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Hyundai unveils Kona Electric refresh with bold new front-end design and new features

November 11, 2020
Hyundai has today unveiled its 2021 Kona Electric, a refresh of its electric compact SUV with a bold new front-end design and new features. Check it out in new pictures below. Hyundai has been having a lot of success with the Kona Electric, having already delivered over 120,000 units of the electric CUV in a relatively short period of time. With the refresh, it’s not reinventing a winning…
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There's a purple Sony Xperia 5 II in Japan

November 11, 2020
Sony’s Xperia 5 II is theoretically available in four colors across the globe: black, grey, blue, and pink. That said, not all of those are necessarily up for grabs in all markets. And to make things even more interesting, there’s actually a fifth hue in which…
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Realme V5 5G may launch globally as Realme 7 5G

November 11, 2020
The Realme 7 series currently consists of the vanilla 7, 7 Pro and 7i. Now it appears a fourth one called Realme 7 5G will soon join the lineup as it has been certified by Thailand’s NBTC. However, the Realme 7 5G won’t be an entirely new smartphone. NBTC revealed it sports model designation RMX2111, which was previously associated with the Realme V5 5G that was unveiled in August and…
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Canalys: the iPhone 11 was the best-selling smartphone globally in Q3, SE a distant second

November 11, 2020
The two best-selling smartphones in the world during Q3 were iPhones, according to data by Canalys. The Top 10 chart also features five Samsung phones and three Xiaomi devices. None of them come close to the Apple iPhone 11, which is miles ahead of the competition with 16 million units sold. Its sibling, the iPhone SE (2020) is a distant second with around 10 million units. While the SE is the…
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Quick Charge Podcast: November 10, 2020

November 11, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Senate appropriators add F-35s to defense budget, but there are strings attached

November 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Senate wants to spend an additional $1.7 billion to buy 17 more F-35 fighter jets for the military in fiscal 2021. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s $696 billion defense spending bill, which was released Nov. 10, would add 12 F-35As for the Air Force and five F-35Cs for the Navy and Marine Corps for a total of 96 jets in FY21. That’s five more than House appropriators…
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