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Your Tech News Digest via the DGiT Daily Tech Newsletter for Friday, October 30th, 2020. 1. Maybe Huawei is back? Huawei appears to have some good news towards the end of the year as the U.S. ban weakens its consumer arm, which includes the smartphone business. It was reported yesterday that chipmakers were reportedly given…

A new version of Oxygen OS is now available for OnePlus 8T. Update 11.0.2.3 continues to improve the phone’s power consumption. It also fixes Bluetooth latency, fixes a gallery issue, and fixes a desktop icon issue. For a more detailed look at the changelog for Oxygen OS 11.0.2.3, see below: system Optimized system power consumption…

New teasers of the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Edition point to the design of the phone. They show a large, horizontally arranged rectangular camera housing. There’s also a lot of cyberpunk branding on the back of the phone. OnePlus has announced the start date and time for the OnePlus 8T with the theme Cyberpunk 2077….

Huawei can now take orders from Sony for smartphone camera sensors, according to a report. Sony supplies Huawei with most of its flagship camera hardware. The news comes after display and chipset suppliers reportedly received the green light to supply the Chinese company. Huawei’s ailing smartphone business has received another lifeline. The US government has…

Samsung is now rolling out its new SmartThings Find service worldwide. The service helps find lost Galaxy devices using Bluetooth Low Energy and UWB technology. It will be available to all Galaxy users through an update of the SmartThings app. Samsung today announced the launch of SmartThings Find. It’s a new service that uses ultra-broadband…

According to global research firm, Samsung recaptured the largest smartphone OEM title from Huawei in the third quarter of 2020. With a record quarter, Xiaomi overtook Apple as the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Global smartphone shipments also returned to near 2019 levels as the industry continued to recover. With the good news…

LG is slated to launch its rollable phone in March 2021. The company had already spiced up the design when the LG Wing was launched. Rumors and an official clue suggest that LG will launch a rollable smartphone at some point in the future, which will be referred to as Project B for the time…

PUBG Mobile, the sleeper hit mobile game, will end all services and access to users in India on October 30th, two months after New Delhi banned the game on the world’s second largest internet market due to cyber security concerns. India banned PUBG Mobile Nordic Map on September 2nd: Livik and PUBG Mobile Lite and…

Google today announced “VPN by Google One”, a new virtual private network service. The service currently only works on Android and is a free aspect of Google One plans with 2TB plans or higher. Do people actually want a VPN from a data company like Google? In a blog post today, Google ditched its newest…