People scoffed and moaned when the iPhone 7 ditched the headphone jack, but it seems like the trend could continue. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 may become the next popular phone to forgo the headphone jack, according to SamMobile. A lot is riding on Samsung’s next Galaxy S flagship. After this fall’s Galaxy Note 7 …
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Cord cutters, at least initially, are high on DirecTV Now. That’s according to AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, who said the company hit its December goal for new subscribers the day the streaming TV service launched. “The early demand has been rather dramatic,” Stephenson said at an investor conference on Tuesday. The comments offer shine a bit of light …
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Samsung fans, get ready to take better selfies. The Korean company plans to bring a new automatic focus feature to the Galaxy S8 ($180 at eBay)‘s front camera, according to a report by Korean news site ETNews. Enlarge Image Front-facing cameras can result in some pretty dismal selfies in low light, such as this one taken with the Galaxy S7. …
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Electronics manufacturer Xiaomi may be a relatively small Chinese company, but it’s setting its sights worldwide. Recently, Xiaomi announced that it’ll unveil an all-new product at CES 2017 on January 5. Based in Beijing, Xiaomi made its name selling electronics of all kinds — including phones, fitness bands, electric bikes, robot vacuums and even a rice cooker — at lower …
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When it comes to the processor that powers your phone, size matters. And Qualcomm and Samsung are going smaller than ever. The two companies on Thursday showed off the Snapdragon 835 chip, the first mobile processor to lean on a 10-nanometer manufacturing technique from Samsung, which packs millions more transistors — the engines for processing power — into a tinier …
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Samsung has tumbled — exploding Galaxy Note 7 phones precipitated the company’s fiery fall from grace — but the company is undoubtedly going to try to get back up by making more reliable, less fire-prone phones. In the wake of recalling and then completely ceasing production on the Note 7, Samsung’s profits plummeted to its lowest in nearly eight years. …
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At first blush, this is a partnership that shouldn’t succeed. HTC, the perennial little guy whose products are routinely ignored in favor of heavy hitters like Apple or Samsung, has worked with Sprint, the nation’s fourth-place wireless carrier, on an exclusive phone. People hate exclusive phones. Yet here is the Bolt, a phone made by HTC specifically for Sprint. It …
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Get your thumbs ready. A recent rumor about the alleged Samsung Galaxy S8 claims that it will come with an optical fingerprint sensor built underneath the display, which would be a first for a Samsung phone. It might be goodbye to the home button. You have served us well. Jason Cipriani/CNET What’s more, it could ditch the physical home button …
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants consumers to know he has their backs as he makes a final push to get new rules in place to protect online privacy and open competition in the cable set-top box market. In a commentary published Wednesday on CNET, Wheeler ticked off several consumer-friendly policies and rules his agency has adopted since he took office …
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The next Galaxy S phone keeps getting closer to reality. According to a new report, Samsung has already started work on the firmware of the Galaxy S8. Samsung’s been in the spotlight for the past few weeks for its Note 7 debacle as well as other unfortunate events. If the company wants to recover from its losses, it will have …
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