The long-awaited One UI 7 update is finally rolling out on 2024 Galaxy flagship phones in more regions. One UI 7 is a massive software upgrade that brings numerous visual and functional changes across the user interface and most Samsung apps. Samsung Weather is among those first-party apps that have received an overhaul through One […]
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Yesterday, vivo teased a photography kit for its upcoming X200 Ultra flagship which is due to launch on April 21 in China. That won’t be the only optional camera accessory for the X200 Ultra as vivo product manager Han Boxiao shared details about an additional add-on zoom lens co-engineered with Zeiss. This lens attaches to the X200 Ultra’s photography kit via a custom adapter and sits over the phone’s 200MP periscope zoom lens. It features an intricate 13-piece glass lens setup, expanding the 200MP sensor’s native 3.7x optical zoom. The add-on zoom lens offers a f/2.3 aperture…
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Samsung has begun seeding its stable One UI 7 update for the Galaxy S24 series in Europe. The update is now available to users across Germany, Poland, the UK as well as other European countries. As usual, it is following a staged release, so some countries will get the update before others. Samsung is expected to roll out the update to more regions in the coming days. One UI 7 update screen on Galaxy S24 Ultra The new firmware comes as version S9x8BXXU4BYCG also brings the April 2025 security patch. The update for our S24 Ultra unit comes in at over 5GB and features a lengthy…
Read MoreMoving iPhone production from China to the United States could increase manufacturing costs by up to 90%, analysts at Bank of America warned on Wednesday (via Bloomberg).
According to BofA analysts led by Wamsi Mohan, shifting iPhone assembly to America is technically possible, however it would dramatically increase production expenses and create logistical complications.
“iPhone cost can increase 25% purely on higher labor cost in the U.S.,” the analysts wrote in a note to clients. They explained that even if Apple finds domestic workers for final assembly, a “significant portion” of iPhone components would still need to be manufactured in China and imported to the States.
Assuming Apple faces reciprocal tariffs on those imported components, the total manufacturing cost could rise by 90% or more, the analysts estimated.
The analysis follows statements from President Trump earlier this week calling Apple’s manufacturing in China “unsustainable.” According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump “absolutely” believes Apple could manufacture iPhones in the United States. During a recent media briefing, Leavitt said the President believes “we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it.”
Trump’s aggressive trade policies singled out China on Wednesday, pausing reciprocal tariffs on many countries for 90 days but increasing duties on Chinese imports to 125%. In response, China has imposed 84% retaliatory levies on American goods. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to assess where the stand-off goes from here.
Uncertainty caused by the trade war has battered Apple’s stock, which has fallen 14% since Trump’s April 2 tariff announcement, erasing approximately $479 billion in market capitalization. Despite a recent 10% rebound, Apple shares remain down 23% year-to-date.
For Apple to make U.S. assembly economically viable, Mohan suggests the company would need tariff waivers on components and subassemblies manufactured outside the country. However, he doesn’t believe this is likely to happen.
“Unless it becomes clear as to how permanent the new tariffs are, we do not expect Apple to take the step of moving manufacturing into the U.S.,” Mohan stated. Instead, he anticipates Apple will “continue to diversify its supply chain, and also increase production of iPhones in other countries such as India.”
Apple has not officially commented on how it plans to address the current tariff situation. Apple will need to pay the 125% tariff on all goods coming to the United States from China, but it can import devices from other countries like India, Taiwan, and Vietnam at the lower 10% rate.
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AV-Test publie son 1er classement 2025 des meilleures solutions antivirus pour Windows. De bonnes surprises sont au rendez-vous. Bilan !
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Read MoreSamsung has launched a new cordless stick vacuum cleaner, the Bespoke AI Jet Lite. The brand says that it is a lighter version of the Bespoke AI Jet Ultra that it launched last month. These two models now make up the lineup of the company’s stick vacuum cleaners for 2025. The Bespoke AI Jet Lite […]
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The Acer brand is returning to the smartphone world with two new models set to launch in India soon. We didn’t have a concrete date for the launch until now, but the dedicated landing page on Amazon India changes that – the big event is set for April 15 (Tuesday). Now, the landing page is pretty vague promising a “Supercomputer core in your hands” and “AI-powered starlight precision”, whatever that means. That’s odd as the two phones are already fully revealed – unless there are other new Acer models on the way that have somehow escaped detection, these two are it. New Acer phones…
Read MoreAlong with an iPhone “Fold,” Apple is believed to be working on a larger foldable device that’s somewhere around 19 inches, and one analyst suggests it could arrive as soon as late next year alongside Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone.
In a new research note covering likely post-tariff scenarios for Apple, investment firm GF Securities’ lead analyst Jeff Pu says that both 18.8-inch and 7.8-inch foldable devices have seen development progress and are forecast to enter mass production in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Pu said as much last month, when he claimed that Apple’s first two foldable devices had recently entered the New Product Introduction (NPI) phase at Foxconn. Depending on exactly when mass production begins in the second half of 2026, the devices could launch either later next year, or at some point in 2027.
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman believes that Apple is working on a foldable iPad with a 20-inch display that will come out in 2028, while analyst Ross Young has said that he expects a foldable tablet-like device in 2026 or 2027, so it’s safe to say there’s uncertainty about a launch date. There also appear to be conflicting reports about what kind of device the larger foldable will be.
Pu believes the foldable device that Apple is working on will be a MacBook-iPad hybrid with a touch-based screen and support for macOS. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has also referred to Apple’s larger foldable device as a MacBook, while Ross Young has also written about Apple’s work on a notebook with an 18.8-inch display. The Wall Street Journal said in December that Apple is working on a 19-inch MacBook with a foldable screen.
However, Gurman has referred to Apple’s large-screened foldable device as an iPad, as has research firm Omdia. Whether the large-screened foldable is ultimately an iPad or a Mac will come down to the operating system that Apple is planning to use. If the device runs macOS, it’ll be in the Mac family, and if it runs iPadOS, it’ll be in the iPad family. Gurman has claimed that some of the design updates that Apple is making in iOS 19 and macOS 16 to unify the operating systems will pave the way for foldable devices and touchscreen Macs, so a hybrid is also a possibility.
All in all, the details of Apple’s larger foldable device remain murky. That’s in contrast to rumors about Apple’s smaller book-style foldable iPhone, which have recently been converging on a 2026 release.
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La GeForce RTX 5060 Ti continue de faire parler d’elle. Après des révélations sur son prix voici plusieurs références MSI.
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