Oppo showcased the Reno12 Pro earlier this month, and now the phone has been certified on TENAA with a full set of specifications. The upcoming phone will have a thin 7.6 mm profile, powerful chipset, and improved cameras on both sides.

The series is arriving on May 23, and the company confirmed on Weibo the phones will be the first Android devices that will be able to capture Live photos – a feature that is currently available only on iOS.

The Reno12 Pro will launch with a 3.25 GHz CPU, which is only on the Dimensity 9300. The screen will be a 6.7” AMOLED with 1080p resolution and is likely to have a 120 Hz refresh rate. There is a punch hole for the selfie camera, which is listed as 50 MP, which is a major change for the Reno series.

The triple cameras on the back are 50 MP + 8 MP + 50 MP, the second surely being ultra-wide, while the third is likely a portrait snapper with 2x optical zoom.

Oppo Reno12 and Reno12 Pro (in Purple)

The battery is listed as 5,000 mAh, and we expect it to support 80W wired charging. Other key specs we learned from the listing are Android 14 (with ColorOS 14 on top), an under-display fingerprint scanner, and a 161.4 x 74.8 x 7.6 mm body that weighs 183 grams.

We already know the trio of colors will be Gold, Purple, and Black. The final unknown is the price, which will be unveiled on Thursday.

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It’s been three years since Apple introduced AirTag, its item tracker that integrates with Apple devices. However, little has been heard about Apple’s plans for a new generation except that it should arrive by 2025. Now we have more details on what to expect from the second-generation AirTag.

Rumors on AirTag 2

As reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Sunday, a new version of AirTag “is scheduled to arrive around the middle of next year.” The original AirTag was announced in April 2021, so it’s possible that the company will launch the second generation around the same time next year.

The journalist also reported that Apple has been doing manufacturing tests with its partners in Asia in order to ship the product (codenamed B589) in 2025.

But what exactly can we expect from the second-generation AirTag (or just AirTag 2)? According to Gurman, “a better chip with improved location tracking.” Potentially, AirTag 2 will have the same second-generation Ultra-Wideband chip as the iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 models.

While the U1 chip only works over a distance of a few meters (around 10 meters), the second generation of Apple’s UWB chip works over long distances of up to 60 meters. This enabled the company to create a new feature that lets users find their friends with Precision Finding.

Apple could also introduce new versions of AirTag in different shapes, although this hasn’t been rumored. Of course, new AirTag accessories wouldn’t be out of the question either.

What do you expect from a second generation of AirTag? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Affordable, Accessible, and depending on your region, Available. There are many ways to interpret the A in Google’s A-series devices. Starting first with the Pixel 3a, the A-series has been the entry point for Pixel phones, bringing some of the things people love about the more expensive models at a more affordable, accessible price. And for certain markets, it was also the only Pixel phone you could purchase for a while.

The latest Pixel 8a continues the tradition of being the cheapest option in the latest generation of Pixel devices. This year you get a few more features, a faster chip, and an updated design that brings it in line with the other two models. But with a starting price of $499, is it still Affordable and Accessible or Awkward and Alienating? Let’s find out.

Google Pixel 8a specs at a glance:

• Body: 152.1×72.7×8.9mm, 188g; Glass front (Gorilla Glass 3), aluminum frame, plastic back; IP67 dust/water resistant (up to 1m for 30 min).
• Display: 6.10″ OLED, HDR, 120Hz, 2000 nits (peak), 1080x2400px resolution, 20:9 aspect ratio, 430ppi; Always-on display.
• Chipset: Google Tensor G3 (4 nm): Nona-core (1×3.0 GHz Cortex-X3 & 4×2.45 GHz Cortex-A715 & 4×2.15 GHz Cortex-A510); Immortalis-G715s MC10.
• Memory: 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 8GB RAM; UFS 3.1.
• OS/Software: Android 14.
• Rear camera: Wide (main): 64 MP, f/1.9, 26mm, 1/1.73″, 0.8µm, dual pixel PDAF, OIS; Ultra wide angle: 13 MP, f/2.2, 120˚, 1.12µm.
• Front camera: 13 MP, f/2.2, 20mm (ultrawide), 1.12µm.
• Video capture: Rear camera: 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240fps, OIS; Front camera: 4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps.
• Battery: 4492mAh; Wired, PD3.0, 7.5W wireless.
• Connectivity: 5G; eSIM; Wi-Fi region; BT 5.3; NFC.
• Misc: Fingerprint reader (under display, optical); stereo speakers.

Unboxing

The Pixel 8a comes with barebones packaging typical for modern Pixel devices. You get the phone, a USB-C charging cable, and a USB-C to USB-A adapter.

This is the Huawei MateBook X Pro for 2024 and it’s easily the best laptop Huawei has ever made.

The MateBook X Pro is thin-and-light with power to spare, and in this generation, it’s more premium than ever.

The retail box has a 90W charger, a separate USB-C cable, a USB-C to USB-A dongle, and USB-C headphones, something we haven’t seen in earlier generations of the MateBook X Pro.

The MateBook X Pro has always had razor-thin bezels and a premium display and in this generation, the series makes the jump from LTPS LCD to OLED. The panel is outstanding. It’s a 14.2-inch 3:2 aspect unit with a 3120x2080px resolution and 100% coverage of the Adobe RGB, sRGB, and P3 gamuts.

It also packs a peak brightness of 1,000 nits when viewing HDR content. Huawei claims it ships with an average Delta-E of 1, but we’ll check that out in our review.

Finally, the panel has a faster 120 Hz refresh rate that you can either lock or let it toggle to 60Hz and 120Hz, depending on what’s on-screen.

The processor has seen a major jump in performance. The previous generation MateBook X Pro relied on Intel’s P-series chip, while this year, you can scale up to the Core Ultra 9 185H processor – a much more potent chip. Huawei touts that the Intel Arc Graphics inside the new MateBook X Pro is 100% faster than the Xe inside the Core i7-1360P.

The keyboard is redesigned in this generation. The keys are wider and have a more tactile feel. The 1.5mm key travel is retained though. It’s impressive on a machine that has slimmed down to just below 1 kg (980g). That’s a nearly 30% decrease in weight, despite the move to a bigger 70Wh battery (vs 60Wh).

We have the Morandi Blue unit and there are also White and Black models to choose from. The laptop has a soft-touch metal chassis, similar to the “skin-smoothing metallic body” of its predecessor.

The only area where the new model is a step down from its predecessor is the port selection. You have a single USB-C on the right and two Thunderbolt 4-capable USB-C on the left – the old model had an extra USB-C port on the right.

Three USB-C ports, two of them Thunderbolt 4

We’re testing the MateBook X Pro 2024 and will bring you a review when we have all the numbers.

If you still have an iPhone 14 or older, Apple offers you credit to buy a new iPhone when you return yours to the company. Soon, Apple will increase the credit for those who give away an iPhone in the trade-in program and use the credit to buy a brand new iPhone 15.

Apple to boost credit for iPhone trade-in

As reported by Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, Apple is about to increase the credit paid for old iPhones in its trade-in program, at least for customers in the US and Canada. Although the new values have not been discussed, Gurman says that they will become effective as of Monday, May 20.

However, the credit boost will only be valid for those who use it to buy any iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Pro model. This means that the offer does not apply to those who trade in their old iPhone to buy an iPhone 14, iPhone 13, or iPhone SE.

“Starting Monday in the U.S. and Canada, you’ll get an iPhone trade in value boost at Apple retail stores if you use the credit towards an iPhone 15/Pro/Plus/Max,” Gurman said in a post on X. The journalist also says that the offer will be valid until June 3.

Here’s how much Apple currently pays for older iPhones in its trade-in program:

• iPhone 14 Pro Max: Up to $630
• iPhone 14 Pro: Up to $520
• iPhone 14 Plus: Up to $420
• iPhone 14: Up to $370
• iPhone 13 Pro Max: Up to $450
• iPhone 13 Pro: Up to $370
• iPhone 13: Up to $300
• iPhone 13 mini: Up to $270
• iPhone SE (3rd gen): Up to $160

You can check out more details about Apple’s trade-in program on the company’s website. Of course, you can always look for the best deals on iPhones in other stores like Amazon.

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Apple has made significant changes to the App Store guidelines in the European Union in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) antitrust legislation. One of these changes allows developers to release iPhone web browsers with their own engine, but the company is making it difficult for developers to test their apps before releasing them to users in the EU.

Testing a web browser with an alternative engine requires a device located in the EU

A report from The Register has heard from developers that Apple has limited testing of third-party web browsers to devices located in the EU. “That requirement adds an additional barrier to anyone planning to develop and support a browser with an alternative engine” for European users, the report notes.

Although developers can use iPhone Simulator to test their apps on a Mac before launching them on the App Store, there are some behaviors that you can only observe on a real device. And even if someone reports a bug to the developer, it can be hard to find and fix it without the ability to install the browser on an iPhone.

For years, Apple has required iOS web browsers to use the same WebKit as Safari. However, one of the DMA’s requirements is that developers can use alternative browser engines if they wish. For example, Google can now release a version of Chrome for iOS using the same engine as the desktop version.

But with such requirements, it seems that most developers won’t be working on it any time soon. “Apple isn’t serious about supporting web browser or engine choice on iOS,” said Google Chrome VP Parisa Tabriz in February. Another restriction is that the alternative engines are not available for iPad – but that will change later this year.

The EU Commission has already announced that it is not satisfied with some of Apple’s responses to the new law, so expect more changes on this issue.

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Apple is on track to launch the iPhone 16 family in September, which has been the traditional month for the event for many years now. We weren’t necessarily expecting anything to change, but we now have a sort of confirmation of the timeline.

It comes from Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants, who posted on X about the production start for the iPhone 16 lineup’s display panels.

This is expected to commence in June, which is exactly when it did in previous years in order to make a September launch possible. Hence, it’s happening in September this year as well.

The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro will get the lion’s share of display panels out of those manufactured in June, with the iPhone 16 Plus and iPhone 16 Pro Max screen production expected to ramp up later in the summer.

The iPhone 16 Pro Max will be larger than its predecessor, as we revealed earlier today through some leaked dummy units.

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We’ve seen a lot of game emulators showing up on the App Store after Apple changed its guidelines to allow such software. Following the release of Delta, Gamma, and RetroArch, the popular PPSSPP (a PSP emulator) is now available on the App Store for iOS users.

PPSSPP comes to iPhone and iPad

For those unfamiliar, PPSSPP is an open-source, cross-platform PSP emulator available for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and more. Now that game emulators are allowed on the App Store, the developers have officially brought PPSSPP to iPhone and iPad without relying on jailbreaking or sideloading.

“After nearly 12 years, PPSSPP has finally been approved for the iOS App Store! Thanks to Apple for relaxing their policies, allowing retro games console emulators on the store,” said the developers in a blog post.

However, although Apple now allows game emulators in the App Store, iOS still has some technical limitations for these types of apps. For example, third-party apps lack support for JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation, which affects emulation performance for some games. Other limitations such as the lack of support for the iPad’s Magic Keyboard will be addressed in the future.

Earlier this week, we also saw the launch of other game emulators for iOS: RetroArch and Gamma. While Gamma is only an emulator for PlayStation 1 games, RetroArch also works with most Nintendo consoles, including N64, SNES, Game Boy, and Nintendo DS.

As for PPSSPP, you can now download it for free on the App Store. There’s also a paid “Gold” version with extra features available for $4.99.

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Apple released iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 earlier this week, and unfortunately there seems to be a problem with it – aside from the OLED iPad Pros experiencing a color reproduction bug.

We’re talking about old, deleted photos resurfacing. In some cases, these photos were deleted years ago, but they’re reappearing in users’ libraries. Suffice it to say, this is a huge privacy problem, if photos that should have ceased to exist are somehow still around on Apple’s servers.

One user over on Reddit reports seeing old photos deleted back in 2021 suddenly resurfacing and showing up as “recently uploaded” to iCloud. Multiple other Redditors then confirmed the issue. For another user, four specific photos keep resurfacing even after being deleted repeatedly, over and over again.

This is troubling to say the least. It’s not clear what’s going on and what is causing this behavior, but it’s safe to assume that no one would expect photos deleted years ago to still be able to ‘come back to life’ as it were, seeing as how the Recently Deleted album should only hold stuff for 30 days.

Apple hasn’t acknowledged the issue yet, but hopefully it will soon, and, if we’re not asking too much, we’d like to hear an actual explanation of how this could happen alongside the inevitable fix.

In attempting to fix a photo syncing bug that occurred in iOS 17.3, Apple may have inadvertently caused this issue, some speculate. Interestingly, some users that ran iOS 17.5 developer beta 4 before iOS 17.5 was released to everybody reported very similar issues, and yet were obviously ignored.

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According to the latest rumors, Apple will increase the screen size of both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max to 6.3 inches and 6.9 inches, respectively. We’ve already seen some dummy units of the new iPhones, but now we can get a better idea of how much bigger the iPhone 16 Pro Max will be based on these photos of a dummy unit side by side with an iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Size comparison between iPhone 15 Pro Max and 16 Pro Max

For those unfamiliar, dummy units usually have the actual dimensions of the product so that accessory manufacturers can create products compatible with the device ahead of launch. Photos shared by Majin Bu on X compare a real iPhone 15 Pro Max next to a dummy unit of the new 16 Pro Max.

iPhone 15 Pro Max has a 6.7-inch screen, which means that the next generation will have a screen just 0.2 inches larger. But how will this be reflected in real life?

Based on the photos, the iPhone 16 Pro Max won’t actually be that much bigger than the current Pro Max model. By placing the two models side by side, you can indeed see the difference between the two phones – but it’s nothing incredibly significant. It’s hard to imagine that these 0.2 inches will give users much more screen area to display more interface elements.

Of course, fans of larger phones will certainly be happy to have a slightly bigger screen, while those who think the current size is already big enough may not be happy with another increase in size.

Latest rumors on iPhone 16

In addition to larger screens, the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max are rumored to come with other hardware upgrades. This includes larger batteries, faster Wi-Fi and 5G, a new A18 Pro chip based on the M4, a Capture button, a new 48 MP ultra-wide camera, and 5x telephoto lens on the smaller iPhone 16 Pro.

The new phones are expected to be announced by Apple in September.