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Apple increases 5G component orders for iPhone 13 lineup

According to , Apple has increased the number of its suppliers for 5G-related hardware and that’s because it expects to deliver more mmWave-capable phones with the iPhone 13 generation. The iPhone 12 family is the first lineup to support 5G connectivity but the mmWave support is limited to US as the rest of the world got only sub-6GHz 5G support. Now more markets are expected to adopt the…
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra gets the Best Smartphone award at GLOMO 2021

After a year of absence, the Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards at the Mobile World Congress are back (there was no MWC last year). The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra was voted the Best Smartphone of the past year by the jury, which had this to say about the phone: Samsung was the only company to get two phones onto the shortlist of nominees for 2021, the second model was the Galaxy S20 FE. The shortlist…
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Apple rolls out trade-in program for LG phones in the US with up to $180 gift card

When LG announced it was shutting down its smartphone business, Samsung and Apple ran to conquer its market share in South Korea. Now, the Cupertino company is rolling out its trade-in program for LG phones in the US as well. At the end of May, both Samsung and Apple announced a trade-in program in South Korea for LG phones. For Apple, its program will run up to September 25 and will give an…
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Google brings Chrome OS Linux support to Intel 6th Gen ‘Skylake’ processors

Linux support for Chrome OS makes every Chromebook a much more useful tool, and now, the feature is finally headed to older Chromebooks powered by Intel 6th Gen processors, otherwise known as the “Skylake” generation. Google first launched support for Linux in Chrome OS in 2018 but only on select models and chip configurations. The list of supported models has grown considerably in the time…
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