The new Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro showcase one of the biggest year-to-year phone upgrades I’ve seen in a long time. In the lead-up to Google’s fall Pixel event on Tuesday, the company behind Android and YouTube did something many other phone makers don’t and announced both new Pixel 6 phones back in August. The …
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Android users can now download Android 12 on Pixel 3 and up. The new OS arrived after Google’s Pixel event on Tuesday. Android 12 is the OS’s biggest design change in years. With Android 12, you can expect to see customizable color palettes, updated notifications and faster, battery-saving performance. The new OS was released alongside Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro …
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Chinese phone maker Oppo has launched the global version of ColorOS 12, its new operating system that runs on Android 12. Oppo is among the first smartphone companies to release a customized take on the operating system, and ColorOS 12 is expected to reach flagship devices like the Find X3 Pro as early as Monday, with the rollout to Oppo’s budget …
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Huawei Technologies’ Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou agreed to a deferred prosecution deal with the Department of Justice after appearing in federal district court in Brooklyn on Friday, the DOJ said in a statement. Meng, who has been detained in Canada since 2018, will also be allowed to return to China in exchange for admitting some wrongdoing in a sanctions violation …
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Apple unveiled the iPhone 13 Mini at its Tuesday event, giving fans of smaller phones something to be excited about yet again. Just like its predecessor, the iPhone 13 Mini is a 5.4-inch version of Apple’s flagship iPhone that comes with all the same features in a smaller design. However, there’s a chance the $700 iPhone 13 Mini, which is …
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Apple’s new iPhone 13 line debuted Tuesday at Apple’s September event, showing a tweaked design with a variety of new features for those upgrading from earlier iPhone models. The lineup consists of four new phones: the iPhone 13, the 13 Mini, the 13 Pro and the 13 Pro Max. The new phones will run iOS 15, come with a larger battery, …
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With its new iPhone 13 models, Apple has added notable new camera features to get an edge in the smartphone photography market. Cinematic mode, on all iPhone 13 models, uses AI and computational photography to change focus from one subject to another, a technique you’ll often see in the movies. And macro photography on the iPhone 13 Pro lets you …
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Huawei’s Watch 3 is making a statement: It’s the first smartwatch to run its in-house Harmony OS and it has far-reaching implications in its challenge to Google’s Wear OS and Apple’s WatchOS. Although still in its early days, Harmony OS is Huawei’s answer to Google Mobile Services, except the Chinese company wants it to go further: to run across all …
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Look around the next time you’re at a coffee shop or airport. Although it’s possible I haven’t been looking hard enough, I don’t think I’ve ever spotted an Android tablet out in the wild, much less a tablet that runs HarmonyOS, the operating system Huawei built to run on its devices in place of Google’s Android. That changed when I …
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After being sold off by Huawei, Honor is back in the limelight with its new flagship Magic 3 series. It’s the company’s first global flagship launch since Huawei sold Honor to a consortium of buyers. And unlike Huawei devices, the Magic 3 lineup, will run Google’s popular software and apps in their full capacity — features it lost access to when …
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