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iPhone SE: A powerful new smartphone in a popular design - Apple Newsroom

Posted: 15 Apr 2020 08:03 AM PDT

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iPhone SE gives customers access to Apple's robust ecosystem of products, services and accessories. Users can take advantage of the almost 2 million apps on the App Store, including the best third-party apps and AR experiences, stay up to date on current events with Apple News, enjoy original series, movies and documentaries from the world's greatest storytellers with Apple TV+, stream over 60 million songs from their favorite artists on Apple Music, make secure and private purchases with Apple Pay, and store photos, files and contacts on iCloud with the ability to access content on all of a customer's Apple devices. With a Lightning connector, iPhone SE is also compatible with more than 25,000 Lightning accessories, including camera accessories, audio and speakers, docks, CarPlay and more.

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Microsoft Updates Windows 10 Version 2004 Yet Again - Thurrott.com

Posted: 15 Apr 2020 06:30 AM PDT

Windows 10 version 2004 was finalized in December and it still hasn't been released to customers. But Microsoft keeps updating it.

If you're keeping score at home, yes, this is the 7th cumulative update—meaning a package of bug and security fixes—that Microsoft has issued since completing this Windows version. It's also the second such cumulative update that Microsoft has issued for this release in the past week, for some reason.

Anyway, it's not particularly exciting, but since yesterday was Patch Tuesday, I think it's safe to assume that Windows 10 version 2004 won't head out to customers publicly until May.

Here's what Microsoft fixed:

An issue that causes the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service (rpcss.exe) to close unexpectedly and the PC stops working, forcing the user to restart the PC.
an issue that causes the Device Enrollment Status Page (ESP) on managed PCs to stop responding if a policy that requires a restart is installed on the PC.
An issue that might prevent the rear camera flash from functioning as expected on PCs that have a rear camera.

In addition, this cumulative update also includes the latest security updates to the Microsoft Scripting Engine, Windows Kernel, Windows App Platform and Frameworks, Microsoft Graphics Component, Windows Media, Windows Shell, Windows Management, Windows Cloud Infrastructure, Windows Fundamentals, Windows Authentication, Windows Virtualization, Windows Core Networking, Windows Storage and Filesystems, Windows Update Stack, and the Microsoft JET Database Engine, the firm notes.

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Windows 10 is now running on a Samsung Galaxy S8 – and other Android phones - TechRadar India

Posted: 15 Apr 2020 05:14 AM PDT

Windows 10 for ARM has been spotted running on Samsung's Galaxy S8 smartphone, and other handsets powered by Snapdragon 835 chips besides.

As Windows Latest reports, now that a memory leak bug in Windows 10 for ARM which affected Snapdragon 835 processors has been resolved, Microsoft's OS can successfully be installed on phones using this chip.

And this has led to a bunch of developers getting the operating system on the Galaxy S8 as mentioned – the work of Evsio0n, who posted the results on Twitter – as well as other devs reportedly getting Microsoft's OS going on the Xiaomi Mi6, Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, and OnePlus 6.

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That said, there are serious caveats in having Windows 10 for ARM 'running' on these phones, meaning that it does boot up and work – which it didn't before, thanks to the now cured memory leak – but you can't do much of practical use with it. It's more about what's possible, at this point, rather than what's useful.

A great deal of Windows is unusable on these phones currently, including touch functionality, and the camera, sensors and so forth.

Lumia success

You may recall earlier projects to get Windows 10 for ARM working on the Lumia 950 XL, for example, which offered up much more functionality – as well as full tutorials on how to pull off the process yourself. The devs working on these Snapdragon 835 phones haven't yet shared any guides on what to do, or any details at all on how they achieved their progress thus far, but that's not really surprising at this very early stage.

Nonetheless, it's still interesting to see a version of Windows 10 running on a Galaxy S8, and more compelling possibilities may be in the pipeline, as Windows Latest hints – like dual-booting Windows 10 for ARM and Android.

Windows 10 for ARM runs on what Microsoft calls 'always connected' PCs, laptops with Snapdragon chips (offering cellular connectivity), hence the possibility to sidestep to Snapdragon-powered Android handsets.

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