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5 reasons my phablet is fabulous

The Note 3. Yeah it’s big, but that’s the point. Sarah Tew/CNET Not long ago, I wrote about some trepidation I was having about giving up my iPhone and switching to an Android device for the first time. That hesitation largely disintegrated once I held my new phone in my hand. It was the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it …

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First there was analog sound, then digital, what’s next?

Steve Guttenberg/CNET Sound waves are analog in nature, as they are continuous variations in air pressure. An LP’s grooves directly correspond to sound waves, a digital recording does not. It converts the original sounds into a sequence of numbers, and digital recording and playback requires conversions, first from analog to digital, and then digital to analog. The quality of those …

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