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Say cheese for the Xiaomi 12 Pro smartphone’s monstrous camera

Enlarge / Xiaomi 12 Pro. (credit: Xiaomi) Xiaomi’s looking to put a big smile on shutterbugs’ faces with a new, monstrous smartphone camera. On Wednesday, the Chinese company announced the Xiaomi 12 Pro, the first product to use Sony’s massive 1/1.28-inch IMX707 sensor. For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 1/1.33-inch type sensor for its wide […]

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Apple will soon send parts and tools to users who want to repair their phones

Enlarge / The back of the iPhone 13. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple will begin selling repair kits to consumers who want to perform some essential repairs on their iPhones themselves. Titled Self Service Repair, the program will first be available in the United States starting early next year, with more regions gaining access throughout 2022. […]

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iPhone 13 and 13 Pro review: If you could have three wishes

Enlarge / The iPhone 13 Pro Max, photographed by the iPhone 13 Pro in low light. Imagine you were visited by a genie who would grant you three wishes, but they all had to be about what you want from your next smartphone. As market research and surveys tell it, almost everyone would make the […]

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Forget multiple cameras—Sharp phone has one giant 1-inch camera sensor

On the back, you get a single giant camera, a time-of-flight sensor, and an LED flash. That’s it. [credit: Sharp ] Is filling the back of a smartphone with several small camera lenses really the best camera solution? Sharp is bucking the multi-camera trend with the Aquos R6, a phone with—get this—a single massive camera […]

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Italy Penalties Apple $12 million on iPhone Advertising Asserts

Expand / The iPhone 11 Guru Max. (charge: Samuel Axon) Italy has hit Apple using a good for the nation’s regulators must be misleading advertising claims, although the good is just $10 million ($12 million)–a pittance out of a company like Apple. This time round, Italy’s Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) asserts that […]