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Last year, reports confirmed that Apple had picked Alibaba to power its Apple Intelligence features in China. A new report from Reuters News suggests that Apple has finalized training its China-specific LLM, which will be powered by Alibaba’s Qwen AI. This development is noteworthy as Apple would be the first foreign company to get approval from Chinese regulators to offer a proprietary AI model in China. The China-specific Apple Intelligence features are expected to launch in the coming months with a future software update to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro users. Earlier this week,...

Motorola today launched the Moto G Max in India, and it's different from the one introduced in June in Brazil. For starters, the Brazilian Moto G Max, which is a rebranded Moto G87, is powered by the Dimensity 6400 SoC, while the Indian Moto G Max has the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 chip at the helm. The memory options are different, too: the Brazilian model comes with up to 12GB RAM and 512GB storage, but the Indian model comes in a single 6GB/128GB configuration. Both models run Android 16 out of the box, with the Indian version confirmed to get two Android OS upgrades and three years of...

Google unveiled the Pixel 11 series smartphones a couple of days ago, with the Tensor G6 inside. While Google didn't explicitly mention it anywhere, the Tensor G6 was widely believed to be a 2nm chip. Turns out that's not the case. [#InlinePriceWidget,14874,1#] This revelation comes from Google's VP of Hardware, Peng Yu-Chun, who confirmed that the Tensor G6 inside all the Pixel 11 series smartphones is based on TSMC's 3nm process. Last year's Tensor G5 is also a 3nm chip. [#InlinePriceWidget,14800,1#] Even if the Tensor G6 was based on a 2nm process, it wouldn't have been the...

A new report from Australia of all places today claims that while Apple will unveil the foldable iPhone Ultra at its September 8 event, the device will not be released at the same time as the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, which are also expected to be announced on the same occasion. Not just that, but apparently the iPhone Ultra will only be released in the US first, followed by a handful of other key markets, including China. Australia, for what it's worth, won't be one of them. Interestingly, this report also claims that Apple will not announce pricing for the iPhone Ultra...

Google unveiled the Fitbit Air in early May. It's a screen-less fitness tracker, a form factor that's all the rage these days, after having been popularized by Whoop. The Fitbit Air's availability has been spotty even in markets where it is officially available, but there are also plenty of countries where it hasn't even launched yet. India is one of them. However, Google has now finally unveiled when the Fitbit Air will land in India: in October. The screenshot you can see above is from the Indian launch of the Pixel 11 family, which is when the company decided to finally reveal...

Japanese publication ITmedia Mobile interviewed Sony’s Shohachi Ike and Eri Kitazawa, who brought some encouraging news about the performance of the Xperia 1 VIII. You may have thought that Sony had given up on the smartphone market, but it hasn’t – in fact, the Mark 8 is enjoying strong sales. Even better, Sony is listening to its customers. The Sony Xperia 1 VIII is more expensive than its predecessor – in Japan, the phone crossed the JPY 200,000 mark. That said, the European prices remained the same – €1,500 / £1,400 for the base 12/256GB model, the same as the Mark 7 prices (which, to...

A new research note from analyst Jeff Pu today says the iPhone 18 will get 12GB of RAM after all, a significant bump up from the 8GB of RAM that the iPhone 17 has. It will also allegedly get the new Dynamic Island design that will make its debut on the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro. Recently, another analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, said that the iPhone 18, like the iPhone 18e, would only have 9GB of RAM, but Pu says it's actually only the iPhone 18e that's getting 9GB. Both the iPhone 18 and the iPhone 18e are expected to be powered by the A20 chip. iPhone 17 And they could be launching at the...