Friday
Mar112022

You can preorder the iPhone 13, 13 Pro in new green colours today

Earlier in the week, Apple announced a bunch of new products. And alongside that, we get a new colour option for the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro. Apple brings the green colour back to this series with the iPhone 13's green and the Pro's "Alpine Green." Preorders kick off today, March 11, at 5 AM PST. And then these phones will be available next Friday, March 18.

Thursday
Mar102022

Google launches new beta program for Pixel Feature Drops

Source: Google

Google Pixel owners—at least those who own a Pixel 4 or later—can access new Android features earlier, at least through a new beta program. Google has announced the release of the first beta for its Quarterly Platform Release (QPR), a.k.a. its Feature Drops. The features in this beta might make their way to Pixel's June update. If you want to try out new Pixel features before they get widely released, you can sign up for the beta here.

According to Google, anyone using the 12L beta will be automatically transitioned to the new QPR beta. These Feature Drops allow Pixel owners to get early access to features included in mid-year updates. But the company hasn't specified what new features are included. For now, the beta "includes improvements to functionality and user experience as well as the latest bug fixes, optimizations, and the March 2022 security patches."

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Thursday
Mar102022

Apple discontinues 27-inch iMac

Source: Apple

It's been around for over 12 years, but now the 27-inch iMac is no more. Apple has removed the listing from its Mac category, leaving the 24-inch Apple Silicon-based iMac on sale. The company launched its new Mac Studio and Studio Display the other day, which it is positioning to replace that iMac instead of a rumoured new large-sized iMac. This just-discontinued model running on Intel's processor first debuted in August 2020, and it had the nano-texture anti-glare display option that the new Studio Display gets.

The iMac was first introduced in 1998, and the 27-inch model first came out in 2009. And as Apple Insider pointed out, it was the first post-Steve Jobs return product. It transitioned to the Intel processor in 2006 until it moved to the ARM-based Apple Silicon architecture in 2021. 

Thursday
Mar102022

iPad Air 2022's incremental update adds 5G support, M1 chip

Source: Apple

The new iPad Air is the last Apple product refreshed and announced at its recent "Peek Performance" event. This new iPad Air has come out a year and a half since its predecessor. It still features that iPad Pro-like look, but it gets a spec boost with an M1 processor, 5G support, and faster data transfer speeds (up to 10Gbps) via its USB-C port.

With the M1 chip, its 8-core CPU is expected to be 60 percent faster than last generation's A14 Bionic processor, and its 8-core GPU is expected to be two times faster. Storage on this tablet starts at 64GB and maxes out at 256GB.

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