The OnePlus 6T has been officially announced and here’s our review. Speaking in his native Mandarin, OnePlus‘ founder and CEO Pete Lau exudes a reserved persona, despite being only weeks away from unveiling the OnePlus 6T phone. Compared to the company’s other founder, Carl Pei, Lau carries himself more formally. Though the two look unassuming …
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Google’s upcoming Pixel 3 smartphones could come with a “Top Shot” mode to capture photos of people at the moment they’re looking their best, the newest in a series of Pixel 3 leaks indicates. “Use Top Shot to get smiles, not blinks, and take groupie selfies that get everyone in the photo (without a selfie stick),” say apparent promotional materials …
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Every year after Google releases the next major update of Android, there’s a week or so of excitement about the new features. Then, after the excitement wears off, there’s a realization that you will likely wait weeks or months before your phone will get the update. Heck, my friend’s Galaxy S7 Edge ($199 at Amazon) just received the Android Oreo …
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Samsung really appears to be cashing in chips. The South Korea electronics giant said Thursday it expects to record its biggest operating profit ever in the third quarter, likely thanks largely to continued strong demand for its memory chips. The company said its operating profit will come in at around 17.5 trillion won ($15.8 billion), a 20 percent increase from …
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Spotify is coming to another smartwatch — but it’s not the Apple Watch. Garmin on Wednesday announced that it’s integrating the popular music streaming service with compatible Garmin music watches, starting with its Fenix 5 Plus Series. Owners of the Fenix 5 Plus Series who subscribe to Spotify Premium can now sync playlists directly to their watches via Wi-Fi, taking their …
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With the upgrade to the Tile Mate and Tile Pro, the company is addressing a big complaint about its older smart trackers. Tile has improved its smart tracking tags by making the batteries replaceable, increasing the Bluetooth range, bumping up the volume and adding a new Tile Premium subscription that provides extra services. Earlier versions of the trackers didn’t have replaceable …
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I’ve been watching Android for 10 years, from the moment it first blinked to life on the T-Mobile G1 phone. It grew up with support for on-screen controls and reached its teenage years with the Google Assistant. That’s an impressive feat for a mobile platform that already started far behind BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Apple’s then year-old iOS. Android survived where …
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LG’s next flagship smartphone, the LG V40 ThinQ, hasn’t even been officially announced yet, but that’s not stopping the company from touting one of the device’s marquee features. The upcoming smartphone will be able to take cinemagraphs, which are still photos with minor bits of repeated movement. Creating a cinemagraph normally requires the composition of a series of photographs or …
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Our full review of the iPhone XR is here. How does it compare to the iPhone XS and Pixel 3? We answer that and much more in our exhaustive review. You want the best new iPhone for your lifestyle, but which one should you buy? Great question. The iPhone XS, XS Max or iPhone XR lineup is a tight race, mostly because the …
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Apple’s latest update to iOS is here, and it’s full of new features. The update is available now for the iPhone ($899 at Amazon), iPad ($170 at Amazon) and iPod Touch. For those with a shiny new iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max ($427 at eBay), iOS 12 comes preinstalled. Apple also recently released iOS 12.1 through its beta program, which …
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