YouTube Premium price increases in select markets

YouTube started a massive campaign against ad blockers, preventing those who use them from viewing content. The company urged users to opt for the Premium tiers instead that have no ads, among other benefits.

Today, customers from all corners of the world, started receiving an email that their monthly fee will increase. As of November 1, YouTube Premium is getting a price hike in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, Germany, Poland, and Turkey. This applies to all tiers – Premium and Music Premium.

YouTube Premium features

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Poco C65 launching on November 5

Poco is gearing up to launch its next C-series smartphone next week and we now have some some details about the device. Poco C65 will launch on November 5 and will come as a successor the Poco C55 which launched back in February. The upcoming model will feature the same MediaTek Helio G85 chipset paired with 6/8GB RAM and 128/256GB storage.

Poco C65 poster

The back will feature a 50MP main camera alongside two unspecified modules housed in an updated camera island design. Poco C65 appears to have the same design as the Redmi 13C which leaked back in September. Based on speculation,...


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iQOO 12 breaks cover in new hands-on images

The iQOO 12 is all set to debut in China next week and ahead of the big announcement we have another pair of hands-on images of the upcoming flagship. Reliable tipster Digital Chat Station shared these images of the iQOO 12 on his Weibo account. The latest images corroborate previous leaks regarding the phone's design.

iQOO 12 in black and white

The white colorway sports BMW M Motorsport branding while the black unit appears to have a textured finish. The front packs a flat display with symmetrical-looking bezels and a punch-hole cutout for the selfie camera. The iQOO 12 will...


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Nokia takes legal action against Amazon and HP over video streaming patent infringements

Nokia – the Finnish telecom equipment maker is suing Amazon and HP over the unauthorized use of a mix of video streaming-related essential patents. Nokia filed a lawsuit in a Delaware federal court and has also filed similar lawsuits across Germany, India, the UK and the European Unified Patent Court.

Nokia clarifies that Amazon Prime and Twitch platforms are using Nokia-patented technology for video compression, content delivery and content recommendation amongst others. HP devices were also found to violate Nokia’s patented video streaming tech.

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vivo unveils Origin OS 4 with improved power management and memory efficiency

The vivo Developer Conference began today with the introduction of Origin OS 4, based on Android 14. It brings a bunch of new features, a UI redesign and improvements in performance, but sadly there are no plans for bringing it to phones outside China.

International units were already confirmed to receive Funtouch 14.

Improvements in performance include faster app response, enabled by a "virtual graphics card". It reduces opening and closing times of apps by 36% and boosts frame rate stability by 70%.

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Xiaomi reports impressive first sales of 14, 14 Pro flagships

Xiaomi 14 and 14 Pro were announced last week in China, and today was the first flash sale of the flagships. As is the norm with those all units were gone almost instantly. It took four hours for the allocated stock to be gone and there were six times more orders in the first five minutes of the sale compared with the Xiaomi 13 market launch, the company claimed.

Still, Xiaomi did not reveal the exact amount of units sold, meaning we couldn't know how much it earned during this first flash sale.

Xiaomi 14 series

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iQOO 12's India launch date announced

iQOO will unveil the iQOO 12 and iQOO 12 Pro on November 7 in China, and on December 12, the vanilla model will "make its grand debut" in India. The iQOO 12 will be sold through Amazon.in, but it should also be available through iQOO's official Indian website.

12.12.23, A date that's going to change the smartphone game forever. 😉 #iQOO 12 is launching soon on @amazonIN &
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https://t.co/0rC6Ys3iQ3#iQOO12 #AmazonSpecials #BlockYourDate pic.twitter.com/icGIFsth7i— iQOO India (@IqooInd) November 1, 2023

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Samsung posts improved Q3 earnings thanks to strong demand for flagship smartphones

Samsung posted its Q3 earnings report and the numbers show quarterly revenue of KRW 67.40 trillion ($49.99 billion) and operating profit of KRW 2.43 trillion ($1.80 billion). The revenue figures represent a gradual decline of 12.3% on the yearly basis but are 12% up from the Q2 values while the operating profit is up over 262% compared to the Q2 values.

Samsung shared its mobile division saw strong sales for its flagship models alongside healthy demand for mobile displays. Samsung’s memory business reduced losses thanks to increased demand for its products and higher average selling...


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Apple will use lighter and better molded glass for 16 Pro telephoto

Apple will turn to molded glass lenses for the 2024 Pro models' telephoto cameras. According to a supply chain report, Largan will exclusively cover the needs of next year's telephoto lenses.

Molded glass lenses are thinner and lighter than traditional ground glass at the same magnification distance. That means that the 120mm zoom lens of the 15 Pro Max can be incorporated into the smaller iPhone 16 Pro in 2024, bringing it on par with the 16 Pro Max.

Due to the molded glass lenses' inherent complexity, Apple is already prepping for next year's iPhone Pro models. Reports suggest...


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Tecno introduces Universal Tone for perfect skin tones in every photo

Tecno announced a new imaging technology called Universal Tone. Leveraging AI, it promises to enhance skin tones in photos so people from all colors are correctly captured.

The essence of Tecno Universal Tone is recognizing multiple faces in one photo, along with their facial complexities, and then applying appropriate filters that encompass a vast range of skin tones in order to eliminate bias within the image processing.

The technology combines three engines, according to the press release. The first is the Multi-Skin Tone Restoration Engine, which works with a database of...


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Week 43 in review: Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Xiaomi 14 and 14 Pro are official

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset this week and phone makers queued up to declare their next flagship will have it - iQOO and Honor were among them. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is all about AI - the AI Engine supports multi-modal generative AI models and popular large language models for speech recognition - the chip can run up to 20 tokens per second for instant AI assistant responses. Qualcomm boasts that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 packs the world's fastest stable diffusion, which can generate an image in a fraction of a second.

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Weekly poll: how old is your phone?

Fairphone is promising 8 years (possibly up to 10) of support for its new Fairphone 5. Google brought Android longevity into the mainstream with the new Pixel 8 series, which will be supported for 7 years, this includes both software updates and availability for spare parts.

But this raises the question – is anyone actually using their phone for that long? While it’s tough to predict whether there will be any Pixel 8 users left in 2030, we can focus on the here and now. So let’s change the question to this – how old is your current phone?

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Weekly poll results: the OnePlus Open is great, but buyers balk at the price

Economies of scale mean that once a product becomes popular, it costs less too. But that causes a Catch-22 – it’s difficult for an expensive product to become popular. Right now that is the problem facing foldables, especially the horizontal variety.

Last week’s poll shows that the OnePlus Open is a very promising phone. It might even be the best in class that the markets outside of China have seen. And yet... well, the pie chart speaks for itself, 40% of voters have interest in the Open, but find it too pricey.

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Oppo A79 goes official with Dimensity 6020 SoC and 50MP camera

The Oppo A79 that leaked a few days ago is now official. It's powered by the Dimensity 6020 SoC and runs Android 13-based ColorOS 13.1 out of the box. The smartphone has 8GB LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of UFS 2.2 storage onboard, with the option to expand the storage by up to 1TB via a microSD card.

The Oppo A79 is built around a 6.72" 90Hz FullHD+ LCD with Panda Glass protection. It has a pixel density of 391 ppi and 680 nits peak brightness. Oppo advertises the screen as a Sunlight Display because "you can see every detail, even in bright sunlight." The panel also has Widevine L1...


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Samsung Galaxy S24 series tipped to support Ultra HDR

Google introduced the Ultra HDR feature with Android 14, which allows users to capture and view HDR photos on their Android devices in HDR format instead of SDR. Some Chinese flagships already have a similar feature, but Samsung didn't implement it with One UI 6. However, rumor claims Samsung will implement an Ultra HDR-like feature on its smartphones next year.

Word comes from reliable tipster Ice Universe, who said the Galaxy S24 lineup, expected to arrive in January 2024, will support HDR picture viewing in photo albums. If true, that would be a nice way to utilize the rumored 2,500...


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