CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Forget paying $750 or even $655. If you don’t mind a few scuffs, the Galaxy S8 can be …
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ZTE’s has been playing the US market on hard mode in recent months, but now it’s looking more like mission impossible. After ZTE was caught shipping goods to Iran, the US Commerce Department on Monday banned US companies from selling hardware and software to the Chinese electronics company for seven years. Now, a source tells Reuters this could preclude Google …
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The Huawei P20 and P20 Pro phones are off to a strong start, according to a press release Huawei recently shared with media, making roughly 100 million RMB (or yuan) in the first 10 seconds of a flash sale. That’s over $15 million, £11 million or AU$20 million. Huawei released the phones in its home base, China, last Thursday, where …
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Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant perennially in the crosshairs of the US government, is shaking up the team responsible for its relationships here. The company let go of several American staffers in DC, according to a person familiar with the situation. Among them is William Plummer, a nearly eight-year Huawei veteran who was the man most responsible for establishing the …
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Even Samsung may not be safe from the controversial notch. Samsung filed a patent application (PDF) with Chinese patent organization SIPO that shows off a few different phone designs each with a notch above the phone’s screen. The patent application was filed on March 30 and spotted on Monday by Dutch phone blog Mobielkopen. The phone in the patent application looks …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! See that belly-cam? It can detach and shoot video on land using an included handheld gimbal! Sarah Tew/CNET …
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What’s the Galaxy S9’s least loved feature? That’s easy: AR Emoji, the Samsung exclusive that whips up 3D avatars. It’s a pretty transparent imitation of the iPhone X’s 3D animoji characters — fox, monkey, swirl-capped turd — but with one major, absolutely crucial difference: You. While, yes, you can become a character like Donald Duck, you can also make Samsung’s …
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In the age of streaming, it’s starting to feel like local AM and FM radio is hopelessly out of date. I know a lot of people still enjoy music on the radio in cars, but it’s facing stiff competition from YouTube, Spotify, Tidal, Pandora, internet radio and SiriusXM Satellite Radio. It’s clear that millennials and Generation Z grew up with …
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AMD’s second-generation updates to its mainstream Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 desktop processors isn’t quite as dramatic as Intel’s recent eighth-generation mobile launch; in part, that’s because AMD been-there-done-that with multicore, such as the 8- and 6-core Ryzen 7 1700 and Ryzen 5 1600 series from last year last year. So its second-gen products replacing them feel transitional, eking slightly …
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You can buy several different relatively inexpensive generic charging cases for the iPhone X to increase your battery life on the go, but there are only a handful of Qi-certified cases that allow you to wirelessly charge both the case and your phone. Mophie’s new Juice Pack Air for iPhone will be one of them when it hits the market …
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