The people who brought you the $500,000, diamond-encrusted iPhone 7 are back, this time with a more true-to-the-original, titanium version of the darling of this year’s Mobile World Congress, the revamped Nokia 3310. The new 3310 goes cheap — it’s 49 euros, which, directly converted, is about £40, $50 or AU$70 (or 2 euros if …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Today I bring you a tale of two laptops — one small, one large. The small one is a Dell Inspiron 11 3000 …
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Those hoping that Apple would trade a Lightning connection for a standard USB-C connection on the iPhone 8 will most likely be disappointed: Apple has always had a proprietary connection on its iOS devices and it’s not going to change that, in my opinion. The rumor that Apple might ditch Lightning in favor of USB-C, which is increasingly found on …
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I’m surprised it took this long. The remote is tiny, and I have two kids. My Apple TV remote has gone missing, and unlike when I misplace my iPhone, I can’t call the remote to find it. A thorough search of the family room, including a deep dive into the couch, has turned up some loose change, many Legos, an …
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Already funded at about 82 percent with 36 more days to go, as promised Moment has expanded its Photo Case Kickstarter from just iPhones to support the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. The case will allow you to mount Moment’s lenses on those phones for wide- and telephoto views. Sadly, no combo photo/battery case is in sight for Google’s devices …
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It looks like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to take a chunk of the country’s cash off the streets has done tremendous good for digital wallet apps — and especially PayTM. The company’s CEO Vijay Shekhar announced on Twitter that it crossed the 200 million users milestone on Monday, adding that he hopes to reach 500 million by 2020. …
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A new generation of the classic Nokia 3310 debuted in Barcelona on Sunday evening, and immediately became the talk of the town. Earlier that same day, I bought an original version of the phone on the back streets of Barcelona’s Gothic quarter for just two euros at the city’s weekly stolen goods market. Barcelona is known for many things — …
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Good news for the tech giants whose fortunes rise or fall on phone sales: Shipments of smartphones are expected to rebound this year after slow growth in 2016, market researcher IDC said Tuesday. Worldwide smartphone shipments should grow 4.2 percent in 2017 and another 4.4 percent in 2018. That’s an uptick from the 2.5 percent growth rate last year, though …
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Apple’s Lightning connector could be history with the next iPhone, if you believe the rumors. A new Wall Street Journal report speculates that Apple’s upcoming iPhone will trade the tech giant’s proprietary Lightning cable for a USB-C connection. The article quotes anonymous sources and also claims the next iPhone could have a curved OLED screen. The iPhone ditching the Lightning …
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Apple may have over 1,000 engineers working on a project related to AR, UBS reports, and it could hit the iPhone 8 as early as this year. We’ve heard Tim Cook rave about augmented reality before, so this doesn’t come as a huge surprise. If Apple brings AR to the iPhone it will be competing with Google Tango enabled phones, …
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