The iPhone XR and Galaxy S10E are wonderful phones that, for the most part, have all the same features and elegance of the iPhone XS and Galaxy S10, respectively. Fortunately for consumers, one thing these phones don’t share with their flagship cousins is the price. The cost for each is $750, which isn’t cheap, but …
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Whoa! The 65
I interrupt your Sunday with what is arguably the best TV deal of 2019: An Amazon seller just lopped another $200 off “the best value TV of 2018.” For a limited time, and while supplies last, the TCL 6 Series 65R617 65-inch Roku TV is just $499. Previous price: $699, itself a new low. Before that, it had been holding steady …
Read More »JBL’s pint
Last week I heaped praise on the JBL Stage A170 tower speakers, but I also had the much smaller Stage A130 bookshelf speakers on hand, so I cracked open the box to see how the two JBLs compare. They share the same 1-inch aluminum tweeter set into a waveguide that focuses the high-frequency dispersion, but while the A170 has two …
Read More »Startup packs all 16GB of Wikipedia onto DNA strands to demonstrate new storage tech
Computer storage technology has moved from wires with magnets to hard disks to 3D stacks of memory chips. But the next storage technology might use an approach as old as life on earth: DNA. Startup Catalog announced Friday it’s crammed all of the text of Wikipedia’s English-language version onto the same genetic molecules our own bodies use. It accomplished the …
Read More »Trump to let US firms sell tech to Huawei
President Donald Trump agreed Saturday to lift some restrictions against US companies selling high-tech gear to Chinese telecom giant Huawei, says a report. “We’re talking about equipment where there’s not a great national-emergency problem with it,” Trump said after a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal. In May, Trump signed an executive order essentially banning …
Read More »Every Pixar movie is on sale this weekend for $9.99
Time to round out the ol’ movie library. This weekend, Pixar movies are on sale for $9.99 each at Vudu. There are 23 titles available at that price, so pretty much everything on the Disney/Pixar roster — oldies like Toy Story and A Bug’s Life and newer movies like Coco and The Incredibles 2. Usually they’re priced anywhere between $15-20. …
Read More »Galaxy S10 5G, OnePlus 7 Pro LG V50 ThinQ 5G: Why you shouldn’t rush to buy a 5G phone
At a Mobile World Congress keynote panel in late February on the timing of 5G devices, Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon declared with confidence, “The phones are ready; we’re just waiting for the networks.” About an hour later, in a briefing room a mere 10 feet below that keynote hall, AT&T Chief Technology Officer Andre Fuetsch told CNET, “The issue is …
Read More »The Massdrop X Fostex TR
Fostex is a high-end consumer and pro sound Japanese company but its spotty distribution in the US has made availability a “sometimes” thing. That’s not a concern with the Massdrop X Fostex TR-X00 Purpleheart headphones, so I requested a review pair. Unboxing the headphones I was impressed with the build quality of the magnesium alloy frame and biodynamic drivers. The …
Read More »Tetris Royale is Tetris 99 meets mobile, and it’s now in the works
Nintendo’s Tertris 99 battle royale game for its Switch console may soon have a mobile doppelgänger: Tetris Royale. Gaming firm N3twork, in partnership with The Tetris Company, is developing its own multiplayer, last-person-standing version of the classic (and classically addicting) fit-the-falling-blocks-together game. A beta version for iPhones, iPads and Android phones will arrive this year, says a release from the …
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