We're just a few weeks away from an upcoming batch of major smartphone updates this fall, with Google now expected to officially announce a second-generation Pixel smartphone lineup just a few weeks after Apple launches its iPhone 8 and iPhone 7s/Plus series.
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Could this be the iPhone 7s display assembly?
Apple's upcoming iPhone 7s has seen fewer leaks than its flagship iPhone 8 model, but that's changing now with a trio of images published on leak aggregator SlashLeaks yesterday of a full iPhone 7s display assembly complete with a next-generation 3D Touch module.
Purported iPhone 7s logic board leaks
As Apple recently kicked off full-scale production of 2017 iPhones, we're beginning to see some leaked components—including this purported logic board for a 4.7-inch iPhone 7s model.
Samsung steps up challenge to Siri, expands Bixby’s voice capabilities to 200+ countries
Earlier this week, Samsung announced that customers across more than 200 countries around the world—including folks who live in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada or South Africa—can now use Bixby's voice capabilities in Korean or US English.
Samsung confirms working on HomePod rival that’ll “provide a fruitful user experience”
Samsung yesterday publicly corroborated rumors that it has been working on an unnamed HomePod competitor that will likely use the company's Bixby personal assistant and provide “a fruitful user experience” at home with Samsung devices.
Apple’s latest machine learning articles detail Siri’s new synthetic voices
Apple on Wednesday published three new articles detailing the deep learning techniques used for the creation of Siri's new synthetic voices. The write-ups also cover other machine learning topics it'll be sharing later this week at the Interspeech 2017 conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
You can now take 360-degree photos in Facebook’s iOS app
Facebook's mainland mobile app for iPhone and iPad is being updated later today with the ability to take 360-degree photos, publish them on the service like you would regular images and even set panoramic shots as your profile's cover photo, TechCrunch has learned.
Samsung unveils dual-camera Note 8 with 6.3″ display, water-resistant S Pen & more
Samsung at today's media event officially announced an eighth-generation Note with a water-resistant S Pen stylus, a narrower body, a dual-camera setup with optical image stabilization and 2x optical zoom (or 10x digital zoom) on both wide angle and telephoto lenses, a 6.3-inch (without accounting for the rounded corners) Quad HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity Display with an 18.5:9 aspect ratio that's curved on the sides like on Galaxy S8 and more.
Here’s how you’ll configure your HomePod
Fresh details on HomePod's setup, unearthed yesterday from the newest iOS 11 developer beta by Brazilian outlet iHelp.br (Google Translate), show that the process of setting up Apple's upcoming wireless speaker won't differ much from configuring your AirPods or Apple TV via your iPhone, iPod or iPod touch with iOS 11.
NYT: Apple’s car ambitions scaled back to in-house campus shuttle service
Project Titan, Apple's secretive automotive initiative, switched gear a year ago to re-focus from building actual car hardware to designing autonomous driving technology.
Carriers apparently told to prepare for September 12 iPhone 8 unveiling
The general consensus among people in the know is that Apple will unveil new iPhone models next month and if the latest report is an indication, the OLED iPhone along with the iterative iPhone 7s/Plus devices could be announced at a media event on Tuesday, September 12.
iPhone 8 rumored to come in 64/256/512GB flavors
Apple's next iPhone, tentatively named iPhone 8, is said to come outfitted with three gigabytes of RAM, just like today's 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus, while introducing a new top-of-the-line model maxing out at a whopping 512 gigabytes of flash storage.