On this podcast, we talk about: Apple’s Wednesday product launch event, which kicks off at 10 a.m. PT. Click here for the details on how to watch the presentation live. Apple’s rumored iPhone Xr, a cheaper model of its newest smartphone. Rumors about the pricier iPhone XS and XS Max, new AirPods, a new Apple Watch and …
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Samsung opened its biggest store worldwide in India on Tuesday. The 33,000-square-foot store — known as the Samsung Opera House — opened in the southern city of Bangalore, as the company tries to beat Chinese rivals in one of the world’s largest smartphone markets. Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy Note 9 vs. S9 Plus: What’s the difference? 2:58 Apple has …
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With the next Apple Watch likely to debut this week, Qualcomm has launched an early smartwatch counterpunch. Qualcomm’s next-generation smartwatch chip platform, Snapdragon Wear 3100, will be in Google WearOS watches starting this holiday, starting with the Montblanc Summit 2 watch in October. The new chips were first teased by Qualcomm at Google’s developer conference in May. Along with Google’s updated …
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Apple and Samsung are tremendous rivals. Even if they finally managed to settle their long-running patent dispute this June and continue to do other forms of business, they’re still duking it out in ads and new device announcements as they strive to eat one another’s lunch. So it’d be a little weird if Samsung were to save Apple from losing loads …
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eBay wants to make shopping more accessible to people with disabilities. The company has developed technology that uses Apple’s ARKit and the iPhone X camera to track head movements, allowing for hands-free shopping. The open source project, dubbed HeadGaze, is available now on GitHub, an online community for sharing code. “As someone with extensive motor impairments, I don’t have full …
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Apple may throw a wrench in its usual iPhone naming scheme by using letters (and Roman numerals) instead of numbers. Reports say that Apple will call its iPhone X followup the “iPhone XS”, with the larger 2018 iPhone model being called the the “iPhone XS Max” instead of using the standard “iPhone … Plus” moniker. The “S” in the name implies that 2018 may be an “S” …
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Anyone who’s been to the movies in the past 10 years knows Imax. The format delivers today’s blockbusters in stunning crystal-clear, giant-screen presentations — for a higher ticket price, of course. Now, the company wants to bring a version of that cinema experience home. It’s joined forces with DTS for Imax Enhanced, a new certification and remastering program that, according …
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It’s official — Apple’s fall event this year is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 12 and the company is expected to reveal a whole new lineup of iPhones. One of these iPhones is expected to be the iPhone SE 2. Originally launched in 2016, Apple’s iPhone SE served as the smaller, more pocketable member of the iPhone family. It had a …
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You can now use Apple Pay and Google Pay to satisfy your Slurpee craving. The mobile payment systems, which typically run through your phone or smartwatch, have begun being accepted at 7-Eleven stores across the US, the convenience store giant announced Monday. Support for the contactless payments systems is rolling out gradually through September, joining the Samsung Pay mobile payments …
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A year after Apple made huge — but pricey — changes to its smartphone lineup with the iPhone X, it may finally have a redesigned, cheaper phone for the rest of us. The company plans to host an event at 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California. During the event, it …
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