Jessica Dolcourt

Samsung Dex Pad sells May 13 for $99, or free with Galaxy S9

When you plug your Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus into the Samsung Dex Pad dock, you’re able to use and see all the apps and photos from your phone on a much larger monitor. In essence, your phone becomes a mini computer for hooking into a larger screen. Samsung announced that starting Monday, for a …

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Facebook will let you ‘unsend’ messages, after being caught deleting Zuck’s

After admitting that Facebook deletes messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg without telling users, the social network now says that it will add the feature for all users, TechCrunch reported.  In the future, you’ll be able to delete your messages from other peoples’ inboxes. Josh Miller/CNET Messages sent from Zuckerberg were discovered to disappear after a certain length of time. While …

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Twitter says it won’t break third

Your third-party Twitter apps are safe for now. In a reversal from a statement made in December 2017, Twitter said it will delay its plan to pull support for Twitter apps like Talon, Tweetbot, Tweetings and Twitterrific. The microblogging service would stop these apps’ ability to push notifications and update post timelines starting on June 19, effectively crippling these non-Twitter …

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Huawei CEO: We won’t quit US despite ‘groundless suspicions’

You’d think that after launching the Huawei P20 Pro, a high-end phone with muscular specs that challenge the Galaxy S9, the world’s third-largest phone maker would bask in the glow and wait for preorder sales to rush in. Huawei’s P20 Pro, left, has three cameras on the back. Josh Miller/CNET But for the China-based Huawei, those preorders from the all-important …

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Huawei P20 Pro is gunning for the Galaxy S9’s camera power

It’s time for the Galaxy S9 to watch its back. Huawei’s new P20 and P20 Pro are coming up fast, with enough camera tricks and hardware specs to put Samsung’s premier phone smack in the middle of the Huawei P20’s target.  With a total of three camera lenses on the back, the Huawei P20 Pro deserves your attention. A triple-camera array is …

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Rumor: Verizon to sell Palm phone in 2018, help revive brand

The largest US carrier could take a chance on an unexpected phone brand by the end of 2018. Verizon is rumored to sell a new Android phone by Palm, a legacy name in smartphones, before the year is through, according to Android Police, citing “a trusted source.”   Reviving the Palm brand has been in the works since 2015, when Chinese …

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Apple’s iPad works with Logitech’s new $50 ‘crayon’ stylus

You could already draw all over the iPad with the Apple Pencil, but how about crayon?  Logitech just announced a $49 alternative to Apple’s $99 Pencil called the Crayon, which lets you write and draw as you would with a pencil and paper. The digital pencil promises not to roll off the desk, and claims 8 hours of battery life — …

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Why the Huawei P20 notch is better than the iPhone X notch

The iPhone X, may have the most famous “notch”, but the best notch-screen design doesn’t come from Apple at all.  Today, that honor goes to Huawei, whose P20 and P20 Pro let you quickly and oh-so-easily hop into the Display settings to toggle the notch off. It’s that simple. What’s the big uproar over the notch anyway? Found first on the iPhone X …

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A foldable iPhone? Here’s how Apple can make that good

If all the rumors are right, you won’t be able to escape foldable phones if you try.  The latest scuttlebutt is that Apple is on track to join Samsung and Huawei in a growing group of device makers planning to make a foldable phone. While Samsung’s may arrive by the end of 2018, a foldable iPhone is said to be …

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Qualcomm deal is dead, but Broadcom is incorporating in the US

President Donald Trump killed Broadcom’s $117 billion bid to buy Qualcomm, the world’s largest chipmaker for smartphones, but that won’t stop Broadcom from looking for more deals.  BROADCOM/PR NEWSWIRE Broadcom, which is based in Singapore, will incorporate its business in Delaware next month. While the chipmaking giant has operations in the US, it moved its “domicile” of incorporation to Singapore …

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