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Are foldable phones better for multimedia? Here is how the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 stack up

September 6, 2021
The history of widescreen is a fascinating tale of film makers trying to impress their audience and later to try and claw back audience members from those new-fangled “television sets”. Early TVs settled on a 4:3 aspect ratio, which was the most common choice for movies too. But why go to the movies when you can stay at home? This lead film makers to start using wider and wider aspect ratios…
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Testing Realme's MagDart 50W and 15W wireless magnetic chargers

September 5, 2021
Wireless charging has been supported on select phones for over a decade now, but it has many detractors. It’s slow, it’s inefficient, it requires careful placement. But things have been improving lately. The latest major upgrade comes in the form of magnets. Apple lead…
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Samsung Galaxy S20 series is receiving the September 2021 Android security patch

September 5, 2021
Samsung began rolling out the September 2021 Android security patch last month, with the Galaxy S20 FE being the first in line to get it, and now it’s the S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra that are getting updated with the newest security patch. Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra The new firmware comes with version G98xxXXSADUH5 and is currently seeding in some parts of Europe, but it doesn’t bring any new…
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Vivo V1 ISP chip photographed next to Snapdragon 888

September 5, 2021
Vivo’s upcoming X70 line is one of the more curious upcoming releases in recent memory. We are currently expecting a trio of devices in the family – a vanilla X70, a X70 Pro and a X70 Pro+ – all of which we are already quite familiar with, thanks to an avalanche of multiple certifications, leaks, live photos and official teasers and press materials. Yet, there is still plenty of mystery to…
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WhatsApp chat data transfer from iOS to Samsung is now live

September 5, 2021
Last month on the day of Samsung’s official unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 WhatsApp unveiled plans to support moving chat history from iOS to Samsung devices running Android 10 or 11. Today this feature finally went live. So, if you have a Samsung handset on…
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Android 12 has a cool system-wide search feature that isn't active yet

September 3, 2021
While some Android makers have implemented system-wide search on their devices, it is not part of the core OS. That is about to change with Android 12 as beta 4 for the Pixel phones does support it, even if it this feature hasn’t been officially released yet. It looks like work on it is still ongoing as it appears incomplete. Right now you can only access it through the search bar in the app…
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