Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 10 line is ditching its headphone jack. After years of being one of the last true holdouts, it seems that not even the mighty Samsung could continue to prolong the inevitable death of the beloved port. Of course, with this switch, there is a bit of irony. As rumors continued to …
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Buying a new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and need service to go with it? Not loving the price or performance of your current carrier? Looking for a dirt-cheap plan for your backup phone? You’ve come to the right Cheapskate. For a limited time, phone carrier Mint Mobile is offering a pretty sweet buy-one-get-one (BOGO) deal: Buy 3 months of service, …
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Back in the day, having the smallest possible phone was a status symbol. Ben Stiller, playing the namesake Zoolander character in the popular 2001 movie, carried around a flip phone the size of a lighter to show how important he was. Steve Jobs, when introducing the first iPhone in 2007, noted that the 3.5-inch device “fits beautifully in the palm of …
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Samsung is hours away from launching its new Galaxy Note, rumored to be the Galaxy Note 10 with a 6.3-inch screen, and an even larger Note 10 Plus with a 6.8-inch display. Today, we may take the Note line for granted, but when the first Galaxy Note launched in 2011, it was met with derision. In those days, the Note was …
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Samsung on Wednesday unveiled a quick scanning feature to its new Galaxy Note 10 phone that lets you walk around an object and quickly get a seemingly photo-realistic 3D scan of it in seconds. During a demo at the Note 10 launch event, Samsung’s 3D scanner app created a virtual version of a stuffed pink animal called Bobby. By pacing …
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Samsung is bolstering its partnership with Microsoft through a new series of apps and features such as OneDrive storage for photos and better syncing between the phone and computer. The new features, designed for the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus, will also help Samsung to better take on the iPhone. Samsung and Microsoft said they’ve worked together to offer …
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Samsung surprised us with a new laptop at Wednesday’s Unpacked event for the Galaxy Note 10. The Galaxy Book S is an ultrathin, ultralight laptop with a 13.3-inch touchscreen that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx compute platform. Like past Qualcomm-based PCs we’ve seen, the Galaxy Book S sips power and is capable of 23 hours of continuous video playback on a …
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Samsung’s second 5G phone, the Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G, has arrived. Like the first device, the Galaxy S10 5G, it’s launching exclusively on Verizon’s network in the US before heading to other carriers. Unlike the Galaxy S10 5G, the 5G version of the Note 10 is simply a Plus model with an extra cellular chip, not a supercharged phone. …
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It’s official: Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 has become the company’s first flagship phone to ship without a headphone jack, following other phones designed to work primarily with wireless Bluetooth headphones, such as the Apple iPhone and forthcoming Galaxy Fold. Samsung announced two main versions of the Note 10 at an event in New York today: the 6.3-inch Note 10 and the 6.8-inch …
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One of the underappreciated parts of the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem has always been DeX, the platform for accessing apps and tolls on your Galaxy phone from the comfort of a keyboard/monitor/mouse setup. For its latest iteration in 2019 for the new Note 10 and Note 10+, the focus shifts to working with your PC, instead of trying to replace it. …
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