This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. The coronavirus has given Father’s Day a bit of a new look and feel this year, but you can still buy and ship gifts to your dad if you’re celebrating remotely. If you’re thinking about buying your …
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K-Pop fans get ready: Samsung has confirmed it’s launching a BTS-themed Galaxy S20+ 5G phone. Samsung and BTS are also collaborating on the Galaxy Buds+ BTS Edition, with the phone and earbuds featuring a purple heart. Both will be available July 9. The Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G BTS Edition features purple glass and metal, and comes with stickers, photo cards …
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This is an update of a deal from earlier this week: Amazon was offering the unlocked Samsung Galaxy A51 for $289, a hefty $111 discount, but that barely lasted a day. Thankfully, If don’t mind switching carriers (at least temporarily), there’s an even better deal to be had: Visible is offering the Galaxy A51 for $208 after a $200 virtual …
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On the heels of launching the premium Motorola Edge Plus, Motorola on Friday announced two new budget phones that are under $200: the Moto G Fast and Moto E. The phones enter a crowded field of affordable phone competitors including the $399 iPhone SE and Samsung Galaxy A51, as well as lower-cost options such as the $150 Samsung Galaxy A01 …
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This story is part of CNET at 25, celebrating a quarter century of industry tech and our role in telling you its story. Every time you use a smartphone, you’re enjoying something we thought might never exist: a device that does almost everything really well. But in the early years after CNET’s founding in 1995, there was a lot of …
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Intel’s Lakefield processor architecture arrives Wednesday in new Core i5-L16G7 and i3-L13G4 chips that look to challenge Qualcomm’s processor platform in the pursuit of full-day battery life for Windows laptops. The new Cores come at a time when Apple is reportedly breaking away from Intel to produce computer CPUs based around its own ARM-hybrid architecture, kin of the A13 and family used …
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Raise your hand if you’re confused like me. The Samsung Galaxy S10E is the “budget” option in the Galaxy lineup, right? No, wait, it’s the new Galaxy A51. Or maybe it’s the Galaxy S10 Lite, which I honestly didn’t realize existed until this morning. I don’t envy anyone trying to choose between all these models. Maybe this will help: For a …
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The coronavirus may have slammed the brakes on big in-person events to launch new phones, but the pandemic won’t stop Samsung from bringing out three anticipated models virtually. The latest rumor is that the Galaxy maker will be hosting an Unpacked event virtually on Aug. 5 to unveil its next versions of the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Fold and a 5G …
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A year ago, foldable phones captured the imagination of gadget enthusiasts and did something handsets hadn’t done in a while — elicit genuine excitement. But in a year beset by a global pandemic and now focused on protests seeking an end to police brutality and racial injustice, that sort of whiz-bang product — which so far sells for more than …
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AT&T is adding more resources to its budding 5G network. The wireless giant said on Friday that it has started deploying a new network technology known as dynamic spectrum sharing that could eventually lead to a big jump in coverage. The carrier has turned on a 5G network for 120 million people using low-band spectrum, with a goal to have …
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