CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Friends, my heart is full today. How could it not be, after all …
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Thanksgiving is almost upon us and that means Black Friday deals are rolling in from all the major manufacturers. Samsung has several deals spread out over certain key dates up until Black Friday for everything from phones, wearables and accessories to laptops and flat-screen TVs. The doorbuster sales won’t come until the biggest Black Friday sales begin on November 23, …
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Take a look at this picture of the gold iPhone 8 ($162 at Amazon) camera lens. Do you see the water droplets crowding together like an iridescent prism? It’s beautiful, but has no place in a camera, especially one rated to repel water as deep as 3 feet for up to 30 minutes. And yet, it happened to our phone. …
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T-Mobile now offers 1-gigabit-per-second mobile networks in 430 markets, an expansion it hopes will help it woo subscribers away from Verizon and AT&T. Today’s mobile networks are powered by a technology called LTE (Long Term Evolution), and T-Mobile has brought an updated version called LTE Advanced to 920 US markets, it said at a press conference Thursday. In nearly half …
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If bezel-less phones are too boring, feast your eyes on something that folds or flips. Samsung, which has an affinity for high end flip phones, may be working on a new Android-powered flip phone called the SM-W2018. And after seeing some hands-on pictures that could be linked to the device, we’re kind of jealous. Pictures of the rumored SM-W2018 were posted …
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Editors’ note: Here’s CNET’s full review of the OnePlus 5T. It’s available now. The OnePlus 5T is real and it’s coming Nov. 16. A few days after its CEO confirmed the phone’s existence in to a forum post, the company announced details of the OnePlus 5T launch event, which is slated for 12 p.m. EST in Brooklyn, New York, that day. You’ll be …
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Huawei is the biggest phone brand you’ve never heard of. But that second part could change soon. Code found by XDA Developers indicates a version of Huawei’s latest premium phone, the Mate 10 Pro, will be sold through AT&T. The firmware in question showed a Mate 10 Pro loaded with AT&T’s apps and software. This follows months of rumours that AT&T …
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From the moment I first saw the four colors of the Galaxy Note 8 lined up, the choice was obvious. “We want the blue one,” I told the video producer as we set up the shot for our hands-on video with the then-new device. Deepsea blue was the most compelling and lustrous of the four shades, which include maple gold …
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If you’re hoping for a fancy new fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S9, early rumors will let you down. Samsung has reportedly ditched plans to incorporate an integrated in-display fingerprint sensor in the Galaxy S9, according to South Korean news outlet The Investor. That fingerprint scanner is a little too close for comfort to the camera. Josh Miller/CNET Although we praised …
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Microsoft’s own VR platform, which launched a few weeks ago, doesn’t have a lot of software yet, which could be a dealbreaker for some. But a bridge to Steam’s VR catalog could add some access to more games soon enough. A Steam VR hook-in for Windows Mixed Reality, announced earlier this fall, is launching next week on Nov. 15 in …
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