Xiaomi‘s got its eyes on expanding in the Latin American market. The Chinese smartphone maker on Tuesday said it would start selling two of its phones, the Redmi Note 4 and the Redmi 4X, in Mexico. The Redmi Note 4 will start at 5,499 Mexican pesos (approximately $296, £221 or AU$390), while the Redmi 4X …
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The gap between midrange and premium phones is about to get smaller. That is, if those midrange phones come packing Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 630 and 660 chips. Announced Tuesday local time at a company event in Singapore, the two new system-on-chip (SoC) are the successors to the Snapdragon 625 and 652 processors, which are used in devices such as the …
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Just how valuable is Apple? $776.7 billion, which makes it the most valuable publicly traded company, ever. Enlarge Image Apple’s stock price continues its climb throughout the day. Yahoo Finance Monday’s opening stock price of $149.03 per share put the company at the top of the market, passing its previous high of $774.7 billion in February 2015, according to The …
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Now playing: Watch this: Do fidget spinners annoy you? Here are some alternatives… 1:05 I picked up my first fidget spinner yesterday, and a fidget cube to go with it. I got them from a midtown Manhattan perfume store, $15 cash. The cube is studded in buttons, switches and dials. The spinner is a smoothly gliding triangular wheel. The toys …
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Apple is no longer China’s favourite phone manufacturer. The Silicon Valley giant has dropped out of the top three best-selling phones in China, according to new reports compiled by market researchers International Data Corporation (IDC) and Counterpoint Technology Market Research. It was beaten by Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, but at No. 4 remains in the top five. Analysts have seen …
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An iPhone 7 is an iPhone 7 is an iPhone 7. Unless you’re buying it in Turkey, Brazil or Russia, where retail prices balloon to 147, 137 and 133 percent higher than the equivalent in US dollars. That’s according to Deutsche Bank, which ranks the cost of an iPhone 7 in 33 different countries (see chart below). Can you guess …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone legal battle may take new, dramatic turn 1:02 Qualcomm could be planning to escalate its legal spat with Apple. The chipmaker may ask the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban Apple from importing iPhones into the US, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a person familiar with Qualcomm’s strategy. The possibility comes amid a legal dispute …
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Now playing: Watch this: 3 quick tips for navigating your iPhone 1:31 Whoops! That was supposed to be “8675309.” No problem: two swipes and I can correct it. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET True story: Just yesterday I was tapping away in the iOS calculator app, adding up a long list of expenses for my company’s monthly P&L statement. And because …
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Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S8 Plus vs iPhone 7 Plus: Which takes better pictures? 3:51 If you compare the Galaxy S8’s camera to the S7, not much has changed. It has the same 12-megapixel resolution, f/1.7 aperture and same digital zoom. Samsung may not have changed the key specs on its rear camera (it hasn’t said whether the sensor …
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Facebook has been facing a torrent of criticism over its slow reaction to murder and suicide videos posted to the site. In response, CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said the social network will be hiring an additional 3,000 people to monitor its Facebook Live videos and other problematic posts on the site. We discuss whether that effort will be enough …
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