Remember when a new phone was the big news? Seems forever ago. But it was literally just last month that Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S20 lineup, with a starting price of $1,000. As always with flagship launches, I advised either scooping up last year’s model at a discount or waiting for the inevitable price drop …
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Regardless of the dwindling Android tablet market, Samsung remains one of the few consistent Android tablet makers. Its previous tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6, ranked on CNET’s best Android tablets of 2020 and Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab A looks like it won’t disappoint for the money, either. Priced at $280, the tablet features a premium lightweight metal design with …
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Chinese phone-maker Royole gave us a sneak peek of what to expect from its second foldable phone, the FlexPai 2, claiming it’ll deliver “significant improvements in every possible way.” The new handset will have a 7.8-inch screen, the newest Snapdragon 865 chipset, a Kyro 585 processor, high-speed LPDDR5 RAM, and 5G capability for nine different bands covering regions including the …
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After its predecessor emerged as the best-selling Android phone at the end of 2019, Xiaomi’s sub-brand Redmi took the wraps off its next-generation budget phone, the Note 9S, the latest international model from its best-selling Note series. On Monday, the company unveiled the Note 9S in an event livestreamed from the Chinese phone-maker’s Beijing headquarters after it was forced to …
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Most handset makers don’t even have one foldable phone on the market, but Chinese vendor Royole is gearing up for its second FlexPai phone, which’ll use its new third-generation display. Now playing: Watch this: Royole reveals FlexPai 2 next-gen foldable display 5:36 The company late Tuesday unveiled its new Cicada Wing display, saying it’s 50% brighter and has other “significant …
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Rear camera megapixels get all the spotlight. After Samsung launched the Galaxy S20 Ultra with a huge 108-megapixel camera on the back, expect to see more Android phones take up this feature in the coming year. But what about the front camera? Selfies should pack more pixels too — or at least, that’s what Chinese company Oppo says with the Reno3 …
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Owners of Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 will soon be able to get access to photo features that debuted in the Galaxy S20. The Korean electronics giant said Tuesday it will begin rolling out a software update to 10-series handsets in the next week to enhance the images users capture. The Galaxy S20 debuted in February with a list …
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The first wave of 5G phones have been on sale now for well over a year. That means HMD, which makes Nokia phones, is late to the party — but oh, what an entrance it’s making. The company announced the Nokia 8.3, its first 5G device, at a virtual launch event from London on Thursday, after the original MWC launch …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Samsung has become the latest tech giant to close its stores to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. The company on Tuesday said that its stores in the US will be closed for an indeterminate time. While Samsung is the world’s biggest …
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LG’s V60 ThinQ 5G was announced last month, and while plenty of products and events have been delayed in recent weeks, the phone still appears to be on track. On Monday the new dual-screen capable phone got pricing and release information from AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. AT&T’s V60 ThinQ 5G will be available online starting this Friday for $900, while …
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