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Twitter will now let you post iOS Live Photos as GIFs

December 11, 2019
Live Photos are one of Apple’s signature camera options on iOS, making your photos look like one of the living photographs in Harry Potter. But if you’ve tried to post that Live Photo on Twitter, it would render as a still photo, taking away some of that magic. You could use an app to convert that Live Photo into a GIF and post that new GIF on its own, but that might be more work than you’d…
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Twitter lets you upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs at last

December 11, 2019
Twitter is offering iOS users another way to get more out of Live Photos by letting you turn them into GIFs “anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.” It’s not clear whether this’ll work for Pixel motion photos as well. Engadget has asked Twitter for…
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DxOMArk: Motorola One Zoom has good main camera, bad ultra-wide and telephoto

December 11, 2019
DxOMark just released its review of the Motorola One Zoom – the company’s most versatile and probably its best camera phone for a while. The review, however, says the cameras can’t compete with more than half of the phones on in DxOMark’s database. The overall score is 87 and that’s mainly thanks to the primary camera. It has correct exposure, accurate autofocus…
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The Oppo Reno3 phones will have 360° antennas for a more stable connection

December 11, 2019
Oppo’s Global VP Shen Yiren revealed on Weibo that the Reno3 phones will have “360° antennas”, which ensure optimal connectivity regardless of how you hold the phone (i.e. vertically or horizontally). The phone will also intelligently switch between 4G and 5G connections, depending on what you’re doing, the internal temperature and battery consumption. For example, launching a video will put…
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BMW will finally support Android Auto in July 2020

December 11, 2019
BMW’s effort to drag its phone integration into the modern era extends beyond ditching Apple CarPlay fees. The automaker is finally introducing Android Auto to its cars as of July 2020, when it’ll be available in any vehicle using BMW Operating System 7.0 or…
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Rewound is a new app that turns your iPhone into an iPod

December 11, 2019
If you’ve always wanted an iPod click wheel on your iPhone, a new app is helping to bring Apple’s iconic music player back into the modern touchscreen era. Rewound is a basic music player app that’s available in Apple’s App Store. It uses downloadable skins to…
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BMW is bringing Wireless Android Auto starting next year on select models

December 11, 2019
As Android Auto continues to improve, the platform has been spreading to more brands. Today, BMW has  announced that it is adding support for Android Auto starting in 2020. BMW has supported Apple’s CarPlay for quite some time, but the automaker actually charged users for access to the feature. That fee was removed earlier this month and now, Android Auto is…
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