doesn’t quite match the lofty standard of the Pixel 9 series. Of course, the Pixel 9a also ...

That lower price means it doesn’t feature all of the Pixel 9’s and Pixel 9 Pro’s capabilities ... along with two new colors this year: Iris and Peony. Design, like beauty, is in the eye ...