Update January 27th, 2017: Pricing on the 2017 C7 series appears to be $2500 for the 55-inch size and $4000 for the 65-inch size. Buy now or wait? The 2017 CES has come and gone, and now we know a lot about the new TVs. I expect OLED-based televisions to deliver the best picture quality …
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How big of a deal is having a removable battery in your phone? Well, if you were LG, it’s a huge deal. Nearly all of its flagship phones have had them, bucking the trend of sealed-in batteries. That will no longer be the case when LG unveils its G6 next month. The company will follow everyone else and seal up …
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LG is looking to play it safe with its next flagship phone. The company’s upcoming G6 phone, which will be unveiled next month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, will have a sealed battery like the iPhone and Galaxy S phones, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans. LG opted to skip the removable battery …
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Looks like we’ve got our first peek of LG’s new flagship Android phone, the G6, expected to be unveiled next month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Spain. The new handset is expected to have rounded corners and a super thin bezel, according to a photo obtained by The Verge. The phone will be LG’s prime shot at …
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We love OLED TVs, and we’re betting you do too. We’re also betting that you haven’t bought one yet. OLED is getting less expensive, but it’s a slow process. Right now the 65-inch LG OLED65B6P costs $3,000 and the 55-inch OLED55B5P costs $2,000. If you can afford one, go for it. But those are at least twice as much as …
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The rumored LG G6 may get beefier brains than Google Now alone. LG is reportedly bringing the Google Assistant to its flagship phone for spring, according to Business Korea. Enlarge Image Right now, the Google Pixel and Pixel XL are the only phones to have Google Assistant. Josh Miller/CNET So far, the Google Pixel and Pixel XL are the only …
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The next version of Google‘s smartwatch operating system will arrive on February 9, according to known and generally reliable leaker Evan Blass. Android Wear 2.0, which was originally announced last May, looks to completely revamp the operating system and help make watches less reliant on phones. In addition to a revamped user interface, the update will add an on-watch app …
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Are Apple‘s AirPods already taking down the market share of Beats headphones, their corporate siblings? That was the implication of recent stories — including this one on CNET — that cited data from online shopping analyst Slice Intelligence. The numbers showed that Apple had taken a 26 percent share of wireless headphone sales in December 2016 with its AirPods. The …
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Now playing: Watch this: 3D TV might finally be dead 1:30 It’s been a walking corpse for the last couple of years, and now 3D TV finally looks dead. LG and Sony, the last two major TV makers to support the 3D feature in their TVs, will stop doing so in 2017. None of their sets, not even high-end models …
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She pushed down hard on the rectangular phone and, like a slap bracelet, it cinched around her wrist. The audience gasped; the internet went wild. CNET tries on Lenovo’s bendy CPlus concept phone. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET This articulated wraparound phone — known as the CPlus — was a concept device Lenovo used to wow the crowd as part of a larger …
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