The last few years have seen wearables that monitor your heart rate blow up. Panasonic thinks it can do one better, working on camera tech that reads your heart rate just by looking at you. It’s called Contactless Vital Sensing and its software is capable of reading your heart rate without having to use special …
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26 February
Amazon will make a Moto Mod with Alexa for the Moto Z
Amazon has the Moto Z’s back. Lenovo’s Motorola unit on Sunday unveiled a number of new Moto Mods — replaceable backs to the Moto Z that add new capabilities like extra battery life, a projector or better audio. One of the more notable additions is one coming from Amazon, which plans to build a Moto Mod with Alexa. Jon Kirk, …
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26 February
Moto G5 Plus specs vs. Moto G5, Huawei Honor 6X, Nokia 6
Moto is once again out to prove that a budget phone doesn’t have to be bad. Its 2017 refresh brings us the Lenovo Moto G5 Plus and Moto G5, a pair of metal handsets with 5.2 and 5-inch screens, respectively, and some newer tech under the hood compared to last year’s models. We’ve spent a little time with these polished …
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26 February
Nokia 5 specs vs. Nokia 6, Nokia 6 Arte Black Limited Edition, Lenovo Moto G5 Plus, Huawei Honor 6X
Nokia, the company that basically made the modern phone what it is today, is back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and it came bearing a bunch of phones: the Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6, Nokia 6 Arte Black Limited Edition and the brought-out-of-retirement Nokia 3310. First, let’s clear this up: This isn’t the same Nokia, rather it’s new …
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26 February
The LG G6’s Instagram
Now playing: Watch this: Obsessed with Instagram? LG G6 has an app for you 1:41 LG showed off its new flagship phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday. In addition to high-end specs, the LG G6 ($150 at Amazon) is packed full of new features. One of those features is a new camera app, called Square Camera, that …
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26 February
Everything Nokia announced at its MWC 2017 press conference
Now playing: Watch this: The Nokia 3310 is back and so is Snake 1:17 A year ago, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri promised a new generation of Nokia phones. Today, he made good on his word. Nokia partnered with mobile startup HMD Global, a company made up of ex-Nokia employees, to announce four new phones on Sunday here at Mobile World …
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26 February
Samsung’s new Gear VR headset adds a controller to the mix
Samsung‘s new Gear VR headset looks awfully similar to the 2016 model, but for one notable change: there’s an all-new controller included in the box. The Gear VR with Controller (yes, that’s the product’s name) lets you point, shoot, drag and drop objects in virtual worlds while also making it less of a bother to reach up to the headset …
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26 February
A cheeky rebadging means you can soon buy a Nokia smartwatch
If you’ve ever wondered whether Nokia would make a smartwatch, the answer is that in a roundabout way, it kind of already has. In May 2016, Nokia bought French tech company Withings and in doing so brought its whole product portfolio, smartwatches and all, under its wing. From summer 2017, all Withings products will be rebadged with the Nokia name, …
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26 February
When will I get the NBN? Check your address (and technology) now
We’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that you can now finally get an accurate estimate of when the national broadband network will be coming to your area, along with the exact technology you can expect to be connected to. The bad news? You may still have to wait a couple of years to actually get …
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26 February
Watch Samsung’s Mobile World Congress press conference: Start time, live stream, how to watch
Update: Samsung has announced 2 new tablets, and an updated Gear VR headset. Samsung Galaxy Book: This Windows tablet is an update to last year’s Galaxy TabPro S Samsung Galaxy Tab S3: Samsung’s new flagship Android tablet has an enhanced HDR screen Samsung Gear VR with Controller: The snap-on VR headset for Galaxy phones has been updated with an included …
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