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Lost your phone? Your WhatsApp account comes back through the SIM, not through WhatsApp
The company cannot verify who owns a number, so it cannot shut an account down on your say-so. Everything therefore depends on getting a…
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Bangladesh
The iPhone 18 Pro Max is in Dhaka’s shops unofficially at Tk2,12,000 — thirty thousand less than the official iPhone 17 Pro Max
Apple started selling the iPhone 18 Pro on 18 September but not in Bangladesh. The phones are in Dhaka’s markets anyway, and the price gap…
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iPhone Air, in ten facts: 5.6 mm thin, one camera, one speaker, no SIM slot — what Apple gave up to make its thinnest phone
The star of Apple’s September event is a phone thinner than the iPhone 6 that bent in pockets. Titanium and Ceramic Shield are meant to…
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Does putting a wet phone in rice work? No. Here is what actually saves it
Rice absorbs a little surface moisture and leaves starch dust in the ports; it cannot pull water out of a phone. The monsoon-season routine…
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Photograph the Padma Bridge, win a Galaxy S22 Ultra: Samsung's contest, and where you are actually allowed to shoot
A day after the bridge opened, Samsung Mobile Bangladesh launched a photo campaign running to 15 July. The rules, the prizes, and the one…
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Eid buying guide: five smartphones under Tk 20,000 in April 2022, and how to choose between them
Realme 9i, Vivo Y21T, Redmi Note 11, Oppo A76 and Samsung's Galaxy A13: what each does best, what it gives up, and the three questions to…
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Redmi Note 11 is the first Note made in Bangladesh: Tk 16,499 for a 90 Hz AMOLED and 33 W charging
Xiaomi's Gazipur plant is now building its best-selling series. The Note 11 brings a Snapdragon 680, a 6.43-inch 90 Hz AMOLED, a 5,000 mAh…
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BlackBerry phones stop working on 4 January — and the reason they die when a server does
An old Android phone gets insecure. A BlackBerry stops being a phone, because its traffic was routed through the company’s own network, and…