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Full iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro teardown from iFixit reveals modular design with interchangeable parts

After streaming the teardown live on YouTube on Friday, the folks over at iFixit have now shared the full details of what’s inside the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro. The teardown shows a few key changes this year, including the fact that the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro share many of the same parts. Interestingly, the teardown reveals that the displays work interchangeably between the iPhone 12…
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Some Pixel 5 owners can’t make NFC payments with Google Pay

The Pixel 5 is a solid if slightly overpriced and unspectacular device, but early issues are already manifesting. The latest shows that some Pixel 5 owners are unable to make payments using NFC and, therefore, Google Pay. As Google Pay is effectively baked in to Android 11…
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OxygenOS 10.0.9/10.0.14 now rolling out for OnePlus 7/7T series w/ September patch, more

Multiple OTA files in the form of OxygenOS 10.0.9 and 10.0.14 are now rolling out for the OnePlus 7 and 7T series respectively, bringing a host of device-specific fixes and the September 2020 security patch. The update rollouts were confirmed in a series of posts over on the official OnePlus Forums, with the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro getting slightly less attention with regard to fixes and…
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Gamers condemn a Google Stadia Montreal Creative Director for saying streamers should be paying publishers

Following three days of “Good Stuff” announcements, “Stadia” has begun trending on Twitter following a tweet from a Google Stadia Games & Entertainment Creative Director suggesting that streamers should be paying game studios a percentage of their revenue. From the first time we ever heard of Stadia, Google’s still young game-streaming service, the ability to easily stream your…
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Google Messages starts rolling out account-sync on the web for Fi users

Just yesterday, Google announced that Fi users would lose access to their messages through classic Hangouts, but the company also teased a new web experience. Now, that updated Messages for Web feature is already rolling out to some Google Fi users. In last night’s update, Google explained that there would be two options available. One would be to use the standard web experience that pairs…
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