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Oppo Find X3 Pro leak reveals most important details

December 8, 2020
Oppo has already announced that its next flagship smartphone, coming out in the first three months of 2021, will be powered by the newly unveiled Snapdragon 888 chipset, but today a new leak gives us a few more details about the device. The Find X3 Pro, which is what we assume it will be called, is codenamed Fussi, according to Evan Blass, better known as . The device will have a 6.7-inch…
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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S20 series getting Android 11

December 8, 2020
Following last week’s Android 11 update for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S20 units (minus the S20 FE), T-Mobile has now begun pushing the update for its users too. The new update also brings Samsung’s OneUI 3.0 (check out the new additions here) and weighs in at 2GB in…
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra's camera detailed: 10x folded periscope joins 3x tele camera

December 8, 2020
Leakster is confirming the Galaxy S21 Ultra camera specs that were leaked last month. The illustration below shows sensor details for all five camera modules (the S21 and S21+ are getting triple cameras). The main module on the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G houses the upcoming 108MP ISOCELL HM3 sensor with 0.8 µm pixels (with 9-in-1 binning support) and Super PD autofocus. It will have 12% better light…
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LG plans to outsource more of its low-end and mid-range phones

December 8, 2020
LG is shaking things up in its mobile division once more. It confirmed to Reuters it will increase outsourcing of its low- and mid-range smartphones. Third-party companies will design and build more of the devices, and LG will slap its label on the phones. The company still…
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NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data

December 8, 2020
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work. Every GAN consists of two competing…
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OnePlus reveals when the OnePlus Nord and the 8-series will stop receiving security patches

December 8, 2020
OnePlus has put up a page where you can track the status of security updates for some of its phones. Right now it appears a bit incomplete, but it does bring some good news for owners of the OnePlus Nord – it will be getting security patches until mid-2023. That’s noticeably longer than the Nord N10 and N100, which will only receive two years of security patches (so the end date should be in…
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Third report adds weight to iPhone getting 10x optical zoom

December 8, 2020
Back in July, we heard reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predict that iPhone would gain periscope lenses as soon as 2022. A report followed in November saying the same. As we’re about to close out 2020, we’ve got a third report corroborating the tech that could allow…
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California finally rolling out COVID-19 iPhone contact tracing based on Apple’s Exposure Notifications

December 8, 2020
After launching a pilot program for digital contact tracing last month, the state of California will now officially start the public rollout this week, that’s about half a year after Apple/Google made the feature available on iPhone and Android. But better late than never, the support will allow the almost 40 million people living in California to stay safer amid the pandemic. We’ve been…
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