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Snapdragon 875 Chipset Production Officially Underway; Based on 5nm Node A large chunk of flagship phones powered by Qualcomm’s flagshipSnapdragon 865chipset has already been unveiled this year. We are halfway through the year and it appears like Qualcomm is ready to start testing its next-gen flagship chipset. Freshreports coming from Taiwansuggest that Snapdragon 875 production has officially been kicked off by TSMC. As per the sources cited in the report, Snapdragon 875 will be based on the company’s new 5nm process node....

watchOS 7 Removes Force Touch from Apple Watch Appleannounced watchOS 7last night during the WWDC keynote and it comes withsleep tracking. While the company spoke at length about all the new changes and features in watchOS 7, they didn’t mention something that was removed — force touch. Anyone who has used an Apple Watch running watchOS 6 or earlier will know that force touch interactions were all over the place in watchOS....

WWDC 2020: Apple AirPods Get Auto Switching, Spatial Audio, and More At itsfirst online-only WWDC eventlast night, Apple announced an unexpected update for its second-genAirPodsandAirPods Pro. As part of the update, the earbuds will get the ability toautomatically switch the audio source from one source to anotherbased on which Apple device is being used. Basically, if you receive a call on your iPhone while watching a video on your MacBook, the AirPods will automatically switch the audio source from the latter to the former....

WWDC 2020: Apple Announces Switch to ARM for the Mac In line with anumber of rumours, Apple has today announced that it will start using ARM processors in Macs soon. Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement, calling it a ‘historic day for the Mac’. Switching to ARM processors will prove beneficial for Apple. ARM processors will offer higher efficiency and performance to the Mac. More importantly, processors designed by Apple for the Mac have the potential to be a game changer....

WWDC 2020: macOS 11 Big Sur Announced The WWDC 2020 keynote is underway, and alongsideiOS 14, Apple has just unveiled the next generation of macOS.Named ‘macOS Big Sur’,the new operating system brings a bunch of features and changes to the Mac. One of the biggest upgrades is the shift away from the macOS 10 branding. Surprisingly,macOS Big Sur is the first macOS 11 release. macOS 11 Key Features Design Changes As was the case with iOS 14, macOS Big Sur also focuses a lot on the design changes....

WWDC 2020: watchOS 7 Announced with Native Sleep Tracking Alongside the announcements ofiOS 14andmacOS Big Sur, Apple also announced watchOS 7 today during WWDC 2020. The new iteration of watchOS comes with mostly expected changes, including native sleep tracking and watch face sharing. Native Sleep Tracking First let’s talk about sleep tracking. After using multiple third party apps all this time, you will now be able to use sleep tracking natively....

Xiaomi Releases AOSP-based Android 11 Beta 1 for Poco F2 Pro/ Redmi K30 Pro Having releasedAndroid 11 Beta 1for the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro last week, Xiaomi has now done the same with the Redmi K30 Pro 5G,also known as the Poco F2 Pro. Interestingly, the latest release for the Redmi/Poco device is based on AOSP and does not have a MIUI layer on top. Of course, it was only to be expected, given that the company had done just that with the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro....