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Samsung posted that the Galaxy Home Mini on its South Korean website. It will be released in South Korea on February 12th for 9,000 KRW, approximately $83. The post has since been removed, but it was online long enough to give us a few new details about the Galaxy Home Mini and suggest that rumors […]
Apple launched a full-on ad for Apple Arcade shortly before the Super Bowl got underway, including a takeover of its home page where game characters invaded the usual product promos you probably weren’t expecting Sonic to ever race around a MacBook Pro. There were a number of straight-up commercials, too. It’s arguably vital given Apple […]
TCL Communications plans to stop selling BlackBerry phones later this year. In a tweet this morning, TCL announced that it “will no longer be selling” BlackBerry-branded phones as of August 31st, 2020, because it will no longer have the rights to design and manufacture them. Existing devices will continue to be supported. BlackBerry decided in […]
Roku customers can breathe a sigh of relief it looked Roku owners would be losing the highest-quality way to stream the Super Bowl for free, when the set-top box maker announced Thursday that it would abruptly pull Fox’s apps off the platform a day ahead of the game. But that won’t actually be happening. Late […]
Apple is temporarily closing its 42 stores in mainland China, one of its largest markets, as Coronavirus spreads rapidly. The company is closing all its retail stores and corporate offices in mainland China through February 9th out of an “abundance of caution” and in consultation from experts. Apple had initially closed three stores, but this […]
Twitter announced a subtle design change to its iOS app that may go a long way in both making conversations easier to parse and to join. The change, which looks like it’s a change on Twitter’s end that does not require an update, is to the threading feature in the Twitter timeline, which currently does […]
European Union lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to legislate manufacturers to adopt a shared charging cable standard. In a 582 to 40 vote, the European Parliament said it wants the European Commission, the body that drafts the EU’s laws, to ensure consumers don’t have to buy a new charger each time they upgrade their phone. The […]
When Huawei introduced the Mate 30 series in September, it did it without Google services. This is to do with a trade war between the United States and China that landed the Shenzhen firm on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List, meaning that U.S. companies are banned from doing business with Huawei. That means […]
The FCC has proposed an almost $13 million fine for a man it says was behind a series of racist and anti-semitic robocalling campaigns consisting of over 6,000 calls being placed across six states. The man is accused of using anti-semitic and racist tropes to attack political candidates, threaten a newspaper, and stoke racial hatred […]
Samsung has opened up reservations for its next flagship phones, expected to be the Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra, that the company will unveil at an upcoming event on February 11th. But this isn’t a pre-order. You enter your name, contact info, and preferred carrier, and you’re ready to wait. It’s highly […]
OnePlus smartphones are infamous for lacking support for Qi wireless charging but the company has been spotted joining the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), the standards group that handles the Qi wireless charging used by virtually every single smartphone, as reported by MobileScout. The lack of wireless charging has been one of the glaring holes in […]
Microsoft has launched a bug bounty program especially for Xbox Live network and services, and it’s paying bug hunters up to $20,000. Like any other bug bounty program, the payout depends on the security vulnerability’s severity and starts at $500. The biggest payouts will be handed out for critical remote code execution and elevation of […]
Samsung’s Galaxy Book S turned heads when it was announced last August, but its long delay kept the $1,000 Qualcomm-powered Windows PC out of interested users’ hands for months. After a long wait from its initial September window, those still interested will finally be able to get one on Feb. 13. Additionally, it will be […]
Huawei overtook Apple to turn out to be the arena’s 2d highest promoting smartphone producer in 2019, in line with stories from Technique Analytics, Counterpoint Analysis, and Canalys. Over the process the yr, the Chinese language producer reportedly shipped round 240 million telephones, in comparison to just below 200 million for Apple. Samsung retained its […]
The first photographs of Motorala’s stylus-equipped Moto have appeared online, just days after the first image of the device was leaked by Evan Blass. The photograph, which comes to us from 91Mobiles, shows the rear of the phone for the first time. 91Mobiles also has some initial details on what the specs of the device […]