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Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (72+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Michael Acton / Financial Times: Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries" " Move marks latest setback for project that originally promised to sell a US-made…...
Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, driven by rising incomes and cheap smartphones and data (Bloomberg)
23+ hour, 45+ min ago (67+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Bloomberg: Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, driven by rising incomes and cheap smartphones and data" " Cheap data, new logistics and mobile-first platforms are expanding consumption far beyond…...
A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated "slop" videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (72+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Aisha Down / The Guardian: A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated "slop" videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers" " Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media - and generating about $117m a year,…...
Chinese government data: shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, primarily iPhones, rose 128.4% YoY in November 2025 to 6.93M units (Reuters)
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (67+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Reuters: Chinese government data: shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, primarily iPhones, rose 128.4% YoY in November 2025 to 6.93M units" " Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, including Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhones, rose 128.4% in China in November from the same month last year " This…...
A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (78+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services" " For quite some time now, Google has allowed…...
Apple settles with Brazil's regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store linkouts (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (75+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple settles with Brazil's regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store linkouts" " Brazilian regulators have approved a settlement that will require Apple…...
Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1" sensor and a 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (Siddharth/GSMArena.com)
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (74+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Siddharth / GSMArena.com: Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1" sensor and a 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring" " The Xiaomi 17 Ultra has finally been unveiled in China as the brand's…...
A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components (Takehiro Hasegawa/Nikkei Asia)
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (76+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Takehiro Hasegawa / Nikkei Asia: A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components" " TOKYO " China's Huawei Technologies has raised the ratio of domestic…...
AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (70+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: AST launches its largest-ever satellite from India, hosting the BlueBird Block-2, the first in a series of deployments to challenge SpaceX in satellite internet" " Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on…...
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (79+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Kiran Rathee / The Economic Times: Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October" " The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse…...