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Honor Band 6: Affordable fitness tracker has heart

Looking for an affordable fitness tracker? Honor, formerly owned by Huawei, is gearing up for the global release of its latest wrist wearable, the Honor Band 6, after showing it off at CES 2021. It costs 49.90 euros (approximately $60, £40 or AU$80) and will be available for purchase internationally starting Sunday via Alibaba’s AliExpress.  …

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LG looking to shut down phone business instead of selling it, report says

LG is looking to shut down its mobile phone arm, Korean news site DongA reported over the weekend. The business would be shuttered instead of being sold off, the report said, citing an unnamed source, who said negotiations of a sale to Volkswagen and Vingroup JSC have stalled. That follows a report in January from The Korea Herald that LG …

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Intel Core i9

Laptops may be getting most of the attention these days, but us power users still won’t relinquish our desktops. When you need speed and connections, there’s something to be said for a full-size graphics card, a multitude of USB ports and more space for memory and storage. So even though Intel only briefly floated its 11th-generation desktop CPUs at CES …

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Samsung introduces 76

Samsung is the biggest TV-maker in the world and it had a successful 2020 as people stayed home and invested heavily in home entertainment. Its follow-up for 2021 is a TV lineup heavy with “lifestyle”-centric screens, expensive image quality innovations and, yes, a shelf.  The company’s Unbox and Discover virtual event on Tuesday covered home entertainment products already announced at …

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Samsung’s huge MicroLED TVs start at 110 inches and go down to 76

Samsung’s MicroLED televisions like The Wall are some of the biggest TVs around. The biggest was a 292-inch monster composed of individual modules that required custom installation and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The 2021 version is a MicroLED TV in fixed sizes of 110, 99, 88 and now 76 inches that costs a bit less, but is still …

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Samsung The Frame TV 2021: Slimmer, more storage for art, can attach an optional shelf

Since Samsung first introduced The Frame television in 2017, the concept has always appealed to a certain type of design-conscious buyer. Instead of a big ugly black rectangle hanging on the wall, this TV looks like a painting, a framed photo or other wall art. The company has iterated on The Frame’s design in the years since, expanding the range …

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LG Rollable phone might now be canceled after all

LG’s Rollable phone is still happening, at least for now. After teasing an exciting new phone with a rollable screen at CES in January, reports emerged saying the electronics giant was considering selling off its mobile business. On Monday, a South Korean news agency reported that LG was canceling the Rollable while the smartphone branch of the company is reorganized.  LG has since …

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Samsung teases new TVs for ‘Unbox & Discover’ event on March 2

Samsung on Monday released a teaser video for its upcoming “Unbox & Discover” event at which it promises to “redefine the role of the TV in 2021.” The teaser video doesn’t reveal many details about what to expect at the March 2 event. In the video, we see giant boxes landing at cities and locations around the world — like …

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Lenovo’s stable of ThinkPad laptops include latest Intel, AMD chips starting at $689

Lenovo ThinkPads rule the business laptop market and, although the company’s premium ThinkPad X1 models get all the attention, your IT department is more likely to give you something from its X, T, L or P series of laptops. That’s nothing to sniff at, though, as the PC-maker announced today that all those lineups are getting refreshed models with 11th-gen …

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The Cheapskate Show podcast: Find lost stuff with Tile trackers

First, the good news: After an unexpected delay, the latest episode of the Cheapskate Show has arrived! The bad news: This is our penultimate episode. We’ll tell you more in next week’s final (for now) show. Until then, sit back and enjoy while we discuss: The ColdSnap countertop ice-cream maker unveiled at CES. Dave wants two; I think it’s ludicrously …

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