Motorola is hosting an event Wednesday night in Los Angeles where it is expected to introduce a new foldable Razr smartphone. While renders and marketing materials of the anticipated device have leaked over the past few weeks, our first look at what the actual phone looks like appears to have been revealed courtesy of the …
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Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 augmented reality headset, which was introduced at Mobile World Congress back in February, is now available to buy, the company announced Thursday. Earlier this year, Microsoft showed CNET the next-generation headset up-close. The self-contained, comfortable flip-up device has no controllers. It uses hand and eye tracking, and slides over glasses. I was impressed how easy it was to use. …
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Phones just keep getting bigger and not everyone is happy about it. For example, just look at how large the iPhone 11 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus are. For those with smaller hands, the pain of using big-screened devices is often very real. Sony is the one phone maker that’s historically been sympathetic to the plight of those …
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The Surface Pro X falls into a very small, very exclusive category of PC products. It’s one of only a handful of new releases every year that prompt colleagues to proactively email me, asking where, when and how to get one. It’s easy to see why it’s got some serious buzz. The standard Surface Pro 7 is the dictionary definition of a …
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Update, Nov. 14: The foldable Motorola Razr has been launched, and we went hands-on. Original story follows. Motorola’s foldable Razr is expected to be revealed next month, but the leaks are still coming. Noted leaker Evan Blass shared an image on his private Twitter account that appears to give one of the first clear looks at the foldable phone’s design, …
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It seems like Apple is preparing to launch a trio of 5G iPhones next year, after leaving the next-generation wireless technology out of this year’s iPhone 11 lineup. The modem will be designed by Qualcomm, Nikkei reported Wednesday. The Cupertino, California, company intends to ship at least 80 million of the 5G iPhone models and “has set an aggressive sales …
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With the blink of an eye, Google’s Pixel 4 (and Pixel 4 XL) accomplished something that no other significant Android phone-maker has. It finally caught up to iPhone’s Face ID — a biometric unlocking feature that Apple popularized two years ago — to unlock the phone and buy things with a scan of your face. Now that a secure version exists …
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While anticipation builds ahead of Motorola’s Nov. 13 event in which it teases a “highly anticipated unveiling of a reinvented icon,” the company isn’t putting all of its eggs in a foldable basket. Instead, on Thursday the Razr creator announced a host of new devices destined for countries beyond the US that are more traditional phones than the expected folding Razr. …
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T-Mobile is adding a new phone to its 5G stable, and it’ll be one of the first to support its forthcoming, new, low-band 5G network. On Wednesday the wireless carrier announced that it will be adding the OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren later this year when it turns on its new low-band 5G network. While not as fast as the millimeter-wave, high-frequency …
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LG announced Tuesday that its dual-screen G8X ThinQ phone will be launching Nov. 1 across Amazon, AT&T and Sprint, with preorders beginning Oct. 25. The starting price for the unlocked phone is $699.99. Unveiled during IFA in September, the dual-screen phone is focused on mobile gaming, media streaming and productivity, LG says. “Whether gaming, watching, creating, sharing or working, LG …
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