Hollywood actor Chris Evans says goodbye to his beloved iPhone 6S and its home button

Every technology user is different, and even in an era where large displays and swipey gestures are the norm, there are still users who believe “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Movie star Chris Evans was not ready to part ways with his iPhone 6S in an Instagram post he published with his … Read more

Nothing phone (1) will initially be sold through an invite system

Nothing CEO Carl Pei was the co-founder of OnePlus, and you can see a lot of similarities between the two companies, especially in the marketing department. Nothing has run a OnePlus-esque teaser campaign for its upcoming phone (1), revealing small (or big) tidbits of information here and there seemingly every other day, ensuring it … Read more

Samsung apparently has a huge stockpile of 50 million devices due to low demand

According to a new report out of its home of Korea, Samsung has a stock problem. And it’s that it has huge amounts of phones in stock – over 50 million, in fact. That staggering stockpile has added up into the stocks of its distributors. These are phones that are just sitting there waiting … Read more

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