The Apple Watch Series 4 may be just around the corner. Apple recently registered six new product model numbers (A1977, A1978, A1975, A1976, A2007 and A2008) with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), as spotted by French site Consomac. Enlarge Image The EEC filing gives some clues about Apple’s products. Consomac/EEC According to a translation of …
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20 August
Get the Essential Phone PH
If you follow the phone market, you know that Andy Rubin’s much-ballyhooed Essential Phone debuted last year to mixed reviews. Critics dinged the so-so battery life, finicky camera and missing headphone jack, but users have been far more enthusiastic. Of course, with its $700 price tag (later cut to $500), only the well-heeled could afford it. That changes today: For …
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20 August
OnePlus scores big with T
On this podcast, we talk about: The new OnePlus 6T is coming to T-Mobile, in a first-ever US carrier deal for the phone maker. Amazon is reportedly working on a new DVR device. A look at Microsoft’s transformation under CEO Satya Nadella. Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus scores big with T-Mobile carrier launch (The… 4:37 The 3:59 gives you bite-size …
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20 August
The best back
School is already back in session for some lucky students; others have just a few precious days of summer vacation left. Either way, you’ve missed all the back-to-school bargains, right? Not quite. Best Buy just unveiled some college-student deals, including $150 off all MacBooks, up to $150 off various laptops and $100 off select Microsoft Surfaces. To get the discounts …
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20 August
Skype’s promised end
In January, Microsoft began testing end-to-end encryption for Skype conversations. That feature has finally been enabled for customers, MSPoweruser pointed out last week. The feature, called Private Conversations, is available to users on Windows desktops, Android, iOS, Mac and Linux. When Microsoft began rolling out the feature to testers in January, the company said the encryption would work for audio calls …
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20 August
Amazon’s Kindle Voyage may be over
Amazon’s Kindle e-reader family seems to have lost a member along the way, with the disappearance of the Voyage from its Kindle Family listing. The site now lists just three models in its lineup of eight configurations, the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis. Good e-Reader first noticed this a few weeks back, saying the Voyage seems to have vanished in July. …
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20 August
Huawei tried to pass off DSLR photo as smartphone selfie in new ad
If the selfie in Huawei’s latest Nova 3i ad looks too good to be true, that’s because it is. In the commercial, we see several shots presumably taken by the phone’s front-facing camera, including one where a woman is putting on makeup and a man holds out the phone to take a selfie. But a behind-the-scenes photo posted by Sarah …
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20 August
HP Omen Obelisk gaming desktop is engineered beyond its $849 starting price
HP can definitely put together a good gaming desktop at a good price, but there’s always room for improvement. The Omen Obelisk, announced at Europe’s biggest games conference, Gamescom, basically addresses the issues customers had with the Omen 870 tower, making it easier to use and expand. For example, HP flipped the front USB port access on top of the case …
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20 August
Report: Apple will finally give us Retina MacBook Air, new Mac Mini
I can’t believe it’s actually happening. Seriously, I can’t and won’t believe until Apple says it on stage — Bloomberg reports that Apple is finally updating its Mac mini desktop, and updating its lowest cost MacBook with a high-resolution Retina Display screen. Technically, Bloomberg says it’s a new low-cost MacBook, not necessarily a MacBook Air, which lines up with rumors we’ve …
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20 August
MacOS Mojave: Everything you need to know
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At WWDC 2018, Apple took the name for its Mac operating system down from Northern California’s majestic mountains and moved southward to the Golden State’s famed desert. After a run of mountain themes — Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra — Apple …
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