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17 stories and discussions about phones, aggregated from every source we track.
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Among the people who blame phones for the “reading crisis” and the associated decline in educational outcomes, the PISA results are, in my view, somewhat misunderstood.
John Ternus, Apple's new CEO, wants Apple to launch products more often than its usual splashy moments in the fall and the spring, according to a Bloomberg report detailing some of Ternus's initial plans for the company. Apple regularly holds iPhone launch events in September and often announces products later in the year and in springtime, but "Ternus has indicated that Apple must introduce products more quickly and become more experimental to remain competitive in the artificial intelligence era," Bloomberg says. The shift may not happen right away given Apple's "long-established" development practices. Apple is rumored to have a consider … Read the full story at The Verge.
Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: they're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do not. In one of the interviews, Joanna Stern notes that, while phones do not always emit a light, someone does have to hold a phone up in the air, which is itself pretty noticeable. On today's Vergecast , we're talking about Meta Connect, the Muse AI assistant, all the new smart glasses hardware, and Zuckerberg's response to the privacy uproar ar … Read the full story at The Verge.
Both 18 Pro phones feature rear displays, just like last year’s 17 Pro models. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi's new 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max launched in China today, and feature a more flexible take on the privacy display tech introduced this year on Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra . They combine it with returning rear screens, two 200-megapixel cameras, and both of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips . A global launch is confirmed for later this year - especially welcome since last year's 17 Pro phones skipped international markets. The two 18 Pro phones look similar to the 17 Pros , with similar compact displays built around the rear cameras, capable of displaying notifications, taking selfies, playing simple games, and more. The bigger … Read the full story at The Verge.