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Google Lens Soon to Allow Search with Photos and Text Combined

September 30, 2021
Google Lens, the company’s image recognition technology, will soon allow a smartphone’s camera to not only recognize objects in the real world but be combined with search terms to allow users to ask questions about what the camera sees. Google will add functionality from its Multitask Unified Model (MUM) to allow its Lens system to understand information from both the visual data as well as…
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Honor is now the third-largest smartphone brand in China

September 30, 2021
According to , Honor has outpaced Xiaomi in terms of smartphone sales in China for August and is thus one of the top-three largest smartphone brands in the country behind Oppo and vivo. The new report states an 18% increase in monthly Honor smartphone sales for August which…
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Samsung removes the support pages for the Galaxy S21 FE

September 30, 2021
Nothing to see here, move along. Samsung swept any evidence of the Galaxy S21 FE under the rug and removed the support pages for the phone that went live in anticipation of its announcement. An announcement that has reportedly been canceled. You can see the various support…
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Photo of Samsung Galaxy S22 battery confirms 3,700 mAh capacity

September 30, 2021
The Samsung Galaxy S22 is going to be smaller than the S21, but that also means that it will have a smaller battery – 3,700 mAh according to the most recent rumors. And those rumors have been confirmed with a photo of the actual battery. Here it is, the EB-BS901ABY (14.35 Wh), photographed during the certification process of SafetyKorea. For reference, the Galaxy S21 and the S20 before it had…
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More iOS 15 bugs discovered as iOS 15.1 release imminent

September 30, 2021
The iOS 15 launch hasn’t been exactly smooth sailing as many early bugs sprang their ugly heads. Ones of the most annoying ones is by far the inability to unlock your iPhone using your Apple Watch when wearing a mask. In some cases, you can’t even set up the said…
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The iPhone 13 Pro Max received the DisplayMate Best Smartphone Display Award

September 30, 2021
DisplayMate examined the new ProMotion-enabled display on the iPhone 13 Pro Max the findings were nothing but positive – in fact, Apple’s new flagship earned the DisplayMate Best Smartphone Display Award along with an A+ grade. It set or match 12 smartphone display performance records. Each iPhone 13 Pro Max display has been calibrated at the factory for color and contrast accuracy. The phone…
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People are less interested in iOS 15 than they were in iOS 14, based on installs so far

September 30, 2021
We’re used to every new iteration of iOS breaking adoption records left and right within its first few days of availability, compared to its predecessors. However, it looks like iOS 15 this year is breaking away from that trend. According to a new report from Mixpanel, iOS 15 adoption as of Wednesday at 12 AM Eastern stood at just 8.5%. To put things in perspective, at the same moment in iOS…
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