It seems like 2019 will be the year displays break the mold: Not only will our phones start to fold, reports indicate that LG’s amazing rollable TV will also ship next year. According to Bloomberg, the company is expected to start selling the TV in 2019. While the technology is a rollable OLED, you probably …
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LG Gram 17 and new 14
LG’s claim to fame with its Gram laptop line is light weight and long battery life — two of the most important priorities on many laptop-shoppers’ lists. At CES 2019, the company will add two notebooks in the line to carry on that tradition: the 17-inch LG Gram 17 (model 17Z990-R.AAS8U1); and the 14-inch LG Gram 2-in-1 (model 14T990-U.AAS8U1). The 2-in-1 will cost …
Read More »Apple may be working on cellular modem chips in
Your future iPhone might have a home-grown cell modem in it. Apple’s looking to hire a lead designer for a cell modem platform, according to a job listing it recently posted. A story in The Information (subscription required) brought attention to the job posting and also said a source with knowledge about Apple’s plans affirmed there’s an internal project for developing its …
Read More »MoviePass will give less restrictive, more expensive plans a try in 2019
In its continuing struggle to remain a viable business and stave off rivals, movie-subscription firm MoviePass has “experimented” with its pricing and plans so often that it’s confusing all of its customers. It looks like 2019 may offer more of the same, as the company greets the new year with two new plans that return some of the features and …
Read More »Nvidia’s $2,500 Titan RTX is its most powerful prosumer GPU yet
Nvidia’s Titan cards have always walked a fine line between the gamer-oriented GeForce and the professionally targeted Quadro. They’re basically Quadro-power cards with GeForce-capability drivers. That historically plops them into the really, really expensive gaming GPU category or on the lists of video professionals who demand speed and value more than certification. The new $2,499 Titan RTX, a Turing-architecture-based card that …
Read More »Apple Watch ECG will arrive in next WatchOS update, says report
The current beta of WatchOS, version 5.1.2, looks like it will deliver support for the the ECG/EKG sensor that Apple touted when it announced the Apple Watch Series 4 in September. MacRumors reportedly got its hands on an Apple in-store training document, which indicated that the app needed to work with the sensor data is in the next version of …
Read More »Google’s mobile search hides full results for some unit conversions, calculations
Google has rolled out an update that selectively hides search results when you appear to be using the search bar as a calculator or unit converter on your phone. Google tested this design in March, as Search Engine Land points out, but it ran into problems with vague entries. For instance, it might have hidden results from the New York …
Read More »Amazon’s Cyber Monday deals are mainly Black Friday extensions
Afraid you missed that great Black Friday deal on Amazon? Fear not — for the most part, Amazon’s Cyber Monday’s deals tend to just be extensions of Black Friday’s. And Amazon’s Cyber Monday Deals Week starts… Saturday. Yup, it starts tomorrow, Nov. 24, and runs through Saturday Dec. 1 (and as long as supplies last). Done with your shopping and feel …
Read More »Google Find My Device now shows you left your phone in the mall bathroom
Google Maps has been incorporating the layouts of large public indoor spaces for several year. Now, the latest update to Google Find My Device adds the capability to locate your phone in airports, malls, stadiums and other venues where you’re likely to misplace it. The new Find My Device feature could come in handy if you venture out to brick-and-mortar stores …
Read More »Galaxy S10 might have a 6.7
A new report says that Samsung’s 10th-anniversary Galaxy S10, codenamed “Beyond,” will not only come in big, bigger and biggest, but will now have another huge 6.7-inch model codenamed “Beyond X” sporting six cameras and incorporating the 5G tech that was previously rumored for one of the earlier three. Sources for the Wall Street Journal indicated that the six cameras …
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