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Apple has postponed a planned introduction of its first mixed-reality headset from around April to June, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the latest setback for the tech giant's next big initiative. The iPhone maker is now aiming to unveil the product at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are confidential. Apple made the decision to delay the launch earlier this month after product testing showed that both hardware and software issues still needed to be ironed out, they said. The debut of the headset has been a long time coming, with Apple working on the technology since around 2015. At one point, the company aimed to introduce the product in June of last year, before pushing back the introduction until around January 2023. It was then shifted to spring before the latest postponement. The device, which melds virtual and augmented reality, would vault Apple into its first major new pr...

Samsung has announced that it is bringing an Apple Watch-style women's health tracker to its Galaxy Watch 5 series soon. The company has partnered with Natural Cycles to introduce temperature-based menstrual cycle tracking. It will be available in the second quarter of the year. Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro users across 32 countries including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland and more will be able to access this feature. According to a newsroom post by Samsung , the Cycle Tracking feature on Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro will give users more detailed insight into their menstrual cycle. It will utilise users' body temperature and other key fertility indicators to determine the unique fertility status of the user. The temperature sensor on the watch will use infrared technology to provide more accurate readings. Notably, all the data will be encrypted and stored on th...

Qualcomm had unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC just a few months back in November 2022 and now the company is reportedly planning to launch its next processor. The next Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset is likely to be Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. A recent report has tipped that the SoC will be launched before its planned schedule. It is tipped to be unveiled in the last quarter of 2023. The CPU performance of the processor as well as its single-core and multi-core scores on Geekbench have also been tipped. Popular tipster Digital Chat Station has shared on Chinese microblogging site Weibo that the next Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC will be launched sometime in the fourth quarter this year. According to the tipster, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset will arrive a bit earlier than its predecessor did last year. While we are still months away from the launch of the upcoming 8 Gen 3 SoC, it has been tipped to offer better performance with less power consumption. Geekbench scores of the upcom...

Snapdragon X75 and Snapdragon X72 were announced by Qualcomm on Wednesday as the company's latest modem-to-antenna solutions. The successor to the Snapdragon X70 modem that featured on last year's flagship smartphones is claimed to be the first in the world to feature support for 5G Advanced connectivity. The new modem is equipped with a dedicated hardware tensor accelerator that offers improved AI performance over its predecessor. It also offers benefits including 10-carrier aggregation for mmWave 5G networks, reduced costs, board complexity, and power consumption, and 5G/4G dual data on two SIM cards simultaneously, according to the company. Qualcomm says the Snapdragon X75 is the first 5G Advanced-ready next-generation modem-RF system that is 3GPP Release 17 and Release 18-ready. The product brings a new architecture as well as a new software suite from the chipmaker. The Snapdragon X75 is equipped with the Qualcomm 5G AI Processor Gen 2 with a dedicated hardware tensor ac...