Best-value phone for price! Undercuts the premium models! OnePlus once again made magic with the OnePlus 6, a phone whose performance-for-value was good enough to snag a rare CNET Editors’ Choice Award. Here’s the thing, though. The power of OnePlus, a Chinese brand out of Shenzhen, isn’t that it’s crested the pinnacle of mobile design …
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The next generation of VR headsets will most likely all have eye tracking built in. And in the meantime, eye-tracking technology company Tobii is developing ways to analyze where our eyes go in VR, and learn from it. I tried Tobii’s eye-tracking tech in an HTC Vive VR headset a few months ago, and it was astonishingly good. But what’s …
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Standalone VR headsets like Oculus Go have shown up to middling reviews, and smart glasses are still a mess. If AR and VR headsets don’t get smoother and cheaper, they may never catch on. Qualcomm’s trying to help with a new chip, the Snapdragon XR1, intended to get more affordable AR and VR wearables off the ground and possibly AI-assisted …
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HTC recently teased the launch of its next marquee phone, promising on Twitter, “A phone that is more than the sum of its specs.” The meaning of that statement has turned into a whole other kettle of fish, with HTC explaining that the parts in question “represent the jumble of parts (specs) that our competitors inelegantly cram into their phones, …
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HTC’s newest phone, the HTC U12 Plus, was just revealed. And its newest mobile standalone VR headset, the Vive Focus, hasn’t come to the US yet. But these two gadgets now intertwine just a bit thanks to HTC’s newest software updates to Vive Focus. The news was announced Thursday at a Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China. Vive Focus is …
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By the end of June, a new wave of phones with trendy AI features will start to sell for less. That’s when the first handsets to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 710 processor will be ready for business. Mobile processors, or chipsets, are the brains behind everything from photo processing to device security and data speeds. The nuts and bolts of chipsets …
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The new HTC U12 Plus has been officially announced. It has squeezable sides like the U11 and four cameras. HTC gave us more details about its upcoming flagship phone than it intended to on Tuesday. A page on the company’s site and a store page for the U12 Plus went live prematurely, in advance of Wednesday’s official launch. The pages were taken …
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Are you curious about the blockchain-based HTC phone reported this week? Well, this is not that phone. It’s another HTC phone expected on May 23: the flagship HTC U12+. Want to know more? Noted gadget blogger Evan Blass posted photos and even what seems to be an entire three-page spec sheet (and embargo details) of the U12+. HTC U12+ pic.twitter.com/HL48YuoRzr — …
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The new HTC U12 Plus has been officially announced. It has squeezable sides like the U11 and four cameras. The next HTC flagship U phone (rumored to be called the HTC U12) is coming on May 23, and the company is giving some people the chance to test out the phone right away. HTC is hosting meet-and-greet events in San Francisco (May 23) …
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HTC’s newest phone, the HTC Exodus, is one you’ll probably never see vying for shelf space alongside the Galaxy S9, LG G7 or iPhone X. Unveiled on Tuesday, the HTC Exodus is instead the first phone by a major brand that’s dedicated to blockchain encryption, the security technology that forms the base of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. HTC …
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