US Cellular just launched an “iPhone 8 for $0” offer with no trade-in required. The carrier also has discounts for the iPhone X ($10 a month for 30 months), iPhone 8 Plus ($3 a month for 30 months) and LG G7 ThinQ ($300 off). But there’s really no such thing as a free iPhone 8, …
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A 2019 iPhone has been rumored to have three cameras. Now an analyst report speculates that one of the cameras will have a telephoto lens, while the other two will work together to perform depth mapping for AR (the same way 3D cameras do) rather than a dedicated 3D-sensing module. That’s according to Lu Jialin, a Deutsche Securities analyst, as …
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At CES 2018 LG announced it was adding Google Assistant and Alexa voice control to its OLED and Super UHD TVs with ThinQ (its branded AI); now Amazon joins Google with LG’s roll out of Alexa support. Its LG SmartThinQ Skill for Amazon Alexa allows you to ask your Echo to play your favorite show, launch LG WebOS apps and …
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Sigma’s latest addition to its Art line of wide-aperture lenses seems like it’s on the pricey side at $1,600, but when you consider that only Nikon offers a similar model for twice as much, this feels like a bargain if you can afford it. Sigma plans to ship the 105mm F1.4 DG HSM full-frame lens in June in Canon, Nikon …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It looked like a mistake, but it turns out it wasn’t. Best Buy on Friday launched an official presale for the Beats Decade Collection, fresh new designs for some of the headphone brand’s best products. The collection will launch on Apple.com on May …
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Though Apple publicly held its ground about the solid design of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, court documents from the “touch disease” class-action lawsuit seem to state otherwise. According to the public documents, which were obtained by Motherboard, Apple’s “internal testing ‘determined that the iPhone 6 was 3.3 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5S … and that the …
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If you’re looking for a budget phone, the “late spring” shipping date for Motorola‘s Moto G6 has morphed into “now” for Verizon customers. You can buy it on the Verizon Wireless site for $240 outright, or in 24 monthly installments for $10. And no, this isn’t a preorder. The phone seems to be available for for you to pick up, at least …
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The new HTC U12 Plus has been officially announced. It has squeezable sides like the U11 and four cameras. HTC gave us more details about its upcoming flagship phone than it intended to on Tuesday. A page on the company’s site and a store page for the U12 Plus went live prematurely, in advance of Wednesday’s official launch. The pages were taken …
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The Xiaomi Mi 8 has been officially revealed. It has a 6.21-inch AMOLED screen and dual 12-megapixel rear cameras. Chinese mobile giant Xiaomi delivers excellent budget phones that have thus far not been easily available in the US. Given the rumor that they’ll be venturing onto our shores as early as this year, hopefully the eighth-anniversary Mi 8 the company …
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Instagram on Tuesday introduced a feature that lets you Mute accounts without unfollowing them. With it, you can filter out the oversharers, brands you only follow for the deals, miserable photographers, people who costume their cats or hashtag-happy friends from your feed — and they’ll never be notified, so no hurt feelings. But when asked if you admired the latest …
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