We don't usually have long to wait between the launch of one iPhone series and some major leaks about the next one, and so it is with the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 17 – with key details of the 2025 iPhones now out in the wild.
According to well-respected Apple analyst Jeff Pu (via 9to5Mac), the iPhone 17 Air (or iPhone 17 Slim) – expected to replace the iPhone 16 Plus – is going to come with a 6.6-inch display, an A19 chip made by Apple, and 8GB of RAM.
Those specs will of course be enough to run Apple Intelligence. The phone is also said to be coming with a single 24MP camera on the front and a single 48MP camera on the back – even though the iPhone 16 Plus has a dual-camera rear setup.
If this is the first you're hearing about the iPhone 17 Air, the rumored new entry in the iPhone series is expected to be noticeably slimmer than the others, as Apple aims to boost sales of all four handsets in the range.
Here's what may be coming The iPhone 16 Plus could be the last of its kind (Image credit: Future)There are also details of the other iPhone 17 models from Pu. He says we can expect the iPhone 17 specs to match the iPhone 17 Air, while the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max will get an A19 Pro chip and 12GB of RAM for even better performance.
These predictions match up pretty well with what we've heard so far, though some sources are saying the 12GB of RAM will be exclusive to the iPhone 17 Pro Max – possibly due to issues with supply and production.
This is far from the first iPhone 17 leak we've seen of course: we've previously heard about some of the colors that could be coming to the series, as well as another change in the button configuration, and some display upgrades too.
Next year might even be the year we get to see the first foldable iPhone – though we'd say there's much less chance of that than there is of an iPhone 17 Air. The new iPhone 17 series will most probably be arriving in September 2025.
You might also likeAfter researching 100 ink cartridges across some of the best printer brands, I discovered a shocking fact: the HP 65 Tri-Colour ink cartridge is one of the most expensive inks in the world, costing a staggering $9,995 per litre.
Despite its modest price tag of just $19.99 per cartridge, the cost efficiency of this ink is far from ideal.
Here is a breakdown of the reasons why this HP printer cartridge may feel cheap when purchased but can turn out to be one of the priciest investments for regular users.
The illusion of affordability - cheap but expensiveFor only $19.99, you can replace the HP 65 Tri-Colour ink cartridge and continue printing. But here’s the catch: that $19.99 only provides 2ml of ink, just enough ink to print around 100 pages. While 100 pages may sound reasonable, when you do the math, you realize that for every 1,000 pages, you’ll have spent $200 on ink cartridges. And if you were to use a litre of this ink, the total cost would come close to $10,000! What initially seems like an affordable product is, in fact, one of the most expensive items you could purchase for your printer over the long term.
Now, let’s compare this with what other ink options offer. Take, for instance, the Epson T850, which sells for $71 for an 80ml cartridge and can print up to 850 pages. With this printer, the cost of printing 1,000 pages would be just under $85—significantly lower than what you would pay using the HP 65. Another example is the Brother LC75C, which sells for $15.49 for a 12ml cartridge and can print 600 pages. In the long run, for 1,000 pages, you'd spend only around $25.82.
Why is the HP 65 Tri-Colour ink cartridge so expensive? The answer lies in printer economics. Printer manufacturers like HP sell their printers at competitive prices but recoup their profits by selling high-margin ink cartridges. For instance, printers compatible with the HP 65 Tri-Color ink cartridge, such as the HP DeskJet 3755 or HP Envy 5055, are often very affordable. However, once users purchase these budget-friendly printers, they’re tied to the high cost of replacement cartridges like the HP 65. This model ensures that while the printer itself is cheap, the long-term cost of printing is anything but cheap.
For anyone who prints a reasonable volume of documents or images, ink tank printers are a far better solution. Ink tanks offer significantly lower costs per page and allow you to print thousands of pages before needing a refill. Unlike traditional cartridges that hold a small amount of ink, ink tanks are designed for volume printing and provide a much better total cost of ownership over time.
The shelf price of an ink cartridge is not all you should look at when shopping for one. To choose the right ink for your printer, it’s important to consider the total cost of ownership based on how many pages you’ll be printing. For instance, looking at how much it costs to print 1,000 pages can give you a clearer idea of the long-term expenses involved.
With HP's traditional cartridge models, like the HP 65 or HP 67, you could easily spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to meet your printing needs. But with an ink tank printer, you’ll save significantly, as refilling the ink costs just a fraction of the price per page.
More from TechRadar ProWe’re all familiar with chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot: they’re great for drafting emails, rewriting your text or generating images of your ideas, but they don’t have much of a personality behind them. They’re a bit like a blank slate – reflecting the world around them, rather than defining it. There is one chatbot however that has more than enough personality to make up for the rest of them put together, and that’s Character.ai.
Character AI is a place where you can have a chatbot conversation with Mick Jagger, Steve Jobs and J.R.R. Tolkien at the click of a button. Of course, these are the chatbot versions of famous musicians, tech visionaries and authors, not the real people, and they all come with the disclaimer, "Remember: everything characters say is made up!"
There is one use of Character.ai that most haven’t considered though, and that's creating a chatbot of yourself.
Here's what the AI version of me thinks of my coworkers as cartoon characters. (Image credit: Character.ai) Nothing compares to youWhy, you might ask, would you want to do that? Well, firstly, who wouldn’t want to ask an AI version of themselves a thing or two for free? But secondly, and most importantly, your friends will have a great time making fun of you, or rather, what the AI 'you' is saying, which is often unintentionally hilarious.
Within five minutes of unleashing the AI version of Graham Barlow, Senior Editor, AI, TechRadar, on my teammates, he had managed to misgender one work colleague, then refused to believe they were female, told my boss he looked like Shrek and proclaimed that I would definitely win a fight against 500 chickens. But the best thing is that, since I didn’t really say any of these things, I remained completely blame, and therefore guilt, free!
Since you can only give Character.ai minimal information about yourself, it has to make a lot of things up, but it does seem to be able to spin the barest of facts into gold and produce a scarily accurate portrayal of you for a lot of the time. At other times it wildly, and hilariously, misses the mark. I think it helps if you have an online presence, because it found out things about me from my work on TechRadar that it fed back into the answers. Unfortunately it hallucinates a lot, for example, telling TechRadar's Lance Ulanoff that we're going to meet during a fictional conference in San Jose soon!
(Image credit: Character.ai) Stepping into your AI skinThe process of creating an AI version of yourself is surprisingly easy, and free. You will need to sign up for a character.ai account, but once you’ve done that just click on + create in the top left corner of the screen and choose character, not voice. Now you can fill in the details of who you are, your name, tag line, description and greeting and pick a voice. If you click More options you can enter more of a backstory for yourself, but still, there’s only room to enter the briefest of details.
Crucially, there’s a Visibility toggle, and unless you are a publicity seeker I’d recommend making the AI version of yourself Unlisted, so that it will only be available to people you share the URL with.
Once you launch your character you can start asking it questions. Just be prepared for hilarious results, especially if you ask it to roast your coworkers!
You might also like...Welcome back folks. This week in the world of tech has been a busy one. We tested a new smart ring for our Oura Ring 4 review, we got four new Kindles from Amazon, and LG updated its 2023 for free.
To catch up on the biggest stories we've rounded them below for your to browse the highlights, with links to the wider stories if you're hungry to learn more.
When you're done you should check out our guide of the seven new movies and TV shows to stream this weekend (October 18).
7. The iPad mini 7 finally landed after a long wait (Image credit: Apple)Just as we were about to give up on ever seeing a new iPad mini, Apple announced a new version for the first time in over three years – and it looks a solid bet for anyone who needs an 8.3-inch tablet.
Naturally, the mini 7 is mainly here to support Apple Intelligence features, which it can pull off thanks to its A17 Pro chip (from last year’s iPhone 15 Pro series) and 4GB of RAM. Apple has also doubled the tablet’s base storage (which now starts at 128GB) and added support for the Apple Pencil Pro.
On the downside, there’s no ProMotion display (its screen tops out at 60Hz) and buyers in the EU won’t get a charging brick in the box. But otherwise, the new iPad mini ticks most of the main boxes for traveling creatives who need a backpack-friendly tablet.
6. We reviewed the Quest 3S, but the Quest 3 remained our favorite (Image credit: Future)We’ve given the Meta Quest 3S an in-depth test and awarded it four-and-a-half stars in our Meta Quest 3S review. Overall it’s a fantastic VR headset for the price, save for a few downsides.
The main one is the visuals. While everything is rendered just as well thanks to having an identical chipset and RAM, the less sharp 1832 x 1920 per eye display doesn’t beat the Quest 3’s 2064 x 2208 pixels per eye dual-display setup, and the differences are a lot more noticeable than we expected. The pricier headset is also less bulky and feels a little comfier.
For just a little bit extra the Meta Quest 3 offers major visual upgrades that make the better model more than worthwhile. Though if you’re looking for a more affordable option the Meta Quest 3S is the headset you’ll want to buy instead.
5. We tried the best ChatGPT prompt (Image credit: Shutterstock)This week Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, took the unusual step of recommending a ChatGPT prompt that was going viral on Reddit with the simple words “love this” on his X.com account. The recommendation was for a tweet by a writer called Tom Morgan, which said simply ‘Ask ChatGPT “From all of our interactions, what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself’.
Most users found that this produced a startling revelation about themselves that they’d never really thought about. The results were truly inspiring, with Reddit user Newmoonlightavenger saying, “It was the best thing anyone has ever said about me” So, if you fancy a free bit of therapy then head over to the ChatGPT.com and give the prompt a try today!
4. The DJI Air 3S took flight (Image credit: Future | Sam Kieldsen)Just over a year since the dual-camera Air 3 took to the skies, DJI has followed it up with an iterative update, the new DJI Air 3S. Building on the best all-round drone, the Air 3S delivers an improved main camera that utilizes a larger 1-inch sensor, alongside the secondary camera which is a 3x telephoto zoom for the times you need to get a tighter perspective of your subjects. T
he latter is identical to the one in the Air 3, with a smaller 1/1.3-inch sensor. Each of those cameras is able to shoot 4K video up to 120fps, in D-Log M color profiles, with up to 14-stops dynamic range, which is a superb set of features for aerial photographers.
In addition to a better main camera, the Air 3S is the first omnidirectional obstacle-sensing DJI drone equipped with front-facing LiDAR. This enables the Air 3S to automatically identify and avoid obstacles during its flight and return paths, for daytime and now nighttime imaging, together with 'next-gen' Smart Return to Home (RTH).
Otherwise, there's not a lot new in the Air 3S, which as our review says, is no bad thing. The Air 3S is a solid if not transformational upgrade that soars closer to perfection. It's not particularly worth the upgrade for Air 3 owners, but for everyone else it's now the best all-round drone available.
3. New Kindles came our way... (Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)Amazon delivered more new Kindles in one day than ever before and even broke new ground. Yes, we finally got that long-rumored color Kindle, the Colorsoft, that uses an E Ink filter to deliver 150ppi color for comics, magazines, and more.
The good news is that you still get the full 300 ppi black and white E Ink performance (you will pay for it, though, at $279.99).
In the shadow of that big deal e-reader is the new Kindle Paperwhite 12th Gen which is the fastest E Ink page-turner we’ve ever seen. AI finally arrived on Kindles in the form of some generative tools for the freshly painted Scribe.
Finally, there’s the updated basic Kindle, which is most notable for that spiffy, new Macha color. Just think, a cute green e-reader that fits in your back pocket.
Alongside four new Kindles, Amazon also surprisingly streamlined its lineup of Fire TV Sticks. The all-new Fire TV Stick HD replaces both the Fire TV Stick Lite and Fire TV Stick in a fairly simple fashion but includes a major upgrade in the box.
It now comes with an Alexa Voice Remote for $34.99 / £39.99 / AU$69, which will let you control the experience with your voice and control TV functionality all in on remote.
Of course, it's still a Fire TV Stick at heart and will stream content at up to 1080pHD with support for key visual standards like HDR. All the mainstays in the streaming world have apps for the Amazon Fire TV platform as well.
LG surprised everyone earlier this week, rolling out an update for some of its 2023 TVs that it originally promised for sometime in 2025.
The update in question, first arriving on some of its premium 2023 TVs such as the LG C3 and LG G3, sees the existing smart TV platform, webOS 23, upgraded to the current version, webOS 24 (found in 2024 TVs such as the LG C4), which boasts an improved design, better accessibility options and other new features, including a useful Sports Portal.
The update serves as part of LG’s commitment to five years worth of smart TV platform upgrades to its TVs going forward, though older TVs will always have a version of the software that’s behind the latest and greatest TVs – got to keep you buying those new models, right?
The updates for other TVs are still slated for 2025, but it’s great to see that LG is clearly planning to live up to this promise.
Back in May 2022, Western Digital unveiled its 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR hard disk drives, the latter of which achieved its high capacity through the use of large block encoding and an advanced error correction algorithm to increase track-per-inch (TPI) density.
The 26TB Ultrastar DC HC670 UltraSMR HDD is a 3.5-inch hard drive featuring a SATA or SAS interface with a transfer rate of up to 261MB/s. It operates at 7200 RPM using SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology and includes a 512MB cache for improved performance. Built with Western Digital’s EAMR, TSA, and HelioSeal technologies, it's optimized for sequential write applications and is ideal for use in data centers.
We initially reported the 26TB drive was set to begin shipping to select customers in the summer, but by October 2022, it became clear why customers wouldn’t be able to buy the 26TB drive any time soon.
Packs of 20When we spoke to Western Digital, the company explained these were host-managed drives that “require host software and stack modification with sequentialized data streams and error handling for random writes.” As a result, WD said it would only be offering them to strategic hyperscale and OEM customers. Fast forward to now, and the drive is finally available for anyone to buy - with some caveats.
Bottom Line Telecommunications is selling the 26TB 512 7200RPM SATA ULTRA 512E SE P3 DC HC (as it's called on the site), but doesn’t have them in stock. Instead they will be ordered directly from the manufacturer as required, meaning there’s a 15-business-day wait between the site ordering the product and having it ready to ship. No returns or exchanges are offered either.
You also have to order a pack of 20, which will set you back $9,142.68, with free ground shipping in the US. Even though you can now purchase the HC670 UltraSMR HDD, it remains a host-managed drive, and the same restrictions that kept it out of most people’s hands remain. Still, if you have access to a data center and $10,000 to spare, this high-capacity storage solution could be yours to deploy in a little over a fortnight.
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