If you care about who makes the processors that MediaTek, Samsung, and more use in their smartphone chips, you’ll want to know that Arm has released new CPUs and GPUs named Lumex. It marks the end of its “Cortex” cores, which now get boring names like “C1-Ultra” and “C1-Pro.”
Unsure about the Air or put off by the Pro? Don’t worry: with double the storage, a 120Hz display, and its upgraded selfie camera, the regular iPhone 17 looks like the best of the bunch, and not for the first time.
thewunderbar:
Every few years, Apple decides to make the base iPhone the best phone in the lineup for 99% of people. This is one of those years.
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Apple had to walk the tightrope of announcing both a stripped back iPhone Air and a souped up iPhone 17 Pro yesterday. If you were paying close attention, you might have come away just a little confused.
Species 8472:
So funny hearing the way they describe the Pro vs. the Air. You only need one camera! You need three cameras! Titanium is so strong! Forget titanium, aluminum is better for thermals!
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After Google donned its hot dog suit in court to complain that the open web is in decline, one commenter argues that’s where we see Big Tech’s true colors:
trifge01:
Increasingly with these companies, if you want to know how they really feel- look not at the lofty public pronouncements of their leaders, but at their official statements in court.
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