This story is part of The Year Ahead, CNET’s look at how the world will continue to evolve starting in 2022 and beyond. I had every intention of wearing Meta’s (Facebook) Ray-Ban Stories glasses, equipped with cameras, microphones and speakers, as my everyday glasses. Then something funny happened on the way to the optical shop. …
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There’s a new foldable phone in town: The Oppo Find N. After teasing its new foldable last week, the Chinese electronics-maker launched its latest Find N foldable phone on Wednesday, during the second day of its “Inno Day” event. The new phone, which will be sold only in China starting on Dec. 23, is a little smaller than rival foldable devices like …
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The iPhone 13 was released three months ago, and alleged leaks for the iPhone 14 are already flowing in at a steady pace. One rumor, which is as hopeful as it is persistent, is that the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max will get new displays without a notch and instead use a hole-punch cutout for their selfie cameras. …
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There’s a potential shakeup building in who’s supplying the brains of the latest and greatest Android smartphones. While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are the de facto gold standard in high-performance handsets, Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek said that Chinese phone giant Oppo will be employing its new 5G-capable Dimension 9000 chipset for its flagship Find X-series phones. The Dimension 9000 is MediaTek’s best …
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The full rumored specs for the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE have leaked online. The specs, reported by German news site Win Future on Wednesday, include a 6.4-inch screen with narrower edges and a better camera. The cheaper version of the Galaxy S21 could be announced during Samsung’s CES preshow keynote on Jan. 4, and is also rumored to run on the octacore …
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The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE offered a balanced combination of helpful features for a reasonable $699 starting price, but when will its successor, the rumored Galaxy S21 FE, make its debut? Some say we could see the company’s affordable smartphone in January. Although Samsung is set to hold a CES preshow keynote on Jan. 4, we’ll have to wait and …
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Smart glasses were supposed to be the next big thing… nearly a decade ago. Fast forward to 2021, and they’ve failed to become part of our daily lives, reduced to a mostly forgotten corner of consumer tech history. Chinese consumer electronics giant Oppo wants to change that and has taken its first commercial stab at making smart glasses a thing. …
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I finally got to try Snap’s AR glasses in my own backyard, testing a handful of its augmented-reality Lenses in bright outdoor light. The hour or so I spent with them was like a quick sprint through the possible future of how developers will play with AR beyond the current phone-powered experiences. I was able to try out a handful …
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A startup called SiFive announced a new processor design Thursday that could revamp mobile phones, cars and other digital devices if the company’s plans work out. Its Performance P650 design comes with a 50% speed boost over the P550 that arrived in June. The San Mateo, California-based company hopes its designs will offer a better balance of speed, battery life and cost thanks to …
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After announcing its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip on Tuesday, Qualcomm on Wednesday turned its focus to PCs, introducing two chips: a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor designed for Windows machines and a 7c+ chip for affordable Windows and Chromebook computers. With the 8cx, the company touts that its new 5-nanometer chips will provide “up to” 85% faster CPU and …
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