LAS VEGAS — HTC still wants in on the wearables game, even after Apple made its big move. The Apple Watch, pictured here, may not be the only smartwatch to debut early next year. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET The Taiwanese smartphone maker is still working on a smartwatch and plans to release it in …
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The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will be available for preorder at Apple’s online store at midnight on Friday. Screenshot by Shara Tibken/CNET Wireless carriers aren’t the only place kicking off iPhone 6 and 6 Plus preorders at midnight tonight. You’ll also be able to preorder the new iPhones in Apple’s online store starting at 12 a.m. PT on Friday. …
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BlackBerry said it will support the deployment of Movirtu technology on all major smartphone operating systems. Movirtu BlackBerry has snapped up technology that lets enterprise users ditch two smartphones — one for work and one for personal use — for a single smartphone. BlackBerry has acquired Movirtu, a London-based company that offers a virtual SIM platform that allows users to …
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The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Apple The iPhone 6 will arrive in several major countries come September 19. China won’t be among them, but the reason for its exclusion is a bit of a mystery. The problem may lie with the Chinese government. Apple’s latest iPhone reportedly has not yet received the necessary government approval, according to news …
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Google Android 4.4 KitKat has bitten off almost 25 percent of all Android devices. Revealing the latest stats for its mobile OS on its Android Developers Dashboard page on Wednesday, Google pegged KitKat’s share at 24.5 percent. That number includes all devices recorded at the Google Play store over the seven-day period that ended September 9. The latest percentage shows …
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Yahoo’s news summarization app will now include a roughly two-minute video segment from anchor Katie Couric. Yahoo Yahoo on Thursday announced that its smartphone app News Digest, which curates a collection of shortened news articles for a reader twice daily, is coming to Apple’s iPad. The new version will also include a weekly video segment from anchor Katie Couric, recapping …
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Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will come with an NFC chip that will allow users to pay for things by tapping their phone. Apple The new Apple Pay service is not much different from other mobile wallets already on the market, but it’s likely to have a better chance than any other solution of getting people to use …
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Matt Elliott/CNET Apple will start taking preorders Friday for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus , and the new models will be in Apple Stores a week later on September 19. If you are in the middle of your current contract, then you’ll pay a pretty penny for the latest iPhone. The entry-level 16GB iPhone 6 Plus costs $299 …
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LG’s flexible 4K OLED TV at IFA 2014. Seamus Byrne/CNET LG’s investment in white OLED might be ready to pay off as the company achieves high production quantities for its 4K OLED TVs while competitors using RGB OLED still struggle to achieve viable yield levels to go mainstream with the screen technology. Speaking with Ken Hong, LG’s Global Communications Director, …
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Geoffrey Morrison At the CEDIA Expo in Denver, LG revealed pricing and availability information on their highly-anticipated 4K OLED TVs, as well as a pair of ultra-massive LED LCDs. The biggest, a 105-inch curved LCD, costs a cool hundred grand. Though all of them were previously announced, both at CES and more recently at IFA, this was the official US …
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Epson DENVER–Epson’s new high-end LS10000 and LS9600e projectors will use lasers reflecting off something that’s not quite unlike LCOS, to create a massive image on your screen. Boasting 1,500 and 1,300 lumens respectively, a potentially huge contrast ratio, motorized lens shift (with memory), and more, they represent a big step up from the Epson projectors of yore (yore being last …
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SAN FRANCISCO — For T-Mobile’s next “Uncarrier” act, the company is broadening its Wi-Fi calling and text message feature, thanks in part to Apple’s decision to include the feature in the latest iPhone . The brash T-Mobile CEO John Legere at a previous Uncarrier event. The latest event focuses on the carrier’s Wi-Fi push. Sarah Tew/CNET “Uncarrier 7.0,” as the …
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A crude way of determining which of the new iPhones will fit into your life/hands/pockets. That’s an iPhone 5S on the far left. Josh Miller/CNET The folks over at WonderHowTo came up with a pretty ingenious method to determine which of the new iPhones — the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 or 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus — is right for you. Strictly …
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Microsoft is said to be losing the Nokia name on its Nokia Lumia smartphones. CNET Microsoft has already made it clear that it’s planning to phase out the Nokia name in its mobile products, and a newly leaked internal document confirms just that. The document, which was obtained by tech blog GeeksOnGadgets, reportedly says upcoming Nokia Lumia devices will soon …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 6 and 6 Plus 2:03 When Apple’s introduced its two newest marquee handsets yesterday, the most readily discernible difference between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus was their sizes. And that’s no wonder — the latter has nearly an inch more display real estate (5.5-inch vs. 4.7-inch) and weighs about 1.5 ounces more than …
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