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Report: EU to charge Apple with anticompetitive behavior over Apple Pay and iPhone’s NFC chip

October 6, 2021
EU antitrust regulators are set to charge Apple with anti-competitive practices in regards to the NFC chip inside iPhones and Apple Pay. According to a report from Reuters, charges are being finalized now and could be sent to Apple as soon as sometime next year. The European Commission first opened its investigation into Apple Pay and the iPhone’s NFC chip last year. At the time, the…
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Apple prepping for launch of Legacy Contacts feature in iOS 15

October 6, 2021
One of the features Apple announced for iOS 15 is Legacy Contacts, a way to ensure that your digital life outlives you – if you would like it to. The company hasn’t yet launched it, saying only that it is “coming in a software update to iOS 15,” but there are signs…
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Nokia T20 Android tablet launches under $250 w/ 3 years of updates promised

October 6, 2021
The landscape of affordable Android tablets is littered with unbranded options and many poor-quality options. However, HMD Global wants to change that with the newly unveiled Nokia T20 Android tablet, which at under $250 could be a nice everyday companion. Coming with a 10.4-inch “2K” LCD display with a 1200 x 2000 pixel resolution — or just above 1080p — it has a surprisingly small…
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Asus is recruiting Android 12 beta testers for Zenfone 8

October 6, 2021
The Zenfone 8 announced in May with Android 11 already got a couple of Android 12 beta builds, but those didn’t include any additional software features from Asus. However, just ahead of Android 12’s stable rollout, Asus has started recruiting testers for the Zenfone 8’s Android 12 beta update, which will come with Asus’ ZenUI 8 custom Android skin. After Google has…
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iPhone 14 to come with up to 2TB storage option

October 6, 2021
We are still about a year away from the iPhone 14 series, but rumors about the next-gen iPhones have already started doing rounds on the Internet, with the latest one claiming Apple will double the maximum storage on next year’s iPhones. Apple doubled the maximum…
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Flashback: The HTC One (M8) had two cameras and two OSes

October 6, 2021
What comes after One? Well, the HTC One (M8), of course! If we haven’t made our feelings clear, “One” is a terrible name. But we won’t go into that again, the HTC One was a promising phone that did things its own way. The M8 is the sequel to that and introduced a camera feature that is still very popular today. Or should we say “common” since popular implies that people like it. We…
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