Now playing: Watch this: USB feels the need for double speed 1:25 Enlarge Image The HP Spectre x360 has two oval USB-C ports, the same ports you’ll see on new phones from Samsung, Google and others. Stephen Shankland/CNET If you’re the type of person who copies hundreds of photos or mammoth video files to your …
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Eleven phones will support Google’s Daydream virtual reality software by the end of 2017, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said in parent company Alphabet’s earnings call Monday. The statement was later confirmed to CNET by a Google spokesperson. Here’s what Pichai said (via Seeking Alpha): “We continue to work on the next generation of computing platforms, virtual and augmented realty. By the …
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A coral blue Galaxy phone? That’s so last week. Deep blue is the new aquatic color option now rumored to come to the Galaxy Note 8, according to Roland Quandt, a mobile tipster and editor for WinFuture. Samsung Galaxy Note8 coming in Black, Orchid Grey and a new Deep Blue. At least. — Roland Quandt (@rquandt) July 22, 2017 Quandt’s …
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Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy Note 8 isn’t scheduled to be announced until August 23. But there is a bit of Galaxy news while we wait for that launch: Images and video of the rumored ruggedized Galaxy S8 Active were posted on Reddit, as first spotted by Android Police. The idea behind the Active versions of Galaxy phones is that they’re essentially built …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Did Xai Thao buy a defective iPhone 4S? A lawsuit alleges that was the case. Josh Miller/CNET Exploding phones were all the rage after Samsung’s Note 7 debacle last year. But Samsung is hardly alone among phone makers that have seen, at one …
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This is part of our Road Trip 2017 summer series “The Smartest Stuff,” about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter. Snowflakes flutter around my face, taking me back to my childhood in Ohio where I’d tilt back my head to gaze at the swirl of tiny crystals spiraling toward my …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Woz believes iPhones are worth it. Sean Gallup / Getty Images In the end, it comes down to love. That’s seems to be Steve Wozniak’s view about buying high-priced Apple products. Speaking to journalists in Dongguan, China, earlier this week, the Apple co-founder explained why …
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Samsung is reportedly working on Bluetooth earphones that work with Samsung’s new Bixby voice assistant. The earphones are expected to be available around the same time as the Galaxy Note 8, according to Etnews. Since the Note 8 “phablet” — translation: part phone, part tablet — is scheduled to arrive sometime in “late August,” we likely won’t have to wait …
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Samsung‘s about to “do bigger things.” The company on Thursday plans to hold its next Unpacked event — presumably the Galaxy Note 8 — at 11 a.m. ET on Aug. 23 in New York’s Park Avenue Armory. The invitation provided to press showed the outline of a phone that looks similar to the shape of the Galaxy S8 — a …
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Eager to take a peek at the upcoming Galaxy Note 8? We are too, and although the phone won’t be announced until next month there’s no shortage of unofficial renders to keep us satisfied in the meantime. The latest look comes from tech site BGR, which got its hands on leaked images that show off the Note from multiple angles. If …
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