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Five phone cameras? Three? Galaxy S10, PureView, Xperia take different tacks

Cast your mind back to the heady days of 2012 when Nokia scored an award for launching the best new device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The winner was the Nokia 808 PureView, a Symbian-powered phone that boasted a camera with 41 megapixels. Seven years later, there’s a new PureView in town, but this …

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Apple reportedly working on sleep monitor for future watch

Apple is developing a sleep-monitoring feature for a future version of its Apple Watch, Bloomberg reports. The feature has been in testing for several months and could be added to the Apple Watch by 2020 if functionality results are positive, people familiar with the project told Bloomberg. Fitness bands already offer sleep monitors, but Apple’s presence could be disruptive to …

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Apple reveals winners of its #ShotOniPhone photo contest

#ShotOniPhone, destined for a billboard. Apple on Tuesday showed off the the colorful winning entries from its iPhone photography contest. The 10 winners came Singapore, Germany, Belarus, Israel and the US. Winning photos were shot on the iPhone 7, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max, “showcasing the quality of cameras across the line,” the company said in …

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Microsoft CEO defends $480 million HoloLens contract with the US Army

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is defending himself after a group of employees published an open letter calling on the company to ditch a multimillion dollar contract HoloLens contract with the US Army. Nadella told CNN Business in an interview Monday that the contract was not merely about supplying the military with HoloLens headsets, which overlay computer images on the real world. Instead, …

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Google Duo video chat service moves to the web

Google Duo — the web giant’s video chat service — is now available to web users. Google’s answer to Apple’s FaceTime had previously been available only on iOS, Android and Chromebook, but Google on Tuesday began offering it to web-based users, dramatically expanding the number of people who can use the service.   The simple video-calling app was introduced at …

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OnePlus 7 won’t bring you wireless charging

Update, Sept. 26: CNET’s OnePlus 7 Pro and OnePlus 7T reviews are now live. Read more about the new phones from OnePlus. Original story follows. The upcoming OnePlus 7 will likely rock the latest processor and upgraded cameras. One thing it won’t have, though, is wireless charging. OnePlus phones are known for packing many of the latest features found in premium smartphones like …

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Chrome should get ‘extremely fast’ at loading a whole lot of web pages

Chrome is going to get a big speed boost — at least for web pages you’ve recently visited. A Chrome lapel pin Stephen Shankland/CNET With a feature called bfcache — backward-forward cache — Google’s web browser will store a website’s state as you navigate to a new page. If you then go back to that page, Chrome will reconstitute it …

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Healthy kitchen gadgets for every home

We all have different ideas of what it means to “eat healthy.” Are you part of the low-carb camp? Or the clean-eating, raw crowd? Vegetarian? Flexitarian? Whole 30, Paleo or Keto? Cooking your food at home is the best way to eat what you crave in a healthy way. In the kitchen, you have control. And if you’re shopping for …

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5G Nokia phones unlikely to arrive until 2020, but more US phones are on the way

Nokia phone maker HMD brought five phones to Mobile World Congress this year, and one of them even had five cameras. But not a single one of them had 5G. 5G Nokia phones are coming, said HMD CEO Florian Seiche in an interview with CNET at the show on Sunday in Barcelona, but probably not until 2020. The company is …

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Why OnePlus won’t be leaping into the foldable phone craze

Foldables might be the future of smartphones, but not all companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Chinese handset maker OnePlus won’t be developing a foldable phone anytime soon, CEO Pete Lau said Monday in an interview with CNET at MWC in Barcelona. That’s largely because of price.  The first foldables unveiled from Samsung and Huawei cost about double — or …

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