So long, small phones! It’s been real. On Wednesday, Apple announced its trio of new iPhones, and with it, the company put the final nail in the coffin for rebooting a small, pocketable iPhone. That’s because the new lineup includes the 5.8-inch iPhone XS, the 6.1-inch iPhone XR and the 6.5-inch XS Max. Suddenly, last year’s biggest iPhone is now this year’s smallest option. Couple that with the fact that Apple is discontinuing the 4-inch iPhone SE, and this all means one thing: abandon all hope of ever owning a new small smartphone, iOS, Android or what have you. Personally, as an owner of baby hands myself, that’s downright disappointing.…

eBay will now let you sell your old phone in ‘a matter of minutes,’ but there’s a small catch: You get paid in eBay vouchers. Known as Instant Selling, the service could be useful if your previous phone is just gathering dust and you’re bidding on some big-ticket item. The e-commerce site says it offers returns that are up to 40 percent higher than other trade-in providers, which it says offer 40 to 50 percent off the average market selling price. To use the service, you need to enter your device info — including the model, color, condition, carrier and any accessories — and it’ll give you the trending price. We found…

  Samsung‘s heavily rumored Galaxy Note 9, announced Thursday in New York, is a 6.4-inch phone with dual rear 12-megapixel cameras, up to 512GB of storage and a new Bluetooth S-Pen stylus.   It goes on sale on Aug. 24 with a starting price of $1,000 for the 128GB version, but you can reserve the Galaxy Note 9 right now.   As Samsung’s newest top-tier phone, it naturally draws comparisons to devices like the iPhone X, Google Pixel 2XL and LG V35 ThinQ.   But the Galaxy Note 9 falls into an interesting spot in Samsung’s phone portfolio, especially since it has many similarities to the Galaxy S9 Plus, which…

Dialog Semiconductor reported on Monday that its quarterly sales projection would be at the low end of its target. The German chipmaker, which relies on Apple for about 75 percent of its revenue, said its preliminary revenue for the fourth quarter of 2018 was around $431 million. That compares with the guidance range of $430 million to $470 million given in October. The news comes less than two weeks after Apple posted a sales warning to investors regarding holiday sales. We’ve also seen  hints that its 2018 models (the iPhone XS, the XS Max and the XR) would be subject to production cuts and slashed prices in China. Dialog’s shares…

Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT, the world is not only expecting Apple to reveal three new iPhones, but specifically the iPhone XS*.  Why so sure? Because 9to5Mac’s noted Apple leaker Guilherme Rambo was the one to bring us the picture you see above — a picture that looks like it could have been pulled directly from Apple’s marketing materials.  And because today, Rambo has revealed that he found the pictures at Apple’s own website. Whoops! In his own words, here’s the clever trick he used: So, about those marketing images: they came from the recap section of the special event website. I used the URL pattern from the last event and…