We knew Intel’s Tiger Lake laptop chips were going to be better than last year’s Ice Lake models. Now we know how much better. At a launch event Wednesday for the chips, formally called the 11th generation Core processors, Intel showed speedups that indicate it’s got some of its mojo back after years of sluggish …
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I can’t stop looking at the Galaxy Z Fold 2. I keep catching myself glancing admiringly at its cool metal frame, 6.2-inch outer screen and thin bezels. The Z Fold 2 is such a complete, well-considered foldable phone, it’s now hard to think of the original Galaxy Fold as anything other than a working mockup with a ridiculous $1,980 price tag. For $2,000 …
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When it comes to earbud-style headphones, a lot of people don’t like having ear tips jammed in their ears, instead preferring a more “open” design. But while open earbuds like the standard AirPods can be very comfortable to wear for hours on end, they allow a lot of ambient noise to leak in, making them difficult to use in noisy …
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5G is coming to even cheaper phones early next year, thanks to new Qualcomm chips — and Motorola, Oppo and Xiaomi will be selling them. When a new technology like 5G launches, it first arrives in high-end, pricey devices and eventually trickles down to less expensive phones. The first 5G phones released last year cost over $1,000 — the Galaxy …
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After months of canceled events, the IFA trade show in Berlin is going to try something different: entertain actual attendees in person. IFA will proceed from Sept. 3 to 5 with a scaled-back in-person component and other virtual events. Mainstays like Samsung are opting to forgo IFA entirely and instead host their own digital launches. The show will only let …
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Tech events so far this year have made something clear — it’s not tough for giants like Apple and Samsung to go all-virtual with their launches. But one aspect of a typical tech event doesn’t translate to a computer or phones screen: the demo room. Samsung thinks it’s found a possible solution. The company on Wednesday hosted a virtual Life …
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Get ready for a cavalcade of sales. With Labor Day sales already in progress, Prime Day now happening sometime this fall and Black Friday and Cyber Monday still ahead of us, it seems like we’re all in for one steady blur of deals between now and the end of the year. And here’s one more: Amazon is holding a Samsung …
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The 13.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 5G will be one of the first laptops to feature Intel’s next-gen Tiger Lake mobile processors. The small two-in-one appeared at Intel’s official unveiling of its 11th-gen Core chips alongside models from Acer, Asus and others. Samsung didn’t announce pricing or availability, but did give us a look at what’ll be inside. 11th-gen Intel …
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Laptops, phones and TVs are replaced by new models every year, but for some audio components like loudspeakers, the time between updates is closer to four or five years. Not so the Bowers and Wilkins 600 series. We last saw an update to those speakers in 2018, but just two years on, the company has a new model that it’s …
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Samsung’s Galaxy A42 5G phone. Samsung Samsung has announced three more mobile products: the Galaxy A42 5G smartphone, the budget Galaxy Tab A7 and the Trio wireless charger. The company on Wednesday hosted a virtual Life Unstoppable event taking place at the same time as the virtual IFA electronics show in Berlin. The new 5G phone will be part of …
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