Samsung plans to introduce five new devices at its Unpacked event on Aug. 5, likely including the rumored Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra. But we may be getting an early look at the phones thanks to some mobile tipsters. On Wednesday, tech site WinFuture and frequent leaker Evan Blass (via a private Twitter account) …
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The Motorola Edge is close to the home stretch. Unveiled in April, the phone is due to be released in the US on July 31 when it will set you back $700. (It’s £549 in the UK.) Starting Wednesday, however, the unlocked Motorola Edge is available to preorder for $500. You can buy the unlocked Edge on the Motorola website, as …
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Android and iOS users will be able to choose from 117 new emoji to spice up their text messages. Both Google and Apple revealed their versions of the new emoji one day ahead of World Emoji Day on Friday. The new emoji will come to Google’s Android 11 and Apple’s iOS 14 later this year. The emoji additions, which were approved by Unicode as part …
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Apple unveiled a new kind of iPhone on Wednesday, but it’s not one that just anybody can get ahold of. The new batch of modified iPhones are tweaked specifically for security researchers as part of the tech giant’s new Security Research Device program. At last year’s Black Hat cybersecurity conference, Apple first said it would be providing modified iPhones for …
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I’m as much an Amazon addict as the next shopper, so I’m always on the lookout for ways to maximize my savings. For example, I use PriceBlink to see if there might be a better price elsewhere, and I frequently peruse Amazon’s secret shopping pages for deals that aren’t widely advertised. OK, maybe they’re not exactly secret, but they’re also …
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Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says in a research note that iPhones will likely get a periscope-style telephoto camera lens in 2022 if lens suppliers Semco and Sunny Optical join the Apple supply chain this year, according to reports from MacRumors and 9-to-5 Mac. This means that a much better camera could be coming to iPhones, with lenses similar to those used …
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The annual iPhone Photography Awards celebrates the best pictures taken on iOS devices by professional and amateur photographers alike. The collective announced its 2020 winners on Wednesday. And the iPhone photography award goes to… +21 more See all photos “Dozens of winning photographs reflect powerful worldviews, from vast landscapes to a single tree, from city streets to remote desolation, from …
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OnePlus just launched a new budget phone called the OnePlus Nord. On the surface this sounds like a typical tidbit of phone industry news that’s not worth much thought. But the Chinese phone-maker is spending an inordinate amount of energy drumming up hype for, what is essentially, a sub-$500 phone that’ll be available only in the UK, Europe and India …
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I turned into a photographer halfway through a press event that took place somewhere above my desk. OnePlus‘ new wireless OnePlus Buds were hovering in front of me, seen through my phone screen using augmented reality tech. I could turn and look at them from different angles. I got super close. And I started taking product shots. Screenshots, yes, but …
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This story is part of Generation China, CNET’s series exploring the nation’s technological ambition. Until a couple of years ago, if you’d heard of Huawei — and that’s a big if, depending on where you live — you probably knew it only as a maker of phones, an upstart rival to reigning phone giants Apple and Samsung. But lately Huawei …
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