Apple rates the iPhone 12 as able to withstand up to 6 meters of water for 30 minutes, and a new video from CNET puts that claim to the test with a pair of experiments. One tests Apple’s claim of 19.6 feet of water for 30 minutes and another to see if the iPhone 12 could beat that claim at 65 feet of water.
The process:
From the shore of Lake Tahoe, we positioned the iPhone on a mount facing…
The iPhone 12 lineup has been in the wild for a little over a month and is the first generation of Apple’s smartphones to come with 5G support. But there seems to be a notable issue with the iPhone 12 dropping service unexpectedly (both 5G and LTE) and users are seeing it…
Lucid completes factory construction, aims to ramp up to 400,000 electric cars per year
December 1, 2020
Lucid Motor announced that it completed the first phase of construction at its EV factory in Arizona.
Eventually, they plan to produce up to 400,000 electric cars per year at the facility after future expansions.
The electric car startup impressed many earlier this year…
The RevoNEX and its impending production has been the subject of much speculation over the last few months. Now the latest news suggests that the bike will be produced not in KYMCO’s native Taiwan, but rather in Italy.
KYMCO RevoNEX production in Italy
KYMCO’s first production electric motorcycle will be the RevoNEX, a bike that was first unveiled at the 2019 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show.
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Today is the first day of December, and to ring in the holiday season, Google is running a series of Doodles celebrating the many holidays happening globally.
Today’s global Google Doodle, notably labeled as being “Day 1” of the “December Holidays” series…
Android 11 stable begins rolling out for Poco F2 Pro w/ MIUI 12
December 1, 2020
The Android 11 update for the Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro has now begun rolling out for the mid-2020 flagship with the firm’s MIUI 12 skin.
Fans over on the official Xiaomi subreddit first spotted the stable update rolling out for Poco handsets after an extended beta phase…
Herbert Diess, the head of the Volkswagen group, has released a blog post discussing his effort to reform the giant automaker, including revealing ‘Mission T’, his plan to “catch up with Tesla”.
It comes as the executive forced a vote of confidence over his leadership at Volkswagen.
Diess came to Volkswagen from BMW in 2015 amidst the Dieselgate scandal and started a wide-ranging effort…
Sony confirms Android 11 road map for Xperia series
December 1, 2020
Despite not really making a dent in the wider smartphone space, Sony still maintains a large, loyal fanbase. With a small flagship lineup, it’s arguably far easier to for Sony to update their Xperia lines to Android 11.
The Japanese firm has now confirmed its Android 11…
As if mountain bikes weren’t already versatile enough, a new DIY conversion kit known as the Envo can turn a mountain bike into an electric snowmobile.
It’s not like electric snow bikes aren’t already a thing – there are plenty of powerful and well-equipped…
Qualcomm is the name of the game when it comes to high-end Android smartphones, and today we’re getting the first details on what’s next. For 2021, the processor we’ll see in many major Android phones will be the Snapdragon 888.
Succeeding the Snapdragon 865, the 888 will make its debut in the Xiaomi Mi 11 series before showing up in flagship phones from LG, OnePlus, and more throughout…
