Chinese phone maker Huawei may be gunning for the “world’s first” foldable smartphone. The company reportedly plans to announce its foldable phone in November this year, according to Korean news outlet ETNews (via PhoneArena). Enlarge Image The foldable Huawei phone will reportedly use flexible displays from LG Display. LG Display If the concept of a …
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An effort by Qualcomm’s former CEO to take the company private may actually have a chance. Paul Jacobs left his role as the company’s chairman last month after Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt failed. Qualcomm announced that Jacobs was looking at buying out the company his father, Irwin Jacobs, co-founded. At the time, such an offer seemed to have little chance …
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LG will officially unveil its LG G7 ThinQ phone on May 2, but hardware specs are already pouring in. According to internal documents Android Headlines said it was able to obtain and verify, the LG G7 will have a notch screen design that you can toggle off if you don’t like it, two 16-megapixel cameras on the back and AI software said …
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Sony, LG, Samsung and even TCL are now putting one of my favorite picture-enhancing technologies — full array local dimming — into their highest-end LCD TVs. But nobody does local dimming like Vizio. The US company’s onslaught of 2018 TVs, spread across five series and 19 models announced on Tuesday, includes a whopping 13 with full array local dimming (FALD). No …
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When you plug your Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus into the Samsung Dex Pad dock, you’re able to use and see all the apps and photos from your phone on a much larger monitor. In essence, your phone becomes a mini computer for hooking into a larger screen. Samsung announced that starting Monday, for a limited time, when you preorder …
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Huawei’s flashy new phone is harder to repair than Apple’s iPhone X, according to a new report. A teardown by iFixit gave the Huawei P20 Pro a repairability score of four out of 10, with 10 being the easiest to fix. The iPhone X, by comparison, had a score of six. Both of Samsung’s new phones, the Galaxy S9 and …
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Essential has admitted that its inaugural Essential phone failed to please Android enthusiasts and general buyers, according to Business Insider. “In general, one thing that we got hit hard with was the quality of our camera,” the company’s design lead, Linda Jiang, told the outlet. “We can say, we heard you and we’re going to do it better on the second-gen …
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Samsung looks to continue its streak of record quarters, updating its estimate for its first quarter 2018 results on Thursday. From Jan. 1 to March 31, the company made an estimated operating profit of 15.6 trillion Korean won, or $14.7 billion. That’s a solid rise from the 9.9 trillion won ($9.3 billion) it made during the same quarter in 2017. …
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Apple is reportedly in the early stages of developing two features for future iPhones: touchless gesture controls and curved screens. Bloomberg reported Wednesday on the new tech, but said those features won’t be coming to iPhones for at least two years, and that’s if Apple decides to move forward with either idea. Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment …
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We know almost nothing about the long-term effects of virtual reality on kids, and that’s got some parents worried. In fact, 60 percent of parents say they’re at least “somewhat concerned” their kids will face negative health effects from using the technology, according to a report released Wednesday by Stanford researchers and Common Sense Media. The study, which includes a …
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