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Apple is retiring the iPod Touch. The news ends the iPod’s 20-year run. Customers can still buy the music player as long as existing supplies last. Apple has announced it is retiring the iPod Touch, ending two decades of Apple’s dominance in the digital music player market.
At one point, Apple made a number of different iPod models but gradually phased them out as the iPhone’s popularity cannibalized sales.
The Galaxy K Zoom features an impressive camera, and offers robust optical zoom, but suffers from being the sum of its parts and having less than stellar battery life. The cameras on our smartphones have come a long way over the past several years, and have undoubtedly contributed to making point and shoot cameras obsolete. An important feature from these cameras that aren’t easily found with smartphone camera tech though is optical zoom. Samsung, in their continued efforts to make sure that there’s a smartphone for every consumer, has taken up the charge in this regard, beginning with the Galaxy S4 Zoom released last year.
Next year our handsets will pack in 7nm smartphone processors. Qualcomm has already confirmed its next-generation Snapdragon SoC will be built at this node, and Huawei has already officially announced its first 7nm chip — the Kirin 980.
Other major industry players are heavily interested and already well invested in 7nm too. Samsung’s foundry is ready to pump out chips this year, as is its major rival TSMC. Meanwhile, Apple is eying up a major portion of the supply for new iPhones, setting it up on another collision course with Qualcomm.
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Google has launched the second-generation Nest Hub in India. The Indian model lacks the US version’s sleep tracking functionality though. It also seems like gesture controls are missing from the Indian variant. Google first launched the second-generation Nest Hub almost a year ago, delivering better audio, gesture support, and sleep tracking functionality. It’s clearly taken a while then, but the company has finally brought this smart display to India.
HTC Desire 600, a dual-SIM device featuring a quad-core CPU, has been made official by the company.
The device was spotted in benchmarks not too long ago, and now it’s finally a fact. If you were looking for a dual-SIM device with a good set of specifications, the HTC Desire 600 might be right up your alley.
The smartphone features a Snapdragon 200 1.2 GHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM memory, as well as a 4.
Back at CES 2017 Lenovo showed off a number of Alexa-powered smart speakers which looked like the love-child of an Amazon Echo and Google Home. While it was enticing to have more options to choose from when looking for a standalone smart speaker, it seems Lenovo has taken the concept and added a specialized dock attachment for its 4-series tablets.
The Lenovo Home Assistant Pack is a special dock which mounts 4-series tablets and turns them into smart speaker assistants with a screen.
JLab JBuds Frames has won Android Authority‘s CES 2021 Top Picks Award for Best Audio Accessory. Check out all the awards here.
JLab Audio took a break from true wireless earbuds announcements during CES 2021, and instead debuted the JLab JBuds Frames.
The JLab JBuds Frames can attach to almost any glasses or sunglasses, so you can maintain your style while listening to your music. Unlike the famed Bose Frames, just two independent Bluetooth true wireless audio devices make up the JLab JBuds Frames.
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Our quick picks for the best Samsung Galaxy S21 FE cases:
It might have taken longer than expected, but the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is finally here. Like its predecessor, the “fan edition” of Samsung’s 2021 flagships offers a great balance of high-end features and price, without too many compromises along the way. It’s cheaper than the rest of the S21 family, but you’ll still want to keep it protected for as long as possible.
Update, May 11, 2020 (3:50AM ET): Xiaomi is finally making the Redmi Note 9 Pro Max available in India after first launching it back in March.
The Max model was supposed to go on sale starting March 25. However, Xiaomi had to delay it owing to the coronavirus lockdown in India.
You can now grab the Redmi Note 9 Pro Max starting May 12 at 12PM IST from Xiaomi’s India website.
Offering a host of improvements including 5x faster speeds and lower energy requirements, UFS cards undoubtedly represent the future of removable storage. But what about legacy support, can we expect all future flagships to ditch microSD and move straight to UFS? Thanks to Samsung, you might be able to have your cake, and eat it too.
While UFS cards are not compatible with the current microSD card socket, the good news is that Samsung and several partners have developed a new socket design that will be able to accept both UFS and microSD cards, meaning that you’ll be able to use both standards interchangeably if you so wish.