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Apple planning gradual return to work for it's employees globally

Apple plans gradual return to work for employees globally. Starting this week, Apple's senior managers will inform staffs if they fall under the first phase return process or in the later part. With first phase, Apple employees will be asked to work from office regularly or for a certain period of time depending on their job. However second phase of return is set to begin in July, when Apple will allow more employees to work from their respective offices internationally.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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Nokia 125 and Nokia 150 feature phones goes official from HMD Global

Announcement

HMD Global announces two new Nokia feature phones for everyday use. The Nokia 125 and Nokia 150 will be made available in select markets for a price of $24 and $29, respectively. The Nokia 125 comes with a 2.4" screen, wireless FM radio and storage to save upto 2000 contacts and 500 messages, while the Nokia 150 will bring additions such as MP3 player with upto 32GB of expandable storage, VGA camera with flash and Bluetooth connectivity.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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Trump's administration is in discussion with Samsung to open more chip manufacturing facilities in the United States

Android

Officials from President Donald Trump's administration is in discussion with the South Korean manufacturer Samsung on setting up more semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the United States. In the past we heard that the White House had approached Intel and TSMC to talk about building factories in the stateside, following the COVID-19 outbreak and also the increasing diplomatic tension between US and China, as they are one of the world's largest supply chain in the industry.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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POCO F2 Pro launched in China

Android

Xiaomi's sub-brand POCO launched their latest POCO F2 Pro in mainland China earlier yesterday. The phone has already been made available online for a starting price of €499 ($540) for the base 6GB RAM/128GB ROM variant (shipping from May 19). The smartphone packs the 5G supported Snapdragon 865 SoC, a 6.67" AMOLED ultimate FHD+ Full Screen Display, a 20MP pop-up front camera, a 64MP quad rear camera module and a 4700mAh battery with 30W fast charging.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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Vivo goes official with brand new Vivo V19 in India

Android

Vivo announced latest Vivo V19 smartphone in India, offered for a starting price of ₹27990 ($369) for the 8GB RAM/128GB ROM trim, available from May 15 in two colors via company's online and offline channels. The phone packs a Snapdragon 712 chipset, a 6.44" FHD+ SuperAMOLED dual punch hole display with on-screen fingerprint scanner, also housing the 32MP front camera, 48MP quad camera module on the back and a 4500mAh powered battery with 33W Vivo FlashCharge 2.0 fast charging support.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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Huawei launched the latest Huawei P30 Pro New Edition in Europe

Android

Huawei launched a new smartphone in the Europe named P30 Pro New Edition. The smartphone is already up for grabs in Germany through Hauwei's online webstore for a price of €749 or $809 in three colors with 8GB RAM/256GB of storage. The device is pretty identical to the original Huawei P30 Pro launched back in 2019, but bringing EMUI 10.1 based on Android 10 with pre-installed Google Apps unlike devices from the new Huawei P40 series, and some other improvements.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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Xiaomi launches Redmi K30 5G Racing Edition in mainland China

Android

Xiaomi introduced brand new Redmi K30 5G Racing Edition in mainland China. The first smartphone to feature the latest Snapdragon 768G mobile platform with 5G and also to bring the new Mint shade to the fleet. Apart from that, the remaining internal specifications of the smartphone will remain identical to the originally announced Redmi K30 5G. You can grab the device through Xiaomi's partner JD.com, costing 1999 Chinese Yuan ($281) for the 6GB RAM/128GB ROM model (sale from May 14).

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 768G mobile platform

Announcement

Qualcomm announced latest Snapdragon 768G mobile platform, an upgrade over their lately announced Snapdragon 765G processor, again coming with integrated Snapdragon X52 5G Modem-RF system supporting advanced 5G connectivity. The chipset packs Kryo 475 CPU with clock speeds upto 2.8GHz and features Adreno 620 GPU, also making this is the first 7-series platform to support Adreno's updateable GPU drivers. The new Snapdragon 768G Elite Gaming SoC can support 120Hz display and upto 64MP camera with 5th generation AI engine.

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