If you’ve been mooning over the all-the-rage Nokia 3310 throwback phone, moon no longer. It’s coming to the US on Oct. 29. The catch: The $60 phone will only work with 3G networks. That makes it fine for calls, games of Snake and the occasional email or Facebook update, but not for just about everything else you’d …
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Now playing: Watch this: Pixel 2 and 2 XL: Better camera but no headphone jack 1:54 This week a few people who got their hands on the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL discovered that a secret menu button lives in the Pixel’s navigation bar. The hidden button was spotted by Android Police and later confirmed by CNET, but when we reached out to Google, …
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Apple may cut production of its iPhone 8 and 8 Plus phones by about 50 percent in November and December, according to a Taiwanese supply chain report from Economic Daily News. If true, it would be the soonest that Apple has slowed production of a new iPhone. The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus went on sale Sept. 22. A slowdown in …
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Now playing: Watch this: Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL first look 1:56 It’s so subtle you might not even notice. The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones have a light and dark theme that will change based on the phone’s wallpaper. If you have a predominately light phone background, your app drawer, folders and quick settings backdrops will …
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If smartphone sales grow in 2018, the industry might have the iPhone X to thank. The irony is that that growth may have everything to do with the iPhone X being hard to get in 2017. A Gartner study forecasts that 2018 will be the first year of smartphone growth since 2015, with sales cooling off in 2016 and 2017. Shipments are expected to …
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iPhone 8? Big deal. More people are buying last year’s iPhone 7 than the newly released 8, reports Reuters citing analysis from KeyBanc Capital Markets and carrier surveys conducted in the US and UK. This bucks the usual trend of new iPhones being super popular — with select models often selling out — in the weeks after their release. The iPhone …
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Apple’s Face ID will make its debut on the iPhone X on Nov. 3, and it looks like the new tech may be here to stay. According to KGI Securities analyst and known Apple commentator Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors), all 2018 iPhones will likely have Face ID. Thanks to Apple’s TrueDepth camera system, the X gets all sorts of new tricks like Face …
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The iPhone X’s most talked about feature, facial recognition, could cause a lot of problems for Apple. According to a report by Nikkei Asian Review, iPhone manufacturers aren’t building 3D sensors for the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera system fast enough to keep up with yield rates. This means that when the iPhone X hits stores on Nov. 3 you’re going to have a hard time …
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Forget Face ID or bezel-less screens, the future of the iPhone may be foldable. Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to create foldable OLED displays for an upcoming generation of iPhones. The folding iPhones are set for production in 2020, according to Korean news outlet The Bell (via The Investor). The recently announced iPhone X represents a significant design change for …
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Have you ever stumbled across a tweet or tweet thread that you wanted to revisit — only to lose it forever in your endless stream of “liked” tweets? Twitter is working on a fix for that. The company’s product manager, Jesar Shah, announced an upcoming bookmarking feature called “Save for Later,” which lets you create a private collection of saved tweets …
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