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New Weather Apps - Sep'20 (Week - 01)

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This week we have brought brand new weather apps worth trying. 1.  CliMate Released date: 25Jul2020 Downloads:  50+ Size: 2.37 MB Version: 1.15.2  Climate is surely a new entrant to the play store but not just another basic weather app since it offers all the features of a weather app without any ads and in-app purchases with a clean and simlple UI along with loads of customization options. Features: Themes support. Complete weather report for a week. Customizable units Parameters such as temperature, wind speed, Humidity, Pressure, UV Index available. Sunrise and Sunset. Widget support. Graphical representation of the data. Mostly shows accurate data.

Older iphones performance have been reduced after updates : Apple Explains

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Apple's latest software updates causing the slowdown in certain older phones. According to Apple, there's a good reason to do this, by nature the Lithium-ion batteries degrade over time, stores less and less of a charge. This happens very quickly on a device as the devices being used quite often every day.  Hence it's not a bad idea to limit the speeds on the older phones. According to a Reddit post, People who owned iPhone 6, 6s, and 6s Plus devices reported   earlier this year that they were spontaneously shutting down, even though they had sufficient battery. This was usually happening during “peak current demands,” when you’d be doing something on your phone that required a burst of power — like in the middle of a game, or downloading an app. Those users had to plug in and recharge their phones in order to be back online. Apple acknowledged this bug and introduced a fix in an update to its operating system software, iOS 10.2.1. Phones no longer shut down

Qualcomm had announced Snapdragon 845 - Features and comparison with SD 835

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Qualcomm had announced its latest smartphone flagship SoC " Snapdragon 845 (SD 845) ". This chip is said to be 30%  faster than the Snapdragon 835 which is equipped with 2017 Android flagships. This SoC has improvements across the board, from a new processing technology to an improved modem. The press release mainly emphasized on multimedia, Virtual Reality (VR), and security. SD 845 is built on Samsung's 10nm LPP FinFET with a new Kyro 385 CPU architecture and comes with an upgraded Adreno 630 GPU . This SoC is built on ARM's Cortex technology like the SD 835 and this is capable of delivering 25-30% performance uplift compared to SD 835. As expected, this new design is based on ARM' s DynamIQ Technology and latest Cortex-A75 and A55 CPU designs . The bonus is the newly introduced 2MB shared L3 cache which improves memory sharing capabilities between different core types in the shared cluster. The all-new Adreno  630 GPU supports displays up to 2K x