Huawei sets up mobile factory in France
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France may stop surrendering to the US and surrender to China instead

China's Huawei will start building its mobile phone network equipment factory in France next year even though some European governments curb using the outfit’s 5G gear.

Apple spends a fortune to defeat a teen
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Claimed Beeper Mini was serpent in walled garden

Apple has spent a week of its time and energy trying to undo the work of a 16-year-old high school student who reverse-engineered Apple's messaging protocol, launching an interoperable Android app called "Beeper Mini".

Fairphone 5 gets perfect score from iFixit
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Could last ten years 

The iFixit team pulled apart the newest Fairphone 5 smartphone and awarded its highest score for repairability: 10 out of 10.

UK mobile phone operators face class action
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Loyalty lock-ins might have been illegal 

The UK's biggest mobile phone operators could face total damages of $4.15 billion following class-action claims that they allegedly charged 5 million existing customers "loyalty penalties" over 16-years.

Apple plans to make a quarter of iPhones in India
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Wants to avoid China crisis

Apple and its suppliers aim to build more than 50 million iPhones in India annually within the next two to three years, with additional tens of millions of units planned afterwards.