Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Will Apple weep at this review? James Martin/CNET It was, apparently, so close. Yet the iPhone X, Apple’s future of the smartphone, just wasn’t quite good enough. Not quite, indeed, as good as the iPhone 8 and 8 …
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The lovely screen with skinny bezels is the most exciting update to the new OnePlus 5T, but the camera has seen some tweaks too. The telephoto lens we liked on the standard OnePlus 5 is gone, replaced with a 20-megapixel sensor that helps improve picture quality in low-light situations. It provides depth information too, letting you snag those portrait shots with …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. And all you got me was a phone? Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Oh, those tech companies. They preach diversity, but the reality is a little less all-embracing than some might hope. So what are they supposed to do when the holidays come along? For …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Wait, what are they doing? Motorola/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s painful when you don’t get invited to the party. You can sulk. You can post something mean or hurt on Facebook. Or you can just crash the festivities. This seems to have been Motorola’s …
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has two rear cameras, while the Pixel 2 XL has just one. And while you may assume two is always better than one, in this comparison that’s not necessarily the case. My journey testing these pocket photography wizards took me over land and sea and both phones proved skillful enough to capture the world around …
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Ah, Black Friday: The time of year when carriers and retailers fall all over themselves to outdo each other’s phone deals. It’s also the time of year when you see some of the hottest phones available with killer deals and discounts, and midprice phones that get even cheaper. Here are the best deals for AT&T, Cricket, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular …
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Samsung fans who have been jealously, or at least curiously, eyeing the iPhone X’s Face ID unlock feature maybe shouldn’t pin their dreams on the Galaxy S9 getting 3D facial mapping, too. This comes from a report in Business Korea, citing sources inside and outside the company. The Galaxy S8, S8 Plus and Note 8 already have the face unlock functionality, …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 8, 8 Plus or X: Which should you get? 3:42 Picking an iPhone used to be dead simple: just get the new one. But, in 2017, Apple has three new iPhones: a basic iPhone 8, an upgraded 8 Plus, and a fancy iPhone X. That’s not even counting all the other iPhones Apple still sells, …
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T-Mobile is celebrating Black Friday a week early, but after seeing its deal we can’t complain. Starting Friday Nov. 17, anyone who buys a new flagship phone from T-Mobile can get another phone of equal or lesser value for free — through a rebate — after adding a line of service. You can’t buy just any phone, but the ones …
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Take a look at this picture of the gold iPhone 8 ($162 at Amazon) camera lens. Do you see the water droplets crowding together like an iridescent prism? It’s beautiful, but has no place in a camera, especially one rated to repel water as deep as 3 feet for up to 30 minutes. And yet, it happened to our phone. …
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