Qualcomm is betting more kids will soon be sporting smartwatches. The San Diego chipmaker on Tuesday in Shanghai (Wednesday, China time) unveiled its new Snapdragon Wear 2500 Platform to help make watches geared toward kids. Yes, that’s right. Smartwatches for children. Qualcomm makes chips for everything from smartphones to Windows 10 tablet-laptop hybrids. While it …
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Cameras have become one of the most important features on our phones. In phones’ early days, cameras were an afterthought — the original iPhone didn’t even record video. But now phone cameras can record 4K video, slow-mo and shoot beautiful portrait photos with artistically blurred backgrounds (bokeh). Phone makers have largely improved phone photography in two ways. The first was …
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Nokia says you’ll soon be able to unlock a handful of its phones with your face. Nokia confirmed in a tweet, spotted by Android Headlines, that face unlock technology is coming to at least four of its devices in an over-the-air update in “the coming months.” The company said the Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6 and Nokia …
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Samsung could be making a Galaxy S10 for everyone. The Korean tech giant may launch three different models of its next Galaxy S flagship, according to Korean news outlet ETNews. Each Galaxy S10 variant could have a different rear camera setup, according to the report, with the most high-end model getting three rear cameras. This could potentially give the triple-camera …
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Today, every phone is more or less a rectangular slab along the lines of the iPhone X ($285 at Amazon) or Galaxy S9 ($198 at eBay). That’s not inherently a bad thing, but when you stack these devices side by side, it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of sameness. From time to time I like to …
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When phone maker Oppo says that the Oppo Find X is almost all screen, it really means it. The Android handset is arresting to look at, mostly because its 6.4-inch display really does stretch across the entire phone face — there isn’t even a camera for taking selfies. Or rather, there is, but you won’t see it until you open …
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The latest buzz on Samsung’s rumored foldable phone? It may cost you the thick end of $2,000, if the latest analyst speculations are to be believed. According to the Korea Times, analyst Park Hyung-woo from Shinhan Financial predicts initial parts suppliers will start production in November in time for a 2019 launch. And Kim Jang-yeol from Golden Bridge Investment speculates that the …
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Last week’s iPhone gossip just took a turn for the best: The rumored tripl-camera iPhones of 2019 might come a year earlier. One of the models could even sell for less than the iPhone X, if word on the internet is to be believed. Here are the juiciest iPhone rumors of the past week. The iPhone X Plus could pack …
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Huawei could be working on a phone that makes other big-screen phones seem tiny in comparison. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro, a rumored follow-up to the Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, could come with a huge 6.9-inch OLED screen, according to Korean news publication The Bell (via XDA Developers). The report claims that the screen will be made …
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Embattled Chinese telecommunications manufacturer ZTE may be alive after all. The company has agreed in principle to a settlement that would lift the Commerce Department ban preventing US companies from doing business with ZTE, according to a Reuters tweet on Tuesday. In exchange, ZTE would have to pay a total of $1.7 billion in penalties, according to the the report. The …
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