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Turn your iPhone into a click wheel iPod Classic with ‘nice throwback’ app

A designer/developer has created an iPhone app that recreates the UI of a click wheel iPod Classic, right down to haptic feedback and click sounds … Elvin Hu blended it with a Cover Flow album view above the click wheel. He tweeted a short video of the app (below), which is still a work in progress, and told The Verge what inspired the project. Elvin Hu, a design student at Cooper Union…
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This iPhone app will make you nostalgic for the iPod click wheel

An iOS developer is building an iPhone app that will turn the smartphone into an iPod Classic with its nostalgic click wheel. Elvin Hu, a design student at Cooper Union college in New York City, has been working on the project since October, and shared an early look at the…
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Samsung’s PlayGalaxy Link is another way to beam PC games to your Galaxy phone

If you’re not quite ready to sign up for a full-fledged cloud gaming service like Google Stadia — and who could blame you? — there are plenty of ways to dip your toe in the streaming game waters for free or cheap. The latest is exclusive to Samsung Galaxy phones, and it’s called PlayGalaxy Link. Like the Steam Link app or Parsec — on which PlayGalaxy is based — you’ll install…
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You can play Google Stadia on almost any Android phone with root

Google Stadia launched last week, allowing you to stream AAA video games to your laptop, desktop, Chrome OS tablet, Chromecast Ultra, or Pixel phone. Of course, the Android power user community was none too pleased about Stadia’s seemingly arbitrary restriction preventing…
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All three 2020 iPhones may be OLED, but ‘two models will have better displays’

All three 2020 iPhones are expected to have OLED screens, but that doesn’t mean they will all be equally good. The two flagship models are reportedly getting more advanced display tech which will result in thinner screens. The supply-chain report says that Samsung will make the screens for the successors to the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max ETNews says that Samsung will be able to eliminate a…
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X-rays reveal how the shutter button works on the iPhone Smart Battery Case

Last week, Apple surprise-launched its lineup of Smart Battery Cases for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max, and the cases have an intriguing new addition this year: a physical camera button. How the new button works was a bit of a mystery, as iPhones themselves don’t have a button dedicated entirely to being a camera shutter. But now we know a little more about the mechanism, thanks to an…
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