Last year, introduced its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature. This allows an iPhone user to opt-in if he or she wants to continue to be tracked by third-party apps for the purpose of receiving on-line ads. Those who don't opt-in will no longer be tracked. While this would seem to be good for iPhone users, Facebook immediately decried it as being bad for small businesses and bad for Facebook. The company at first said that it could lose as much as 50% of its ad revenue in 2021; Facebook's ad revenue was over $80 billion in 2020.
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Apple is expected to unveil the 2021 iPad Pro and per earlier reports, it will be fueled by the A14X Bionic, which is apparently based on the A14 chip that powers the iPhone 12 family. that surfaced back in November 2020 had suggested that the 5nm chip would be a huge improvement over the A12Z Bionic that underpins the current iPad Pro.
2021 is widely expected to be the year when foldable mobile devices will break into the mainstream, with reportedly working on refining, strengthening, and making these types of versatile products more and more accessible to the masses with and better specifications.
Yes, Sony has already released the , the WH-1000XM4, but they're quite expensive and rarely on sale, at least for the moment. However, the previous generation model, the WH-1000XM3 offers the same high-end features and they're very often discounted by retailers across the US.
Whether you're a fan of the stock Android experience or not, Google's late 2020-released is unquestionably one of the fastest, smoothest, and ultimately greatest 5G-enabled smartphones available today on a (relatively) tight budget.
to the Galaxy S20 and Note 20 series just a few days ago, Verizon is now delivering yet another important update to its customers, although this time it aimed at LG fans.
Verizon's long-term ambitions of (possibly) in the 5G coverage field may have gotten a major boost earlier this week from the highly anticipated announcement of the big winners in , but in the short run, Big Red will need to continue to tout the controversial advantages of mmWave technology.
has released a new of the P40 flagship that was (via )
If history is any indication (and it always is in these situations), we're probably roughly four months away from the official release of the first developer beta for .
The smartphone market as a whole experienced a massive downturn last year due to the economic impact of COVID-19. Europe was hit especially hard, and now has revealed how each brand endured.
The critically acclaimed and OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro powerhouses are nearly a year old already, and we all know what that means. A new family of high-end smartphones, this time around almost certainly instead of just one or two, is decidedly on the horizon, which also sees the early 2020-released flagships score large discounts in unlocked variants... .
When it comes to Android 11 updates, Samsung has completely hogged the limelight for almost three months now, delivering Google's latest massive collection of software goodies, performance enhancements, and new features (with exclusive or sprinkled on top) to a larger number of high-end and mid-range devices than we could have ever imagined.
Target on Thursday that it will be setting up Apple "mini-stores" in multiple locations within the retail giant itself. Customers will be able to take care of their retail, grocery, and top-of-the-line gadget needs in one quick stop at the Bullseye. Seventeen participating stores have been announced and are already beginning to set up (Apple) shop starting this month. Check the official list to see if you happen to live near any of the locations:
Paramount+, a new streaming service by ViacomCBS and a rebrand of CBS All Access, is launching on March 4 in the US. The service aims to be one of the most affordable of its kind, with a starting price of $4.99/month.
New revelations about the exciting launch of Apple's AR (augmented reality) coming this year still continue to surprise and astound us.Self-cleaning, But It's Not an Oven
After a recent report of Apple's hitting a in the US last year thanks to its flagship iPhone 12, it comes as no surprise that the tech giant is also leaving its mark in markets far beyond the pale. According to the just-released end-of-the-year report from IDC (International Data Corporation), Apple managed to claim a whopping 52.6% of the Japanese phone market in Q4 of 2020. During those three months, Apple shipped 6.015 million units to the Land of the Rising Sun, unsurprisingly were 5G-compatible smartphones.
Great news for customers who own a flagship! We're talking about the Galaxy S20 and Note 20 series phones, which are now getting the most recent One UI 3.1 update (via ).
Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII was in the spotlight earlier today during Sony PlayStation's State of Play digital livestream. The Japanese developer Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming to PlayStation 5, but it also revealed a new episode that features Yuffie as the main character and a brand-new one.
, AT&T has finally found a company to sell part of its struggling DirecTV business. In fact, it's a private equity group called TPG Capital that bought 30% of AT&T's DirecTV satellite streaming service.
The is Samsung's cheapest smartphone, but this one isn't available for purchase in the US, at least not officially. The device is selling for around €280 in select European markets, but if you take away its 5G support, the Galaxy A32 should be even cheaper.
After ditching Wear OS several years before it changed its name from Android Wear, Samsung is expected to , which feels pretty surprising. That's because the world's largest smartphone manufacturer appears to have invested a lot of time, money, and resources into its own smartwatch software platform, managing to develop that looks destined to challenge the popularity of the Apple Watch family... eventually.
While all Spotify subscribers are free to create the perfect custom playlist for each situation or mood, some users prefer to use the ‘Liked Songs’ tab inside the streaming service. And now, it’s receiving .
Apart from with and monthly installment plans, bargain hunters interested in picking up a 2019-released iPhone 11-series device at a nice discount haven't been given many options by major US retailers and carriers over the last few months.
Now that , the largest independent prepaid phone provider in the US, and , the no-contract plan sands have shifted tremendously in the US.
will unveil a one-inch mobile sensor called IMX800 in April, claims leaker Teme.
, an app that provides audio-only chatrooms for free, has gone viral in the App Store over the last few weeks. It is currently only available for Apple users, although preparations to launch the Android version of the application . With nearly on Apple devices alone, Clubhouse has even , as Facebook has already begun to develop a similar kind of app.
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