The Motorola Moto G family of phones has a history of finding that sweet spot between well-considered necessities and an affordable price. Over the past three years, the Moto G5 Plus, Moto G6 and Moto G7 showed us just how good budget phones can be. Last year, the budget landscape got more crowded when Google …
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Update, April 22: Read our iPhone SE 2020 review. Original story follows. The iPhone SE from 2016 was Apple’s first budget phone and a new version of it called the iPhone 9 or iPhone SE 2 might be coming out this spring. The timing couldn’t come any sooner, since rumors of an iPhone SE 2 have been percolating for a couple …
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Update, April 22: Read our iPhone SE 2020 review. Original story follows. Apple has yet to give the official word of a March launch event for the iPhone SE, but case makers are already betting big on what the company will announce. In this week’s Apple Core wrap, we’re looking at what the cases can tell us about the rumored iPhone SE …
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Apple is reportedly designing its own antenna for the rumored 5G iPhone that could hit shelves in 2020. The tech giant might skip Qualcomm’s antenna component because it’s not “sleek” enough for Apple’s needs, Fast Company reported Friday citing unnamed sources. While Apple’s competitors have already launched multiple 5G phones — including the newly unveiled Samsung Galaxy S20 — Apple …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Z Flip are joining the iPhone 11, Pixel 4, Galaxy Fold and the new, foldable Motorola Razr as the small handful of phones that use a new technology called eSIM. What that means depends on the phone. For some, like the Razr, you can ditch your plastic SIM card altogether. For others, like the iPhone 11 and Galaxy S20, you …
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YouTube TV, the live-channel streaming service from Google’s video giant, is pulling out of Apple’s in-app payment system as of March 13. It will make Google the latest tech giant to withdraw from the payment system built into iOS apps, as Apple’s fees and other App Store policies have raised complaints that Apple‘s own services have a built-in competitive advantage. “YouTube TV …
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This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade added a new game to its catalog of over 100 games on Friday. Loud House: Outta Control features characters from the Nickelodeon cartoon The Loud House. The game, like the show, centers around the zany …
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Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro arrived late last year and made a lot of people happy with its excellent design. Despite Taika Waititi’s Apple trash-talk at the Oscars last week, CNET’s Dan Ackerman suggested in his MacBook Pro review that “new 16-inch MacBook will make you actually like MacBook keyboards again.” But if the price has kept you at bay, here’s …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Nevada’s Democratic Party said Thursday it plans to use iPads loaded with survey app Google Forms to calculate voting results in next week’s caucuses. The system is an effort to avoid a repeat of the Iowa caucus chaos. The app will be loaded …
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One of the coolest-sounding features of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 line of phones is the ability to capture video in 8K resolution. That’s four times the capture resolution of the Galaxy S10 and the Apple iPhone 11 for example, which both max out 4K video, and 16 times as much as HD. Sounds like a lot, right? Maybe you’re thinking …
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