Conference hall lighting and sterile interiors make for horrid phone test photos, but that’s no excuse to pass up the opportunity to try out the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge‘s cameras. I used various S7 handsets in Samsung’s booth at Mobile World Congress to shoot pictures of things I had in my bag, other …
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If you’re thinking of preordering either the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (or regular Galaxy S7), or the new LG G5, you’d probably want to play with them both before choosing one. Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. LG G5 1:48 Since you can’t do that until the phones come out in March and April, respectively, I’ve tried to …
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Congrats to Greg V. of San Francisco for winning last week’s prize, a Timbuk2 messenger bag custom-designed by me. This week, we have another Timbuk2 bag, again resulting from my visit to the Timbuk2 factory a couple of miles from CNET’s headquarters here in SF. This one is a striking laptop backpack that has a jolt of color to help …
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Enlarge Image Josh Miller/CNET Editor’s note: This week’s giveaway has a Twitter component. Please read the below rules carefully. We’ve turned off comments on this post to avoid confusion as to how to enter the contest. Congratulations to Chris H. of Saint Joseph, Missouri, for winning a Playbulb Sphere color-changing light from MiPow last week. Now for this week’s prize… …
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My Gmail inbox is a clean, spam-free place, and I like to keep it that way. Like many of you, I use a separate email address for funneling new site registrations, newsletters and sales alerts. This division of church and state between my two accounts has kept my personal Gmail inbox personal and relatively clutter-free. Until now. The first questionable …
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Samsung will reveal its next Galaxy device at an event on February 21 in Barcelona, according to an invitation sent out Sunday afternoon PT. The invitation to the “Unpacked” event doesn’t explicitly say Samsung will unveil the seventh generation of its Galaxy phone, the S7, but if it doesn’t, the South Korean electronics giant might as well pack it up …
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Thought the days of the 4-inch Apple iPhone were gone? Not so fast. The Cupertino, California, electronics giant might be working on such a phone for a March unveiling, according to a report Friday from tech blog 9to5Mac, which has built a reputation for reliably breaking Apple news. The model could be called the iPhone 5SE. While Apple has met …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Typically, the annual CES conference in Las Vegas is a little lean on thrilling phone news; companies tend to save their splashiest new products and partnerships for Mobile World Congress (MWC) a month …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: Gold Nexus 6P: Feast your eyes 0:39 If you thought Google’s Nexus 6P couldn’t get any better for the price, just wait until you see it in gold. CNET …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s Gear S2 just went platinum 1:00 Platinum and 18 karat rose gold. As watch finishes, these precious metals sound more “Tag Heuer” than “Samsung”, but it’s true: The …
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