LG apparently can’t get enough of the LG G6, its first flagship phone for 2017. Enlarge Image The LG G6 may be getting a revamp. James Martin/CNET The South Korean electronics giant plans to release two more variations by the end of the month, according to a Korean report by ETNews: the LG G6 Plus …
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We know that the OnePlus 5 phone has already been confirmed for a summertime release. Now, we have a clue as to when we get our first glimpse. Enlarge Image An alleged OnePlus poster carries the “Hello 5” slogan and the date of June 15. IThome An image alleged to be a leaked event poster implies that OnePlus will hold …
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Editors’ note, June 1, 2017: Motorola announced the Moto Z2 Play, a midrange phone with impressive battery life and compatibility with Moto Mods. Below is CNET’s original story on the rumor. Motorola fans can look forward to a new phone coming very soon. Lenovo (Motorola’s current parent company) declared on its Canadian Twitter account that it will announce the next …
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After splashing down at Mobile World Congress 2017, the Nokia 3, 5, and 6 will finally release worldwide in June. Nokia Mobile said on Twitter that eager shoppers should expect the phones by the end of next month. The new handsets represent a rebirth of the Nokia brand under its new parent company HMD Global. After Microsoft sold off Nokia …
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Galaxy S8… upcoming Note 8… and now, two Galaxy J phones. Samsung‘s Galaxy J5 (2017) and Galaxy J7 (2017) phones appeared on a an official website for its “Kids Mode” app, spotted by SamMobile. The site’s in Korean, but the phone names in English are clear, and are still live on the site at the time this was written (along …
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We’ve suspected for a while that Apple will give the home button the boot on the iPhone 8, but that would mean Apple’s fingerprint sensor would have to find a new home. The potential workaround? Put the optical fingerprint scanner into the phone’s display. That’s what DigiTimes reports, citing China’s Economic Daily News. (The source: Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing …
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Can you trick the Samsung Galaxy S8‘s iris scanner or can’t you? One group said yes, but Samsung cried foul. The story so far This week a German group of hackers named the Chaos Computer Club showed how you could trick the Galaxy S8’s iris scanner with a photograph of someone’s eye and a contact lens. The hackers’ video went …
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A real prototype of the iPhone 8 has yet to appear in the wild, but we may have just got the next best thing. A short video of a non-functional “iPhone 8 dummy unit” appeared online courtesy of mobile leaker and renderer Benjamin Geskin. The iPhone 8 rumor machine has been running at a high gear, so much so that …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone SE: Get now, or wait? 1:31 The iPhone SE may not have all the bells and whistles of the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t happy with it. A recent survey conducted by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) ranked the iPhone SE as the no. 1 smartphone based …
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Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 3T ups the ante on an already great phone 2:11 One of these things is not like the other. Maverick Chinese phonemaker OnePlus Tuesday posted a picture on Twitter of four numbered color swatches. It asked its 1 million followers which one would they’d like to see on their next phone. The colors included black, …
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