HDrewind: the best news of the week (42)

Do any of you remember this column? It had a different name in fact but a few years ago, over the weekend, we published a short article with the best news of the week. A content that we return to publish today as a test to understand whether to propose the best news, videos, insights and perhaps the most commented content that you may have missed on a weekly basis.

Here is this week’s index:

The week started with another boredom of the iPhone 14: Invalid SIM, the notice received by some. Apple would have recognized the problem and promised to fix it, but so far the corrective has not been seen. On the other fates previously, you see the anomalous vibrations to the camera a few days after the release, the response was timely; one thinks, and hopes, that the solution is included in the body update coming Monday on all iPhonesfrom 8 to the most recent.

Last days in which Apple was all-round protagonist, between annoyances (over), Announcementsthat is, the new Apple TV 4K, “basic” iPads and Pros (which can cost over 3,000 euros, like a MacBook Pro), and two curiosity. Yet another first generation iPhone auctioned for almost $ 40,000 on the one hand, and on the other the voice remote control Siri Remote of the new multimedia hub, which abandons the haunted Lightning port for USB-C as Europe wants at the price, however, of an orphan supply of the cable.

Sparkling week also for Googleprotagonist of a small tech yellow together with Amazon Italy, which in recent days presented the first criminal complaint ever advanced in Europe for false reviews in the Bel Paese (remember the Aukey RAVPower case?). Pixel Watch, the web giant’s first smartwatch, suddenly appeared as a product sold and shipped by Amazon. Normal for those that the producers officially distribute, not at all for someone like Pixel Watch that is not even present on the Italian Google. It didn’t last long: from 15 to 20 October, the day of our article. Then selling and shipping became the business of third party sellers, as is normal in these cases. Will come back?

Meanwhile, the sirens have sounded for the possible appearance of characters, icons or “carved” images on the display of the first Google smartwatch, the dreaded phenomenon of burn in. Possible on a product that is at worst two weeks old? At least unlikely. In fact, Google officially intervened to calm the spirits: “Some suffer from image retentiona passing phenomenon “.

And although the new Pixel smartphones have been presented recently, indeed very recently, so the rumors about the next hardware innovations should have paused for a while, the feeling is that the water in the pot continues to boil, that there is still more. On Monday there was talk of a Pixel Mini more than a Pixel Ultra, yesterday the rumors even rose in tone and once again there is the hand of Amazon, which as with Pixel Watch in Italy could have burned Google over time: for some e-commerce customers would have been proposed to activate notifications to get news on the launch of Pixel Watch (and here we are) and the mid-range Pixel 7a (which has so far arrived between May and August).

Small quote in closing Google for Chromecast 4Kwho celebrated the arrival of Android 12 after two years spent in the company of Android 10.

The number of subscribers a Netflix it returns to color itself with green after months in which it seemed there was no longer a color other than red. They must have celebrated with bubbles in Los Gatos, California, where the headquarters of the streaming service is located: between July and September 2.41 million new users, beyond the rosiest of expectations. Concern among the members instead: someone could seriously evaluate the new basic plan with € 5.49 advertising, after the news of the squeeze about sharing passwords since early 2023. Our survey results may have aged fast.

Meanwhile, the crisis is getting worse: according to Canalys data, perhaps the most reliable voice on the trend of tech markets, the third quarter of 2022 (July-September) was the worst in 8 years now, Europe has given member states carte blanche to reduce or stop the mining of energy-intensive cryptocurrencies if there is a risk of end of winter with water in the throat with gasand in a climate of uncertainties on every front, Amazon tries to wipe them out by also insuring the houses.

Iliadallow me, he made one in Italy as well as in France choice against expensive very intelligent energy. Rather than fishing in the pockets of customers (see the WindTre remodels that came out on Tuesday) to cover the increases in network management costs, it has bravely decided to attack costs: maximum coverage during the day and at peak times while at night the cells do not necessary will be turned off. Will it be enough to keep the promise never to remodel? We’ll see. But the attempt, waiting to find out if the automatic reactivation of the cells in the event of unexpected loads will be effective, is a noble one.

If on the front of the Galaxy S23, the most anticipated smartphones from now to January, there are no noteworthy movements (if you want to learn more, however, here you will find everything), Samsung is talking about itself for the start of the distribution of One UI 5 and Android 13 on the main top of the range 2022then the three Galaxy S22 and the two Galaxy Z: heat up the Wi-Fi, the stable version of the new user interface will be available in Italy from Monday.

Relevant without reservations are the news arrived from China. For example, Redmi came out saying that the Note 12 range will be presented in China by the end of the month. From January 2020 to now the company has launched something like eighty models all over the world, including specific versions for this or that other market, slight updates with similar names, new “real” or all too similar generations. to the previous ones, they make an average of 40 products per year.

So let’s clarify: we are used to news of this type, I would not put them among the relevant facts of the week, but i Redmi Note 12 could be remember for being the first to bring the fast charging at 200/210 watts. It would be a great blow for the Redmi Xiaomi duo (the second owns the first) and above all for consumers, since those who compete in the mid-range would have an extra incentive to improve.

At Tech World 2022 Lenovo showed the foldable laptop and Motorola it smartphone that stretcheswhile according to rumors another important Chinese company, OnePlus, would be ready to review the product nomenclature, which in recent times seems to have gone a little out of control: OnePlus 10 Pro should be replaced by OnePlus 11 and not by a Pro variant that perhaps would have been orphaned of a “base” model, replicating the script already seen this year . It is time to slow down and tidy up, also so as not to confuse customers.

We close this summary with the 10 most talked about news of the week. In part they are the ones we have included above but if you missed them, here is an easy and immediate list to view and click.