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Caviar celebrates the year of the ox by putting a golden ox head on a Galaxy S21 Ultra

January 23, 2021
Caviar is celebrating the Lunar New Year with specially-adorned Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra phones. It’s the year of the Ox, which sets the theme for one design that can’t be contained in two dimensions. The other versions have (in Caviar’s own words) a more “restrained design”. Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Ox by Caviar The Galaxy S21 Ultra Gold Ox has a three dimensional bas-relief of…
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Samsung Galaxy A82 might be in the works with a flip-up camera

January 23, 2021
Remember the Galaxy A80? The phone had a camera that could rise and flip around when you wanted to take a selfie. That kept the front neat with slim bezels and no punch holes. However, this model didn’t get a sequel last year as the device rumored to be the A81 turned out…
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Nokia phone codenamed “Quiksilver” visits Geekbench

January 23, 2021
An upcoming Nokia phone powered by the 5G ready Snapdragon 690 chipset appeared in a listing on Geekbench. The device is code-named “Quicksilver” and managed 471 points in the single-core department and 1,500 on the multi-core test. According to speculations, this is the…
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Android 12 will reportedly feature App Pairs to simplify launching apps in split screen mode

January 23, 2021
Google built a split-screen multitasking feature into Android 6.0 Marshmallow (2015), but it was experimental. The feature was officially enabled by default the following year with 7.0 Nougat. Later came 9.0 Pie, which changed how app switching worked and people were upset because the new gesture was slower and less convenient. The history lesson is over and there’s good news – launching…
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Facebook inexplicably logs out iPhone users

January 23, 2021
Facebook isn’t down, but it did start an odd trending topic on Twitter Friday night as confused iPhone owners tried to figure out why the social network logged them out. I haven’t found an explanation for why this happened, but it appears that everyone accessing the app via an iOS app has to log back in, and many people who use SMS two-factor authentication were initially having trouble…
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Google experiments with giving Lens a more obvious, camera-shaped icon

January 23, 2021
Lens closed out last year with a Pixel Camera-inspired redesign and more shortcuts in other apps to launch the visual search tool. Google is now testing a new Lens icon that better communicates its functionality. As spotted by Android Police, the new Lens icon was spotted at the top of Google app in the search field. This placement, which appears next to the microphone icon, was introduced to…
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