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This week Qualcomm announced the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for phones like the Xiaomi 17 series and also the Snapdragon X2 for laptops, and Apple started supporting 3rd party watches in iOS betas.

Episode 269

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Writing & Research: Tristan Rayner
Music by Edemski: https://soundcloud.com/edemski

Stock assets: Getty Images

0:00 Intro
0:25 Snapdragon Phones!
1:52 Snapdragon Laptops!
3:06 iOS 3rd party watches
3:56 Release Monitor
6:08 The Brief

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