Many high-end TV shoppers are waiting for prices on OLED TVs to fall within their range. If you’re one of them, you just lost a few hundred more excuses to wait. The least expensive LG OLED TV for 2017, the C7 series, hit a new price low over the July 4 weekend, shedding another $200. …
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Touch ID is so passé. Soon you could be unlocking your phone and paying for things with just your mug. Bloomberg on Monday reported that Apple is testing out an improved security system for its next iPhone — powered by a 3D sensor — that allows users to log in, authenticate payments and launch secure apps by scanning their face. …
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OLED TVs boast the best picture quality we’ve ever tested, but if you want a truly big one, it’ll cost as much as a Ford Fiesta. Pricing has been announced for the biggest 2017 versions of LG and Sony’s organic light-emitting diode TVs. They measure 77 inches diagonal and start at $15 grand. That’s three or four times as expensive …
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Think you have your head wrapped around flexible displays? Wait till you see through this. LG Display is the purveyor of OLED, our favorite TV technology, and the Korean manufacturer has a crazy new concept display. Billed as the world’s first 77-inch transparent and flexible OLED display, it can look like water flowing over a shelf. But it’s a TV. …
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LG announced an upgraded version of its flagship G6 phone on Monday. The LG G6 Plus has extra storage — 128GB up from 32GB on the standard model — plus support for high-resolution audio through the headphone jack and B&O Play headphones in the box. It’s not a major overhaul, but power users will no doubt be grateful of the …
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Updated June 12, 2017 If you’ve had your eye on a brand-new 2017 OLED TV, whether from LG or Sony, it may surprise you to see I’m still recommending the, er, brand-old LG B6 OLED TV instead. It’s still the best buy for most people. OLED TVs still provide the best picture quality I’ve ever tested, and I just reviewed …
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It might be time to circle late August on your calendar. Samsung might launch its Galaxy Note 8 in late August, according to The Korea Herald. Will the Note 8 erase the Note 7’s scandalous past once and for all? Juan Garzón / CNET Samsung has often timed its Note release to the late-August IFA show that takes place each year in Berlin. …
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Apple and Samsung have been fattening their pockets with digital wallets for years, and now LG wants in. The company rolled out LG Pay in South Korea on Friday, it said in a statement. South Korean users of the LG G6 will be the first to be able to use the service. LG Pay allows users to register up to …
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During a full-day briefing of Motorola’s product vision a week ago, I listened to a lot of talk about Mods. Motorola’s clever snap-on accessory system is a dream of a superconnected phone future. And yet, what I mostly saw were battery packs. Practicality aside, that’s not going to get anyone to upgrade to a modular world. Motorola might want to …
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