This year’s graduation season won’t quite be a return to normal with the coronavirus pandemic still lingering. But that just provides an even bigger reason to celebrate the grads in your life with a present that they’ll love, like a pair of new wireless headphones. With a multitude of models on the market, figuring out the best …
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Were you considering buying a smartwatch for your Android phone? Hold off until the fall. Google and Samsung have announced a partnership to redesign Google’s Wear OS for watches, and Samsung’s future Galaxy watches will run on this new software. Also, Fitbit is making a Wear OS app, and will have its own watch too. The news broke at this …
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Wish you could listen to Spotify without your phone? Until now, you had precious few options. There’s the Mighty Vibe, an iPod Shuffle-style portable music player that can suck up your Spotify playlists for offline listening. It’s $100. Then there are various high-end smartwatches, like the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 and certain Garmin ForeRunner models. Those start at around …
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Google had big ambitions with its wearable software, Wear OS. But for the past few years, it’s stagnated and Apple has taken an even bigger lead in the global smartwatch market. A new partnership with Samsung announced on Tuesday at Google I/O could give Wear OS the attention it needs to stay relevant. But it won’t catch up to Apple …
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Google I/O 2021 kicked off with a keynote event that included a look at some great innovations, from new features in Maps to updated ways to manage your search history to some great views into what’s coming in the next big version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 12. But there were some large gaps in the presentation, some of which we …
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Samsung has a lot of phones in its lineup these days, the latest being the Galaxy A02S, Galaxy A32, Galaxy A42 and Galaxy A52. (“Alphabet-soup cleanup on Aisle 6!”) If you’ve perused these entry-level and midrange models and decided the A42 is the one for you, there’s a great deal to be had. The phone would cost you $400 to …
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As a Windows PC and Galaxy phone user, I was pretty excited to test one of Samsung’s premium Galaxy Book Pro and Pro 360 laptops. Available as a regular clamshell laptop or convertible two-in-one in 13- and 15-inch sizes, the Galaxy Book Pros are the first results of a co-engineering relationship between Samsung and Intel and they’re built to be …
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There’s no question about it: When it comes to phones, Samsung is the king of zoom. Last year’s Galaxy S20 Ultra introduced the Space Zoom function, which went up to 100x magnification, and 2021’s S21 Ultra made it even better with improved image quality and much-needed stabilization. (Huawei’s P40 Pro has similarly impressive zoom capabilities, but its lack of Google …
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Asus is betting a small phone will make a big impact. It bills its new midrange ZenFone 8 as the “ultimate compact Android phone.” The ZenFone 8 has a crisp 5.9-inch AMOLED display, respectable battery life, dependable cameras, stereo speakers, and powerful internals that by some measures rivals the $1,200 Galaxy S21 Ultra’s performance. All this is crammed into a …
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Apple on Monday said it’s investing $45 million in Corning, which supplies the tech giant with the “ceramic shield” screens used in its iPhone 12 lineup. Corning also creates precision glass for the Apple Watch, iPad and other iPhones. The funding, which comes from Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund, will be used to “expand Corning’s manufacturing capacity in the US and drive research …
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