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OnePlus 2 earns high marks for repairability in teardown

A look inside the OnePlus 2, including the company’s signature red battery.iFixit OnePlus, the China-based handset maker that has made a name for itself by offering high-end devices, has another reason for Android enthusiasts to celebrate: its latest smartphone is awfully easy to fix. The OnePlus 2 Android-based smartphone earned a repairability score of 7 out of 10 from iFixit, …

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Get a Fluance Fi50 wood bookshelf speaker for $149.99

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge ImagePictures don’t quite do Fluance speakers justice. They look way better in person. Fluance A lot of speakers come and go in the Cheapskate labs, but there’s one that has earned a …

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The free and easy way to back up your iPhone photos

Microsoft How many photos do you have in your phone? Hundreds? Thousands, even? I bet you’d hate to lose them. And yet phones get lost, stolen and broken every day. Are you playing it safe? Apple’s iCloud affords a backup of sorts, but doesn’t really give you a way to access your photos via anything except other iDevices. (You can’t …

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Sorry, Galaxy Note 5, S6 Edge+ buyers: 128GB option was a flub

Enlarge ImageSorry, that 128GB option is a mistake on Samsung’s part. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Looking for a high-capacity 128-gigabyte version of Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+? Sorry, you’re out of luck. At Thursday’s Unpacked 2015 event, in which Samsung unveiled its latest mobile devices and its new Samsung Pay payments system, Samsung pulled back the …

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The smartphone battleground of India

Xiaomi execs alongside Indian politicians at the press conference of the announcement. Xiaomi Xiaomi, China’s No. 1 smartphone maker, is set to ramp up its operations in India with the announcement earlier this week that it is opening up a manufacturing facility in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The move by Xiaomi is a sign of a change in …

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Samsung Pay comes to the US in September

During the Galaxy Unpacked event in New York City, Samsung Pay chief Injong Rhee talks about how the company’s new mobile payment system works. Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung announced Thursday that its new mobile payment system, Samsung Pay, will be available in Korea on August 20 and in the US on September 28. This system aims to make it easier for …

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You’ll flip for this gorgeous flip

Enlarge ImageIt’s a flippin’ flip iPhone! Martin Hajek/@deplaatjesmaker Some of us remember flip phones more fondly than others do. You never accidentally bumped your screen into your keys. Your phone stayed charged for days. You felt like Captain Kirk every time you opened it. Nowadays we have big, flat phones with the screen front and center and naked. Designer Martin …

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