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Apple’s iOS 13 may have only launched last month, but it’s already finding a home on a fair number of iPhones.  In an updated support post to developers on the App Store, Apple revealed that, as of Oct. 15, its latest mobile software is on 55% of all iPhone devices introduced in the last four …

Over the last three years, Google’s Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength. With the Pixel 4 and 4 XL, the company is flexing new camera hardware and software muscles. The new flagship Android smartphone, which the search giant unveiled Tuesday, gets a second 12-megapixel camera, a key component in an overhauled portrait mode that focuses your …

Apple lowered the price of the Watch Series 3 to $199 back in September — and it remained there for most of the holiday shopping season. A few retailers dropped it even further around Black Friday, including Walmart, which advertised a price of $129 for the 38mm model and $159 for the 42mm version.  See it at Amazon You can get it …

Still not sold on the merits of owning a smartwatch? Everyone fusses over things like heart-rate monitoring and GPS run tracking — useful features, to be sure — but those aren’t the true benefits. The true benefits are deceptively simple: Telling time and receiving notifications from your phone. Once you get accustomed to having those features on your wrist, you’ll …

Microsoft’s recent Surface Laptop 3 updates to its Surface Laptop line fall into two camps. The 13-inch model, an upgrade to the Surface Laptop 2, offers the bare minimum of enhancements (or less) it needs to compete in the crowded field of lightweights with prices in the $1,000-or-so range. It gets a bump to the 10th-gen Intel processor with the …

I’ve seen touch-sensitive areas on phones and wearable devices before. But I’ve never seen an entire phone case become a touch surface. That’s exactly what San Jose startup Sentons is trying to do, with ultrasonics that work like sonar to register touch and pressure anywhere on a gadget’s surface. The possibilities seem incredibly weird, and extremely useful. In my hands was …

Update, Oct. 23: The Huawei Mate X was released, but only in China so far. Original story follows. Huawei is still on shaky ground in the US, but that hasn’t stopped the embattled Chinese phone maker from shipping 185 million phones in the first three quarters of 2019. That represents a year-on-year increase of 26%, the company said in a Tuesday …

Tablet shoppers don’t have a lot of options these days. There’s the iPad, of course, and the premium price that goes with it. (The current entry-level model starts at $329.) And there’s the Amazon Fire HD, which runs a reasonable $150 for the 10-inch model but forces you to use Amazon’s custom OS. Out of the box, you don’t get access …

On Thursday, O2 became the last British major phone carrier to switch on its 5G network, starting with key locations in six cities across the UK. Following in the footsteps of other UK networks, O2 is providing an unlimited data option for heavy phone users and also promises its 5G plans will be priced the same as their 4G equivalents. O2’s …

Chinese phone maker Oppo brought its Reno 2 and Reno 2Z phones to Europe on Wednesday, after unveiling them in Asia back in August. Like Honor, HMD (Nokia), Xiaomi and OnePlus, Oppo sees a massive opportunity to challenge dominant forces Apple and Samsung. To do so, it’s willing to take some risks. That’s why it plans to launch its next …