Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge design compared with S5, S4 and… 1:26 If you’re one of the horde of smartphone fans baying for Samsung to ditch its reliance on creaky plastic, your protests have been heard — with the all-new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge , Samsung has abandoned its traditional …
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Lynn La/CNET Withings’ stylish fitness trackers, the Activite and the Activite Pop , can now sync with Android phones, the company announced at Mobile World Congress 2015. The two smartwatch and fitness tracker hybrids were only compatible with iOS at first, but now Android owners can use them, too. Not only will the Withings Health Mate Android app sync with …
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BARCELONA–A flagship Lumia smartphone from Microsoft is coming. Just not today. Stephen Elop at Mobile World Congress in 2014. Sarah Tew/CNET Stephen Elop, head of Microsoft’s devices business, promised to bring out a flagship smartphone later this year, timed with the launch of Windows 10. The company has yet to say when the new operating system would launch. Microsoft, the …
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Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) An electric toothbrush app, a digital whiteboard, a smart bicycle accessory and a student-designed medical sensor are the Bluetooth Breakthrough Award winners for 2015. The winners, acknowledging achievement in Bluetooth-compatible hardware and software in four categories — apps, products, prototypes and student-created initiatives — were chosen by a small panel of CNET editors. (CNET is …
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The Fleksy keyboard app, wearing a few different themes. The app can be had free by Samsung Galaxy S6 owners. Fleksy Owners of Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 smartphone can start training for the world speed-texting championships with no need to buy extra gewgaws — except maybe some highly caffeinated energy drinks and a crate or two of screen cleaner. That’s …
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BARCELONA — AT&T doesn’t have pricing or the exact date it’ll start selling LG’s latest smartwatch online and in stores, but the US carrier did become the first to promise it’ll carry the LG Watch Urbane . The classy, circular watch runs Android Wear OS and is water-resistant. Just don’t confuse it with the sporty, LTE-enabled LG Watch Urbane LTE …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET One thing that’s noticeably missing from the new Windows 10 Settings menu is the system image backup utility. A system image backup is basically an exact copy (“image”) of a drive — in other words, you can use a system image to completely restore your computer, settings and all, in the event of a PC disaster. Microsoft …
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The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge Josh P. Miller/CNET The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge might sport similar features, but they’re rather different from Samsung’s previous designs. Gone are the days of plastic shells and removable batteries. The S6 and S6 Edge sport metal and plenty of glass across their 5.1-inch frames. Both phones have high-resolution displays, …
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Firefox OS is Mozilla’s browser-based operating system. Mozilla BARCELONA — Mozilla announced partnerships with Verizon Wireless and other carriers to bring phones running its Firefox OS to wealthy countries where the browser-based mobile operating system today is all but unknown. The partnerships will mean Firefox OS phones in the United States, but Verizon isn’t the only partner. Others announced here …
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Hifiman RE600S Hifiman When I first heard the Hifiman RE600S in-ear headphone in the summer of 2013 it blew me away. The sound was super clear and the imaging was expansive. I also loved that the RE600S’ gloss black finished aluminum ear pieces were incredibly tiny and lightweight, so comfort was excellent. But it was the transparency that kept me …
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Samsung will soon introduce the Galaxy S6, which follows the release of the Note 4 (pictured here) last fall. Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung, set to debut new models of its top-of-the-line smartphone, needs to offer a design that convinces people to do something they didn’t do the last time the Galaxy was updated: buy them. After leading the smartphone market for …
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Ohh: gold. But is this supposedly leaked video of HTC’s flagship phone the real deal? Screenshot by CNET If an apparently leaked video is indeed the real thing, HTC’s flagship smartphone has added a little gold to its wardrobe. The video, entitled “HTC One M9 Hands on (Before MWC 2015),” showed up on YouTube today — a day before HTC …
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BARCELONA–IKEA wants to make wireless charging a reality in your home. IKEA will start carrying wireless-charging-capable furniture in April. Roger Cheng/CNET The world’s largest furniture maker said on Sunday that it would begin selling tables, work desks, nightstands and other pieces of furniture capable of wirelessly charging your smartphone when placed in contact. The new line of furniture will hit …
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Wondering what hashtag to use for your Mobile World Congress 2015 tweets? Answer: #MWC15. Stephen Shankland/CNET CNET editors from around the globe are on the ground in Barcelona, Spain, getting ready to bring you everything new and interesting from Mobile World Congress 2015. Some of the top mobile companies in the world are gathering to reveal the future of smartphones, …
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Stereo integrated amplifiers are as old school as you can get. They’re pretty basic; for decades integrated amps just had a volume control, inputs for CD, radio, “aux,” and sometimes a phono input for a turntable. There might be bass and treble controls, but most amps didn’t even come with a remote control! My no-frills NAD C 316BEE, 40 watt …
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