Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup - 11/20 - 11/26

Score up to $350 worth of gift cards during Apple Canada's 4-day Black Friday sale

SwiftKey makes a comeback on iOS

Canadian entry Polyformer is the 2022 James Dyson Award's Global Sustainability Winner

Waze lets you take your next drive with a soccer commentator

Apple chip supplier TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at Arizona plant

Tesla might be working on an Apple Music integration

Microsoft PowerPoint gets portrait mode on iOS

Netflix explores making a 'AAA PC game' at new studio

'Deus Ex Go' to shut down in 2023

Apple's reportedly in the lead to turn Michael Lewis' book on FTX into a feature film

Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a paywall

Amazon greenlit a mini-series based on FTX crypto catastrophe

'Pokemon Scarlet' and 'Violet' sets new Nintendo sales record

Unrest at iPhone plant results in mass resignations, with report of 30% production loss

OnePlus 11 rumoured to stick to the green, black colour scheme

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra tipped to get brightest smartphone display

Charles Darwin's letters are now accessible online

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 may come with an S Pen slot 

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 may come with an S Pen slot

While Samsung's last couple of tablet-sized foldables already supports Samsung's S Pen, it doesn't have the space for the stylus on the foldable. But the next iteration of the Galaxy Z Fold might change that. There are reports that Samsung might finally integrate a slot into the Galaxy Z Fold5, which puts the latest nail in the coffin of the Galaxy Note line. It would also help define the Fold series as a productivity-oriented device.

The report from The Elec doesn't outright say there will be an S Pen slot but suggests it's being heavily considered by the company. Samsung reportedly cited the introduction of an S Pen holster as a key challenge it needs to overcome to make these foldable phones more attractive to consumers (alongside making the phone lighter and minimizing the crease).

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Charles Darwin's letters are now accessible online

Source: John Collier

The University of Cambridge has recently published all of Charles Darwin's personal correspondence, including 400 letters that either surfaced or are newly "reinterpreted." This searchable collection covers over 15,000 letters between 1822 and 1882, so you can read everything from his time aboard the HMS Beagle to On the Origin of Species and end-of-life reflections.

And this archive could be the only way to get a fuller picture of the evolutionary scientist's life. The university noted the final print edition, due in early 2023, doesn't include letters that arrived too late to reach physical copies.

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Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra tipped to get brightest smartphone display

Samsung will be releasing the Galaxy S23 series in the new year, if we follow the typical schedule it comes out. Unsurprisingly, we're hearing rumours about it ahead of said launch. The latest report came from Twitter tipster RGcloudS claiming the Galaxy S23 Ultra could have the brightest display, even beating out the iPhone 14 Pro Max. It'll supposedly get a maximum brightness of 2,150 nits, which effectively beats out the 1,750 nits of the Galaxy S22 Ultra. 

The tipster contends that the "Numbers might be different at launch, due to further adjustments." They claim Samsung could raise the max brightness to 2,200 bits or higher with a minimum peak of 2,100 nits. 

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