Patrick Holland

Razer Raiju Mobile is a new Android game controller

In a Hollywood event loft saturated in green light, Razer launched a must-have accessory for serious Android gamers on Wednesday.  The Razer Raiju Mobile gaming controller is more accurate than onscreen controls and it adds more functionality than they can provide. “When playing games on your phone, switching to the Raiju almost feels like cheating,” …

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IRL Glasses block screens when you put them on

Digital screens are everywhere: on buses, in cabs, on people’s wrists, and even on the doors of refrigerators. This proliferation of screens seem to constantly vie for our attention on a daily basis. The antidote in the form of a pair of sunglasses called IRL Glasses. When you wear them, screen appear black. The glasses use horizontal polarizers to block …

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Red Hydrogen One looks badass in titanium, just like a Terminator should

Here’s our full review of the Red Hydrogen One phone.  We finally get a good look at the Red Hydrogen One phone in titanium thanks to photos posted on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) website. And it looks badass inside and out and has a model name that references a character from the Terminator. Red announced the phone last summer and …

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iPhone X vs. Galaxy Note 9 dual

The brand new Galaxy Note 9 and 10-month-old iPhone X have a lot in common — especially when it comes to photography. Both have dual rear cameras, portrait mode, dual optical stabilization and cost $999 in the US. As such, photos and videos from the two phones are fantastic. Galaxy Note 9 and iPhone X prices US price UK price …

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Verizon, T

On Friday, Sprint added a new tier to its unlimited data plans called Unlimited Premium that includes Amazon Prime, Hulu, Tidal and a 50GB LTE mobile hotspot. The new plan will cost $90 a month and be the company’s most expensive plan and yet for what’s included one of the better values offered by any carrier. This announcement falls on the heels of T-Mobile adding …

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CES 2018: Short Story Dispenser proves reading is not dead

At any given moment our phones have access to nearly all of the world’s knowledge, literature, history and science. Despite such rich resources, many of us opt to kill time by scrolling through social media, messages or random videos. The French company Short Edition is out to change how we spend our time waiting with its Short Story Dispenser. Inside …

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How to screen

One of the biggest announcements from Samsung’s Unpacked event, where it launched the Galaxy Note 9, was that Fortnite was exclusively coming to Galaxy devices — well, at least temporarily. The game works on any Galaxy phone and tablet starting with the Galaxy S7 ($160 at eBay) and newer. But in a few days (no specific date given), it will …

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Epic iPhone X, Galaxy S9 Plus, Huawei P20 Pro, Pixel 2 camera showdown

Leica is to the photography world what Rolex is to watches. It’s synonymous with a heritage of high-quality cameras, lenses and romanticised photographic experiences in exotic locales. It’s also a name that the Huawei P20 Pro phone proudly bears on its back. In 2014 the two companies partnered to fine-tune the imaging process and optics on Huawei phones. But it wasn’t Leica’s involvement that …

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iPhone X and Siri need to find and organize my photos faster

For my high school graduation, my mom put together an album with photographs of me growing up in New Orleans and South Carolina. It had a leather-bound cover and black-matte pages. She attached the printed pictures to the paper with photo corners and hand-wrote captions about what was going on. With each turn of a page, I rediscovered photos and …

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Galaxy Note 9: Everything Samsung just announced, Fortnite, Bixby speaker and Watch

Samsung on Thursday launched its new Galaxy Note 9 flagship phone at the Barclays Center in New York, home of the Brooklyn Nets. It’s a massive, great phone, as you might expect, and it costs a bomb. But there was much more that Samsung showed off, including Fortnite’s Android debut, the Galaxy Home smart speaker and a Galaxy Watch. Here’s all our …

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