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WWDC 2016 kicks off as Apple unveils watchOS 3
Just weeks after reporting the first ever quarterly drop in iPhone sales, Apple is taking the stage at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California for WWDC 2016. The developer conference often feels like a victory lap in between iPhone...
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Xiaomi’s Redmi 3S and 3X are cheap and come with fingerprint sensors
Xiaomi disclosed details on two new phones that it's releasing this month: the Redmi 3S and 3X. Both are low-priced and low-tier Android devices, and both come with a fingerprint scanner. Here are the rest of the specs on the 3S: Either 2GB RAM and 16GB...
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Apple Watch 2 "Micro LED Display" Means Thinner Design, Better Battery Life
Some news about Apple’s second generation wearable, the Apple Watch 2 The Apple Watch 2 is expected to get a launch at some point in the coming months. When that will be exactly remains to be seen, but Apple will almost certainly update its wearable line...
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Microsoft launches one last upgrade prompt, this time in full screen with no ‘close’ button
Brace yourself, Windows 7 and 8/8.1 users: a full-screen upgrade nag is coming. It seems that Microsoft is ending its year of offering Windows 10 for free with an impossible-to-ignore prompt, one that takes up the entire screen and doesn’t have an obvious...
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How to Recover Deleted Messages in WhatsApp
Recover WhatsApp Deleted Messages: Yes it’s possible Whether or not you have a sinister purpose behind wanting to recover deleted messages from your WhatsApp app, the fact that you’re here means you’re in a desperate situation. Don’t worry. We’re here...
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Recover Deleted Messages on WhatsApp
Instant messaging service WhatsApp has become the part and parcel of our lives. But sometimes we are so engrossed in fiddling with it that we delete a message only to realise later that it was by mistake. It must have happened to all of us at some point...
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Apple’s plan to keep iPhone 7 margins high may have just imploded
Apple's efforts to secure lower component pricing from iPhone suppliers has been met with strong resistance, according to a new report from Digitimes . The report claims that Apple in recent weeks sought to convince component manufacturers to reduce their...
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Apple, Samsung struggle in face of Chinese competition
The global launch of the iPhone 7 on Friday is crucial to Apple's fortunes in China, but both it and its biggest rival Samsung, hit by a recall over exploding batteries, are struggling in the face of upstart local competitors. The US and South Korean...
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Why Xiaomi's new handsets won't give it an edge in the smartphone market
Xiaomi's new handsets might provide good value for money for customers, but analysts reckon they might not be enough to help the company close in on the world's largest smartphone vendors. The Chinese smartphone maker on Wednesday introduced two new successor...
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Next year's iPhone is going to have an even bigger screen
Apple is preparing iPhones with bigger screens for a launch next year. Although the iPhone 8 design isn't final yet, Barclays analysts Blayne Curtis and Christopher Hemmelgarn provided some new details about Apple's next iPhone in a note distributed to...
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Xiaomi Might Finally Launch A Smartphone In The US
Xiaomi, one of the most successful Chinese electronics manufacturers today, just announced that it will be attending the Consumers Electronics Show (CES) in 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada for the first time. The company said that it’s planning to announce...
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Samsung moves on from Note 7 crisis after throwing SDI under the bus
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 fiasco prompted the company to announce an unprecedented recall of about a million handsets that wiped a few billions from its market value. While the full extent of the damage done to the brand’s reputation remains to be seen,...
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Samsung Galaxy S8 rumors and news leaks
Samsung started 2016 out so well. The Galaxy S7 officially outsold the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, and the Galaxy Note 7 came along and impressed everyone, until it went out with a bang. Samsung will want to leave 2016 behind, so attention has likely turned...
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 phones caught fire because of the ‘aggressive' battery design: Report
Samsung was too "aggressive" in the design of its now-recalled fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 devices, particularly when it came to installing its battery, a new report claims. The South Korean electronics giant was forced to recall and stop production of the...
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Microsoft gains EU approval for $26 billion buy of LinkedIn
Microsoft (MSFT.O) won EU antitrust approval on Tuesday for its $26 billion bid for professional social network LinkedIn (LNKD.N), its largest ever acquisition, after agreeing to a series of modest concessions. The deal, which has already received the...
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Samsung says it knows why the Galaxy Note 7 exploded — and it's no surprise
A months-long probe into the cause of the spontaneously combusting Galaxy Note 7 devices has revealed … well, what we already suspected. On Sunday, Reuters reported that Samsung had concluded its investigation of its ill-fated flagship phone, and determined...
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Samsung says it knows why the Galaxy Note 7 exploded — and it's no surprise
A months-long probe into the cause of the spontaneously combusting Galaxy Note 7 devices has revealed … well, what we already suspected. On Sunday, Reuters reported that Samsung had concluded its investigation of its ill-fated flagship phone, and determined...
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The LG G6 might beat the Galaxy S8 where it matters most
LG is about to launch an exciting new Android phone, a device that’s going to compete directly against Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and Apple’s iPhone 8. Unlike last year when the Galaxy S7 overshadowed the LG G5 even though they were unveiled on the same day,...
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Samsung's First 10-Nanometer Chip Has Gigabit LTE
The first production chip to roll off Samsung's recently-opened 10-nanometer FinFET production line is the Exynos 9 Series 8895, and it will come embedded with a gigabit LTE modem, Samsung announced on Thursday. The chip, which is currently in mass production...
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2017 Apple iPad, iPad Pro: Specs, Release Date -- Rumor, Analyst Roundup
A new iPad Pro is expected soon. Here's what we could see based on input from an IHS Markit analyst as well as reports. 10.5-inch iPad Pro: Expect to see a new iPad Pro design with a 10.5-inch display, Rhoda Alexander, Director Tablets and PCs, at IHS...
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Apple’s iPhone 6s was most popular smartphone of 2016 — and it wasn’t close
Love your iPhone? You’re not alone. Far from it, in fact — you’re in the majority. According to the latest results from research firm IHS Markit, the iPhone was the most popular smartphone in the world last year when it came to global shipment numbers....
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Spoilsport Samsung won’t let you remap the Galaxy S8’s Bixby button to other apps
One of the key differences between Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 and its previous flagships is the inclusion of a hardware button on the side to invoke Bixby, the company’s new virtual assistant software. Given that Bixby’s voice features won’t even work when...
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Samsung CONFIRMS Galaxy Note 8 Release For 2H 2017
We knew it was coming, but it’s always good to hear it direct from the horse’s mouth The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will get a release later on in 2017. We all know this. But Samsung has now confirmed this is actually the case; and this is odd because normally...
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Samsung Galaxy S8 And Other Devices Expected To Receive Android O
Android O is expected to be officially unveiled and released during the third quarter of 2017. If Google’s Project Treble initiative toward speedier updates is still in motion, Samsung devices may see the new software sooner than ever before. While Samsung...
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Moto X4 feature Snapdragon 630, dual rear camera, and aluminum body
The Moto X4 is getting a lot of attention recently, despite the fact it isn’t official just yet. The latest report aims to shed some light on the rumored specifications of Motorola’s upcoming affordable mid-ranger. VentureBeat has a report today that...