Apple recently released its new Beats Studio Buds. I liked them, but they’re $150, and not everybody wants to spend $150 on a pair of headphones. If you’re in that camp, the Beats Flex may be your best budget option when it comes to Apple earbuds, though they’re “wired-wireless” headphones. They list for $50 but …
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Ex-President Donald Trump’s former spokesperson Jason Miller is heading up Gettr, a new Twitter-like social media platform that launched Thursday, says a report by Politico. The platform calls itself a “non-bias social network for people all over the world” and has apps in the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. It has a look similar to Twitter’s and the same features as …
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On June 29, Apple reached its “14 years of iPhones” anniversary. And the company has now reached another milestone: Seven months after the iPhone 12’s launch, the tech giant has sold more than 100 million of the gadgets. Previously, the iPhone 11 hit 100 million sales within the first nine months. Consumers seemed to enjoy the iPhone 12 Pro Max the …
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AT&T has agreed to make Google Messages its default texting application for all Android customers in the US, Google said Wednesday. The move follows T-Mobile adding Google Messages as its default Android messaging platform back in March. Verizon hasn’t yet followed suit. Google Messages comes with features similar to those in Apple’s iMessage, using Rich Communication Services, or RCS, technology to …
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Broad 5G networks? Check. Ever higher speeds? Check. A headline presence at the Mobile World Congress conference? Check. Lots of 5G phone options, including cheap models? Check and check. Apps and services that need 5G’s speeds and responsiveness? Not quite. Such is the state of 5G today. Carriers across the globe have raced to install the super-fast connectivity across their …
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With the Tokyo Olympics set to take place in July, Apple is adding new Watch bands to its lineup to celebrate the upcoming games. On Tuesday the company introduced what it calls the “International Collection” of bands for the Apple Watch, an assortment of 22 “limited-edition Sport Loop bands with colorful designs that represent those nations across the globe.” Although …
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Back in the 2010s, we saw computer manufacturers clambering to flatten their laptops and clinch the superlative of “thinnest and lightest.” (See: CNET’s YouTube compilation of “Every time Apple says ‘This is the thinnest and lightest MacBook ever'” spanning the past 15 years.) But as laptops have bottomed out at under half an inch, it looks like the race to …
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Browser-based Xbox Cloud Gaming leaves the limited beta it’s been in since the end of April and formally rolls out an open beta for iPhone, iPad and Windows 10 (or Windows 11!) PCs, Microsoft announced Monday. At the same time, the Backbone One — my favorite of the iPhone controllers that mimic the physical experience of the Nintendo Switch, such as …
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Phones are getting a speed boost. Qualcomm on Monday unveiled its newest, highest-end smartphone processor, the Snapdragon 888 Plus. The chipset supercharges the Snapdragon 888, which arrived earlier this year in premium phones like the Samsung Galaxy S21. Qualcomm increased the clock speed on the Snapdragon 888 Plus’s CPU — the brains of the chipset — to 3GHz from 2.84GHz in …
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Netflix has upgraded mobile downloads for Android phones and tablets so that you can watch partially downloaded titles offline. The change — which means you can watch the portion of a movie or episode you successfully downloaded before you lost connectivity — is available for Android phones and tablets now, and Netflix is going to test it for iPhones and iPads in the …
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