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A series of tweets from Tim Cook in Japan include the usual fare – praising developers who work with Apple, celebrating the use of Apple tech in education, and so on – but one less usual one. Cook also tweeted a photo of a visit to Sony’s secretive camera sensor facility in Kumamoto. It’s not exactly a secret that Apple’s camera sensors are made by the Japanese company: Sony model…

Google is continuing to have fun with Android 13’s new media player as QPR2 Beta 1 adds a delightful lava lamp overlay effect to the controls.  It started with the scrubber bar wiggling and oscillating as audio played in Android 13. In QPR1, Google changed the scrubber head from a circle to a vertical pill so it would look less like sperm. It also introduced the option to hide the player…

Samsung is gearing up for a February launch for the Galaxy S23 series, and this week a regulatory listing is giving us a look at the core specs for the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Over the weekend, the Galaxy S23 Ultra made its way through TENAA, a regulatory board in China that’s similar to the FCC in the United States. The listing didn’t offer a look at the physical phone, but did end up revealing…

While it won’t be launching globally for a bit, the Xiaomi 13 series has just been announced as one of the first devices with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The Xiaomi 13 series consists of the standard Xiaomi 13 and the Xiaomi 13 Pro. The lower-end model is a flagship in its own right, packing a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, new cameras from Leica, and more. It also has a distinct iPhone-inspired look to its…