Fingerprint-smudged smartphones may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new technology from glass maker Corning. Handset vendors like Apple and Samsung have been incorporating more and more glass in their phone designs over the past couple of years. While devices originally had glass just over the front touchscreen, designs now contain glass …
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Klutzes, rejoice. Your next smartphone should be able to survive multiple drops. On Wednesday, glass maker Corning unveiled its newest technology, Gorilla Glass 6, which it says should survive repeated drops from heights of 1 meter (3.28 feet). In its tests, the glass lasted through 15 drops, twice as many as Gorilla Glass 5. Normal glass failed on the first …
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More details of Samsung’s rumored foldable phone for 2019 have trickled out: It may be codenamed “Winner,” and when folded have cameras on the back and a small display in front. That news comes from an unnamed source, speaking to the Wall Street Journal. The source reiterates previous rumors we’ve heard: It will be a seven-inch model and arrive in early …
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Amazon Prime Day is winding down. The deals below will end Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. PT (Wednesday, 2:59 a.m. ET). Be sure to keep a close eye on this post for the rest of today, as we will be updating it with new deals as we find them. Also, read our overview of the best Prime Day deals from every …
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Update, July 18: Prime Day officially ended at midnight PT (3 a.m. ET). Nearly all the deals featured below have now expired. Check out our roundup of Prime Day deals still available for a curated list of the best remaining bargains. Disclaimer: CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of the products featured on this page. Phones …
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It’s one of the worst-kept secrets in the phone industry: Samsung is hoping to eventually sell you a phone with a fingerprint sensor that lives underneath the screen. But how? Well, a pair of reports out of China and Korea suggest that sucker might be ultrasonic — firing high-frequency acoustic waves through the glass that capture your fingerprint without fear of …
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I love the Galaxy S9, I really do. But there are some things Samsung needs to change about this top-scoring, top-performing phone, and if we don’t see them in the upcoming Galaxy Note 9, I hope Samsung will have fine-tuned its software by the time we get to the Galaxy S10, SX, or whatever Samsung will wind up calling 2019’s midyear …
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Sony just took the wraps off of its new Sony Xperia XA2 Plus phone. The phone is a follow-up to the midrange Sony Xperia XA2 and Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra released earlier this year. As the name implies, the 6-inch Sony Xperia XA2 Plus is larger than the Xperia XA2, but the same size as the Xperia XA2 Ultra. Now …
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Windows Phone is dead and it’s not coming back. Microsoft has long since pulled support for push notifications, and even Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates gave up his Windows phone in favor of an Android device. Once upon a time, Windows-based phones vied with BlackBerry, Palm and Nokia’s platforms to dominate the nascent smartphone world. But in the years following the 2007 introduction …
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 unveiling is rumored to be just around the corner, and we may already have evidence of at least one color variant. The upcoming tablet, which is widely expected to be revealed this month, will be available in white, according to an image posted Tuesday evening on Twitter by prolific leaker Evan Blass. The device will …
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