We’ve suspected for a while that Apple will give the home button the boot on the iPhone 8, but that would mean Apple’s fingerprint sensor would have to find a new home. The potential workaround? Put the optical fingerprint scanner into the phone’s display. That’s what DigiTimes reports, citing China’s Economic Daily News. (The source: …
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If you are a numbers person, you may like this iPhone hack that replaces the five dots in the upper-left corner of your iPhone that indicate the strength of your cellular signal with a numerical value. It does not require you to jailbreak your phone — all you need to do is jump in and out of the hidden Field …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 sent the wireless industry into a frenzy when the phones started catching fire. Samsung itself recalled and scrapped the phones, and many other companies started looking into their own manufacturing processes. But at least one phone maker held firm with the processes it already had in place. “Absolutely not,” said Motorola’s Russ Gyenes when asked whether …
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T-Mobile has its sights set on Verizon Wireless customers. The company said Wednesday it will cover the payments left on your Apple iPhone or Google Pixel if you bring it over from Verizon. Since they work equally well on both networks, the hope is that customers will just keep their phones when using T-Mobile service. The offer is a limited …
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A real prototype of the iPhone 8 has yet to appear in the wild, but we may have just got the next best thing. A short video of a non-functional “iPhone 8 dummy unit” appeared online courtesy of mobile leaker and renderer Benjamin Geskin. The iPhone 8 rumor machine has been running at a high gear, so much so that …
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You won’t believe your eyes. But maybe the Samsung Galaxy S8 will. In the month since Samsung released its flagship device, hackers in Germany have figured how to break the phone’s iris recognition lock. Samsung has touted the biometric technology as “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked,” claiming that a person’s iris patterns are “virtually impossible …
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If you’re ready to dive into creating 360-degree photos and video, Samsung has a new camera to sell you and you don’t even have to have one of its phones this time around. Available starting Thursday, May 25, the 2017 Gear 360 will sell for $230 — more than $100 less than the bigger, but less powerful original. You’ll be …
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The Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco was busier than normal as people hustled to grab boxed sandwich lunches. The food was provided by Samsung, which played host to a developer conference last week to promote its homegrown Tizen operating system. With a turkey sandwich in hand, I struck up a conversation with a photographer who has never made …
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Now playing: Watch this: Get to know your Google Assistant on iOS 2:11 Google on Wednesday released a stand-alone Google Assistant app for the iPhone. It’s the first time Google’s assistant has been made available outside Google’s Android and Google Home platforms. You can’t fully replace Siri with Google Assistant, but with a little patience you can use Google Assistant …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone SE: Get now, or wait? 1:31 The iPhone SE may not have all the bells and whistles of the iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t happy with it. A recent survey conducted by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) ranked the iPhone SE as the no. 1 smartphone based …
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