You don’t need to be a wealthy Instagram star with the best dSLRs to take incredible photos. Today’s top phones like the iPhone 12 Pro Max, Galaxy S21 Ultra or other great Android phones have photography skills that rival many dedicated cameras. Even many older generation phones still pack amazing quality cameras that are more than …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra sits right at the top of the company’s lineup of phones for 2021. No surprise then that it has a huge list of elite specs, including a meaty processor and super-fast 5G connectivity. It’s Samsung’s answer to Apple’s flagship iPhone 12 Pro Max. But it’s the camera setup that stands out. There are four lenses on the …
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The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G is now available in navy blue, but you can’t pick up the flagship device in blue just anywhere. Instead, you’ll have to follow the blue to Best Buy, where the $999 device is being sold exclusively (by blue-shirted employees, we might add). See at Best Buy The base model clocks in at just under …
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A federal judge in California issued an order Thursday saying Google must face a proposed class-action lawsuit related to privacy concerns about its digital assistant. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Google of recording certain users’ conversations and then analyzing the recordings to target advertising, despite the users having activated Google …
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Speck sporadically runs deals around various holidays and its Independence Day sale is in full swing, with 30% off most products on its site, though some exclusions apply. There’s a limit of five items per order per customer and the sale ends on July 4 at 11:59 p.m. PT (2:59 a.m. ET July 5). See it at Speck The discount …
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AT&T has agreed to make Google Messages its default texting application for all Android customers in the US, Google said Wednesday. The move follows T-Mobile adding Google Messages as its default Android messaging platform back in March. Verizon hasn’t yet followed suit. Google Messages comes with features similar to those in Apple’s iMessage, using Rich Communication Services, or RCS, technology to …
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Broad 5G networks? Check. Ever higher speeds? Check. A headline presence at the Mobile World Congress conference? Check. Lots of 5G phone options, including cheap models? Check and check. Apps and services that need 5G’s speeds and responsiveness? Not quite. Such is the state of 5G today. Carriers across the globe have raced to install the super-fast connectivity across their …
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The modern phone does everything — including shatter, break and leak. No matter how elaborate or expensive a phone you buy, the manufacturer generally assumes you’ll take it upon yourself to immediately swaddle it in an aftermarket case so it can survive daily use. There’s no other consumer electronic product that leaves the factory so not ready for the real …
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Phones are getting a speed boost. Qualcomm on Monday unveiled its newest, highest-end smartphone processor, the Snapdragon 888 Plus. The chipset supercharges the Snapdragon 888, which arrived earlier this year in premium phones like the Samsung Galaxy S21. Qualcomm increased the clock speed on the Snapdragon 888 Plus’s CPU — the brains of the chipset — to 3GHz from 2.84GHz in …
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Samsung’s next Galaxy watch is being announced at an Unpacked event later this summer, and its new Google co-designed OS and interface is called One UI Watch. The news arrived Monday at a virtual Samsung event as part of this year’s Mobile World Congress. But all Samsung showed for now is the software interface. The actual watch design remains unknown, …
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