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LG on Thursday offered a hint about its future phone, with a few concept images showing a “raindrop” rear camera design and “front-back symmetrical curves” The cameras descend in order by size, with the main lens sitting just above the surface, the other two lenses lying under the glass and the flash below them — …

For a lot of people, Blu-ray’s day has come and gone. It’s not hard to see why — streaming services have made the concept of inserting a plastic disc in a machine to watch Birds of Prey seem as archaic as my old 400-disc audio CD carousel (and if you’re too young to remember such things, yes, they were real …

John Legere, the rebel telecom executive who pulled T-Mobile from the edge of irrelevance and turned it into a thriving carrier with a cult following, has overseen his last “Un-carrier” event.  On Wednesday, as T-Mobile completed its merger with Sprint, Legere handed the CEO reins to Mike Sievert. Legere will serve on the board until his contract is up in …

Satellite TV provider Dish Network ended up being the savior for the T-Mobile Sprint merger. Just when it seemed that regulators would reject the $26.5 billion marriage, Dish swooped in and made a deal last summer brokered by the Department of Justice that would make it a fourth national carrier to replace Sprint.  As part of the agreement, Dish is …

Amid all the bad news about the coronavirus pandemic, TV tech nerds can take solace in one constant: TV makers have mostly told me new sets will ship on schedule this spring. And that includes my favorite high-end TV over the last few years, LG’s OLED-based models. The newest versions, first announced at CES in January, range widely in size and price …

LG’s V60 ThinQ 5G was announced last month, and while plenty of products and events have been delayed in recent weeks, the phone still appears to be on track. On Monday the new dual-screen capable phone got pricing and release information from AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.  AT&T’s V60 ThinQ 5G will be available online starting this Friday for $900, while …

Fooling a face-scanning phone camera may be a lot more challenging in 2021. Live-skin-sensing technology is coming to phones, promising a way to 3D scan your face — and also check to see if your face is made of actual living flesh. Trinamix, a subsidiary of German chemical company BASF SE, promises it could work with a variety of affordable …

Shadow is riding the wave of cloud-gaming buzz generated by big players such as Nvidia (GeForce Now), Google (Stadia) and Microsoft (Project xCloud). It’s expanding in the US with new plans and pricing for its PC-in-the-cloud service and a forthcoming experiment with VR timed to coincide with Valve’s Half Life: Alyx. Shadow has also entered a strategic partnership with LG, because …

Standing in a holographic office space half-layered into the real room I was in, back in February, I lifted my hand to a wall full of faces of myself, pulled from Google. I dragged one across the room to where a group of people stood — some real and standing with me, others were avatars. Dragging my finger across a …

I’ve watched the spread of folding-screen devices from a distance. I’ve been curious. But with high prices and weird construction and compromises, I often haven’t seen the point. That changed when I took a close-up look at some of the 2020 products boasting folding screens. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, and even the new folding Moto Razr, made sense when …