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CNET asks: How much do you know about the iPhone?

It’s hard to believe the iPhone has been around for a decade. Geez, where did the time go?! Over the years iPhone refinements have been made, the phones’ sizes have changed and features have been added as well as removed — the list is huge. And next Tuesday, on Sept. 12, the highly anticipated new …

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Nokia’s iPhone and Galaxy S competitor won’t be come to the US

Now playing: Watch this: Nokia finally has a flagship Android phone to get excited… 1:43 The Nokia 8 is generating a lot of hype for good reason. The company’s flagship phone has a blazing fast processor, custom camera software and, perhaps most importantly, the Nokia brand name.  What it won’t have? American buyers anytime soon. “We are not planning to bring …

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Meet Samsung’s next dual camera phones: Galaxy J7+ and C8

The Galaxy Note 8 became Samsung‘s first phone to have dual rear cameras, but just two weeks later, the company has already taken the wraps off of two new dual-camera phones that couldn’t be less like the Note: the Galaxy J7+ and the Galaxy C8. Both much more affordable, much more basic Android phones, the presence of two lenses on the back is basically …

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Get to know the Galaxy Note 8’s dual camera features

Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy Note 8: The final word 4:09 Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 is the latest phone to join in on the dual-camera craze. With the added camera, you can capture shots that have a bit of depth to them, which when done right, look amazing. There are also a few more benefits such as true 2x zoom …

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Apple’s Tim Cook sells iPad while advertising Auburn U.

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. So that’s what he does in his office. Auburn/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET CEOs are fond of saying they live and breathe the products their companies make. Many, indeed, just can’t resist peddling them at every opportunity. Here, then, is Apple CEO Tim Cook appearing …

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Goodbye, home button: iPhone 8 may be more radical than thought

Now playing: Watch this: 6 most-wanted iPhone 8 features 2:07 The iPhone’s home button has been rumored to be on the design chopping block for a while, but it now seems it might go beyond just removing it. Apple’s next iPhones $1,000 for iPhone 8? Here’s why you shouldn’t freak out What the Galaxy Note 8 means for the iPhone …

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BlackBerry all

The BlackBerry KeyOne will soon get a pal. BlackBerry phone manufacturer TCL will release a companion to the KeyOne in October, with at least one major difference — it won’t have a keyboard. “Two months from now, we will have a touchscreen solution to show,” François Mahieu, head of global sales for TCL, said in a briefing at the IFA tech …

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iPhone 8’s rumored $1,000 price tag: Why it makes sense

Rumors that the new high-end 2017 iPhone would cost upwards of $1,000 have persisted for so long that I can’t even remember where or when they first started. But with the recent New York Times report from Brian X. Chen that the Apple lineup will include “a premium model priced at around $999,” that price tag has been elevated from …

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Samsung’s Note 8 display sports record

Samsung just raised the bar in smartphone screens. Again. A year after DisplayMate awarded the Samsung Galaxy S8’s screen its first-ever A+ grade, the screen tester has crowned the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 as the best performing smartphone display, awarding it its top grade as well.  The feature-packed phone, unveiled last week, is Samsung’s follow-up to last year’s disaster-stricken Galaxy …

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IFA 2017 preview

In between gawping over the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and waiting for Apple to invite us to the unveiling for its new iPhone(s), CNET heads to Berlin this week for the biggest, oldest and oddest technology show in Europe. Miss IFA enjoys technology, the color red and smiling. Messe Berlin First held in 1924 as the “Berlin Radio Show,” IFA …

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