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OnePlus announces the new OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro

Today, OnePlus announced its new flagship smartphones for 2021; the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro. Both phones cost more than their predecessors, starting at £629 for the base model OnePlus 9. They both support 5G and boast Hasselblad camera units. The OnePlus 9 has a 6.55-inch 120Hz AMOLED display, with a resolution of 2400 x 1080, 1100 nits of brightness and a pixel density of 402ppi. The 3.5mm headphone […]

Apple removes more iMac models from the lineup, ahead of likely M1 model

Apple has been dropping a number of products from sale lately, first came the iMac Pro earlier this month, then the HomePod last week and now certain models of the 21.5-inch iMac have been removed from sale which is likely in preparation for a potential upcoming iMac refresh with Apple’s own silicon chips. The last time the iMac was updated was back in August last year and at that time, […]

Apple has added frameworks for FaceTime to tvOS for Apple TV and HomePod

Apple discontinued the full size HomePod last week, which was quite a surprise but it seems Apple might already be working on a new version, likely with a screen. Rumours suggested that like the Echo Show from Amazon, a new HomePod with a screen would offer support for FaceTime and likely have cameras. Some news that was shared with MacRumors yesterday points towards some details found in the source code of tvOS […]

HomePod mini has some unused sensors for temperature and humidity

Apple launched the new HomePod at the tail end of last year and according to news today, from Bloomberg the HomePod mini looks to have more functionality hiding underneath than Apple originally advertised. Something that Apple did when the HomePod mini was announced, was advertise the functionality of the U1 ultra-wideband (UWB) chip, then add the functionally later on down the line via a software update. On the teardown from […]

Ford to launch fully electric Transit Custom in 2023

Ford is planning on launching a new all electric Transit Custom in 2023, which goes along with its promise to offer a fully electric version or plug in hybrid variant of every model in its commercial product line by the year 2024. To achieve this, both Volkswagen and Ford are partnering up and out of the deal, a fully electric Transit Custom and a fully electric Volkswagen Transporter will hit […]

Weekends with A&T Tech – Best stories of the week

Another week has gone by and its time, once again to go over the best stories we covered here on A&T Tech. Ford Mustang Mach 1 now on sale in the UK This week, the new Ford Mustang Mach 1 went on sale in the UK for £55,185 with 454bhp and 390lb ft torque. Read more New unreleased iMac appears in Xcode crash logs Apple is due to update the iMac […]

WhatsApp ends support for iOS 9

This week, WhatsApp has announced that the app no longer supports iOS 9 and earlier version, the news came via an updated support document that WhatsApp now requires iOS 10 or later. The newest iPhone to run iOS 9 is the iPhone 4s and now that iOS 10 is the minimum, the oldest iPhone that can run iOS 10 is the iPhone 5, released in 2012. The following is from […]

Mini will be an all electric only company by 2030

Earlier this week, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse has announced that Mini will become an all electric only company by the year 2030, with the company’s last combustion only model to be released in 2025, then on everything new the company launches will be electric only. So far the company only has the new Mini E on sale, which went on sale in March 2020 with prices starting at £25,500 for […]

Instagram and WhatsApp back online following outage

This afternoon Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp all had issues and were offline for just under one hour. WhatsApp was left with “connecting” messages and Instagram was unable to refresh the feed. Facebook hasn’t said what caused the issue but WhatsApp said at 06:41pm UK time on Twitter that it has restored services. Thanks for your patience, that was a long 45 minutes but we are back! #WhatsAppDown — WhatsApp […]

BMW will put the new i4 on sale this autumn

This week, BMW showed off the brand new final version of the i4, an all electric saloon car in a similar size class to the Model 3 from Tesla. BMW is now getting ready to put the car on sale, which it says is three months earlier than the company had originally planned. The BMW line of ‘i’ cars has been slowly expanding lately, back in 2013 the company had […]