By now, you’ve probably heard: The upcoming iPhone X doesn’t have a home button, and it doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor either. How will you log into your phone? How will you tap-to-pay? Apple’s hoping you’ll use the brand-new Face ID — where you simply look at your phone to be logged in automatically. I know …
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Apple presents the iPhone X as the “smartphone of the future.” But at least in one key area, its new phones fall short of Android phones that have already been out for months. The iPhone X has new tech like facial recognition, but not when it comes to cellular radios. James Martin/CNET The iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone …
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Google has reached an agreement with HTC, but it isn’t the much-rumored deal to buy the handset maker. Instead, the tech giant is paying the struggling Taiwanese phone maker $1.1 billion in cash to hire certain HTC employees, many of whom are already working with Google on the Pixel line of phones. Google will also license HTC intellectual property. The …
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Huawei must think the iPhone X is clowning around with its new Face ID, which unlocks the phone by scanning your face. The Chinese smartphone company recently posted an ad on its Facebook page that uses a creepy clown to poke fun of facial recognition scans that don’t unlock the phone the first time. Let’s face it, facial recognition isn’t …
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Apple’s iPhone X ($285 at Amazon) stole the show last week with its sleek new design, lack of a home button and its host of new sensors up front. Those new sensors power not only the TrueDepth camera system but, more importantly, the security feature that replaces Touch ID (since there’s no longer a home button): Face ID. Face ID …
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It’s decided: You’re buying an iPhone 8. Or an iPhone 8 Plus. Now to figure out where to get the best deal. There are, of course, many variables. Can you afford to buy the phone outright, or should you look at a lease deal? Should you sell or trade in your current iPhone? And what about the carrier: stay or …
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Samsung really wanted everyone to give its newest assistant software a go. So much so, it placed a physical button for Bixby on the left edge of the phone, just beneath the volume rocker. It’s hardly the first time a manufacturer has wanted people to use its software over Google’s own, but the placement of this button has made Bixby …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Bad timing on the release. Samsung/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET America was waiting for Dez Bryant’s response. After all, the Dallas wide receiver had been ridiculed in a Galaxy Note 8 ad by Washington cornerback Josh Norman. Norman had used his S Pen to suggest …
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India’s Prime Minister shook up the country late last year when he killed 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee notes and coins (about $7 and $15). People quickly turned to digital payments, and now Google wants a piece of that action. The search giant launched a new digital payment app called Google Tez for the Indian market on Monday. The app supports English and …
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Update, Sept. 16 at 6:50 a.m. PT: T-Mobile CEO John Legere took to Twitter late Friday to announce that the carrier is adjusting its earlier plan to include faster 4G LTE speeds on the Apple Watch Series 3 at the $10 rate. The Apple Watch Series 3 plan on @TMobile will be $10/m for unlimited 4G LTE. Thanks for your …
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