Black Friday is two weeks from today — but with deals like this, why wait? Best Buy now has a solid 65-inch Samsung 4k HDR TV on sale for $550 — down from its yesterday price of $900. It’s the latest “daily doorbuster” from Best Buy, as it counts down the days to its own Black …
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In May 2006, a former CNET colleague and I interviewed Ed Zander, Motorola’s CEO at the time. The original Razr V3 was two years old, and Moto was still riding a wave of excitement from the radically thin phone. It had expanded to other carriers beyond Cingular and the company had introduced a second-gen model, the Razr V3x. In between …
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All modern televisions use one of two basic display technologies: LCD and OLED. The vast majority are LCD, and only some more recent TVs from LG and Sony are OLED. While LCD may be the norm, OLED TVs offer better picture quality overall, though at a higher price. You may have heard OLED discussed when it comes to mobile phone …
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Headphone deals are heating up. The other day, the Sony WH-1000XM3 dipped to an all-time-low $228 (but has since returned to $278, still a decent discount), and there’s a Bose 700 deal coming tomorrow. The deal to beat right now, however, is this: For a limited time, and while supplies last, the Beats Studio3 Wireless noise-canceling headphones (in gray) are …
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Hand it to Apple: The new AirPods Pro noise-canceling earbuds have won almost universal acclaim, despite the jaw-dropping $250 price tag. Surely there are cheaper options? Yep: I recently rounded up some affordable AirPods Pro alternatives, a list that includes the popular Sony WF-1000XM3. Alas, at $228, you’re not saving much. But try this on for size: For a limited …
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Phones just keep getting bigger and not everyone is happy about it. For example, just look at how large the iPhone 11 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus are. For those with smaller hands, the pain of using big-screened devices is often very real. Sony is the one phone maker that’s historically been sympathetic to the plight of those …
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The AirPods Pro went on sale this week and initial reviews are looking very favorable for the wireless earbuds. (Read our in-depth AirPods Pro review here.) We also take a look at the latest rumors around the long-awaited 16-inch MacBook Pro, and check in on the Mac Pro, which Apple is supposed to release this fall. AirPods Pro have 3 big things …
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The new Apple TV Plus streaming service launches today, Friday Nov. 1, with a handful of all-new exclusive shows, and one of the most intriguing (and critically popular) is For All Mankind. Created by Emmy-winning producer Ronald D. Moore, best known for Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Outlander, the drama series explores a world “in which the global space …
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The new Apple TV Plus streaming service is the latest place online to find some big actors, but none can match the imposing bulk of Aquaman and Khal Drogo himself, Jason Momoa. His new series, See, launches Friday, Nov. 1. Reported to have cost $15 million per episode to make, the show is a Game of Thrones-style fantasy where everybody is blind. In …
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Apple has lined up some big names to help launch its streaming service Apple TV Plus, including Oscar-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld. Her new series, Dickinson, is available to stream today, Nov. 1. A half-hour comedy series, the show “audaciously explores the constraints of society, gender and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet Emily Dickinson,” according to Apple, with Steinfeld …
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