Buy a new phone, donate money to charity. If you open a new Verizon customer account between now and May 31, the carrier will donate $10 to the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization that provides services for wounded veterans. Verizon will donate up to $250,000 in all. Big Red sweetens the deal with a $200 …
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Bad news for all of you who’re angling to binge-watch Avengers: Infinity War in theaters this weekend using your MoviePass app. The $9.95 monthly subscription service, known for letting you watch as many movies in participating theaters as you want, just added a big, fat limit to its terms: You can now watch the same movie only once, not over …
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Apple’s production of the iPhone X may slow to a trickle this quarter. According to Fast Company, the California-based tech giant will make only 8 million iPhone X units in its second quarter of the year, in response to lukewarm sales for its $1,000 top-of-the-line phone. Apple may be trying to sell off the accumulated inventory of unsold iPhone Xs, Fast …
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A 6.1-inch Face ID iPhone for just $550. That’s one welcome rumor after 2017 became the year of the thousand-dollar iPhone X. But to achieve a modern-looking “midprice” iPhone with Face ID and an edge-to-edge screen, Apple would have to cut many of the iPhone X’s top-notch features. Let’s back up a bit. The going rumor-fueled theory is that Apple will …
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Fact: the LG G7 ThinQ will launch May 2 in New York. Now, a new image tweeted by frequent mobile tipster Evan Blass sheds some light on the phone’s possible design corroborates a heap of rumors. Remember, CNET has not confirmed the validity of the image. G7 ThinQ, redux pic.twitter.com/QBWceCtr1a — Evan Blass (@evleaks) April 23, 2018 The notch: The render …
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The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus are so packed with features, it’s easy to breeze by one of the most important for everyday life: The speakers. Even if you was around with headphones in your ears, you may wind up using the phone speakers more than you think. The instant you play a YouTube video aloud for a friend …
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It’s that time of year again, when Motorola unleashes a deluge of budget phones and we have the fun task of untangling them all. But untangle them we will, because Moto makes really, really good value phones. So, you’ve got the Moto G6, Moto G6 Plus, Moto G6 Play in one group and the Moto E5 Plus, Moto E5 Play and Moto …
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First there was the Samsung Galaxy S9 and then there was the Huawei P20 Pro. Now it’s Sony’s turn to boldly claim that its phone camera is the most advanced there is. The Xperia XZ2 Premium has the highest-reaching hardware specs of all three phones in its line. It follows the Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact announced this past February. …
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The dazzling, candy-apple Product Red iPhone 8 phones are now on sale. You could say that the timing is brilliant, revving up iPhone sales six months after the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X first came on the market. Apple wants a second hit on an “older” phone. But I think Apple and other phone makers are going about its …
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What’s the Galaxy S9’s least loved feature? That’s easy: AR Emoji, the Samsung exclusive that whips up 3D avatars. It’s a pretty transparent imitation of the iPhone X’s 3D animoji characters — fox, monkey, swirl-capped turd — but with one major, absolutely crucial difference: You. While, yes, you can become a character like Donald Duck, you can also make Samsung’s …
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