Apple vs. Basecamp gets nasty real fast over App Store wranglings, Snapdragon 690 brings 5G to the masses, buy the Boston Dynamics dog, and more!
Your tech news digest, by way of the DGiT Daily tech newsletter, for Wednesday, June 17.
Early 2020 high-end smartphones offered 5G as one of their main differentiators to older devices, tempting those thinking about upgrading, despite the costs to jump from 4G to 5G speeds.
But! No longer will 5G just be part of higher-cost Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765 series processors that support Qualcomm’s 5G modems. Now, the company has announced the new Snapdragon 690, a much more mainstream, low-cost SoC that will likely bring 5G to phones as cheap as $300 or so. And that means widespread 5G adoption, almost by default rather than a feature you need to pay more for.
2. There’s a huge battle brewing between hot new email app Hey, made by Basecamp, and Apple, focused on the App Store on iOS (Wired).
