My whole life is on video now. Zoom, Houseparty, FaceTime, Hangout, Skype — I’m signing up for all these services to keep up with business, family, friends. We’re swapping devices. We’re using phones, laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, whatever’s around. Whatever you pick, there’s a drawback. Phones are easy to use and have great front-facing cameras, but …
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Samsung introduced six new phones to its popular Galaxy A series on Wednesday. There are two 5G phones and four 4G phones. Two of the four 4G phones will be available starting Thursday. The base Galaxy A01 phone will be available in the US for $110 (about £90 or AU$180) along with the A51 LTE phone, which costs $400 (£329, AU$599). …
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We’re all on more web conferences and video meetings via Skype, Zoom, Google Meet and WebEx lately, so you may as well make a professional impression and get your point across memorably. Here are the six easiest ways to look (and sound) sharp when you meet online. Now playing: Watch this: You have to look good on a webcam today 7:47 Coronavirus …
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Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 phones have better cameras, new colors and an even bigger screen option, thanks to that 6.9-inch Galaxy S20 Ultra. But they still have the same curved glass design, which has proven to be the Achilles’ heel of predecessors when it comes to weathering drops. Last year’s Galaxy S10 Plus, at least came with a tougher ceramic option, but this …
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The DJI Inspire was described as a “dreamy ready-to-fly 4K camera drone” by CNET when it debuted in 2015. And truthfully, it’s a gorgeous air machine, designed from the ground up for photography (it can even be controlled by two operators — one pilot and one camera operator). The Inspire has been replaced by the Inspire 2, but the original …
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Samsung’s new folding Z Flip has impressed us in our full review process. CNET editor Jessica Dolcourt even went so far as to call it “the best foldable phone I’ve ever used.” Big words, when the competition is heating up with the likes of the Motorola Razr, Huawei Mate X and Samsung’s own Galaxy Fold. But if you’re sold on …
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One of the coolest-sounding features of Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 line of phones is the ability to capture video in 8K resolution. That’s four times the capture resolution of the Galaxy S10 and the Apple iPhone 11 for example, which both max out 4K video, and 16 times as much as HD. Sounds like a lot, right? Maybe you’re thinking …
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Read our iPhone 11 review and iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max review. The iPhone 11 Pro in midair on its final drop. Screenshot by Lexy Savvides/CNET Spoiler alert: We weren’t able to crack these phones, but we did manage to break the cameras. What will it take to crack the glass on the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 …
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“Macro photography” is taking a photo of a subject in extreme close-up so it appears life-size or larger in the resulting image. Close-up photos are popular especially for nature photography, because they can capture details of insects, flowers and more with incredible clarity. And you can achieve this effect even with your phone camera. Using a macro lens with almost …
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5G connectivity in 2019 was the launch of the first step in what’s shaping up to be a long game. All four wireless carriers began to launch their 5G network offerings in earnest and unveiled their first devices capable of tapping into the technology — new, faster wireless networks. A lot will change next year as coverage and chips radically improve …
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