LG smartphone division continues to struggle as the company has reported consecutive losses for the past 22 months now. In an effort to make up for the losses, the mobile phone division has been reorganized, with an increase in the outsourcing of mid-range and low-end smartphones to external companies.
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Every now and then, Google releases their Pixel Feature drop, bringing improvements and new features to Pixel users. The December 2020 update has begun rolling out now with features such as Adaptive Sound, Adaptive battery, a few new customization and personalization options, and more.
Apple’s foray into the desktop ARM computing world was, for the most part, a success with the launch of the M1 Apple Silicon in the entry level Macs. According to sources from the industry, Apple is definitely not stopping here and is reportedly developing successors to M1 for their high-end machines that will reportedly have up to 32-high performance cores.
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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Gionee has been found guilty by a Chinese court of illegally installing trojan horse programs in their user’s smartphones for generating revenue. The company reportedly pushed this unwanted software without user knowledge or permission into nearly 26 million smartphones.
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According to sources from the industry, Samsung will be releasing three new foldable smartphones in 2021, expanding their portfolio in this relatively new smartphone form factor. The three devices include the Galaxy Z Flip 2, Galaxy Z Fold 3 and a Galaxy Z Fold Lite.
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For quite a while, Spotify has allowed their users to listen to locally downloaded music on their Android/iOS app. However, there was a limitation for the feature where users would need to be synced on the same local network as their desktop Spotify app. This is about to change as Spotify is testing the ability to play locally stored music on the phone directly via the app.
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YouTube is easily one of the largest platforms for video content platforms on the internet and it is very easy to get buried among the mountain of video uploaded every second. In an effort to help creators from all backgrounds, including those from minorities, YouTube is introducing a few updates to the platform such as a confirmation before sending hate comments and more.
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Earlier this year, Google introduced a fun feature to the Gboard keyboard called Emoji Kitchen. With it, users could basically ‘cook up’ new customized emoji by selecting and combining two existing emoji, which would automatically be mashed together by Gboard. The feature has now been expanded with over 14000 possible emoji combinations, covering a wide variety of emotions.
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Samsung has begun the rollout of the next major Android software update, called One UI 3 that is based on Android 11, to their Galaxy smartphones. With it, Samsung has brought a fresh new design, loads of customization options and improvements to the many everyday features that One UI already offers.
When Apple launched the new Macbook Pro 13 with their new Apple Silicon M1 chip inside, many of us were a little disappointed when the Macbook Pro 13 still had the same external design. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, that will soon change as Apple is rumoured to be developing two new Macbook Pro models for 2021, both with external redesigns and Mini-LED displays.
According to the IDC, the global wearables market recorded a significant amount of growth during the third quarter of 2020 – 35.1% YoY, totally shipping 125 million units. The growth has been attributed to the many seasonal offers, product launches, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The top 5 companies for the quarter were Apple, Xiaomi, HUAWEI, Samsung, Fitbit and boAt.
Update: Thanks to @evleaks, we now have the image of the Buds Pro. This shows an in-ear design compared to bean-like design in the Buds Live, but the case looks similar. It is seen in violet colour, but it is expected to come in more colours. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro receives FCC certification ahead of announcement [Update: Image]”
YouTube’s Premiere feature has become quite a successful for creators, artists, and publishers on the platform since its launch. They are now introducing three new features to improve the experience, namely Live Redirect, Trailers, and Countdown Themes.
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WhatsApp has begun the wide rollout of their per-chat custom wallpapers, which is a feature that they have been testing in the past month. Along with this, WhatsApp is also making it easier for users to search and find stickers with text or emoji.
It has been three months since NVIDIA announced their 30 series graphics cards based on their new Ampere architecture, revealing three cards, the RTX 3070, the RTX 3080 and the RTX 3080. Yesterday, NVIDIA revealed the next card in the 30 series family, called the GeForce RTX 3060Ti, which NVIDIA claims will have performance rivalling the RTX 2080 Super.
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