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Meta’s Future Quest VR Headsets Will Use Custom Qualcomm Chips for Years

We don’t know a ton of details about Meta’s next VR headset, expected this October, but we do know it’ll feature a Qualcomm chip inside… and so will the company’s headsets for years down the road. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news during a press conference at Berlin’s IFA …

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MWC 2021 rescheduled for late June to contend with COVID

Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest mobile show, takes place every year in Barcelona, Spain — every year except this year, that is. The 2020 show, which was scheduled for late February, was one of the first major tech events to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. But while MWC 2020 didn’t take place at all, the expectation now …

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Another Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event is coming this week. Here’s what we know

Samsung has announced it’s holding yet another virtual event in 2020, with Samsung Unpacked for Every Fan happening later this week (here’s how to watch it). It comes as the tech giant has been forced to unveil and launch its new phones, tablets and other devices in live streams online instead of at physical events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. …

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Samsung cancels 2020 developers conference as pandemic continues raging

Samsung’s developers conference will take a break this year, as the novel coronavirus pandemic makes it impossible to gather thousands of people in one place.  The company said on its developer website that it has canceled its 2020 Samsung Developer Conference and that it’s “disappointed that we will not be hosting the event this year and getting the chance to …

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Samsung Galaxy Fit 2: This fitness tracker’s battery life will be a whopping two weeks

Less than a month after announcing its Galaxy Watch 3, Samsung added yet another wearable to its portfolio with the Galaxy Fit 2. The second-gen tracker is a slimmer alternative to the company’s smartwatches and it has fitness at its core.  Samsung announced the tracker during its Life Unstoppable virtual event, which it held this year for the first time in …

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Samsung The Premiere is a 130

Samsung TVs go big, topping out at 85 inches for 2020, but what if that’s not big enough? Never fear, the world’s top TV maker has something even more massive to keep you entertained at home. The Premiere is an all-new projector that uses ultra-short-throw laser technology to create an image measuring up to 130 inches. That’s less than half …

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Honor unveils rugged Watch GS Pro and fashion

Wearable tech has been high on the agenda at this year’s IFA trade show, which is being held virtually as well as in real life for the first time this week in Berlin. On Friday, Chinese tech company Honor, a sister brand to the better-known Huawei, unveiled two new smartwatches — the GS Pro and the ES — to add …

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Best gadgets of IFA 2020

The coronavirus pandemic might mean that the IFA 2020 tech show, usually held in Berlin every year, is mostly being held as a series of online events, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t as many neat new gadgets being launched. I’ve swapped a German beer for a strong coffee and a creaky press conference bench for my lumbar-supporting office chair …

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Qualcomm will bring 5G to $125 phones from Motorola, Oppo, Xiaomi next year

5G is coming to even cheaper phones early next year, thanks to new Qualcomm chips — and Motorola, Oppo and Xiaomi will be selling them.  When a new technology like 5G launches, it first arrives in high-end, pricey devices and eventually trickles down to less expensive phones. The first 5G phones released last year cost over $1,000 — the Galaxy …

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TCL launches 2 new tablets, a smartwatch and the world’s first ‘zero eye strain’ display

After launching a new line of phones at IFA last year, TCL is sticking to its strategy of slapping its own label on more gadgets: This time to its tablets. The Chinese electronics manufacturer unveiled the TCL 10 TabMax and the TCL 10 TabMid at the annual tech conference in Berlin, signaling a commitment to ramp up its portfolio of its …

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