An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: Huawei’s latest phone, which it unveiled in September — the Mate 30 with a curved display and wide-angle cameras that competes with Apple’s iPhone 11 — contained no U.S. parts, according to an analysis by UBS and Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, a Japanese technology lab that took the device apart to…
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Intel Says It Sold Its Modem Chip Business To Apple at ‘a Multi-Billion Dollar Loss’ Because Qualcomm Tactics Left It With No Other Choice
Intel sold its smartphone modem chip business to Apple at “a multi-billion dollar loss,” the U.S. chipmaker said in a court filing on Friday, alleging that rival Qualcomm forced it out of the market. From a report: Intel made the claims in a brief filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Qualcomm is seeking to overturn a sweeping…
RISC-V Foundation Moving To Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears
hackingbear writes: The RISC-V Foundation, which sets standards for the open-sourced CPU architecture and controls who can use the RISC-V trademark on products, will soon move to Switzerland to ensure that universities, governments and companies outside the United States can help develop its open-source technology. “From around the world, we’ve heard that ‘If the incorporation was not in the U.S., we…
Google Wants Android To Use Regular Linux Kernel
Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used a heavily-modified version with changes from OEMs, chip manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek, and Google. There have been efforts over the years to close the gap between the two kernels, but now Google is getting more serious about it. From a report: At this year’s Linux Plumbers…
Xiaomi Launches Mi Watch, Its $185 Apple Watch Clone
Xiaomi, which competes with Apple for the top position in the wearable market, today made the competition a little more interesting. The Chinese electronics giant has launched its first smartwatch called the Mi Watch that looks strikingly similar to the Apple Watch in its home market. From a report: The Mi Watch, like the Apple Watch, has a square body with…
Motorola Teases the New Razr Phone In November Event Invitation
Motorola has sent out invitations to an event on Nov. 13, where the rumored foldable Razr phone could launch. CNET reports: Motorola said the evening event in downtown Los Angeles will feature the “highly anticipated unveiling of a reinvented icon.” The save the date is a gif showing a device being folded and unfolded. “An original unlike any other,” it reads,…
Essential Reveals Project Gem Smartphone With Very Long, Unusual Design
Andy Rubin, the controversial mobile industry executive who co-founded Android, left Google amid allegations of sexual misconduct while retaining a huge severance package, and went on to create the Essential Phone, has tweeted photos teasing an upcoming device with an elongated design and very tall UI composed of card-like apps. The Verge reports: It look extremely small in his hands, too….
Intel Dramatically Cuts Prices of Top-End i9 Gaming Chips
Intel is whacking the prices of its high-end i9 processors as it refreshes an aging design. From a report: For example, last year’s top-end Core i9-9980XE processor costing $1,990 at retail is replaced by the $979 Core i9-10980XE. The new chips are due to arrive in November. “People were stuck in the top part of the mainstream,” unwilling to pay a…
Xiaomi’s Mi Mix Alpha Has a Display On the Front, Sides, and Back
The latest phone in the Xiaomi Mi Mix series is the Mi Mix Alpha, a $2,800 smartphone with a “surround screen” that wraps entirely around the device to the point where it meets the camera module on the other side. “The effect is of a phone that’s almost completely made of screen, with status icons like network signal and battery charge…
Xiaomi Launches Big 5G Challenge To Huawei in China
Xiaomi introduced its first phones compatible with the latest, fifth-generation cellular technology in China, as the country’s once-biggest smartphone maker prepares for an uphill battle against domestic rival Huawei Technologies. From a report: At an event in Beijing, billionaire co-founder Lei Jun introduced the 5G-capable Mi 9 Pro, the latest of Xiaomi’s classic product line, and gave the world a first…