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Earlier this week, France banned the sale of the iPhone 12 smartphone because the government claimed that the phone emitted radiation beyond allowable levels.

A French governmental agency in charge of managing wireless communications frequencies has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 after determining that the smartphone emits electromagnetic radiation levels above European Union standards.

Sony has announced a new mobile app, Monitor and Control, that enables visual creators to monitor exposure wirelessly, control focus, adjust color settings, and more on connected cinema cameras.

Just days ahead of what is expected to be Apple's launch event for the next iPhone, Google quietly dropped a sneak peek at the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro.

The Chinese government banned the use of all foreign-branded phones for government work and from being brought into offices, including Apple's iPhone which remains supremely popular in the country, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Frames Magazine is a quarterly, 112-page print publication on fine art photography. The team has spent the past year developing an accompanying app, Frames Photography App, that aims to be the complete app for photographers.

Apple has announced that its annual fall event will take place on September 12 at 10 a.m. local time at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California.

LumaFusion version 4.1 now allows editors to place animated GIFs directly onto a timeline, export any clip as a GIF, and expands the company's library of transitions.

A new social media app called BeFake AI wants to take a legitimate approach to self-expression by using a phone’s cameras and photos to produce AI-assisted creative images.

Moment has announced six new T-Series mobile lenses as well as a new lens interface and updated accessories to help mobile photographers and filmmakers level-up the quality of their footage.

While the interchangeable lens camera market is on the upswing, the mobile market is going the other way. Sony, which makes the majority of sensors for mobile, doesn't think that will change for another year.

The MIOPS Spark is a new camera grip for the iPhone that connects via MagSafe and provides not only better purchase but also an array of buttons and controls akin to a full-size camera.

Respected Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple's iPhone 16 series smartphones expected to release next year will feature a stacked rear camera sensor design.

Snapchat has announced Lens Creator Rewards, a new program that pays augmented reality creators who make popular Lenses.

As is expected around this time of year, Samsung has announced new foldable smartphones in the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5 at its Unpacked event in Seoul.

The popular iPhone camera app Halide has announced that its artificial intelligence-powered Long Exposure Camera App Spectre will now be free to all users in version 1.5, but it also adds a Pro version for a one-time purchase of $4.99.

An unopened, original 4GB Apple iPhone that was released on June 29, 2007, has sold for a monumental $190,372.80. There were 28 total bids lodged for it, five of which were over $100,000.

Nothing launched its debut smartphone last year, the Nothing Phone 1, to significant interest. Nothing is back with the Nothing Phone 2, and while some of the radicalness of the original Nothing Phone has worn off, the Phone 2 is no less impressive.

Huawei sub-brand Honor has launched the Honor 90 smartphone in Europe. The new phone is light on price but heavy on megapixels. The Honor 90 starts at €549, about $670, and sports a 200-megapixel main camera.

Metalenz, a maker of flat "meta-optic" lenses for 3D imaging, has launched its metasurface optics technology on the open market in partnership with semiconductor foundry United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC).

Popular YouTuber Matthew Beem built the world's largest operating iPhone, complete with a large working touchscreen, front-facing camera, and rear triple-camera array.

Musical artist Grant Knoche's new music video for his song "First Hello" was shot exclusively on an iPhone 14 Pro, showcasing another example of how artists use iPhone's impressive video capabilities to produce professional-caliber content.

OnePlus has announced the Nord N30 5G smartphone. Equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G chipset and 108-megapixel main camera, the new Nord N30 5G promises to deliver good performance at a very affordable $300 price.

Google Lens has been expanded with a new capability that will allow users to search for possible skin issues simply by taking a photo.

Six months ago, Meta introduced new sharing-focused features on Instagram, including Notes, Group Profiles, and new Stories functionality. As it turns out, Notes have proven very popular with young users, prompting Instagram to add more features to it including the ability to attach a 30-second clip of a song to a status update.

Adobe has announced new features for Lightroom for Mobile that are designed to give photographers the ability to edit and work faster within the app and show how they did their work. The mainline application has also received updates.

As more people return to the office, there's an uptick in demand for people to monitor their pets remotely. Per documentation on Apple's website, developers can take advantage of pet-tracking features and motorized iPhone stands to help users watch their furry friends from afar.

Swiss start-up Reeflex recently launched a new iOS camera app, ReeHeld, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver enhanced long-exposure photography compared to the native Camera app on iPhone.

Earlier this spring, a new photography-focused app, Luma, hit the App Store with the promise to give control back to mobile photographers and ensure that shutterbugs got the most they could from the iPhone's impressive image sensor. Luma's developer, Rafal Kopiec, recently returned to the drawing board and created a redesigned Luma's "Pro Cam."

In addition to the numerous hardware announcements Apple presented at WWDC23 earlier this week, the company also revealed a litany of software updates including iPadOS 17, and the developer beta appears to allow users to plug in their own webcams.

Apple's iOS 17 will feature a new safeguard feature that will help adults avoid seeing unsolicited nude photos and videos.

Apple's reveal of iOS 17 during the WWDC 2023 keynote shows a clear focus on enhanced communication for iPhone users with several impressive new features for the Phone, FaceTime, and Messages apps, as well as several new quality of life updates. These include improved contact cards, live voicemails, stickers, better autocorrect and dictation, and even a nightstand mode.

Polycam, an iPhone app originally designed for 3D scanning, has launched a new feature that turns an iPhone into a 360-degree camera without any external hardware.

A Taylor Swift fan started a social media debate between Apple and Samsung smartphone users after she used her iPhone 14 Pro Max's zoom to impressively focus on the singer at her concert.

Mixbook, an online photo book service, has updated its app with the ability to organize photos in a camera roll "based on the story they tell" using machine learning.

The Reimagine app from MyHeritage combines multiple artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into a single service that can scan, enhance, colorize, and animate family photos to "bring them to life."

Pixend is a new startup that claims its facial recognition technology can send photos to the people featured in them automatically, removing the manual step of distributing photos to the right people entirely.