Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 6 Plus vs. Galaxy Note 4 3:30 The response to the latest entry in my phablet shootout was, to put it mildly, overwhelming! It’s great to see so many of you so passionate for this segment of the smartphone market that was, until remarkably recently, looked upon with derision by …
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The Galaxy Note 4 and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus Sarah Tew/CNET When I mentioned I was a long-time Note user in my review of the iPhone 6 Plus, a lot of folks asked me about how I thought the two devices compared. So, I wrote a series of articles covering that very topic. Then, everyone wanted to know why …
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The Galaxy S4-in-a-box developer kit from Elliptic Labs. Tim Stevens/CNET TOKYO — We’ve been seeing demos of Elliptic Labs touch-free gestures for some time now, but at Ceatec 2014 in Tokyo we got a fresh look at a new, more advanced implementation — and some strong clues that this tech might finally be coming to market in the not too …
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Toshiba Glass ditches the big plastic prism. Tim Stevens/CNET TOKYO — Google Glass has a lot of things going for it, but then it has a lot of things going against it, too. Among those is a design that, while not exactly bulky, is quite obtrusive. It’s difficult to have a conversation with someone wearing Glass because there’s this big …
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The author wearing the 16Lab concept ring. CNET TOKYO — While our wearable devices are getting smaller and smaller, our fingers haven’t followed suit. Interacting with tiny devices via touch has its limitations, as anyone who’s tried scrolling on a smartwatch or Google Glass can tell you. Gesture control has been proposed as a logical alternative, with the kind of …
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CNET Hello there, dear reader. Welcome to the final installment of this series of soul-searching articles in which I attempt to discern which of my two favorite phablets is superior. In one hand, my trusty Galaxy Note 3 . I chose this phone to test because it’s my personal phone, which I’ve been using since the beginning of the year. …
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CNET I’m a long-time user of the Samsung Galaxy Note series, a current owner of a Note 3 — which earlier this year replaced a well-used Note 2. I’m a huge fan of the series, and as I’ve been using one for so long, and since so many are cross-shopping Note versus iPhone 6 Plus , we thought we’d dive …
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CNET Another day, another installment in my continued struggles to choose a victor between my two favorite over-sized phones of the moment. As a recap: I’ve lived with my personal Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for about six months now. It replaced a Note 2, which I had for a little over a year. This is my own phone, one which …
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CNET Much has been said about Samsung’s unwavering love for plastic — even though the company has never really admitted it as such. Where Apple’s iPhone 5c launched with Jony Ive waxing about its “unapologetically plastic” construction, Samsung has simply stuck by its guns, iterating and improving the look and feel of its devices without straying from their polycarbonate construction. …
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CNET Welcome to the second in a series of regular updates to our iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus reviews. If you missed the first installment, it’s here, and if you’re one of the many asking “Why Note 3 and not the Note 4?” It’s for a variety of reasons. First, I’ve been a Note 3 owner for many months …
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