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These four iPhone apps make the camera even better

There’s no shortage of photo editors for the iPhone. Take any picture you snap and apply filters, adjust the saturation or white balance, remove unwanted items from the image and so much more. Mobile photo editors have come a very long way in just a few, short years. But what about apps that help you take better …

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LG G6 now sells for $100 less on Amazon Prime

To save some cash on a new LG phone, you can head straight for Amazon. The online retail giant has expanded its repertoire of Prime Exclusive phones with four LG handsets: the LG G6, the LG G6+, the LG Q6, and the LG X Charge. What are Prime Exclusive phones, you ask? They’re discount sale prices for Amazon Prime members only. …

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Giveaway time! You could win* a OnePlus 5

The CNET giveaway team wants to keep the prizes coming. Once again we are partnering with OnePlus to give away its latest flagship phone, a handset that won the Editors’ Choice Award this past June, making it to the list of the best phones of the year with an 8.9 rating. Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 5 is the best, …

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iPhones are a safe bet when it comes to trade

Though Apple and Android fanboys and girls will scratch each other’s eyes out arguing over which phones have the best technology, when it’s time to trade in your old phone, there’s still only one clear winner. That’s something to consider when investing in your next phone. The glory days of the wireless carrier subsidies are long gone, which means people …

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Google’s deal with HTC is good for the Pixel, bad for me

It isn’t fun watching an old love suffer. On Wednesday, Google announced it’s casually dropping $1.1 billion on a deal with HTC that will allow it to hire some of the beleaguered company’s staff, as well as license some of its intellectual property. Rumours of a tie-up had circulated for a while, but the deal turned out to be different than what we …

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Google inks $1 billion deal with HTC for Pixel talent

Google has reached an agreement with HTC, but it isn’t the much-rumored deal to buy the handset maker. Instead, the tech giant is paying the struggling Taiwanese phone maker $1.1 billion in cash to hire certain HTC employees, many of whom are already working with Google on the Pixel line of phones. Google will also license HTC intellectual property. The …

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iOS 11’s best feature lets you put a couch anywhere you want

The iPhone 8 is an augmented reality phone. But guess what? The iPhone in your pocket might very well be, too. Before the new iPhones were announced, I told some coworkers that I thought ARKit and its apps — which promise to place virtual things in our real world — would be a bigger story than the new iPhones. Most …

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iPhone X vs. Galaxy Note 8: Note 8 ain’t dead

Weeks before Apple announced the iPhone X, Samsung threw down its own top-tier challenge: the Galaxy Note 8. The Note 8 is a tremendous phone, powerful and packed with features that include a dual-camera setup, a pretty good portrait mode and the signature S Pen stylus. But it also plays it safe, blending last year’s disaster-stricken Galaxy Note 7 and this …

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iPhone buyers: 70 percent won’t even consider another brand

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. $1,000 is too expensive, say iPhone lovers. But many will buy it anyway. Sarah Tew/CNET Samsung has now released its new phones.  Apple will soon do the same — well, at least rumors say it will (and rumors are never wrong). Could anything persuade an …

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Galaxy Note 8 preorders make come with some nice extras

Samsung may be throw in some extra goodies for people who preorder the Galaxy Note 8 phone, according to frequent mobile tipster Evan Blass. Samsung is set to unveil its next Galaxy phone on August 23. Some serious pressure is surrounding the Samsung event after the last Note phone, the Galaxy Note 7, shipped with faulty batteries that caused explosions and led …

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