Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image The Galaxy J7. Samsung Phones do sometimes explode. Often the cause seems to be the battery. However, on Friday, passengers on a Jet Airways flight from Delhi to Indore in India endured a scare when they say smoke …
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Now playing: Watch this: New trial may recalculate what Samsung owes Apple for… 1:12 Get ready for Apple versus Samsung, round number — oh, forget it, we don’t remember, either. The two tech giants will head back to district court for yet another trial looking into design patent infringement. Judge Lucy Koh, in an order signed Sunday, has told the …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image A fine camera with a mediocre phone attached? Josh Miller/CNET You might watch a launch event and decide you must have that new phone. You might read a review — they’re very good on CNET, you know — and hope you’ll be influenced. …
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Will foldable phones be the hot trend of 2018? China’s ZTE kicked things off this week by introducing the Axon M, a phone with two screens that fold out to form a single larger display. Samsung said it’s aiming to bring out a phone with a foldable display by next year. And now another major player is getting into the …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. That doesn’t look good. JerryRigEverything/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s agony releasing a new device. No sooner is it out in the wild than someone takes a scalpel or a sharp knife and tries to wreck it. One of the most renowned wreckers is Zack …
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You may not have heard of Vivo, but you would have seen its phones in “Captain America: Civil War.” Besides making product placement cameos, the Chinese company is actually the world’s fifth largest phone maker, as well one of the big four in China alongside Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo. The company is set to become even bigger, with the announcement …
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At first you think, “OMG, no. What’s with the brick?” And then you unfold the thick, heavy ZTE Axon M like a book to reveal two 5.2-inch screens that flatten out to give you 6.8 inches of screen real estate (measured at the diagonal). And then you get excited by the possibilities. The phone has transformed into a tiny tablet …
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Samsung now supports American Express customers on Samsung Pay in the UK. So if you have an Amex card, you can add it to your Galaxy S8 or new Note 8 and start making contactless payments at UK stores. American Express is already supported by both Android Pay (Google‘s own contactless payment service) and Apple Pay on the iPhone. Once …
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Your appliances are about to get a lot smarter. Samsung on Wednesday said the second generation of its Bixby digital assistant will be coming to its various non-mobile devices including its smart TVs in the US and Korea in 2018, as well as its Family Hub refrigerator. The company also announced a new SDK for developers to make apps that …
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The Pixel 2 vs. the Pixel 2 XL. The smaller phone uses a 5-inch Samsung AMOLED screen, while the larger has a 6-inch LG P-OLED one. James Martin/CNET You might have heard: The Google Pixel 2 XL has a less-than-perfect screen. Depending on whom you ask — see: Reddit, XDA Developers — the phone’s LG-made P-OLED screen has muted colors, …
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