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Apple: ‘Moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us’

Android users have long wanted an iMessage app to use the popular messaging service on non-Apple devices. Epic’s lawsuit against Apple has now revealed and confirmed that lock-in is the reason why iMessage for Android does not exist. Early today, Epic and Apple filed documents ahead of their upcoming trial. As our colleagues at 9to5Mac noted this morning, Epic’s lawyers asked Apple…
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iPhones comprised 6 of the 10 best-selling smartphones in January

iPhone models made up 6 of the 10 best-selling smartphones globally in January, according to a new market intelligence report today. The iPhone 12 mini does, however, find itself farther down the rankings than the iPhone 11 … Counterpoint Research says that a third of sales of the iPhone 12 lineup was in the US. Apple grabbed six places in the global top 10 best-selling smartphone models’…
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OnePlus 9 series drops File Dash in favor of Nearby Share

With the OnePlus 9 series launch, the new additions were core focus points – but it looks like there have been a few sneaky removals, including that of File Dash from the File manager app in favor of Google’s Nearby Share. So a few days ago, disgruntled early buyers of the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro on Reddit complained at what appeared to be the lack of a File Dash option within the default…
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The OnePlus Nord LE is a literal 1-device limited edition

OnePlus has decided that concept phones are not enough and made the OnePlus Nord LE, which is a special limited-edition-device run of one, and it plans on giving it away. This is literally the OnePlus Nord with a new finish. So that means Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, 8/12GB…
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Samsung has updated these phones to Android 11

It usually takes Android OEMs a fair bit to get the latest version of the OS on older devices, but Samsung has been getting better and better at this every year. For Android 11, the official update schedule kicked off in early December and continues to expand. Here’s every…
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HP refreshes its excellent Chromebook x360 14c w/ 11th Gen Intel, faster storage

One of my go-to Chromebooks over the past year has been HP’s Chromebook x360 14c and now, it’s getting a 2021 refresh with updated chips and faster storage, too. The 2021 version of the HP Chromebook x360 14c is essentially the same product that was released last year. It has a 14-inch touchscreen display on a 2-in-1 hinge and with an 88% screen-to-body ratio, a fingerprint sensor, a backlit…
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