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Britain’s BT to end 3G support in two years; iPhone 12 helped 5G market grow

Britain’s BT announced that it’s phasing out 3G in the next two years as it maintains its plans to bring 5G to the entire country by 2028, reports Reuters. According to BT Consumer CEO Marc Allera, traffic has more than quadrupled on its 5G network since October, when the iPhone 12 launched. “EE is the first operator to set a time frame to stop supporting 3G services in early 2023, with…
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Google Sheets racks up 1 billion Play Store downloads

Google Sheets has joined a very exclusive club after reaching the 1 billion download milestone over on the Play Store. Although an excellent free alternative to Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets isn’t necessarily as useful on mobile as it is in a full web browser — making it less of a “must download” than other Workspace applications. The experience is fine when working with smaller…
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Google Pixel phones stop charging at 80% to improve battery health in certain scenarios

Battery technology nowadays generally means that a phone will last a couple of years before longevity issues start to set in. However, a known trick to extend battery health is to stop charging around 80% capacity, and that’s something Google has quietly been doing on Pixel phones in some situations. In late 2020, Google introduced a new feature for Pixel phones known as “Adaptive…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 to have a smaller body, TENAA reveals

Samsung has certified the SM-F7110 smartphone on TENAA, which is the Chinese version of the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip3. The listing had basically no specs aside from the network bands it was certified to work on, but today we know more about the size and the battery…
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Google Hangouts app set to warn that it’s ‘going away soon’

The writing has been on the wall for Google Hangouts for some time now, but soon Hangouts will begin warning of the app’s upcoming shutdown and migration to Chat. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able…
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