mobile

Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature has been criticized for favoring its own apps over competitors, potentially violating fair competition principles in the tech industry.

ntfy is an open-source service that lets developers send push notifications to phones or desktops via simple PUT/POST HTTP requests, with options for self-hosting and paid plans.

Xiaomi announces the all-new REDMI Note 17 Series, arriving this month with upgraded battery life, quality, and user experience, celebrating 500M+ units sold over 12 years.

Honor's Robot Phone integrates a compact gimbal camera into a smartphone, offering smooth video, expressive movements, and advanced selfie modes, and while bulky, it performs impressively in hands-on testing.

Yohei Nakajima introduces Remoko, a mobile agent relay that lets long-running agents send iOS push notifications via MCP for questions, approvals, and check-ins, with a TestFlight beta available.

Highlights Checklist Design, a resource offering step-by-step checklists for UI/UX components to prevent missing interaction states and mobile edge cases.

Maple-Preview is a ternary 20B MoE model that runs at 120 tokens per second on an iPhone, showcasing efficient on-device inference.

Hermes Control Deck v0.1.0-alpha is a mobile control deck for AI agents, released CLI-first with Codex/Hermes support, and planned integration with WSL and Codex desktop.

Palworld is expanding to mobile with Palworld Online, a new open-world MMORPG developed by Garena, launching later this year for iOS and Android with crafting, creature collecting, and multiplayer features.

Nightcrawler is an autonomous penetration testing agent that runs entirely on a smartphone, using a local 1.2B AI model on the phone's GPU to discover hosts, map services, and generate pentest reports without cloud connectivity.

Appllama lets you study over 25,000 screens from top-earning iOS apps, presumably for design and market insights.

Open Minis is an on-device AI agent that runs on your phone, designed to be open and secure.

A look at how foldable phones have matured from fragile, experimental devices into a more boring but stable market segment, and what that means for Apple's eventual entry.

The author announces FlickBoard, a keyboard project that uses a gesture-based 3x3 grid layout to avoid autocorrect and predictive text, inspired by MessagEase.

Obsidian 1.13 is now available on desktop and mobile, adding search and keyboard navigation in settings, easier image resizing/zoom, an iOS share sheet, and various bug fixes and performance improvements.

Port22 brings Claude Code, Codex, and more AI coding tools to your phone.

Xiaomi announces Mountain Green, a new color for the SkyNomad Series, with a launch event on July 30.

ncnn is a lightweight, open-source neural network inference framework for deploying PyTorch and ONNX models to mobile, embedded, and desktop targets without heavy dependencies, supporting CPU and Vulkan GPU backends.

Vevey is a game development tutor app now available on iOS, providing educational content for aspiring game developers.

Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Flip 8, a thinner and lighter foldable phone with enhanced cover screen functionality and new Flex Titanium display technology.