Four years after launching the original, Apple announced its new iPhone SE back in April. I imagine that smaller-phone fans collectively jumped for joy upon hearing the news. The iPhone SE, which looks like an iPhone 8 but features the iPhone 11‘s powerful A13 chipset, uses a 4.7-inch display. Apple claims that it’s a “small” phone. And it …
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Earlier this week, when Microsoft announced its Project xCloud video game service would be released on September 15 for free to Xbox Games Pass Ultimate subscribers, it said devices powered by Google’s Android software were supported. But the tech giant conspicuously said nothing about Apple in its press materials. On Thursday, it said why. In a strongly worded statement, the …
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Earlier this week, when Microsoft announced its Project xCloud video game service would be released on September 15 for free to Xbox Games Pass Ultimate subscribers, it said devices powered by Google’s Android software were supported. But the tech giant conspicuously said nothing about Apple in its press materials. On Thursday, it said why. In a strongly worded statement, the …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 resolves one of the biggest complaints about the first generation: the front display. The South Korean electronics giant on Wednesday — at its first all-virtual Unpacked event — unveiled the new version of its first foldable from last year. The device sports a screen that stretches across the front of the phone, giving it a flashier …
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For its annual August Samsung Unpacked event, the company promised us at least five new devices, and delivered with the Galaxy Z Fold 2, a couple of Galaxy Note 20 models, the Galaxy Buds Live, the Galaxy Tab S7 tablet, Galaxy Watch 3 and more. Following similar events by companies like Apple, which have shifted events online due to the coronavirus pandemic, …
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Google has contracted with Samsung to design and manufacture a chip that’ll be used to track body movements, according to South Korean tech blog ETNews. The report comes as Google faces staunch opposition to its acquisition of fitness tracking pioneer FitBit in the EU. Samsung is reportedly both designing and manufacturing the chip, as opposed to building a chip to spec based …
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Samsung believes the next way to prove the power of its phones is through the Xbox. Samsung said it’s working with Microsoft to bring streaming game technology to Samsung phones and tablets, starting with the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Tab S7. The new devices are designed to “work like a computer and play like a gaming console together,” TM Roh, president and head …
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Samsung unpacked pop stars BTS for a cameo appearance at Wednesday’s Galaxy Note 20 launch. Ahead of their forthcoming new single Dynamite this month, the Korean pop superstars played around with the new folding Galaxy Z Fold 2. The hugely popular band will no doubt influence its army of fans to consider Samsung devices through the endorsement deal, even if the actual appearance at …
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The US Department of State unveiled on Wednesday the Clean Network program, calling it an effort to protect individual and corporate privacy, as well as sensitive information. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the program will guard against “aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party.” Pompeo said the program had five elements to protect carrier networks …
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Samsung’s latest wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds Live, haven’t exactly been the best-kept secret. Images of the kidney-bean-shaped buds leaked three weeks ago on Twitter and we pretty much saw the full monty when Samsung updated its Galaxy Wear app for iOS and Android a little ahead of schedule. The only things we didn’t know by that point were a …
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