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Weekly poll results: the Sony Xperia Pro-I is well received, but not everyone needs a professional phone

While the meaning of “Pro” has been watered down over the years, people still believe there is a place for truly professional smartphones like the Sony Xperia Pro-I. It’s not a phone for everyone, that’s clear enough in last week’s poll. But it wasn’t meant to be, it is aimed at a particular subset of professions – vloggers, along with anyone who would benefit from high-quality 4K…
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Flashback: iPod touch - the almost iPhone

Apple changed the portable music player world in 2001 with the launch of the original iPod. It wasn’t the first portable MP3 player by a long shot – Internet folklore still remembers early criticism like this post on Slashdot (by CmdrTaco himself): “No wireless. Less…
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SpaceX Crew-3 launch delayed again, this time to November 10th

The SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed again, this time to November 10th at 9:03PM ET, NASA said Sunday. Although NASA had originally planned to have a changing of the guard with the Crew-2 astronauts greeting the Crew-3 team before…
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Twitter for iOS adds new search button to user profiles

The Twitter app for iOS was recently updated to include a new search button on every user profile. The button sits in the top right corner of the screen and tapping it lets you easily search for tweets from a specific user. It appears that the feature is now widely rolled out. Previously, you would have to manually search for tweets from a user in the main search tab. From there you’d need to…
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Xiaomi introduces Loop LiquidCool tech, promises to double the cooling efficiency of vapor chambers

Smartphone chipsets keep getting faster year after year, but despite continued improvement in silicon nodes, they keep running hotter too. This is why cooling solutions have become a major factor with vapor chambers (aka heat pipes) being a common part of the cooling stack. Xiaomi has developed the Loop LiquidCool technology that improves on basic heat pipes in two ways and the result is double…
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Moto E30 unveiled: a Moto E40 but with Android 11 Go Edition

There is already a Moto E20 and a Moto E40, is there something in between? There is now – the Moto E30 quietly appeared on Motorola Slovakia site as well as Aldi in Belgium. This phone has mostly the same hardware as the E40, save for a couple of important limitation. Motorola Moto E30 This is an Android 11 Go edition phone, just like the E20 and it has 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB storage. But…
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