Now playing: Watch this: Essential Phone heads to Sprint 1:07 Andy Rubin’s recently unveiled Essential Phone will be exclusively available on Sprint in the US, according to USA Today. Rubin, known as the father of Android, worked at Google for the better part of a decade after the tech giant bought his long-ago phone startup. …
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If you already use Gboard on Android (or iOS), you probably already know the basics. There are some great features you may not be taking advantage of, but totally should. 1. Type and translate If you have a friend who speaks another language — or you just really want to impress someone you met on Tinder — you can use …
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Traveling to a new place is exciting. But you know what’s not exciting? Sitting in a cramped seat on a long flight to your vacation while staring out the window bored to death. And that movie that airline is showing? You’ve seen it and hated it. But there is a better option. With just a phone, tablet or laptop that …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Greetings from 33,000 feet! I’m on my way to Austin for the geekiest of reasons: to attend a “Battlestar Galactica” reunion panel at …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Brands are about to get a lot more chatty with Apple’s iOS 11. Apple this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference unveiled its new iMessage Business Chat feature that lets companies connect directly with you in its texting app. It gave more details Friday …
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After about a week on the market, BlackBerry’s big comeback phone, the KeyOne, faces a stiffer challenge than just convincing people physical keys are cool again. It might have trouble simply holding together, according to some user reports, a YouTube bend test and now CNET’s own tests. A durability test from YouTube channel JerryRigEverything first reported the apparent issue: Unlike …
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One of our biggest complaints about the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus is the awkward, uncentered placement of the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone next to the camera lens. And while one rumor suggests that Samsung’s next marquee phone, the Galaxy Note 8, would solve this problem by incorporating a sensor beneath the display, a Korean report …
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Japan-based tech giant SoftBank has agreed to acquire robots pioneer Boston Dynamics from Google parent company Alphabet, the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed. As part of the deal, SoftBank has also agreed to acquire Schaft, a Japan-based bipedal robotics company founded in 2012 and acquired by Google in 2013. Google acquired Boston …
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We may not know what delicious dessert the next version of Android will be named after, but the mystery of what its official version number will be has been solved. Android O, the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, will be (drumroll, please) Android 8.0, according to information tucked into the third developer preview, released Thursday. It was really …
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We’re comparing Apples and Android O(ranges). Apple on Monday showed off the newest features that will come with its latest iOS, including upgrades to Siri, augmented reality buffs and a spiffy new menu. It falls short when you compare it to Google’s announcements during I/O for Android O. They both feature a smart voice assistant, AR, and improvements on speed. …
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