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Meet the realmeow, Realme's official mascot and Chief Trend Officer

December 15, 2020
Today’s announcement from Realme isn’t about a product but more about the vision of future products. The company has just announced its official mascot, who is also Realme’s so-called Chief Trend Officer. realmeow Working with Realme’s design team, famed animator Mark A. Walsh came up with realmeow. Walsh has worked on numerous animation films like Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. The…
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Oppo A15s price leaked ahead of launch

December 15, 2020
A few days ago, we saw a leaked banner that revealed the design and a few specs of the Oppo A15s. Now another poster has surfaced, telling us the A15s will cost INR11,490 ($155/€130) in India. The poster doesn’t include any new details but corroborates specs from the…
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Xiaomi Redmi K40 surfaces in a set of live images

December 15, 2020
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Redmi K40, but we now get a set of live shots allegedly showing the phone in a design concealing case. The source says it’s the vanilla K40 but the design will probably be shared among the lineup anyway. The case…
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Samsung Galaxy A52 4G passes through Geekbench with Snapdragon 720G

December 15, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy A52 5G bearing model designation SM-A526B was spotted on Geekbench last month with a Snapdragon 750G SoC, 6GB RAM, and Android 11. Now the 4G variant (SM-A525F) has popped up in the benchmark’s database, which is powered by the Snapdragon 720G chipset, runs Android 11 and has 8GB RAM onboard. The 4G model scored higher than its 5G counterpart in both the single and multi-core…
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Analysts suggest iPhone plant riot could have long-term implications

December 15, 2020
The iPhone plant riot in India over the weekend is not expected to have much immediate impact on production in the country, but analysts suggest that it might have longer-term implications. Reports variously say that between ‘hundreds’ and two thousand workers took part in the riot at Wistron’s iPhone assembly plant in Bangalore. Production was suspended due to the damage … The riot was…
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Signal now offering encrypted group video calls in iOS app

December 15, 2020
Secure chat app Signal now lets you make encrypted group video calls in its iOS and Android apps. As with Apple’s FaceTime, end-to-end encryption is used … This means that not even Signal can decrypt the calls. FaceTime is the default option for Apple users, but…
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Tested: Canvas app uses iPhone 12 Pro LiDAR to create 3D scans of your home

December 15, 2020
One of the headline features of the two iPhone 12 Pro models is the LiDAR scanner. Night mode Portrait photos had already impressed me, and an app to create 3D scans of your home has now done so, too. Canvas is an iPhone app that you can use to scan your rooms, and then pay a modest fee to have them turned into professional CAD models that can be used to help remodel your home. You may have…
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