Now playing: Watch this: The huge TV screens of CES 2018 are coming for you! (The… 4:13 Today’s podcast is all about the new TV tech expected at CES 2018, with David Katzmaier, who reviews televisions for CNET, discussing what people should pay attention to and what they can ignore. The 3:59 gives you bite-size …
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Your next Android smartphone is about to get a lot smarter. Qualcomm on Wednesday detailed its upcoming Snapdragon 845 processor, which will likely power most high-end Android phones launching in 2018. The chip boasts improved image- and video-capture abilities, smarter artificial intelligence features, “lightning-fast connectivity,” “vault-like security,” and better performance and power efficiency. In other words, the rumored Galaxy S9 could …
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When I reviewed the excellent Apple TV 4K, I had two major complaints: the price and the fact that it forced users to watch everything in high dynamic range. Apple didn’t lower the price (yet), but a free software update available today addresses my second concern. Now there’s a setting that lets people who care — video nerds like me, …
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UPDATE November 28, 2017: The price for the B7A series is now higher than it was during this sale. If you want to buy a new OLED TV now, it might be worth waiting for prices to fall again, but on the other hand, they might not get as low as they did during the sale described below. LG’s Black …
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Is a turkey coma hampering your Black Friday shopping? No worries. Cyber Monday gives you a second shot at the deals, and Amazon is just one of the many retailers rolling out new offerings for the so-called busiest online shopping day of the year. Amazon doesn’t stop at just Cyber Monday, on which the company broke a record last year with …
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It’s an old adage that technology gets better and cheaper every year. But how true is that? There are certainly more inexpensive products every year, but often those less-expensive products perform worse than average. They’re just cheaper, but not as “good.” If you look at the best TVs on the market, they’re still pretty expensive. But how does that compare …
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It’s no secret that Black Friday deals — like Christmas decorations and pumpkin spice lattes — seem to start earlier every year. But the upside of that is that you can cash in on some good bargains without peeking at your phone during Thanksgiving dinner or waiting in freezing temperatures for the doors to open at Best Buy. To that …
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Ah, Black Friday: The time of year when carriers and retailers fall all over themselves to outdo each other’s phone deals. It’s also the time of year when you see some of the hottest phones available with killer deals and discounts, and midprice phones that get even cheaper. Here are the best deals for AT&T, Cricket, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular …
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T-Mobile is celebrating Black Friday a week early, but after seeing its deal we can’t complain. Starting Friday Nov. 17, anyone who buys a new flagship phone from T-Mobile can get another phone of equal or lesser value for free — through a rebate — after adding a line of service. You can’t buy just any phone, but the ones …
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Editors’ note: Here’s CNET’s full review of the OnePlus 5T. It’s available now. The OnePlus 5T is real and it’s coming Nov. 16. A few days after its CEO confirmed the phone’s existence in to a forum post, the company announced details of the OnePlus 5T launch event, which is slated for 12 p.m. EST in Brooklyn, New York, that day. You’ll be …
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