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Amazon Prime Day best 2018 deals: Fitness trackers and Smartwatches

Update, July 18: Prime Day officially ended at midnight PT (3 a.m. ET). Nearly all the deals featured below have now expired. Check out our roundup of Prime Day deals still available for a curated list of the best remaining bargains.  Amazon Prime Day, the online retailer’s giant 36-hour sale, continues to run through Tuesday …

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Best Amazon Prime Day 2018 phone deals: Galaxy Note 8 and LG V35 ThinQ are $300 off for just a few more hours

Update, July 18: Prime Day officially ended at midnight PT (3 a.m. ET). Nearly all the deals featured below have now expired. Check out our roundup of Prime Day deals still available for a curated list of the best remaining bargains.  Disclaimer: CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of the products featured on this page. Phones …

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Samsung’s new DRAM chip could make your mobile device run faster and longer

Samsung on Monday unveiled a new memory chip for mobile devices that promises 50 percent speed improvements and 30 percent better battery life.    Samsung says the chip is the world’s first 10-nanometer 8Gb LPDDR5 DRAM that it’s 1.5 times as fast as the mobile LPDDR4X DRAM chips used in current flagship mobile devices. The chip will be able to support …

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Best Amazon Prime Day 2018 deals: Laptops, PCs, Chromebooks, tablets, monitors and printers

Update, July 18: Prime Day officially ended at midnight PT (3 a.m. ET). Nearly all the deals featured below have now expired. Check out our roundup of Prime Day deals still available for a curated list of the best remaining bargains.  Our original story continues below: There are still a few hours to go until the close of Amazon Prime …

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The Galaxy S10’s key feature will reportedly be ultrasonic

It’s one of the worst-kept secrets in the phone industry: Samsung is hoping to eventually sell you a phone with a fingerprint sensor that lives underneath the screen. But how? Well, a pair of reports out of China and Korea suggest that sucker might be ultrasonic — firing high-frequency acoustic waves through the glass that capture your fingerprint without fear of …

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The worst Galaxy S9 features Samsung can fix for the Galaxy S10

I love the Galaxy S9, I really do. But there are some things Samsung needs to change about this top-scoring, top-performing phone, and if we don’t see them in the upcoming Galaxy Note 9, I hope Samsung will have fine-tuned its software by the time we get to the Galaxy S10, SX, or whatever Samsung will wind up calling 2019’s midyear …

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Here are 5 ways Apple’s App Store changed how we use smartphones

Without Apple’s App Store, your iPhone may well have just stayed a phone. The App Store has been around so long, it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always a core part of the iPhone concept. The store came a year after the introduction of original iPhone, arriving with the iPhone 3G. It debuted with 500 apps from developers like MLB …

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9 tech tips I learned while traveling abroad

If you don’t do it often (or ever), traveling to another country can be challenging. Scary, even. During a recent trip to Italy, I found myself staring down the barrel of a language I couldn’t speak, read or understand. Thankfully, I had modern technology at my disposal, and that made the travel life infinitely easier. You do need to plan …

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Samsung planning white Galaxy Tab S4?

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 unveiling is rumored to be just around the corner, and we may already have evidence of at least one color variant. The upcoming tablet, which is widely expected to be revealed this month, will be available in white, according to an image posted Tuesday evening on Twitter by prolific leaker Evan Blass. The device will …

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Samsung’s next wearable is apparently called the ‘Galaxy Watch’

Update, August 2018: The Samsung Galaxy Watch has been officially announced. It seems like Samsung’s next wearable will be named the Samsung Galaxy Watch. Samsung recently registered a logo for the “Samsung Galaxy Watch” with the Korean Intellectual Property Organization, as spotted by GalaxyClub. You can check out the filing and logo below: Enlarge Image The name and logo are …

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