Flashback: how the Apple M1 evolved out of Apple’s iPad chipsets

The first custom Apple chipset, the Apple A4, launched in 2010 with the original iPad and was also featured in the iPhone 4 a few months later. The A4 was manufactured by Samsung and used an enhanced Cortex-A8 CPU core dubbed “Hummingbird”. Hummingbird was co-developed by Samsung and Intrinsity and was announced in 2009 … Read more

Microsoft Defender brings online and local protection to all platforms

Microsoft has launched its Microsoft Defender app for all four major platforms. Available as part of the Microsoft 365 service, it is designed to offer protection against online threats as well as local ones. Not to be confused with Windows Defender (now Windows Security), the new Microsoft Defender app is designed to provide a … Read more

A cheaper Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 4G is coming with the Snapdragon 720G at the helm

Back in 2020, Samsung released its first ever Fan Edition smartphone, the Galaxy S20 FE. And it came in two versions: a 4G one with the company’s own Exynos 990 SoC, and a 5G variant with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865. Fast forward to this January, and the Galaxy S21 FE finally arrives, but in one … Read more

The next cheap iPad to sport the A14 Bionic chip and a USB-C port

Apple’s simply named “iPad” is its cheapest tablet, starting at $329 normally, and the current model was refreshed last September. This year it will see more substantial updates, according to a new rumor. The next cheap iPad will have a Retina display with the same 1640×2360 resolution as the iPad Air, which means its … Read more

Realme GT2 Explorer Master gets certified in China, has its specs outed

Realme has long been rumored to be working on a successor to last year’s GT Explorer Master, which would presumably launch as the GT2 Explorer Master. Recently some rumors pointed to its model number being RMX3551, and now a phone with that exact model number has been certified for sale in China by TENAA. … Read more

Weekly poll results: flat AMOLED displays with high refresh rates strongly preferred

LCD’s time in the smartphone world is almost over – an overwhelming majority in last week’s poll prefer AMOLED. But any old AMOLED won’t do, here is what most people consider to be the perfect display. There is a pretty even division between FHD+ and QHD+ resolutions. Some enjoy the extra sharpness of QHD+, … Read more

OnePlus’ iconic alert slider will be confined to Pro models while reaching some Oppo flagships

Earlier today we shared some leaked renders of the upcoming OnePlus 10T. The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed something missing: the iconic OnePlus alert slider, a feature which the company debuted in the Android world, and then kept mainstream ever since. We say “in the Android world” because of course Apple had a … Read more