Perhaps this is a new Apple, one that’s kinder and gentler to your wallet. The Cupertino, California, consumer electronics on giant on Tuesday unveiled a new iPad. While the $329 price tag (£319, AU$469) is identical to last year’s model, the new version comes packed with more features — notably support for the Apple Pencil …
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If all the rumors are right, you won’t be able to escape foldable phones if you try. The latest scuttlebutt is that Apple is on track to join Samsung and Huawei in a growing group of device makers planning to make a foldable phone. While Samsung’s may arrive by the end of 2018, a foldable iPhone is said to be …
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If you’re on a specific carrier in a specific country, your Samsung Galaxy S8 or Note 8 may already have the Android 8.0 Oreo update, but many are still waiting. In an update on Samsung’s community site, the electronics giant announced a rollout for all S8 and Note 8 phones (including unlocked phones) should be complete within three weeks. “We understand …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image But who will sell it best? Andrew Hoyle/CNET My inbox dripped with emails. After my visits to three Bay Area carrier stores last week in an attempt to see how — or even whether — the new Samsung Galaxy S9 was being sold, …
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Just how difficult is it going to be for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to clean up the world’s largest social network and make sure apps aren’t there waiting to potentially exploit your data? Maybe even harder than he thinks, given what we found after just a quick check of some of the apps linked to our own profiles. Those include …
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have scarcely been on sale for a week and already some Galaxy S9 owners are reporting dead zones. Numerous complaints on the official Samsung forums and all over Reddit (here, here and here) describe how portions of the screen won’t respond to touch input. Samsung has said it’s responding to the issue. …
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Will Samsung put a fingerprint sensor within the Galaxy Note 9 display? That’s been a topic of debate for weeks now as arguments both support and contradict the rumor. Enlarge Image The Vivo Apex concept phone shows what an embedded fingerprint scanner would look like. Andrew Hoyle/CNET But a new report says that Samsung is likely to adopt in-display fingerprint scanning for the …
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A circulating rumor that the unannounced OnePlus 6 could cost $749 is causing speculation that the 6 could be OnePlus’ costliest phone yet. And while the tail end of that statement could still be true, the asking price is probably lower than you think. Why? That leaked cost is very likely not in US dollars. An anonymous Weibo post (via …
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Here’s a basic rundown of Oppo, a company you may or may not have heard of: It’s the fourth biggest phone brand in the world and it makes some great phones — but they usually look way too much like iPhones. The Chinese giant’s newest phones, the R15 and the R15 Dream Mirror Edition, were officially unveiled on Tuesday. In …
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So you’ve just lost a brand-new Samsung Galaxy phone. It’s OK! You’re fine. Samsung’s Find My Mobile feature is here to help. It’s free, and if you signed into your Samsung account when you first set up the phone, then it’s already set up. Let’s assume you still have the phone to hand. Instead of waiting for something unfortunate to happen, …
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