What are your priorities when shopping for a midrange phone? I suspect they’re the same as if you were shopping for a premium phone: Big screen, lots of storage, good cameras, excellent battery life and so on. Now, what if you could get that midrange phone at a budget price? For a limited time, you …
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Demand for wearable devices surged in 2020, as consumers confined by the coronavirus pandemic spent their disposable income on electronics instead of the usual leisure activities. Global shipments of wearables in the fourth quarter grew 27% to 153.5 million units, while shipments for the full year increased 28% to 444.7 million units, according to figures released Monday by market researcher …
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The standout feature of last year’s Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra was its camera, a five-lens setup that could shoot at a crazy 100x magnification. A year later, the Galaxy S21 Ultra is Samsung’s newest flagship. It improves on its predecessor in numerous ways: A gorgeous matte back, an even more gorgeous 3,200×1,440-pixel display that lets you scroll in QHD and …
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Quick poll: What’s your interest level in 3D printers? I have a couple potentially sweet deals lined up for Monday, but I’m not sure anyone will want them. Hit the comments and let me know your thoughts. Bigger picture: I want to know what kinds of deals you want to see. So don’t be shy about leaving comments, sending emails, …
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This feels like a mistake. I checked; it’s not. If you have an old phone you’re looking to retire in favor of a shiny new 5G-capable model, here’s an insanely affordable option: For a limited time, you can get the Motorola One 5G Ace for $20 when you port an existing number to Metro by T-Mobile. List price: $400. Regular …
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Part of the appeal of using an Android phone is the wide variety of hardware and software options. For instance, the experience you get from a Google Pixel phone is very different from what a Galaxy S21 offers, and then you add OnePlus into the mix and the experience diverges even more. That said, the core Android experience remains nearly …
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When Apple or Samsung unveils a new smartphone, consumers can preorder the device within days and expect to get it in their hands within weeks. When Motorola introduced the first-ever cellphone, the DynaTAC, in 1973, it took another decade before consumers could actually use one. Talk about delayed gratification. Ironically, it took the team at Motorola just three months to …
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Even if you’re suffering from streaming-service overload, this is a deal that deserves a look. For a limited time, you can get four months of NBC’s Peacock Premium for just $10. That works out to $2.50 a month, or half the regular price (which was already a pretty solid deal). See it at Peacock As always with promotions like this, …
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Over the past week, Chinese phone-maker OnePlus planted the hype seeds for its upcoming OnePlus 9 series, which will be announced at an event on March 23 at 7 a.m. PT. Last week, OnePlus sent members of the media a phone box filled with space ice cream and a photo of the Earth taken on the moon with a Hasselblad …
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Let’s face it, mobile phones, even the best ones, just aren’t that exciting anymore. They’re all way more powerful than we really need, they all have nifty multilens cameras and they all look essentially the same. I really hoped that folding phones would give a much needed shot of adrenaline to the industry. But well over a year after their …
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