Update, July 22: Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Flip 5G will be released Aug. 7 for $1,450. Original story follows. Samsung sent out invites for its next (virtual) Unpacked event earlier this week. The Aug. 5 event is expected to feature a host of new devices, and a new leak seemingly gives us a peek at …
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Amazon is giving Fire TV an upgrade to help make finding live programming easier. On Wednesday the retail giant is adding Sling TV, YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV to the Live tab on its Fire TV platform. With the new update, users who subscribe to one of those live TV streaming services will be able to easily see …
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Comcast’s Peacock is the latest entrant into the “streaming wars” and like AT&T’s HBO Max before it, the new service could very well launch nationwide next week without apps on the two most popular streaming device platforms, Roku or Amazon Fire TV. And in an interview with CNET, the executive in charge of the Peacock says that’s fine. “When it …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 is expected to be released in August. After Samsung may have leaked the back of the phone on its Russian site last week, a new image shared on Twitter may give us a better look at the front of the forthcoming phone. Released by YouTuber Jimmy Is Promo, the new images claim to show off smaller …
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Samsung’s Galaxy A71 5G has another home at a US wireless carrier: Verizon’s joins AT&T and T-Mobile in bringing Samsung’s midrange 5G phone to its shelves. The new phone, available for preorder July 9 before being released on July 16, will be Verizon’s most affordable 5G phone yet at $650. Like the AT&T and T-Mobile variants, Verizon’s A71 5G (which it calls …
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AT&T is updating its first responder discount program, expanding the savings to now include teachers, nurses and physicians. The new update, which goes into effect on July 10, offers those who work in on one of those fields a monthly discount of 25% on the company’s latest unlimited plans (known as Unlimited Starter, Extra and Elite). This discount would extend …
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Dish is officially a wireless carrier. After being brought in by the Department of Justice to help allay competition concerns with T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint, Dish on Wednesday said that it has completed its purchase of Boost Mobile, Sprint’s prepaid service. With the deal completed, Boost users are now Dish’s first wireless customers as it begins to build out its …
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Which US carriers are doing best with their early 5G performance? A new report from wireless tracking firm OpenSignal gives a good look at where things currently stand as all three major wireless providers begin to ramp up their new networks. In its latest awards, released Tuesday, OpenSignal crowned Verizon’s millimeter-wave 5G network the fastest download speeds while giving T-Mobile …
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Update, July 27: The OnePlus Nord is here. Read our in-depth review. Original story follows. OnePlus has a new phone set to hit Europe and India shortly. After spending much of the last week teasing the device on social media, the company has posted an IGTV video on its dedicated Instagram page confirming the name OnePlus Nord and reiterating that its …
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Looking to upgrade your computer’s storage but don’t want to sacrifice the speed and reliability of solid-state drives? Samsung has a new option for you. On Tuesday the company introduced its latest line of “quad-level cell” SSDs that offer up to 8TB of flash storage. The new line, called the 870 QVO, is the successor to 2018’s 860 QVO, which …
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