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HTC and Motorola say they don’t throttle their phones’ processor speeds as their batteries age, something Apple last week acknowledged doing to prevent errors after iPhone owners documented slowdowns.

An HTC spokesperson said that designing phones to slow down their processor as their battery ages “is not something we do.”

A Motorola spokesperson said, “We do not throttle CPU performance based on older batteries.”. »

The 24-year-old hip hop star hosted a holiday party at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago last week to raise money for homeless children.

According to an analysis by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), there are over 82,000 homeless people in the Windy City, while more than 18,000 public school students do not have a home.

During his visit, the Grammy Award-winning artist revealed that SocialWorks received a $1 million donation from Google’s charity arm to help fund CPS. »

This is a significant change in attitude around iPhone batteries — a decade ago, when the first iPhone came out, Apple said most iPhone users would never need to replace their batteries.

iOS will offer more information about battery health in early 2018. iPhone owners have long believed Apple artificially slows down older phones to drive new sales.

In its letter, Apple says “we’ve always wanted our customers to be able to use their iPhones as long as possible.” »

The move by Halte à l’Obsolescence Programmée (HOP - Stop Planned Obsolescence), an environmental association, comes after lawsuits were launched this week in the US against Apple for similar reasons.

“Apple has put in place a global strategy of programmed obsolescence in order to boost its sales” of new iPhones, the group said.

French prosecutors on Thursday confirmed that they have launched a probe into Epson for alleged planned obsolescence in its products. »