Monday, 31 August 2020

Apple said to replace AMD GPU chips with its own in-house-design-for-2021

Apple said to replace AMD GPU chips with its own in-house-design-for-2021

on 8/31/2020 02:58:00 pm 0 Comment
As you might have learned a long time ago, designs its own Central Processing Units (CPU) for the iPhone and has them manufactured by TSMC using the 5nm process node. The A14 Bionic chips each contain 15 billion transistors packed together in a density of 171.3 million transistors per square mm. The higher the transistor density, the more powerful and energy-efficient a chip is. The 2020 iPhone models could be the first smartphones equipped with 5nm chipsets.

who goes by the Twitter handle of @chiakokua, Chinese publication Commercial Times reveals that Apple will ...


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Samsung's Galaxy S20 FE 5G gets two vastly different rumored prices

Samsung's Galaxy S20 FE 5G gets two vastly different rumored prices

on 8/31/2020 02:58:00 pm 0 Comment
isn't quite done releasing high-end smartphones for the year, with a "Fan Edition" of the Galaxy S20 yet to come that's technically set to follow in the footsteps of the watered-down .

Based on and , we expect the Galaxy S20 FE 5G to stand extremely close to the "regular" 5G-enabled S20 on the Android food chain, still cutting a few corners to keep the price point nice and reasonable but vastly improving the specifications of its spiritual forerunner.

Said reasonable price tag, by the way, is not etched in stone just yet, with two different leaks painting ...


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Sunday, 30 August 2020

Alleged LG Wing 5G price is a pleasant surprise

Alleged LG Wing 5G price is a pleasant surprise

on 8/30/2020 08:58:00 am 0 Comment
While  will probably release a down the road, it's experimenting with dual-screen designs for now. Currently in the pipeline is apparently the , which features a flip-out secondary display. The price of the phone has now leaked and as expected, it falls in the premium category.

Unlike some of the recently released LG phones, the Wing 5G  seemingly doesn't need you to attach a screen. Per a , the supplementary screen flips out from the bottom of the main panel and sits perpendicular to it to allow you to multitask. 

The main display will ...


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Japan Display to sell LCD factory to Sharp and use the cash to pay back Apple

Japan Display to sell LCD factory to Sharp and use the cash to pay back Apple

on 8/30/2020 08:58:00 am 0 Comment
Back in 2014-2015, Japan Display (JDI) was considered to be Apple's major smartphone display supplier. At that time, the and were bringing larger-sized LCD screens to iPhone users. The original 3.5-inch display found on the first iPhone models rose to 4-inches with the and to 4.7-inches on the . The carries a screen size of 5.5-inches and those sizes remained the same until 2017's weighed in with a 5.8-inch OLED screen.
Japan Display to sell factory to Foxconn's Sharp

The was the beginning of the end of Japan Display's importance to the iPhone ...


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Japan Display sells LCD factory to Sharp, uses the cash to pay back Apple

Japan Display sells LCD factory to Sharp, uses the cash to pay back Apple

on 8/30/2020 07:58:00 am 0 Comment
Back in 2014-2015, Japan Display (JDI) was considered to be Apple's major smartphone display supplier. At that time, the and were bringing larger-sized LCD screens to iPhone users. The original 3.5-inch display found on the first iPhone models rose to 4-inches with the and to 4.7-inches on the . The carries a screen size of 5.5-inches and those sizes remained the same until 2017's weighed in with a 5.8-inch OLED screen.
Japan Display to sell factory to Foxconn's Sharp

The was the beginning of the end of Japan Display's importance to the iPhone ...


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Leaked AT&T Motorola Razr 5G images show it will retain a slightly dated feature

Leaked AT&T Motorola Razr 5G images show it will retain a slightly dated feature

on 8/30/2020 07:58:00 am 0 Comment
The is expected to see the light of day on and revered leaker had earlier shared a of its . The tipster is now back with the AT&T-branded 2020 Razr and the new content gives us our clearest look yet at the phone.

The design hasn't changed much from the but the company has surely refined it. The bezels are now thinner and the size of the chin has also been reduced.

No in-display fingerprint scanner for the Motorola Razr 5G

The new images put an end to rumors that claimed the new foldable would feature an . Instead, the capacitive reader ...


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Saturday, 29 August 2020

MediaTek seeks U.S. permission to supply cutting-edge 5G chips to Huawei

MediaTek seeks U.S. permission to supply cutting-edge 5G chips to Huawei

on 8/29/2020 02:58:00 pm 0 Comment
In May of last year, the U.S. Commerce Department put Huawei on the Entity List over fears that the company's close ties with the Communist Chinese government would result in information about U.S. consumers and corporations getting sent to servers in Beijing. Thanks to its placement on the Entity List, Huawei found itself banned from the U.S. supply chain that it spent $18 billion on two years before. This forced to scramble to find replacement suppliers for certain components and the company replaced the Google ecosystem with its own Huawei Mobile Services.
MediaTek asks the U.S. ...


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New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock

on 8/29/2020 09:18:00 am 0 Comment
Tell HN: Check medium's localstorage if you use adblock
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If you have uBlock or similar, it appears medium logs all analytics pings into HTML5 LocalStorage and will keep retrying to send them (and apparently periodically change domains and subdomains to try and send them). I had tens of thousands of entries in localStorage, wasting quite a bit of space, all of them at least 400-600 characters or more. Each time I scrolled it'd add a few dozen more in, to the point where devtools was freezing. Ridiculous. Example: https://ift.tt/2QAyqu0

Starting today Epic Games is locked out of its iOS and macOS developer accounts

Starting today Epic Games is locked out of its iOS and macOS developer accounts

on 8/29/2020 06:58:00 am 0 Comment
Last Monday, the judge overseeing the court battle between and Epic games essentially ruled exactly as we expected. She said that the game developer created the issue itself and had the power to remedy the situation by removing its own in-app payment system from Fortnite. By offering its own in-app payment system (IAP), Epic was eliminating the so-called 30% Apple Tax that developers pay for the privilege of using Apple's IAP. Epic's lawyers were hoping to persuade the judge that Apple's anti-competitive actions were behind the whole affair, but the judge didn't bother to consider that possibility. ...


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Friday, 28 August 2020

Xiaomi's under-display camera tech ready for prime time, first phones coming next year

Xiaomi's under-display camera tech ready for prime time, first phones coming next year

on 8/28/2020 01:58:00 pm 0 Comment
Ever since smartphone displays took over the whole front panel and front-facing cameras became notches, then holes, we’ve been looking forward towards the day manufacturers will be able to hide them under the display. And it seems at least one phone maker is ready to deliver.

announced that the third generation of its under-display camera technology has solved most of the issues that come from having the camera behind the display and the company is preparing for mass production. In a presentation that reached us , the company explains how it perfected the technology to reach image-quality ...


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Facebook trolls Apple after its iOS app gets a ban over App Store fees

Facebook trolls Apple after its iOS app gets a ban over App Store fees

on 8/28/2020 01:58:00 pm 0 Comment
After regarding their efforts to circumvent its App Store payment policy , it is now catching none other than Facebook in the act. No not the act of trying to wiggle out of paying a cut to Apple for purchases made through its iOS app, but rather warning buyers about Apple's cut.

That's right, with its newest app update, Facebook incorporated a feature that lets users buy tickets for events online, but made the mistake to put a warning saying that 30% of the proceeds will go to , as the purchase is done on the iOS app.

Facebook says that it asked Apple ...


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