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Apple will reopen stores in Australia, and Austria this week

Apple Stores have finally started to reopen their doors in Austria and Australia, and hopefully, more stores will reopen in the following weeks

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Pocketnow Daily: The Huawei Mate 30 Pro looks DIFFERENT! (video)

On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the possible leaked design of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro, how Huawei's ban is affecting Samsung and more

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Telstra makes 5G boasts with HTC, Ericsson, ZTE, Netgear and Qualcomm

Ericsson helped with a 5G video call, HTC has a hub, Netgear has another hub and ZTE has a test phone. All of it's powered by Qualcomm.

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Australian intel: Huawei gave network keys to the Chinese government

The intelligence claims that Chinese government spies pressured Huawei into giving access codes for a network within the past two years.

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Australia locks Huawei out of 5G network contracts, Beijing angered

The Australian government has more generally banned any Chinese vendors from bidding for any network equipment contracts with the nation's carriers.

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Google Pay working on Wear OS in three more countries

Google has recently started enforcing region-locking for use of Google Pay in the UK and the US. Now, it's available in three more countries.

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Apple Store in Australia sees first queue for iPhone X

It was set up on September 10 and, as of press time, the one man in a folding lounge chair should still be there in front of the store on George Street.

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AAA batteries in Apple headphones explode, company says it’s a “third-party” issue

Apple doesn't make AAA batteries, did not include any with the headphones and did not specify any that should be used in the headphones, the victim claims.

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Original Huawei Watch with Android Pay? [UPDATE]

Huawei Australia told a domestic outlet that the Android Wear 2.0 update would bring Android Pay to the original Huawei Watch. Huawei US? Not so.

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iOS
Australian Apple Store staffers fired for creepshots of customers, other staff

Four male employees allegedly took and stole pictures of female customers and crew members and judged their attractiveness and their body parts.

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