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Realme Q will be water resistant, probably MIL-STD-810G certified as well

The leaked photos of the Realme Q and its retail box didn’t tell the whole story – this will be better than just a rebadged Realme 5 Pro. Official teaser posters show that the phone will have a more rugged exterior while keeping the same Snapdragon 712 chipset and 48MP camera as the Pro. The Realme Q promises to survive the 100°C water boiling tests that you may have seen on YouTube. This also…
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Sites stealing iPhone data reportedly targeted Uyghur Muslims

The websites stealing data from iPhones might have been used for particularly sinister purposes. TechCrunch sources claim the sites were part of a state-sponsored campaign, presumably from China, targeting the country’s Uyghur Muslim population. The pages would have let China swipe sensitive info like messages and passwords, not to mention track their locations. Apple quietly fixed the issue…
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OnePlus publishes standalone Zen Mode app on the Google Play Store

OnePlus has officially published its Oxygen OS-only digital mindfulness Zen Mode as a standalone app on the Google Play Store. Zen Mode came to OnePlus devices with the release of the fantastic OnePlus 7 Pro earlier this year. It basically works by giving you a 20-minute break from your smartphone, locking almost all non-essential apps so that you can simply focus on something else. It does leave…
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The Huawei Mate 30 Pro will launch September 19 in Munich

Despite the potential lack of Android, Huawei is still pressing on with the Mate 30 Pro launch. The company has confirmed on social media that the Mate 30 family will be unveiled in Munich on September 19. We had already heard rumors of this launch date as a Huawei executive…
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Flashback: the Motorola ROKR E1 was a dud, but it paved the way for the iPhone

Apple began life as a hardware company, selling desktop computers and then adding laptops to its roster. But in 2001 the company started its long journey to becoming a media distribution company – a journey that saw the launch of Apple Music in 2015 and will welcome Apple TV+ later this year. In 2001 Apple released iTunes to the world and a few months later the very first iPod followed. Those two…
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