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Four Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 features we’d love to see on iPad

Maybe Samsung’s newest Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra should have been a Chrome tablet, instead of an Android tablet. The massively large-screened 14.6-inch tablet looks practically laptop-size with its keyboard. But looking at this new tablet being announced at Samsung’s latest Unpacked event, it reminded me of how many features it has that iPads — even …

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Why the Galaxy S22 is so important to our freedom of phone choice

The stakes are higher than ever for Samsung’s Galaxy phones. The new Galaxy S22 and its siblings are its most advanced flagship devices ever, but the company’s slice of the premium phone market continues to shrink. If Apple’s growing dominance of expensive handsets goes unchecked, brands could back out, leaving consumers with fewer options when buying top-tier phones. You’re already …

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Twitter posts mixed results as new CEO takes the reins

Twitter saw an increase in daily users but narrowly missed revenue expectations in the last three months of 2021, a period in which a new CEO stepped in to lead the social media company.  About 217 million people who see ads logged on to the platform daily in the fourth quarter, a 13% jump compared with the same period a year …

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Voice Access on Android makes your phone easier to navigate without all that tapping

You’ll soon be able to tap, scroll and navigate your phone using your voice on Android. Google’s new Voice Access feature is a move to improve accessibility for anyone who needs to use a phone without relying on their hands or arms. Announced during Wednesday’s Samsung Unpacked, the feature will launch as a built-in option on the Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22 Ultra and Tab …

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Google’s Messages app will let you watch YouTube videos from your texts

Google Messages will soon make it less of a hassle when someone texts you a video. An upcoming change will allow you to watch YouTube videos within the app. During Wednesday’s Samsung Unpacked event, Google announced that YouTube links will soon be available to quickly preview from your conversations. You’ll be able to fully launch the videos with an extra tap. …

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I visited Samsung’s Galaxy S22 metaverse event, but it felt rushed and incomplete

Samsung’s Galaxy S22 reveal event wasn’t just a standard livestream this year: It also took place inside a metaverse — and I was genuinely excited to check it out. I’ve attended previous Samsung events in VR and found them to be more enjoyable than most other branded virtual experiences. The infamous 2016 photo of Mark Zuckerberg walking down an aisle …

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These Galaxy S22 Ultra camera features mean better pictures of your dog

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra’s appealing display and sneaky hidden S-Pen stylus is exciting, but as a professional photographer, it’s the camera setup I’m most keen to dive into.  The S22 Ultra, launched at today’s Unpacked event alongside the Galaxy S22, S22 Plus and Galaxy Tab S8, is already starting from a good place. Its predecessor, the S21 Ultra, had …

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MSI Raider GE76 gaming laptop has the fastest of everything. It shows

MSI’s top-end 17-inch Raider GE76 gaming laptop comes with state-of-the-art components that let it fly. It’s stacked with an Intel Core i9-12900HK CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU. That processor is the newest Intel mobile Alder Lake architecture, which splits the cores into performance-optimized and efficiency-optimized (like Apple’s M1 chips). And while the RTX 3080 Ti is just a …

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Google Duo live sharing lets you watch YouTube with friends and work with them too

Google’s Duo app is adding a new set of “live sharing” features that will let you quickly share photos, notes, watch YouTube and work together across certain apps when video chatting across Android phones. Announced Wednesday as part of the Samsung Unpacked event, Duo’s live sharing will first support collaboration on Jamboard, group notetaking in Samsung Notes and image sharing …

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Galaxy Watch 4 update adds sleep animals, with Google Assistant coming soon

Samsung’s latest smartwatch, the Galaxy Watch 4, runs a new OS codeveloped with Google. But, despite promises of better Google integration, it didn’t support Google Assistant when it launched. That will change soon: You’ll be able to ditch Bixby and use Google Assistant in the “coming months,” according to news from Samsung alongside its latest S22 phones and tablets at …

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