Amazon Prime Day is winding down. The deals below will end Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. PT (Wednesday, 2:59 a.m. ET). Be sure to keep a close eye on this post for the rest of today, as we will be updating it with new deals as we find them. Also, read our overview of the best …
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The world has gotten a few more details on the recently unveiled HTC Exodus, the first “blockchain phone” announced by a major manufacturer. It will cost in the neighborhood of $1,000 (like its upcoming competitor, Sirin Labs’ Finney), with a real price announcement by the end of August, and will ship by the end of the year. That’s straight from …
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Windows Phone is dead and it’s not coming back. Microsoft has long since pulled support for push notifications, and even Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates gave up his Windows phone in favor of an Android device. Once upon a time, Windows-based phones vied with BlackBerry, Palm and Nokia’s platforms to dominate the nascent smartphone world. But in the years following the 2007 introduction …
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OnePlus recently announced it will release a limited-edition red OnePlus 6, available next week on July 10. Preorders have already begun. The obnoxiously shiny red phone — I mean that in the best way — will only be available in North America and Europe for $579 and £519, with 128GB of storage. We got our hands on the new red model, …
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Picture it: San Francisco, July 4, 2006. It’s a year before the first iPhone would go on sale and six months before we even knew for sure that the earth-shattering handset existed. Sure we had “smartphones” at the time, in the form of Palm Treos and assorted Windows Mobile devices (for you youngsters out there, that was Microsoft’s software before Windows …
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If you’re in the market for a top Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Google Pixel 2 are probably on your list of considerations (note that the next flagship phone from each of these manufacturers–the Note 9 and Pixel 3–should be here in August and October, respectively. That’s no surprise — as the reigning Android phone maker, Samsung has …
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5G is the next tech revolution. Slated to launch around 2020, Huawei is getting a head start. The company’s first 5G phone will go on sale next year, it announced at Mobile World Congress Shanghai, sometime before the end of June 2019. It’ll follow Huawei’s first 5G Kirin chip, which it says will come in March. Earlier this year, 18 …
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If you want the best deal on an OLED TV, it’s all about keeping an eye on current prices. And as summer begins in earnest, the 2017 versions are still my “bargain” picks, even after modest price drops on the 2018 models. This spring I reviewed LG’s 2018 OLED TV, the C8, and it’s the best-performing TV I’ve ever tested. …
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LG Display will reportedly supply between 2 million and 4 million organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays for Apple iPhones. This number is small relative to Apple’s phone sales, Bloomberg notes, but solidifying LG as an OLED supplier would make Apple less reliant on Samsung, the sole source of displays for the iPhone X and its main rival in the smartphone …
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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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