“Size matters” jokes aside, the importance of the jumbo phone is no laughing matter. Korean tech giant Samsung, after all, was the first major player to wager on supersized handsets, unveiling the original Galaxy Note five years ago. At the time, critics ridiculed its 5.3-inch display as technology run amok. But a funny thing happened. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Everything Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 can do 2:03 Samsung has just unveiled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone to the world — and it turns out all of the leaks and rumors were basically true. The news from this morning’s press conference in New York City: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 unveiled: 5.7-inch curved screen, 12MP camera, iris …
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Now playing: Watch this: Everything Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 can do 2:03 At a press event in New York, Samsung introduced its 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 7 — the latest iteration of its big-screen, stylus-packing phone. Featuring an iris scanner, a water resistant design and a 12-megapixel camera, the Note 7 is a workhorse of a handset. With its Snapdragon 820 …
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Thanks to a new teaser ad posted by Samsung Mobile Korea, people curious about Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phone get a chance to play Sherlock Holmes. The fast-moving clip (embedded below) offers clues to features that the new phone will apparently offer. Your job is to try to decipher them. We’ll play Watson and lend a hand. Posted to YouTube …
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How low can iPhone sales go? That’s the question Apple followers are hoping CEO Tim Cook will answer Tuesday during the company’s quarterly earnings report. The past few quarters, in terms of financials, haven’t been standouts for Apple. Yes, the company is still making money, a lot of money, with quarterly sales totaling over $40 billion over the past couple …
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Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 7 has been the subject of countless rumors, and a new image allegedly reveals what it will look like. The image — a drawing, not a photo — was tweeted by known leaker @evleaks, aka Evan Blass, and first published at blog site VentureBeat. The device features a dual curved display, which backs up previous reports …
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You just got your hands on the shiny new Samsung Gear Fit 2. You’ve unboxed it, charged it up, and drooled over the screen — it sure is pretty. Now what? Set it up and start exercising, of course. Or if you’re on the fence about buying the Gear Fit 2, be sure to read through CNET’s review for the …
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Rooting is the Android equivalent of jailbreaking, a means of unlocking the operating system so you can install unapproved apps, deleted unwanted bloatware, update the OS, replace the firmware, overclock (or underclock) the processor, customize anything and so on. Of course, for the average user, this sounds like — and can be — a scary process. After all, “rooting” around …
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Design patents are given too much value when it comes to legal damages, Samsung has argued to the US Supreme Court in its patent dispute with Apple. In an opening brief filed Wednesday with the nation’s highest court, Samsung presented its arguments for why an earlier ruling in Apple’s favor should be thrown out. It said in the filing that …
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When Samsung thinks about the future of virtual reality, what it sees is a star — a Star Trek, to be precise. Injong Rhee, executive vice president and head of R&D for software and services in Samsung’s mobile business, on Wednesday gave some hints about what VR could look like in two to three years. Think holodecks a la Star …
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