If the classic “stacked sandwiches” with two cameras and three annual updates are too boring for you, you've come to the right place. We've gathered five phones that the media is writing about as different, special and sometimes stubbornly unique: Nothing Phone (3), Fairphone (Gen. 6), Light Phone III, Solana Mobile Seeker and Minimal Phone. Each of them solves a specific problem – from sustainability to digital detoxification and Web3 – and does it in their own way. Let's take a look - the 5 most special smartphones of 2025!
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Jan Macarol is the responsible editor of the printed and online editions of City Magazine Slovenia. Together with his two assistants, he strives to offer readers the most unique and fresh information about urban culture, technological innovations, fashion and everything an urban nomad needs to survive in a fast-paced world.
Volkswagen has equipped the ID.3 in the UK with something new: pay-for-power. You get 150 kW (201 hp) as standard, but for the full dose of 170 kW (228 hp) you have to… sign up for a subscription. Welcome to the automotive world where horses are unlocked like Netflix episodes. So Volkswagen has started charging a subscription fee for additional horsepower!
Phones have grown up and stretched. The iKKO MindOne goes against the grain: a box measuring 86 × 72 × 8.9 mm, just a little wider than a credit card, but still a full-fledged Android phone. The idea is simple — less screen, more focus — and surprisingly ambitious: two environments (full Android and “pure” iKKO AI OS), a main camera that switches to selfie, and a body with a real keyboard and a real 3.5-mm output.
The Italian masters of sound and speed have come together to create a limited edition of the Il Cremonese Ex3me – Automobili Lamborghini Edition, a premium floorstanding speaker. It is a 3.5-way “para-aperiodic” tower with a 30mm beryllium dome tweeter (DLC), a 180mm midrange, two 180mm woofers and two 220mm side-mounted nanocarbon fiber infra-woofers. Only 50 pairs are available in five Lamborghini colors, and the price is approximately €125,000 per pair.
This is not an SUV, this is a geological phenomenon with a registration. The BRABUS XLP 800 6x6 Adventure takes the G-Class, adds another axle and 800 wild “horses”. The result? A pickup that whistles at sidewalks, curbs and common sense.
Formex has expanded its most recognizable sports watch, the Formex Essence Space Ghost, with a new, precisely measured 41 mm format and dressed it in a fresh technological package: for the first time in this line with a screw-down crown, a new “on-the-fly” butterfly clasp on a steel bracelet, and a Space Ghost meteorite dial, treated to preserve the natural Widmanstätten pattern — without rust and without kitsch.
The new Volvo XC70 rolled off the assembly line in Taizhou, pre-sales begin on August 27 in Chengdu. Under the hood: the new SMA Super Hybrid Architecture, 3-motor drive and 3-speed DHT. Literally Swedish rationality on a Chinese battery.
On the shores of Lake Michigan, Ford mixed sunsets, dunes, and Bronco—the result is two “one-off” projects that aren’t really special editions, but rather a recipe. It’s all in the catalog. This is the Ford Bronco Silver Lake Dunes.
Gullwing doors, blue glass and a red lounge in the style of a “dust pole.” The Cadillac Elevated Velocity concept hints at where Cadillac is taking the electric V-Series – onto the road and over the dunes.
The Acura RSX nameplate is back—not as a poster coupe from the 2000s, but as a sharply sculpted electric crossover on an all-new Honda platform. If you were expecting nostalgia, you get faster data transfer and two-way charging.
Under the new Antigravity brand, Insta360 has announced the A1 – the ultra-lightweight (249g) Insta360 Antigravity A1 drone with a built-in 8K 360° camera. Instead of chasing the angle of the footage during the flight, you fly where you want and choose the frame later. The bundle with Vision glasses and Grip controller is aimed at creators, travelers and anyone who wants a drone that is more of a flying 360 camera than a classic “flying tripod”. The first units are expected to arrive globally in January 2026.
Meyers Manx and Tuthill Porsche have revealed the LFG at The Quail – a limited-run off-road hedonist with carbon bodywork, four-wheel drive (4WD), a sequential 6-speed transmission and engines that include the four-valve, infamous Tuthill “K”. 100 examples and 6 years of curated driving are planned, with the first major stage in 2027.











