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After years on the fringes of the budget and affordable segment, Motorola has announced plans to re-enter the premium smartphone space. At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit in Maui, the company reiterated plans to target the more premium end of the market, with a heavy reliance on the newly announced Snapdragon 865 chipset. “Motorola will continue leading the 5G era with our expanded lineup of…

Google has announced that 80% of Android apps now encrypt all traffic by default, thanks to the increased uptake of transport layer security (TLS). TLS is a cryptographic protocol used by all HTTPS domains to secure traffic over a network. Since the launch of Android 7 back in 2016, Google has allowed developers to configure their network security settings without changing the app’s code…

According to a new report coming from , Samsung’s upcoming Fold 2 will be a considerably cheaper than the current model due to several factors including a significant change in the design. Sources familiar with the matter say that the Fold 2 will adopt the clamshell design as the reborn Motorola Razr. The smaller area of the foldable screen combined with the further drop in cost of…

The newly-released Xiaomi Mi Watch is now getting its first firmware update with major improvements and the one thing that sticks out is the iOS support. The firmware also launches alongside Xiaomi’s Wear App for iOS. According to Xiaomi itself, the OTA update should start shipping on December 3 in China and will further optimize the pairing process because some users were complaining about…