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The Oppo F19s we’ve been hearing about for nearly a month will be launched on September 27 in India. This revelation comes from Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart, which set up a promo page for the smartphone on its website. The page also includes a few images of the F19s, revealing the phone’s design reminiscent of the vanilla F19. The F19s will come in Glowing Gold and Glowing Black…

Cinematic Mode video is one of the headline new features of the iPhone 13. The big question has been what performance would be like in real life. Apple’s own demo was incredibly impressive, but that of course relied on professional lighting and as many takes as were needed to get a great result. We’ve already had one answer, from the WSJ’s Joanna Stern, who shot a music video in a studio…

If you live in Germany and don’t want to carry your driver’s license everywhere anymore, there’s an app for that. Starting today, you can store your license with the governmental app “ID Wallet.” As spotted by the iPhone Ticker blog, German iPhone users can secure a digital representation of their identity card and their driver’s license on the iPhone now. After the “ID Wallet”…

Some popular iPhone apps are using some sneaky techniques to uniquely identify you, even if you refused permission for app tracking. The data they are gathering includes everything from your iPhone’s Last Restart Time to your screen brightness setting measured to 15 significant digits. A former iCloud engineer says that this type of privacy workaround makes Apple’s App Tracking Transparency…