The LG G3 looks to be a hardware lover’s dream. GSM Arena We’re going to have to try really hard to act surprised come May 27, when LG debuts its LG G3 smartphone. The last few weeks have given way to leaked specs for nearly every facet of the device, both internally and externally. Related …
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Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Anyone who wants to snag Microsoft’s upcoming Surface Pro 3 tablet can now purchase one through Best Buy. The retailer’s website shows the latest Surface as available for preorder. Microsoft began selling the Surface Pro 3 on Wednesday and mentioned that preorders would pop up at some third-party retailers as well. Although you can preorder the …
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The LG G Flex will be one of the first phones to get Voice over LTE for T-Mobile. Josh Miller/CNET Hot on the heels of AT&T’s first voice over LTE, or VoLTE, phone announcement, T-Mobile has a launch of its own. Its VoLTE service kicks off in the carrier’s headquarters city of Seattle, on three phones: the LG G Flex …
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Uber On-demand car service Uber is apparently shifting gears on its financing ambitions. The 4-year-old company, whose app allows customers to request rides in private cars, is in discussions with a group of fund managers to raise about $500 million, financing that would give the startup a valuation of about $12 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Investors …
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Sony/Samsung Both Samsung and Sony, leader and major player in TVs respectively, have huge amounts of money invested in 4K. Right now, 4K TVs represent potentially big profits, not costing that much more to make than 1080p LCDs, yet selling for much higher prices. One of the main reasons 4K adoption is slow is the lack of content. The same …
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Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai Stephen Shankland/CNET Sony will soon spin off its TV business, but that is not the first step to a sale, CEO Kazuo Hirai cautioned investors and reporters in Japan on Thursday. Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Hirai said that while he’s not interested in shuttering or selling Sony’s television division, he would take on …
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LucasFilm and Disney announced today that ‘Godzilla’ director Gareth Edwards will helm the first standalone ‘Star Wars’ film. LucasFilm “Godzilla” director Gareth Edwards will helm the first of a series of annual standalone “Star Wars” movies that will start hitting theaters in late 2016. In an announcement on StarWars.com, LucasFilm and Disney said Edwards will direct the as-yet unnamed film, …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Apple hasn’t had a new iPod since 2012. There were two that year, debuting alongside the iPhone 5: an updated iPod Touch and a redesigned Nano. It’s been a while. And during that time, the iPod line’s share of Apple’s revenue — once the company’s bread and butter — continues to fade. Meanwhile, even as rival companies like …
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Eric Mack/CNET For the past few months, I’ve been cut out of the Cool Kids Club. That all changed on Wednesday when the covert sharing app Secret finally became available on Android, and internationally after being available only on iOS in the United States up until this point. Now, with Secret downloaded on my trusty Moto X, I’m left wondering …
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The copper-colored Samsung Galaxy S5 comes to the US at last. Sarah Tew/CNET Yes! Samsung has broken the US’ dry spell when it comes to the more colorful versions of its Galaxy S5 smartphone . Customers can snap up the gold GS5 starting May 30 from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, US Cellular, and Verizon, though only through retailers for the latter. …
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The S5 could be about to get active. A new leak appears to show a sporting spin-off of the Samsung Galaxy S5 in action. Videos posted online by TK Tech News purport to show an AT&T — the US network — version of the S5 Active, alleged to be a follow-up to last year’s rugged version of the S4. The …
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T-Mobile customers can write up a storm with this data-connected slate. Josh Miller/CNET Hey T-Mobile customers, are you ready to wield that stylus like a pro? Good. Because starting June 4, you’ll be able to buy the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet (the latest 2014 edition) on the carrier’s data network. Related stories Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablet (2014) The write …
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Fitbit Force. Sarah Tew/CNET Fitbit appears to be a tour de force in the wearable world. New numbers released by analyst Canalys on Wednesday show Fitbit devices accounted for nearly 50 percent of the world’s 2.7 million wearable band shipments in the first quarter of 2014. Apparently, the recent kerfuffle and recall over allergic sensitivities to the Fitbit Force had …
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Fledgling e-book subscription services Oyster and Scribd got a big boost as Simon & Schuster, Inc., one of the “Big 5” publishers, announced today that its backlist e-book titles are now being made available to consumers via the subscription services. Both companies are vying to become the Netflix for digital books and have all-you-can-read plans for less than $10 a …
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Apple’s iPhone 5S. CNET The number of people looking to buy an iPhone over the next few months has dipped yet again, according to a new survey from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Polling 1,016 consumers in the US last week about their intended smartphone purchases over the next three months, Munster’s team found that 34 percent expect to buy …
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