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The big problem with owning a smartphone is that every temptation is just a finger tap away — ooh, Twitter! — making it hard to knuckle down on a single task. Earlier this year, Google promised to remedy this with “Focus mode,” a new tool that stops you — ooh, YouTube! — opening apps that could distract you. You just select which apps like — ooh, better…

Qualcomm’s announcement of the Snapdragon 865 was followed by a stampede of companies, announcing they will use the platform in their upcoming flagships. While some companies just confirmed their commitments, others announced the specific phones that will use them. Xiaomi Mi 10 will be one of the first phones with SD865, Bin Lin confirmed during the Qualcomm Summit in Hawaii. Meizu’s official…

Lenovo-owned Motorola has unveiled the One Hyper, an ambitious mid-range phone with a near bezel-free display and some pretty nice camera features. It packs a 32-megapixel, pop-up front camera that delivers as much resolution as you’d ever need for selfie shots and retracts automatically if you drop the phone. It also features a rear 64-megapixel camera that delivers either high resolution…

A security researcher has found that the iPhone 11 Pro still intermittently collects location data even when the user has blocked it from doing so. Apple has seemingly admitted this, telling the researcher that this is ‘expected behavior’ … identified the issue, made a video showing it happening (below) and…