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Testing Realme's MagDart 50W and 15W wireless magnetic chargers

September 5, 2021
Wireless charging has been supported on select phones for over a decade now, but it has many detractors. It’s slow, it’s inefficient, it requires careful placement. But things have been improving lately. The latest major upgrade comes in the form of magnets. Apple lead the way with its re-imagined MagSafe, while Realme is the first Android maker to adopt such a system. It calls it MagDart…
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Realme 8s 5G color options officially confirmed ahead of September 9 unveiling

September 5, 2021
September 9 will be a big day for Realme since the company will unveil its first tablet, dubbed Realme Pad. The young brand will also introduce two new smartphones on the same day – Realme 8s 5G and Realme 8i. Leaked renders have already revealed the designs of both smartphones, but we’ve only seen them in one color – 8s 5G in purple and 8i in black. Today, a couple of posters…
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Vivo V1 ISP chip photographed next to Snapdragon 888

September 5, 2021
Vivo’s upcoming X70 line is one of the more curious upcoming releases in recent memory. We are currently expecting a trio of devices in the family – a vanilla X70, a X70 Pro and a X70 Pro+ – all of which we are already quite familiar with, thanks to an…
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Samsung Galaxy M22 launch imminent as support pages go live on Singaporean and Malaysian websites

September 5, 2021
Support pages for the Samsung Galaxy M22 we’ve been hearing about for a few months now have gone live on Samsung’s official Singaporean and Malaysian websites, suggesting an imminent launch. The pages don’t include any details on the Galaxy M22 other than its model designation, SM-M225FV/DS, where “DS” denotes dual-SIM support. And while we await official word from…
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WhatsApp chat data transfer from iOS to Samsung is now live

September 5, 2021
Last month on the day of Samsung’s official unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 WhatsApp unveiled plans to support moving chat history from iOS to Samsung devices running Android 10 or 11. Today this feature finally went live. So, if you have a Samsung handset…
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Apple’s Periscope Lens Plans Stymied by Samsung Patent: Report

September 4, 2021
Apple is reportedly hoping to integrate a periscope camera lens system into its iPhones as soon as 2023, but a new report out of Korea alleges that the Silicon Valley giant may have run up against a problem: a Samsung patent. As some background, “periscope” is the term used to describe a “folded” lens system that can squeeze greater zoom capabilities into the tiny camera arrays found in…
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