Apple‘s had Face ID on its iPhone X for a while now, and Samsung aims to have something similar or even better, soon. The Korean tech giant has been granted a patent for its 2014 filing of a biometric camera by the US Patent Office, and it will feature iris recognition as well as 3D face …
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If you love gadgets, here’s a sight to behold: The inner workings of the Vivo Nex phone. It’s got a motorized pop-up selfie cam that helps maximize your screen real estate — since the camera doesn’t have to live on the front of the phone. No notch! We just unboxed this phone, but MyFixGuide has actually already torn it apart, …
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Today, every phone is more or less a rectangular slab along the lines of the iPhone X ($285 at Amazon) or Galaxy S9 ($198 at eBay). That’s not inherently a bad thing, but when you stack these devices side by side, it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a sea of sameness. From time to time I like to …
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When phone maker Oppo says that the Oppo Find X is almost all screen, it really means it. The Android handset is arresting to look at, mostly because its 6.4-inch display really does stretch across the entire phone face — there isn’t even a camera for taking selfies. Or rather, there is, but you won’t see it until you open …
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Pretty much everybody else is now happy with a single Bluetooth or sound bar speaker, but stereo speakers are still the choice for audiophiles. I get it: One speaker takes up half the space of two and costs roughly half as much, but I’d be derelict in my duties if I failed to mention what’s lost with a single speaker. …
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By the end of June, a new wave of phones with trendy AI features will start to sell for less. That’s when the first handsets to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 710 processor will be ready for business. Mobile processors, or chipsets, are the brains behind everything from photo processing to device security and data speeds. The nuts and bolts of chipsets …
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Oppo and Vivo will need to watch out. Honor looks to be gunning for their piece of the pie. Chinese phonemaker Huawei’s sub-brand took to Asia after its European launch, and its new Honor 10 flagship looks set to disrupt the market with its competitive price of just S$579. That’s about $430, £320 or AU$570 converted — way lower than …
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Where to begin? The PS Audio Sprout 100 is an update of the original Sprout, which was the first affordable amp from a high-end manufacturer. The first model showed a lot of promise, so what’s been changed? With the new one, there’s a doubling of the amp’s Class D power to 100 watts per channel into hard-to-drive 4 ohm speakers, …
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The BlackBerry Key2 will be unveiled on June 7, and we may now be getting an idea of how fast the phone could be. Two listings for an unannounced BlackBerry phone appeared on benchmarking site Geekbench (here and here). The listings tell us the BlackBerry phone runs Android 8.1 and comes with a Snapdragon 660 processor. Since no current BlackBerry phone …
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Update: The OnePlus 6 is now official. Check out the CNET hands-on of the OnePlus 6, the release of the OnePlus Bullets Wireless, and our interview with OnePlus CEO Carl Pei. The London event has ended, and the OnePlus 6 has been officially announced. Pricing for the 6.3-inch Android phone starts at $529 and £469, and it will be available …
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