Planning to get a new iPhone but not sure which one to choose? If you’re considering the iPhone XR, the cheapest of the three phones Apple introduced Wednesday, keep in mind you won’t be getting one big feature. The iPhone XR lacks a dual-lens camera. Instead, the phone has just one 12-megapixel lens on its …
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Samsung commits to making more exciting midprice phones
Samsung’s mobile strategy has served it well over the years, making it the top phone maker in the world by no small margin. But that doesn’t mean the company is content to coast along — in fact it is shaking up its midrange phone strategy to make devices more appealing to millennials. Samsung is looking to bring more cutting-edge features …
Read More »Huawei to unveil the Mate 20 on Oct. 16 in London
Huawei will launch its next flagship phone, the Mate 20, at an event in London on Oct. 16, CEO Richard Yu announced at IFA on Friday. In an image for the event, the company teased the outline of a phone that looks as though it has almost no bezel. The Mate range is the larger of Huawei’s two flagship phone …
Read More »Huawei’s Kirin 980 chip gives glimpse of Mate 20’s power
For many years, Europe’s biggest electronics show, IFA, was the place Huawei chose to unveil a new Mate, the biggest of its flagship phones. That’s not the case in 2018. We won’t see the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, the latest in the series, until the fourth quarter. But to whet our appetites, Huawei did give us a preview of what’s …
Read More »BlackBerry Key2 LE shows that color can be fun after all
It’s been only two months since BlackBerry Mobile unveiled the Key2, but the veteran phone brand arrived on Thursday at IFA, Europe’s largest tech show, with a new device to add to its lineup. The Key2 LE is a lighter, brighter — and cheaper — version of BlackBerry’s flagship device that sees the phone maker shake off its rather staid and …
Read More »Polaroid takes the analog digital with OneStep+ instant film camera
Now playing: Watch this: Polaroid’s OneStep+ is a solid app-connected analog camera… 2:02 Think analog photography is dead? Think again. Ten years ago, a plucky group of Polaroid fans founded the Impossible Project to keep their favorite form of photography alive after Polaroid announced it was shuttering its film factory. Initially the Impossible Project just made film, but in 2017, …
Read More »Taylor Swift teases her special edition Instax camera in three videos
Queen of instant film Taylor Swift teased her upcoming Instax camera in three videos on Wednesday. Fujifilm initially announced the Instax square SQ6 Taylor Swift Edition in May, promising a fall release for the camera. Using her top pop bop Gorgeous as the soundtrack, the star showed off the camera in a promotional video, which saw her browsing through a …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Instagram account has vanished
What is happening in the mind of Elon Musk? It’s one of the great questions of our time, and now we have one less portal into the entrepreneur’s head space — his Instagram account appears to have gone up in a puff of smoke. It’s not clear when exactly Musk’s account was last active, but internet archive the Wayback Machine …
Read More »Nokia’s rebooted banana phone slip
Fans of The Matrix or retro tech are in for a treat because Nokia’s rebooted 8110 banana phone becomes available in the UK this month. The phone, first unveiled back at Mobile World Congress in February, is available for pre-order on Thursday and will go on general sale on Aug. 15. You’ll be able to pick it up from Carphone …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Watch UK pricing and availability
Roll out the welcome wagon; Samsung’s big flagship phone of the year is here. The company unveiled the Galaxy Note 9 at an event in New York on Thursday, and it’s a pricey one. The Galaxy Note 9 officially goes on sale Aug. 24 but will be available for preorder from Aug. 9. If you want to buy the phone …
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