Windows Phone is dead and it’s not coming back. Microsoft has long since pulled support for push notifications, and even Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates gave up his Windows phone in favor of an Android device. Once upon a time, Windows-based phones vied with BlackBerry, Palm and Nokia’s platforms to dominate the nascent smartphone world. But in the …
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Phonemaker HTC intends to breed new attitudes about data privacy, with a little help from some feline friends. The company announced on Tuesday that a game called CryptoKitties will come to HTC devices starting with the HTC U12 Plus. The game, which lets you collect and even “sire” one-of-a-kind virtual cats, is based on blockchain technology. CryptoKitties is based on …
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You can only get the groundbreaking Vivo Nex phone in China today, but it won’t stay that way for long. Now playing: Watch this: Vivo Nex unboxing: You’ve never seen a phone like this 3:54 Vivo announced on Monday that the all-screen, no-notch Nex will sell in Russia, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan later in July. The Nex’s standout …
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Samsung phones like the Galaxy S9 have a second app store tucked inside. Called Galaxy Apps, it features games, free digital stickers, apps for Samsung DeX and exclusive deals from Samsung partners. Galaxy Apps has exclusive offers and apps. Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET But if you press the wrong button when you first open Galaxy Apps, you sign yourself up …
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After using the Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus almost every day for the last three months, it’s funny that the phones’ most enviable features — a fantastic OLED screen, great photos from the dual-aperture camera lens, elegantly curved sides — aren’t what I love most about Samsung’s top handsets for 2018. See, it’s the little things that connect a person …
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Raise your hand if this is you: The fingerprint reader on your iPhone or Android phone fails often enough on the first try that you’re starting to wonder if you’ve been cursed with weird fingers. Relax; there are plenty of reasons why you may not get an accurate read your first try, besides your mutant appendages. Your fingertip hasn’t fully …
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Today, every phone is more or less a rectangular slab along the lines of the iPhone X ($285 at Amazon) or Galaxy S9 ($198 at eBay). That’s not inherently a bad thing, but when you stack these devices side by side, it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of sameness. From time to time I like to …
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UPDATE: Read the full BlackBerry Key2 review. In my mind’s eye, I’m a savvy career phone reviewer who can fluidly pick up and use any phone without breaking stride. In reality, the BlackBerry Key2 is kicking my ass. It’s the only new choice in 2018 for a fan of physical keyboards (you could also buy last year’s BlackBerry KeyOne), but …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. iPhones and iPads will soon be able to make a 3D emoji of your own face that moves when you do. Apple calls it a “Memoji,” and it’s an offshoot of Animoji, the animated emoji that live inside iMessage in Apple’s iOS 12 …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I have a thing about companies like Google and Apple trying to make out like digital assistants are our friends. Although I love the technology, I find the implication of making them more human pathetically desperate and ridiculously self-serving. But to me the …
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