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Robinhood will allow ‘limited buys’ of stocks like GameStop starting Friday

Robinhood has announced that, beginning on Friday, January 29th, it will allow “limited buys” on restricted stocks, potentially signaling the end of a brutal day-long hold on GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, Nokia, and other stocks. “Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities,” the company said in a blog post. “We’ll continue to… Read more

After buy ban, GameStop hypebeasts are looking for a Robinhood alternative

In the wake of Robinhood’s surprise trading block, a new class of Reddit investors are looking for apps that will let them plow their money into their favorite stocks. On Thursday morning, Robinhood announced that it would temporarily block investors from purchasing or trading companies including GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Nokia,… Read more

Robinhood blocks purchase of GameStop, AMC, and BlackBerry stock

Robinhood has added new limits to its app to restrict users from buying or trading any of the popular Reddit r/WallStreetBets stocks, including GameStop ($GME), AMC ($AMC), BlackBerry ($BB), Bed Bath & Beyond ($BBBY), Nokia ($NOK), and more. Users will still be allowed to close out existing positions but won’t be able to buy more… Read more

Nokia phone codenamed “Quiksilver” visits Geekbench

An upcoming Nokia phone powered by the 5G ready Snapdragon 690 chipset appeared in a listing on Geekbench. The device is code-named “Quicksilver” and managed 471 points in the single-core department and 1,500 on the multi-core test. According to speculations, this is the rumored Nokia 6.3/6.4 which appeared in renders two weeks ago. Nokia “Quicksilver”… Read more

Mobile networks: the federal government and the industry rely on Open RAN

The federal government is promoting the further development of the open mobile communications standard Open RAN (Open Radio Access Network) as part of the Corona economic stimulus package decided last summer with around 2 billion euros. According to media reports, the funding is now to be distributed by four ministries. Accordingly, the research ministry 635… Read more

Nokia 1.4 leaks in full, reveals basic specs, low price tag

HMD Global is planning to launch a new ultra-affordable smartphone, and it looks like a successor of the Nokia 1.3 is on its way. It will be called Nokia 1.4 and will have basic specs and a low-low price of under €100. The new phone will have a quad-core CPU at 1.3 GHz rates. That… Read more

Perspective: Folding screens and 5G flop, or slowly maturing?

What does the year 2021 look like in terms of the most significant smartphone technologies of recent times? The smartphone market has become quite saturated in recent years, and the past year, helped by the corona, has indicated that the rise in the price level of high-end phones in particular is beginning to reach its… Read more

Google Phone app teardown hints feature that automatically records callers from unknown numbers

Last year, Google own Phone app introduced a new call recording feature that only works with Pixel devices and select Nokia and Xiaomi phones. A recording button appears in the ongoing call screen that plays back a voice, notifying both parties that the call is being recorded. An APK teardown of the latest Google Phone… Read more

Successor to HMD’s Nokia 6.2 leaks with side-mounted fingerprint sensor

Renders of what’s believed to be the Nokia 6.3 or 6.4 have leaked online, giving us our best look yet at HMD Global’s upcoming affordable handset. The renders come to us via Steve Hemmerstoffer over on Voice. New for this model is a side-mounted fingerprint sensor embedded in the power button, which replaces the rear-mounted… Read more

Nokia 6.3/6.4 appears in renders with quad camera and notched display

The Nokia 6.3 we’ve been hearing about since last May was expected to be unveiled by the end of 2020. But that didn’t happen, and while we wait for an official word from HMD about it, renders of what will be called the Nokia 6.3 or 6.4 have been shared by OnLeaks, who says the… Read more

TOP 10 most interesting smartphones of 2020 – Noteworthy models that have appeared in the past twelve months

We are rapidly approaching the end 2020 of the year, which was not particularly important for us gracious. However, we will not talk about the disadvantages of the last twelve months, but about devices that made their debut in this difficult period for the global economy. It turns out that the mobile device market, despite… Read more

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 5G – a mobile chip designed for low-end smartphones will make budget-savers more attractive

Qualcomm is expanding its product portfolio with a new chip dedicated to smartphones from the lower price range, i.e. the so-called budgeters. However, those who think that it will only be an average mobile system designed to provide devices with a minimum of functionality are wrong. It turns out that Snapdragon 480 5G, because that… Read more

Nokia 7.3 5G – we know more and more about the new Finnish smartphone. The capacious 5050 mAh battery makes the greatest impression

What is the most missing from the current average Nokia? Perhaps more competitive prices, perhaps a slightly better specification … More capacious batteries would certainly not hurt either. While the competition has recently offered many models with powerful cells with a capacity of more than 5000 mAh, Nokia still offers relatively average batteries, so these… Read more

io-Tech's Most Read Stories and Most Viewed Videos of 2020

1.1. 2021, 20: Really strange that brought Xiaom’s article is the most read. Do you see from which countries those articles have been read? I myself would not have guessed Xiaom’s article as number one, but perhaps it is not so miraculous given the circumstances. Huawei, which was sometimes the market leader in Finland, lost… Read more

TUV certifies three batteries for Nokia phones, one with 5,050 mAh capacity (Nokia 7.3?)

Not in September, not in November, not in 2020. The Nokia 7.3 release date always seems to slide forward, but the phone does appear to be slowly working towards launch. The latest bit of info comes from TUV Rheinland Japan, which certified the batteries of two models. One is possibly the 7.3 – or it… Read more