Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 3T ups the ante on an already great phone 2:11 Last week, OnePlus confirmed that its next flagship phone, the OnePlus 5, will be released this summer. So far, that’s the only official thing we know. But since then, there have been several rumors circulating — all of which speculate …
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What better way to bring back early 2000s nostalgia than with a chunky flip phone? Samsung is rumored to bring a new version of the high-end folding W2017 to its home country of South Korea, according to ET News (via The Investor). It seems strange that just weeks after launching the premium Galaxy S8, Samsung seems to still have a …
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The iPhone’s selfie camera might enter the third dimension. Apple is reportedly working with LG Innotek, a branch of LG that makes electronic components, to supply the world’s first 3D facial recognition-capable camera to the iPhone 8, according to Korea Economic Daily (via The Investor). 3D facial recognition would give the camera the ability to sense depth, which can in …
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This isn’t the real iPhone 8, but I wouldn’t be disappointed if it were. Instead, the images here are part of a set of iPhone 8 renders that recently appeared from OnLeaks, a prolific mobile tipster, in conjunction with GearIndia. They’re supposedly based off of Apple’s computer-aided design (CAD) images. Even though this doesn’t guarantee that they will resemble the …
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If you don’t remember phones like the T-Mobile Sidekick or Dash, then this latest rumor might come as a surprise: T-Mobile is reportedly working on its own line of affordable Android phones. It’ll be called the T-Mobile Revvl series, according to Android Authority, and while the three alleged devices might seem like something completely new, it would in a way …
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Just how valuable is Apple? $776.7 billion, which makes it the most valuable publicly traded company, ever. Enlarge Image Apple’s stock price continues its climb throughout the day. Yahoo Finance Monday’s opening stock price of $149.03 per share put the company at the top of the market, passing its previous high of $774.7 billion in February 2015, according to The …
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The follow-up phone to the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T is coming out, and it won’t be called the OnePlus 4. In fact, it will be called the the OnePlus 5, and it will come out some time this summer. The company confirmed the news, originally reported in The Verge, to CNET. OnePlus, a relatively unknown phone maker a few …
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An iPhone 7 is an iPhone 7 is an iPhone 7. Unless you’re buying it in Turkey, Brazil or Russia, where retail prices balloon to 147, 137 and 133 percent higher than the equivalent in US dollars. That’s according to Deutsche Bank, which ranks the cost of an iPhone 7 in 33 different countries (see chart below). Can you guess …
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Samsung’s new virtual assistant Bixby might prove have its drawbacks, but rapping may not be one of them. When the Galaxy S8 released to the public last month, Bixby’s voice controls were absent. The feature finally went live this Monday, but only in South Korea. Still, this gave the rest of the world a preview of what Bixby Voice (the …
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Chinese phonemaker OnePlus, whose midrange OnePlus 3T earned a CNET’s Editor’s Choice award, is officially working on its next phone. Word came out after CEO and cofounder Pete Lau posted a teaser image from the OnePlus Weibo account (via BGR). Enlarge Image Weibo The image shows employees working on the gears of a phone (while one bystander laughingly looks on), …
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