Twitter’s new ruler Elon Musk will build his own smartphone to take on Google and Apple if his social media platform is removed from the tech giants’ app stores.

Elon Musk made the statement in response to podcaster and former OANN host Liz Wheeler.

Wheeler tweeted that Musk would have to make his own phone if Apple and Google decided to cut Twitter from their app stores.

“If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app store, @elonmusk will have to manufacture its own smartphone. Half the country would gladly throw away biased and lurking iPhone & Android,” Wheeler wrote quoting Gizmodo, Saturday (26/11/2022).

“The guy built a rocket to Mars, silly little smartphone should be easy, right?”

Three hours later, Musk told Wheeler he would build his own phone if Twitter was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores.

Wheeler then created a poll asking people if they would use a “telephone (Elon Musk’s term for a cell phone).

At the end of the poll, many netizens answered “Yes” with 56.2% of the 52,707 votes.

“I sure hope that doesn’t happen, but, yeah, if there’s no other option, I’ll make an alternative phone,” Musk tweeted.

Apple and Google have policies against apps in their stores containing hate speech or discriminatory, intimidating, harassing, and sexually explicit content.

Xiaomi 13 is expected to be launched sometime this month. The Chinese company has not officially announced the launch date of the new device.

However, before the launch, leaked images on social media showing the design of the Xiaomi 13, one of which was uploaded to the Twitter account @OnLeaks. After looking around, how come the shape is very similar to the iPhone 14?

The leak shows the Xiaomi 13 has a box-shaped design with flat sides and a screen. The design is different when compared to the Xiaomi 12 which has sharp and curved edges.

The Xiaomi 13 also has minimal bezels and the punch-hole camera is placed at the top center. The design of the rear camera setup also resembles that of the high-end iPhone Pro models.

The smartphone also does not have a headphone jack.

Is there a Dynamic Island too?

Will Xiaomi also offer the Dynamic Island feature seen on the iPhone 14 Pro model? The company claims that they are working on a similar feature, but it is not clear whether the feature will be embedded in the Xiaomi 13.

Overall, the design of the Xiaomi 13 is very similar to the iPhone 14 Pro. Though, the renders show that the Xiaomi 13 has a slight curvature at the edges, which is not the case with the iPhone. The company may have done this to offer a better grip for holding the device.

The leak also suggests that the Xiaomi 13 will pack a triple rear camera setup. The location is also similar to the iPhone 14, with a square-shaped camera frame, and stored three cameras and an LED flash in the lower right corner.

Reports say the dual-camera models of the Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro will sport 50MP and 50MP sensors. While others use 50MP, 50MP, and 50MP sensors.

Other rumors say that the Xiaomi 13 will be powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, and already runs on the MIUI 14 operating system based on Android 13.

Currently, folding phones are becoming a trend that is being loved by a number of smartphone manufacturers in the world. Several smartphone manufacturers that have released folding phones are Samsung, Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei, and many others.

Unfortunately, until now Apple has not provided certainty whether it will release a folding phone as well or not. Because of this uncertainty, there is a YouTuber from China who is willing to modify his iPhone into a foldable phone.

Through his YouTube channel, he shows how the process of making this folding phone and also how it works after it is assembled in such a way. This folding iPhone he made was named ‘iPhone V’.

In making a folding iPhone, the YouTuber used a Motorola Razr chassis so that the phone could be folded into two parts.

Then, he also relied on components derived from the iPhone X, to smooth out his plans to make the world’s first foldable iPhone.

On the hinge, it says iPhone, and the Apple symbol is at the bottom of the camera. As a result, the assembled cellphone is increasingly similar to a folding iPhone which until now has not been made by Apple.

After everything was finished, he tried to operate his folding iPhone and it turned out that the cellphone could operate normally. In fact, the iPhone can charge well and can open social media.

It’s not enough to stop there, the camera features can also function well. He is also able to watch videos from YouTube without having to worry about experiencing lagging.