My perennial advice for TV shoppers is to wait until the Black Friday season, around the end of November, for prices to drop before pulling the trigger on that fancy, new TV they’ve been eyeing. In 2019 that date seems to have come earlier than ever: Best Buy’s latest sale, through its high-end Magnolia subsidiary, …
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Sure, we’ll find out everything we need to know about Google’s updated flagship phones, the Pixel 4 and 4 XL, in just a couple days at the company’s big Tuesday event. But it’s apparently never too late for a product leak (and there have been many for Pixel 4). Best Buy Canada on Saturday briefly posted a preorder page for the …
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When it was released just over a year ago, the Motorola Moto Z3 Play had a $499 list price. Sure, that included a battery pack, one of various Moto Mods that would magnetically snap onto the backside to enhance the phone’s capabilities, but many still felt it was overpriced. Okay, how about this price: For a limited time, Motorola is …
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Samsung’s The Frame is pretty damn cool. It’s a smart TV built to look like a picture frame. It comes with a black bezel (other colors are available separately), a no-gap wall mount and a collection of 100 works of art, which will show onscreen when the TV isn’t doing TV things. You can also upload your own photos (giant digital photo-frame!) …
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In August TCL gave us details on its new 2019 TVs, including an upgrade to the superb 2018 TCL 6-Series that adds QLED color and costs $800 for the 65-inch size. Now the Chinese TV maker’s higher-end model, the TCL 8-Series, goes on sale, bringing even better image quality specs and a price to match. It’s available for preorder starting today exclusively …
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Black Friday is coming. Sure, not till the end of November, but you can already hear the hype machine grinding its gears. Best Buy, for example, just kicked off a big sale on Sony and Samsung TVs and other home-theater stuff, with guaranteed Black Friday prices. That means if a price goes any lower between now and Black Friday, you’ll …
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Foldable phones versus dual-screen devices that have a seam down the middle. Any way you bend it, phones that fold in half are touted as our mobile future. Microsoft’s take on the doubled-screen device, the Android-based Surface Duo (no, not a Windows phone) is the first formidable challenge we’ve seen to phones with folding displays like the Galaxy Fold and the …
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In his recent review of the EarFun Free true-wireless earphones, David Carnoy called out what he considers a “silly” company name. Me, I like it. Way better than the meaningless and/or made-up likes of Tronsmart, HolyHigh and Sony WF-SP700N. I mention that review because, naming conventions aside, Carnoy found a lot to like about the product, a $40 AirPods alternative. …
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In case you missed it, Star Wars director Rian Johnson recently created a movie using nothing but an iPhone 11. OK, “movie” is a stretch. He basically shot a bunch of clips while visiting Paris, then stitched them together and put some piano music in the background. To be honest, it’s nothing special. I suspect you or I could craft …
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Got storage? How about copious amounts of lightning-fast portable storage? SanDisk has a deal for you today in the form of its external solid-state drives, several of which are on sale, some for as much as 64% off. Indeed, I’ll start with that one: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon has the SanDisk 2TB Extreme Portable External …
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