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The apple company is often accused of stealing the same technology from other manufacturers, which they then try to sell as their own. This time the dice turned.
Several users have complained that the title bar of the Safari browser has been added to the bottom of the screen in the newer iOS. The change is not binding. Anyone who does not want to live with it can return to the previous style. Apple explained the difference to make it more convenient to browse.
Whether the same thing at Samsung prompted engineers to create a similar feature is no longer known. At the same time, the 9to5Mac wrote that South Koreans also plan to do something like this – meaning they essentially copied Apple’s idea.
well gee Samsung, I wonder why you suddenly decided to add this option now to your browser, I just can’t fathom a guess pic.twitter.com/WTTI98OwQv
— dan seifert (@dcseifert) November 3, 2021
The only difference is that Samsung has the original layout (this is not the case with Apple, as the new style is already visible there). Anyone who would like to try out the title bar near their finger can switch right away, and the switch has already been included in the beta version of the built-in browser. (We still have to wait for the live versions.)
Anyway, Firefox also offers such an option, but Samsung introduced it after Apple stepped in.
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, never hid his views on his former company’s products. Recently, he said not too flattering criticism of the iPhone 13.
It is well known about Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak that he enjoys trying out the company’s tools that once grew with Steve Jobs and has now become a technological superpower, namely Apple. Of course, the iPhone 13 announced in September couldn’t be left out of the line either, but it turned out it disappointed Wozniak.
“I have the new iPhone, but I can’t tell it apart (from its predecessors),” Wozniak writes, adding that he thinks the software in the device is designed for older iPhones.
Yahoo! Finance also notes that even positive iPhone 13 indicated a lack of radical change. The Cnet, for example, wrote that some people are likely to be disappointed because the iPhone does not differ radically from the 13 previous models, but it’s part of the magic of the iPhone. The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini are the same trusted friends that seem never to change.
Anyway, this isn’t the first time Wozniak has missed the thrill of releasing a new iPhone. In 2017, for example, he told reporters that the iPhone X would be the first iPhone he didn’t buy on the first day of release. “I’d rather wait and see it. I’m happy with the iPhone 8, which for me is the same as the iPhone 7, which is the same as the iPhone 6,” he said then.
Going back to the iPhone 13: Apple doesn’t share Wozniak’s opinion at all. Instead, he voices that he has made considerable improvements to the iPhone 13 in almost every area, especially the iPhone 13 Pro. Apple explicitly mentions the new A15 Bionic circuit, the fastest chip ever made for a smartphone.
If you’re thinking about buying a 21.5 ”smart iMac now, it’s probably too late, or at least you’ll only get one with great luck. Apple has stopped marketing this model without much publicity. The choice has narrowed: Apple will no longer sell the 21.5 ”.
iMac processor with Intel in its online store or retail stores. However, your partners may still have the machine available while stocks last.
The extracted 21.5 ”iMac configuration included a 2.3 GHz dual-core, 7th generation Intel Core i5 processor, 8 GB of RAM, a 256 GB SSD, and an Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640– writes MacRumors. Although the machine has been criticized by many for its specifications, outdated design, and relatively high cost, it has been trendy in American education.
Apple has not yet publicly commented on the above. Incidentally, the execution of said machine type was noticed by a YouTuber named TechGod. According to archive data viewed by the 9to5Mac, the 21.5 ”iMac appears to have been removed from Apple’s online store on Friday, October 29th.
Apple, by the way, continues to sell the Intel-based 27 ”iMac with the previous generation design. It is rumored that the updated model with the new design and Apple Silicon chip is expected to appear sometime in the first half of 2022.
Samsung’s top models get an excellent display, but they still develop something for the manufacturer year after year. It won’t be any different with the S22 Ultra coming next year, which will record high brightness.
The well-known leak, Ice Universe, says the Galaxy S22 Ultra’s display will be brighter than any Samsung OLED panel to date, breaking the manufacturer’s previous record.
This could be the Galaxy S22 Ultra (source: LetsGoDigital)
We haven’t got the exact date yet, but the current top model, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, has a maximum brightness of 1,500 nits, so the S22 Ultra will know more than that.
Samsung itself will keep this display, and they will not be sold to other manufacturers, at least for now.
The Royole FlexPai debuted in October 2018, giving it the “world’s first foldable smartphone.” Three years have gone since then, and the next generation is set to emerge, with Evan Blass, a well-known and trusted leaker, releasing an official-looking rendered image.
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Because he’s done his rounds with the Chinese Telecom Agency before, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen the third version of the Royole FlexPai, but the imagery recently provided is far more detailed than what he saw in February.
The bendable smartphone, which is expected to be released soon, will keep the same design as its predecessors, which means that when folded, it will be outside the display. Two picture capturing modules and an LED flash are arranged in a square pattern on the back panel. A recess of the same size allows the gadget to fold entirely on the opposite side. So, what’s in there, exactly? Isn’t it just a selfie camera that pops up? It appears to be high!
The Royole FlexPai 3 display will be 7.2 inches open, the phone will support 5G networks, and it will have a battery capacity of at least 3,360 mAh, according to the TENAA documents. The smartphone with the flexible screen will once again run an Android-based operating system.
The hardware specifications for the FlexPai 3 are unknown, but we know that it will measure 147.1 x 138.8 x 7 mm. A fingerprint reader will be located on the side frame, and a USB-C connector will be found on the bottom but not in the center. We don’t yet know when the device will be released or how much it will cost.
Samsung’s Australian division teamed up with a Swedish clothing brand, Dr. Denim. Together, they released two particular jeans, a women’s and a men’s model, made specifically for the Galaxy Z Flip 3.
This is a rather strange product coupling, but in the end, phones and jeans are often mentioned together when we complain that the device barely fits in our pockets. This may have inspired Samsung, but interestingly, they didn’t make unique pants for the large Z Fold 3 to solve the problematic placement, but on the contrary: the compact Z Flip 3 got its jeans. Don’t worry. We don’t fully understand the logic either, but we do have an explanation from the manufacturer.
Samsung wanted to emphasize that the Galaxy Z Flip 3 can fit in a tiny pocket, so regular bags no longer require jeans. The pants made by Dr. Denim are unique in that they do not have a back pocket, and the front pockets are closed with a Z-shaped seam so that they cannot be used either.
There’s only one tiny pocket on the garments that the Galaxy Z Flip 3 will fit in. It seems Samsung says we shouldn’t carry anything other than our phone.
All of this, of course, is primarily an advertising ploy. The jeans will be produced in limited numbers; 450 will be available and available for purchase with the phone at an unchanged price ($1499), meaning they will be given as a gift to those who strike such a package.
The promotion lives exclusively in Australia, and you can find the details at this link.
We recently reported that Huawei’s first phone to run Android 11 with EMUI 12 has finally arrived, and now the manufacturer has also revealed when the new software will come for previous models.
Huawei has released an official list of EMUI 12 updates, based on which the latest system will be available for 28 devices in the first round.
Here is the list:
Huawei Mate 40 Pro
Huawei P40 Pro+
Huawei P40 Pro
Huawei P40
Huawei Mate Xs
Huawei Mate 30 Pro
Huawei Mate 30
Huawei P30 Pro
Huawei P30
Huawei Mate 20 Pro
Huawei Mate 20 RS
Huawei Mate 20 X 5G
Huawei Mate 20 X
Huawei Mate 20
Huawei P20 Pro
Huawei P20
Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design
Huawei Mate 10 Pro
Huawei Mate 10
Huawei Nova 7
Huawei Nova 7 SE
Huawei Nova 7i
Huawei Nova 5T
Huawei Nova 4
Huawei Nova 4e
Huawei Y9 Prime 2019
Huawei Y9s
Huawei Y8p
Updates will start sometime in the first half of next year. Unfortunately, there is no more precise date yet, but it will also depend on the country and device type.
Incidentally, EMUI 12 will be roughly the same as Harmony OS 2.0, with the latter only spreading in China, while EMUI will remain with us for the time being.
With an exciting feature, Apple has thoroughly made it harder for Facebook to collect data on the company’s phones, at least so far it has seemed. Now you can hear that the “blues” can still use the insidious tricks that the user banned them in principle.
One of the exciting innovations of iOS 14 was the transparency of application tracking, which, as Apple put it at the time, could put several companies at a disadvantage. It’s not hard to figure out who you’re messing with: Facebook, among other things, has been revealed countless times how much information is “pumped out” of devices – and thus users.
However, cybersecurity researchers speaking to Forbes in the US have now drawn attention to how Facebook can track the mobile and its owner despite activating the above feature. For this, the accelerometer of the iPhones is used, from which it is easy to deduce where the user of the device is going. The experts stressed:
the trick works even if the device owner disables traceability.
Cyber researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk say it is worrying that a company is doing an activity behind a user’s back that has been banned. Facebook’s response, by the way, didn’t deny the thing and stressed that it (for example) has to do with taking panoramic photos. However, experts believe that such a function does not need constant monitoring, i.e., it should only be activated in certain situations. However, Facebook does not. Experts summed up: who cares about their privacy and uses an iPhone,
delete the Facebook app from your device.
The two researchers also pointed out that two other services belonging to the company, WhatsApp and Instagram, also perform similar activities. Still, at least the former can be turned off completely.
While the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max are the first iPhones to have an official macro mode, the developers behind the popular Halide iOS and iPadOS camera apps have recently released an update that brings macro photography to a much more comprehensive range of iPhones. Opportunity.
One of the buzzwords for this year’s iPhone 13 Pro is an advanced macro, i.e., extreme close-up photography, thanks to the device’s extensive camera. The test photos speak for themselves, but the question is whether one would invest in this rather expensive device just for that function. Well, you don’t have to because an app update can bring the desirable shooting mode of the iPhone 13 Pro to older iPhones.
It’s about Halide, which is one of the best camera apps. By updating the app (Halide 2.5), users will be given a new macro feature, primarily to make the iPhone 13’s macro mode even better (for example, it can be manually turned on and off, which is not available in the default app).
However, this is not the only good upgrade, as older iPhones can also get the macro mode this way. Artificial intelligence-based detail enrichment uses Apple’s NeuralEngine to add extra detail to close-up shots. The app automatically determines which cameras on your phone can focus closest to you and then offers “less than a millimeter” of focus control. Then use the Neural Macro function to enlarge the image.
The result is an image that offers a close-up view and detail of a macro lens without losing image fidelity thanks to the neural network. This mode allows you to access 4K resolution jpeg files. The new macro mode add-on works on iPhones, including Apple’s Neural Engine, i.e., iPhone 8 and later. Don’t expect miracles, yet an iPhone 8 isn’t an iPhone 13 Pro Max – older hardware has physical limitations. Of course, it’s still a much better solution than holding the phone a few inches away from the object you want to capture.
The Halide appcan be downloaded for free for a seven-day trial and then purchased in several designs: for $3 a month, $12 a year, or a one-time $50 perpetual use.
The current top models, the members of the Galaxy S21 series, were unveiled on January 14 this year, while the S22 trio will arrive a little later. According to a recent report from Sammobile, the Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22 +, and Galaxy S22 Ultra will debut sometime in early February, and the pre-order option will be launched immediately. Although this has not been mentioned, it looks like sometime from the second half of February it will be possible to buy mobile phones.
By the way, the February presentation is not unusual at all. In fact, before the S21, Galaxy S phones arrived in February, the S20 series, for example, on February 11. So we might even realize that Samsung is back on track, though that’s certainly not what’s behind it at a later date, but rather the lack of chips.
Anyway, you can already know a lot about the Galaxy S22 mobiles, according to the latest information, for example, the sleeve around the display will be equally thin everywhere, and for the two smaller models, both the front and back will be flat. The camera hole will remain, and we don’t expect too much back-end camera innovation. Still, the hardware could go a long way, as the Exynos processor versions are likely to have an AMD graphics chip already.
We don’t expect much progress in fast charging, 25W will remain, or Ultra will support 45W, but that’s not certain yet. On the other hand, Axis capacity decreases for the two smaller models, with a 3700 mAh battery for the S22 and a 4500 mAh battery for the S22 +. The Ultra will remain at 5000 mAh, and it will not only support the S Pent but will even have its place in the house for the pen.
In addition to Samsung, Oppo is also preparing to make ray tracing technology available on smartphones. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a graphical rendering technique that produces lifelike light effects and shadows, making games even more realistic. What’s more, the Chinese manufacturer is so far ahead of Samsung that it has already unveiled its solution at its developer conference.
The company presented its beam tracking technology within the Oppo Developer Conference framework or ODC and used the Oppo Reno 6 5G for the demo. Inside the smartphone, a 6-nanometer MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset performs the calculations, and an ARM, Mali-G77 GPU module, performs the task of graphics acceleration. This configuration is incapable of beam tracking, so the Oppo solution could be some software-accelerated option that appears to be built into ColorOS 12.
Officially, the manufacturer has not spoken about this. Still, GizmoChina’s findings confirm the above statement, saying that Oppo’s beam tracking is based on the Vulkan API and is indeed part of the operating system. Plus, the effects will be visible in games and image filters, augmented reality apps, and live wallpapers. The Chinese company plans to introduce the technology sometime next year, and in the meantime, it is likely to be hammered out a lot more. In addition, in parallel, it is said that a proprietary 3-nanometer mobile chipset is being developed in the background, which may be unveiled to the general public sometime in 2023. Who knows, maybe with that in-house chipset, they can further enhance their beam tracking solution capabilities.
It has been heard several times and read on our site that Samsung is working with the AMD team to develop its next high-end processor, in which the graphics accelerator will now be able to have ray tracking functionality. It was recently revealed that ARM is also planning to launch a high-end graphics accelerator capable of 30 percent more performance than the recently announced Mali-G710. They also added that they plan to introduce beam tracking for their GPU modules.
Although Oppo was the first to flash its solution, Samsung is likely to overtake them and ARM with ray-tracing over the phone. Their Exynos chipset, developed jointly with AMD, which will already be able to do so, will crumble under cover of the Galaxy S22 mobiles, at least in the specimens that will be marketed in Europe and the Middle East. If the information and rumors so far are accurate, the chip and graphics controller in question could make the Samsung Galaxy S22 phones one of the best gamer mobiles of next year.
Huang Zen-hszün
Not everyone is optimistic about smartphone beam tracking. Nvidia CEO Huang Zhen-hun, for example, believes that games that include ray tracing are too big for mobiles, specifically in terms of size and data processing. He thinks the time will come for everything, and when that happens, they will consider creating such a technology, but in the meantime, they will recommend stream services like GeForce Now to everyone. According to him, the ray-tracing provided by the phone hardware will not be able to approach the level of desktops and game consoles for a long time.
Huawei has gotten into a pretty tough position due to U.S. bans, so software updates have slowed, but the manufacturer’s first Android 11 phone, the Nova 9, has just arrived.
The manufacturer has remained with the EMUI 11 interface based on Android 10 for international models for a long time, while Harmony OS updates have been going on in China for some time. On the other hand, the EMUI 12 interface, already based on Android 11, has been launched in the European market.
The apparent beauty flaw of the whole thing is that Google just released Android 12, so Huawei is roughly a year behind. Aside from that, however, it’s positive that at least progress has been made, and even if the Android version isn’t the latest, EMUI 12 is a modern interface, pretty much the same as what Harmony OS 2.0 offers.
Huawei Nova 9
So the Huawei Nova 9 was the first of its kind to produce Android 11 and EMUI 12, and the good news is that many previous models will also be upgraded in Europe, all the way back to the Mate 10 and P20.
Sony’s phone division isn’t going to give up, but why would it? Its circumstances are always a little brighter. According to the company’s most recent financial report, smartphone revenue increased by about 25% in the previous quarter. While the Japanese firm is still a long way from catching up on its own, there is cause for optimism.
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Sony’s smartphone sector peaked in the late 2000s and has since been on a continuous decline that appears to have been not just paused but partially reversed. The company’s decision to focus on high-end gadgets seems to be paying off.
In terms of statistics, this implies that the mobile division generated $871.6 million in revenue in the second quarter of this year (which corresponds to the third quarter according to the calendar),compared to $695.7 million in the same time in 2020.
They were successful in bringing traffic together. The corporation also verified that revenue has increased due to the increased number of phones sold. This isn’t a poor outcome in and of itself, but the fact that it was assembled amid a global chip scarcity makes it even more significant.
The telephone business produced a profit for the first time since 2017, and this trend is expected to continue this year. While it is too early to regard the present results as a natural comeback, there appears to be a lot of hope for Sony’s smartphone business for the time being.
