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OnePlus is reportedly preparing to pull out of the US and Europe entirely, according to a new report from German outlet WinFuture. To be clear up front: this is a report, not an official announcement.

The smartphone market share order shifted in the second quarter of 2026, and the story is not a happy one for Android’s biggest volume sellers. According to a new report from market research firm Omdia, Samsung held on to the number one spot worldwide and grew its share — but three of the largest Android brands, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo, all lost ground in the same three months, squeezed by a global memory-chip crisis that is making budget and mid-range phones more expensive to build.

Realme has officially confirmed that the Realme Narzo 100x 5G will launch in India on July 15, 2026, at 12PM IST, and the headline number Realme wants you to remember is the battery: 8,000mAh. That is a genuinely large cell for a phone Realme is positioning in the ₹15,000–₹20,000 band, and it sits alongside a 144Hz display and a MediaTek Dimensity 6300 5G chip.

Samsung Health is now showing users a mandatory consent screen titled “Consent to the Use of Health Data for AI Training and Modelling,” and the terms are unusually blunt: agree, or you can no longer sync your health data to your Samsung account. The Samsung Health AI training consent prompt tells anyone who declines that their already-synced health data will be deleted, unless Samsung is legally required to keep it.

Google Photos Video Remix is the app’s newest AI trick: pick any clip from your library, describe the look you want in plain English, and Gemini Omni rebuilds the video for you in a few seconds. Want to relight a too-dark clip with a warm morning glow, drop yourself into a greenhouse, or turn a home video into a watercolor painting? That is now a couple of taps in the Create tab. It started rolling out on July 8, 2026, and India is one of the launch markets.

A new FCC filing points to a Tensor G6 MediaTek modem inside Google’s next chip — and if the reading holds up, it would be the first time ever that a Google Tensor processor ditches Samsung’s Exynos modem. To be clear up front: this is a leak, not an official Google announcement. What makes it worth your attention today is that the evidence now comes from a real government document rather than the usual anonymous tipsters.

Motorola has officially confirmed that the Motorola Edge 70 Max will launch in India on July 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM IST, and its teaser campaign is leading with one headline feature: this is the first phone in the Edge 70 series to build Qi2.2.1 magnetic wireless charging directly into the chassis. No add-on case, ring, or adapter needed — the magnets sit inside the phone itself.

Stuck on an Android 17 beta build and can’t get to the stable release without wiping your Pixel? Google’s July 2026 Pixel update finally fixes that. Testers who stayed on Beta 4 or Beta 4.1 spent the last month unable to receive the automatic update to stable Android 17, and the only obvious escape route wiped all their data. The new build changes that, and this guide walks you through leaving the Android 17 beta with everything intact.

India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), under the Ministry of Finance, has extended and expanded the India smartphone import duty relief that phone makers rely on to build handsets locally. Three customs notifications issued on July 8, 2026, keep key component and machinery exemptions in place until March 31, 2029 — giving every brand assembling phones in India, from Samsung and Xiaomi to Vivo, Oppo and Realme, multi-year certainty on what their inputs will cost.

iQOO has confirmed that the iQOO Z11 Lite 5G will launch in India on July 24, 2026. The date comes straight from iQOO India’s official teaser campaign — shared by iQOO India CEO Nipun Marya on the company’s X account — alongside an “Amazon Specials” microsite for the phone that is already live on Amazon.in. That listing confirms Amazon India as a launch-day retail partner, so the Z11 Lite will sell through both Amazon and iQOO’s own online store when it goes on sale.