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The Sony Xperia 1 III will launch in Europe in August, Xperia 5 III gets delayed to September

July 4, 2021
Sony announced pre-orders for its Mark III flagships in Europe last week, but it was a false start and pre-orders were taken down a few days later. Now, they are back on again and we have some bad news. Some good news first. The Sony Xperia 1 III will become available for pre-order in Germany on July 15 and should start shipping on August 31. At least that’s when the pre-order bonus ends, the…
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OnePlus extends software support for its smartphones

July 4, 2021
Earlier today, OnePlus confirmed its new update policy for its device portfolio. Flagship devices starting with the OnePlus 8 series will now get three major Android OS updates and four years of security updates. This includes T-series and R models too. OnePlus Nord and…
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Samsung Galaxy A22 4G silently goes official in India, available to order already

July 4, 2021
At the beginning of June, Samsung made the Galaxy A22 5G official, and ever since then we’ve heard multiple times that a 4G model was on its way to India. This has now been officially added to Samsung India’s website, and not just that but you can already order one. The Galaxy A22 4G is priced at INR 18,499 ($248, €209 at the current exchange rates) before any bank offers. For this…
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Quick Charge Podcast: July 7, 2021

July 4, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Tesla AI chief explains why self-driving cars don’t need lidar

July 3, 2021
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. What is the technology stack you need to create fully autonomous vehicles? Companies and researchers are divided on the answer to that question. Approaches to autonomous driving range from just cameras and computer vision to a combination of computer vision and advanced sensors. Tesla has been a vocal…
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Beta 4 of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7 starts rolling out to public beta testers today

July 3, 2021
Apple is working on iOS 15 with overhauled Facetime and Maps, but that’s not ready for public testing yet. Today it started rolling out iOS 14.7 and iPadOS Beta 4 to public beta testers, which could be the last public beta builds of the OS14 before the company will shift the focus of beta testing to version 15. Public betas or not, Apple will continue to update iOS 14 This new version isn’t…
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