I love the Galaxy S9, I really do. But there are some things Samsung needs to change about this top-scoring, top-performing phone, and if we don’t see them in the upcoming Galaxy Note 9, I hope Samsung will have fine-tuned its software by the time we get to the Galaxy S10, SX, or whatever Samsung will …
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Smule wants everyone to know its name. The company, a San Francisco-based startup named from a portmanteau of “sonic” and “mule,” runs a collection of music-related apps. The biggest by far is “Sing! Karaoke,” an interactive singing app with people belting out 20 million songs with each other daily. Fifty million people use it at least once a month. That’s …
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ZTE is finally, officially free of the crippling US ban that threatened to sink the entire Chinese telecom company. It’s been a long, painstaking process, but the US Department of Commerce announced Friday that the company has deposited the final $400 million in an escrow account — and so the ban is lifted. That $400 million, which will be held …
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The Magic Leap One is now available to order for $2295. We got some hands-on time with the Magic Leap One, but if all you want are the facts, here’s everything you need to know. We also spent some time at the Magic Leap headquarters in Florida to get the inside story. On Wednesday, after nearly four years of secrets and speculation, the $2.3 billion Magic Leap …
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First things first: My apologies for the confusion regarding yesterday’s bonus deal, the TechVilla Wing 1 portable speaker for $7.99. I make it a point to test every promo code before publishing a deal, but that one, well, it slipped through the cracks. The code worked, but only deducted $7.99 rather than providing a $7.99 final price. The speaker is …
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Recently, Google launched YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. One of those is a streaming music service that offers features similar to what you’d expect in Google Play Music. The other is a streaming music service, with the added bonus of an ad-free YouTube experience. Now playing: Watch this: Google replaces YouTube Red with YouTube Premium 1:55 But here’s the deal: …
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Sony just took the wraps off of its new Sony Xperia XA2 Plus phone. The phone is a follow-up to the midrange Sony Xperia XA2 and Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra released earlier this year. As the name implies, the 6-inch Sony Xperia XA2 Plus is larger than the Xperia XA2, but the same size as the Xperia XA2 Ultra. Now …
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Google just made it easier for people with limited mobility to type and communicate. Google announced that today it’s rolling out Morse code on the Gboard keyboard for iOS. Gboard is Google’s keyboard with Google search built in. Morse code is currently available for Gboard for Android, but Google says that it’s adding improvements with today’s update. Morse code for …
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Without Apple’s App Store, your iPhone may well have just stayed a phone. The App Store has been around so long, it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always a core part of the iPhone concept. The store came a year after the introduction of original iPhone, arriving with the iPhone 3G. It debuted with 500 apps from developers like MLB …
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Windows Phone is dead and it’s not coming back. Microsoft has long since pulled support for push notifications, and even Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates gave up his Windows phone in favor of an Android device. Once upon a time, Windows-based phones vied with BlackBerry, Palm and Nokia’s platforms to dominate the nascent smartphone world. But in the years following the 2007 introduction …
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