Nothing Chats partner Sunbird temporarily shuts down its service

Sunbird, the company with the eponymous app, has temporarily shut down its service citing security concerns that it is currently investigating. This information was provided to its users today through the app. The company has promised further updates when it is “ready to proceed”. Sunbird service offered Android users the chance to communicate over the iMessage protocol with Apple users. It did so by running an instance of an Apple account over a virtual machine running on a Mac on its servers and the user had to sign in with their Apple ID from within the Sunbird app to begin...

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Samsung to implement new blue phosphorescent OLED panels in 2025

A report from The Elec claims that Samsung might introduce a new kind of blue phosphorescent OLED panel in 2025, although industry watchers were expecting a 2024 debut initially. It looks like the development of the new material used for the blue sub-pixels isn't going smoothly. Samsung's current display technology implements phosphorescent green and red sub-pixels, but the blue diodes are still using fluorescent. So you can't call them PHOLED as it isn't technically correct. The new phosphorescent diodes offer 100% internal luminous efficiency, compared to the blue fluorescent ones...

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Oppo Pad Air 2 listed online ahead of launch

Oppo will unveil its Reno11 series smartphones on Thursday, November 23 in China alongside a new Android tablet dubbed Oppo Pad Air 2 which leaked in a set of renders recently. The upcoming tablet has now found its way on China Telecom’s website complete with its key specs and pricing info. Oppo Pad Air 2 listing on China Telecom As expected this is a rebadged OnePlus Pad Go for the Chinese market with the same specs and design. The listing confirms the 11.4-inch LCD screen with 1,720 x 2,408 and 7:5 aspect ratio, MediaTek Helio G99 chipset and 8,000 mAh battery with 33W charging....

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Samsung Galaxy M55 appears on Geekbench with Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

Samsung is preparing to launch a Galaxy M55 smartphone with the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset by Qualcomm. This was revealed on Geekbench, where the SM-M556B was benchmarked. The device also appeared with 8 GB RAM and Android 14, likely with One UI 6 on top. The smartphone was tested on an older 4.2 version of Geekbench, which is so dated even our test database does not include any relevant results. This means the 3,575 single-core and 11,330 multi-core scores cannot be compared with other smartphones, and we have no idea how it would stack against competitors. Luckily, we can make...

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