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Android Authority
6 hours ago
- Android Authority
Yet another Android brand is copying the iPhone's Action button
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple replaced the mute switch with a customizable Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro models. OnePlus recently copied this move and replaced its iconic alert slider with a customizable button on the OnePlus 13s. Another Android brand could soon follow suit and add a customizable button on an upcoming phone. After including a silent switch on every iPhone model since the original, Apple dropped it in favor of a customizable button starting with the iPhone 15 Pro models in 2023. Although the move was met with some disappointment, Apple did not change course and extended the change to all four iPhone 16 models last year. OnePlus recently followed suit, replacing its iconic alert slider with a customizable button on the OnePlus 13s. Now, a new leak suggests that another Android brand may soon jump on the customizable button bandwagon. Tipster Smart Pikachu recently took to Weibo to reveal that vivo's upcoming X Fold 5 foldable will feature a customizable button. A live image of the smartphone showcases three buttons on the side, including the volume rocker, the power button with an integrated fingerprint scanner, and the new customizable button. The leak also shows us the customization interface for this button, which looks strikingly similar to the iOS settings page for the Action button. The icons in this interface suggest that users will be able to mute the X Fold 5, launch the camera, turn on the flashlight, perform a song search, and enable DND with this button, among other things. vivo is expected to launch the X Fold 5 in China later this month, with a global launch to follow in July. Previous leaks indicate that the device could be the lightest foldable on the market and offer a new multitasking feature called 'Atomic Workbench.' Got a tip? Talk to us! Email our staff at Email our staff at news@ . You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it's your choice.
Straits Times
13 hours ago
- Straits Times
Jail for repeat offender who stole cash from clinic's safe, colleagues' credit and debit cards
Ong Ee Min was sentenced to 18 months' jail after pleading guilty to two counts of cheating, two counts of theft, and one count of theft by a servant. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG Jail for repeat offender who stole cash from clinic's safe, colleagues' credit and debit cards SINGAPORE – Despite multiple prior convictions for theft, a recalcitrant offende r continued to steal from colleagues and her employer in 2024 while working as a clinic assistant, using the stolen cash, credit and debit cards to buy goods such as iPhones. On June 20, Ong Ee Min, 34, was sentenced to 18 months' jail after pleading guilty to two counts of cheating, two counts of theft, and one count of theft by a servant. The prosecution asked for 13 charges of similar nature to be taken into consideration during sentencing. Ong had also been convicted and jailed on multiple occasions for theft, theft in dwelling, cheating and forgery between 2016 and 2022. On Aug 2, 2024, while working at Mount Alvernia Hospital, she took a wallet belonging to her colleague from a staff room. She then took a bus to Junction 8, Bishan, where she purchased an iPhone 15 Pro for more than $1,500, using her colleague's debit card taken from the wallet. She also stole a doctor's credit card on Nov 22, 2024. The doctor, from a clinic in Mount Elizabeth Hospital where Ong was also employed, made a police report after she discovered unauthorised transactions at 313 Orchard were being made using her card. Investigations found that Ong had entered the doctor's office earlier that day, to try on the clinic uniform. While she was inside, she spotted the doctor's wallet on the table and removed a credit card from it. Later that evening, Ong went to 313 Orchard and bought an iPhone 16 Pro valued at more than $1,700. She threw the credit card into a bin afterwards, and sold the phone to an unknown person. On Nov 29, 2024, a nurse at Mount Elizabeth Hospital made a police report after her husband informed her that he had been notified of unusual transactions on her credit card. She then realised that her card holder, containing her credit cards, was missing from her handbag. Investigations revealed that Ong had taken the card holder out of the nurse's handbag at the hospital's cafe when she had left it unattended for a moment. On Dec 2, 2024, another doctor from Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre made a police report after she discovered money from the clinic's safe deposit box had gone missing. The doctor also reported finding a pin near the deposit box that she suspected the culprit used to pick the lock. Investigations later revealed that Ong had stolen $800 from the safe between Nov 27 and Dec 2 that year. She had also taken $50 in supermarket vouchers from an envelope in the room. The court heard that Ong has since made full restitution to the victims. Join ST's WhatsApp Channel and get the latest news and must-reads.
Express Tribune
17 hours ago
- Express Tribune
Adobe Project Indigo: A free-to-use iPhone app for SLR-style photos
Adobe has launched a new computational photography camera app for iPhones, offering users a powerful tool to capture high-quality, natural-looking photos. The app, named Project Indigo, is free to download and currently available for iPhone 12 Pro models and newer, with Adobe recommending optimal use on an iPhone 15 Pro or later. The app was developed in part by Marc Levoy, a renowned figure in mobile imaging who previously helped transform the Google Pixel camera's capabilities. Now an Adobe Fellow, Levoy worked alongside senior scientist Florian Kainz to build the app under Adobe Labs. The project was announced on Adobe's website through a technical blog. Unlike most Adobe products, Project Indigo does not require users to log into an Adobe account, allowing immediate access to its features. Indigo leverages computational photography to improve image quality by capturing a burst of photos and combining them to produce a final image with enhanced dynamic range and reduced noise. The app aims to deliver a 'natural, SLR-like' aesthetic and includes full manual controls for focus, ISO, shutter speed, and white balance — features aimed at enthusiasts and professionals alike. Adobe Labs releases an experimental digital photography app Project Indigo ( to showcase breakthrough innovations, including reflection removal, which is being published at CVPR this week. Check out this blog: — Adobe Research (@AdobeResearch) June 13, 2025 In the technical blog post, Levoy and Kainz outlined how the app processes images to retain a natural look, explaining key elements of its image pipeline. They noted that Project Indigo is intended as both a standalone tool and a testbed for features that may appear in other Adobe products. Experimental tools under consideration include a reflection removal button, portrait mode enhancements, and eventually, video recording capabilities. 'This is the beginning of a journey for Adobe – towards an integrated mobile camera and editing experience that takes advantage of the latest advances in computational photography and AI,' wrote Levoy and Kainz. The team's vision is to bridge the gap between casual mobile shooters and advanced photographers, offering an app that balances accessibility with powerful photographic control. An Android version is also in development. For now, Project Indigo marks Adobe's most significant foray into mobile camera software, reflecting the growing importance of AI-driven photography tools in both consumer and professional imaging.
Tom's Guide
3 days ago
- Tom's Guide
iOS 26 is bringing some big Apple Intelligence upgrades — but will they be enough to justify an iPhone upgrade?
Getting an updated operating system can be like getting a brand new phone sometimes, especially if that update brings vital new features to your old device. And certainly, the recently previewed iOS 26 promises big changes, starting with an entirely new look for your iPhone. But as we've previously noted, not every advertised iOS 26 feature is going to reach every iPhone capable of running the software update. Several major additions depend on Apple Intelligence, meaning you'll need an iPhone 15 Pro or later to reap the full benefits of iOS 26. And that means anyone with an iPhone that's been out for two years or more will have to make a decision come the fall: Is it worth upgrading to a new iPhone capable of supporting all that iOS 26 has to offer. It's the same question iPhone owners had to ask themselves a year ago when Apple Intelligence first debuted as part of iOS 18. Certainly, the answer was a bit more clear cut back then. While Apple Intelligence introduced some promising new tools, there was no can't-miss feature, making it easier to hold on to your current iPhone if you weren't fully ready to upgrade. Will iOS 26 yield a different answer? It's hard to say at this point, as the software is only available as a developer beta. The iOS 26 public beta follows in July, and by then, we can get a better sense of what the new features bring to the table, including the ones that require Apple Intelligence support. Still, it doesn't hurt to start thinking about these things now, especially if you're on the fence about upgrading to a new model once the iPhone 17 arrives in a few months' time. With pricing up in the air, you're going to want time to prep — and potentially save — to cover the cost of an upgrade, should those iOS 26 changes requiring Apple Intelligence prove to be irresistible. I've been spending a little bit of time with the iOS 26 developer preview, though I've yet to install it on a test device that supports Apple Intelligence. Nevertheless, I have gotten a sense of which Apple Intelligence-powered additions to iOS 26 figure to be the most noteworthy — and the ones you're going to want to pay attention to as beta testing picks up steam this summer. As a quick reminder, here's a rundown of the iOS 26 features that require Apple Intelligence. To use these capabilities, you're going to want an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, any iPhone 16 model including the iPhone 16e, or one of the new models Apple introduces later this year. That's just a list of features where Apple Intelligence support is specified. There are other iOS 26 capabilities that may only work on the iPhone 15 or later. For example, iOS 26 Maps is adding a capability where on-device intelligence recognizes the routes you take regularly so that it can alert you to conditions like traffic — it's unclear if that requires Apple Intelligence support, but it sure sounds like it to me. A quick glance at this list tells me that not all of these features are going to swing the needle toward an iPhone upgrade. If the initial release of Genmoji didn't move you to get a new phone, I'm going to guess expanding the kinds of emoji you can generate with text prompts isn't going to up the ante. Other additions, like incorporating Apple Intelligence into Reminders, sound a bit more promising, but the basic functionality of that app will continue to work just fine on your older iPhone. To my eye, there are two potential Apple Intelligence additions in iOS 26 that could spark serious upgrade talk — Visual Intelligence and Live Translations. Visual Intelligence is already the best of the Apple Intelligence features in my book. It essentially turns your camera into a search engine of its own, as you can snap photos and then have Apple Intelligence scour the web for more information online. I particularly like that I can point my iPhone's camera at a restaurant's sign and have Visual Intelligence pull up information like the menu. I can also capture info from a flier to auto-populate a calendar entry. The iOS 26 update brings those capabilities to your iPhone's screen. Now you can take a screenshot and perform those same actions you would from capturing an image with your camera, including filling in calendar dates and times for an event mentioned in an email someone sent you. To put it another way, Visual Intelligence is already a very useful feature, and iOS 26 is expanding those uses. Live Translations is a bit more up in the air. Certainly, the concept is promising (and familiar to anyone who's spent time with a recent Pixel phone.) When you place a call to someone who speaks a different language than you do, Apple Intelligence will provide on-the-fly translations so that you can have a relatively seamless conversation. FaceTime conversations should work the same way, and if you text with someone who's using a different language in Messages, you'll get automatic translations of the messages you're sending out and receiving. The value of Live Translations will depend on how much you interact with people who speak a different language than you. Travelers and people who do a lot of cross-border business figure to reap the largest benefit. But whether or not Live Translation is worth the upgrade will depend on just how well the feature performs — and that's something we'll get a better idea about as more people use the beta. There's one other possibility would-be upgraders need to keep in mind — that there may be an Apple Intelligence addition in iOS 26 that Apple won't disclose until the iPhone 17 launch in the fall. The aforementioned Visual Intelligence started out life as an iPhone 16 exclusive before a subsequent iOS 18 update added iPhone 15 Pro compatibility. The nice thing about a summer-long beta process is it gives you a chance to see how new features perform and whether or not they get fine-tuned ahead of the arrival of new hardware in the fall. That's especially helpful with something like Apple Intelligence, which continues to be a work in progress. A lot of factors go into deciding whether to upgrade to a new phone or not — the status of your current model, whether the hardware itself makes compelling improvements and how much that new handset is going to run you. But Apple Intelligence features also figure to play a role in that decision, and the iOS 26 beta will give us some idea of how Apple's AI efforts are progressing.
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Scotsman
4 days ago
- Business
- Scotsman
Google Pixel 9 Pro gets 30% off in best-ever Amazon deal
The Pixel 9 Pro has never been available for this price before | Amazon This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. The Pixel 9 Pro is now available at an incredible discount, with Amazon slashing £300 off the price and throwing in a Pixel Buds voucher too. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... At a time when the iPhone 15 Pro still costs well over £1,000, the Google Pixel 9 Pro, one of its key rivals, stands out as a bit of a bargain. Android fans already know they're usually getting a lot more for their money, but the deal we've spotted on Google's current flagship is absolutely amazing. It's a special offer being pushed by a handful of online retailers, but the best place to buy looks to be Amazon. It's available in Hazel or this black "Obsidian" colour | Amazon Because the 30% saving brings the SIM-free handset down to £699, rather than its RRP price of £999. That's getting on for half the price of the iPhone 15 Pro, and it's the lowest price the Pixel 9 Pro has ever been sold at. Amazon looks to be the best place to buy the phone from for two reasons; firstly it's possible to get next-day delivery if you're a Prime member, and Amazon's returns system is so good. Also, the retail giant is offering a £50 coupon towards a set of Pixel Buds 2, which are a perfect companion to the Pixel phone. The £699 offer price is for the 128gb model, in Hazel or Obsidian. There are pink and white versions available on Amazon, but they're used. There are savings on the 256gb model and the 512gb version too and, while they're not quite 30% off, they are very attractive.
