Samsung’s Tab S6 is getting a new variant, at least in the electronic giant’s home country of South Korea. On Wednesday Samsung announced that it’s adding a 5G variant of the Android tablet for KRW 999,900 (roughly $850) on Jan. 30, aptly calling it the Tab S6 5G. The tablet will be largely similar to …
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Broke the screen on your Samsung Galaxy phone? Sprint may just be the quickest and easiest way to fix reliably fix it. The wireless carrier will fix busted Galaxy screens for just $49. Eligible devices include the Galaxy S7, S8, S8 Plus, S9, S9 Plus and Note 8. Recent Galaxy phones, including the S10 line, Note 10 line and the …
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Apple’s App Store seems to have gone down for some around the world Friday in an apparent outage. The App Store error page encountered by a CNET editor on Friday. Screenshot by Natalie Weinstein/CNET According to an update on Apple’s status page posted at 7:27 a.m. PT Friday morning, the company said that “users are experiencing a problem with this …
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Google usually holds its annual I/O developer conference in the spring, and with January almost behind us it’s time for the company to start looking ahead to its big event. To kick things off in an unsurprisingly Google way, the search giant launched a way for interested developers and fans to get details by solving a collective online game. Called …
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T-Mobile provides banking services through its T-Mobile Money offering, but it soon won’t be the only telecom to enter the world of finance. On Thursday Verizon announced that it will be partnering with financial firm Synchrony to offer a co-branded consumer card to its customers later in the “first half of 2020.” Verizon is the latest, but far from the …
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We’ve seen dark mode come to popular Android apps such as Pinterest, Instagram and Gmail in recent months and now it finally appears to be heading to one of the most popular messaging apps on the planet, WhatsApp. Spotted by WABetaInfo.com, a new beta of an update for the messaging platform’s Android app has revealed that the Facebook-owned app is …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S20 is already shaping up to be one of 2020’s most powerful phones. Rumored to pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, 120Hz displays, 12GB of RAM, 5G and vastly improved cameras, the company’s next flagship phone seems set to check off most, if not all, of the spec boxes. As one might expect, however, all this power may …
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Verizon has a new promotion to lure customers to switch to its fastest Fios home broadband service: a free Google Stadia bundle for those who get the company’s Fios gigabit internet. The new deal, which goes live next week, on Jan. 29, will have Verizon include a free Google Stadia Premiere Edition with the internet service. The usually $129 Premiere bundle …
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After more than two and a half years, Wikipedia appears to be coming back online in Turkey. The popular online encyclopedia was banned in April 2017 after the Turkish government accused the site of running a “smear campaign” against it. Late last year, the Constitutional Court of Turkey, the country’s highest court, ruled that the order was unconstitutional, paving the …
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There were already plenty of rumors about the next iPhone adding a time-of-flight sensor for better depth recording. On Thursday we can add yet another claim to that growing pile. In a note to investors spotted by CNBC, Barclays’ semiconductor analysts wrote that the forthcoming iPhones will boast a “refreshed” version of Face ID for facial recognition, as well as …
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