Samsung says its foldable phone is a ‘breakthrough in technology innovation’
Samsung next month is expected to unveil two new smartphone flagships, including the Galaxy S10 that dominates mobile rumors right now, and the Galaxy F, its first foldable handset. The latter already got a soft launch back in November, but Samsung only really showed the phone’s Infinity Flex screen, as well as the new One UI user interface that will power all Samsung mobile experiences, Galaxy F included. And, according to a new report, Samsung is looking to make the most of the foldable phone experience it’s about to introduce, a form factor not many other handset vectors will have in stores this year.
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Samsung says its foldable phone is a ‘breakthrough in technology innovation’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 07:31:17 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple replaced 11 million iPhone batteries last year, insider says
When Apple lowered its revenue guidance for the Christmas quarter a couple of weeks ago, Tim Cook explained Apple’s rare miss in a letter, providing several interesting details about the company’s financial performance for the period. iPhone sales weren’t as strong as Apple would have hoped, thanks to several reasons. Among them, Cook highlighted the affordable iPhone battery replacement program that Apple offered buyers last year, in response to the iPhone throttling issue that came to light in late 2017. Now we have an idea of how many batteries Apple replaced last year thanks to an insider. Eleven million iPhone batteries were replaced in 2018, compared to the anticipated 1-2 million.
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Apple replaced 11 million iPhone batteries last year, insider says originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 06:50:30 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This drug-sniffing K9 accidentally snorted some ecstasy while searching a party cruise
Jake is a beloved member of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, where he regularly walks his beat sniffing for drugs. It’s the perfect job for a 3-year-old golden retriever, though a few days ago, “Jake” actually had a too-close brush with the effects of the narcotics he’s screening for. Specifically, ecstasy, which our canine gumshoe accidentally snorted while screening passengers last week at Port Canaveral as they boarded the Norwegian Epic.
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This drug-sniffing K9 accidentally snorted some ecstasy while searching a party cruise originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 23:07:05 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Pixel 3 XL Lite benchmark suggests this isn’t the cheap Pixel flagship we wanted
The Pixel 3 phones that Google launched back in October have the same components as most other 2018 Android flagships. But the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL were no match for the latest iPhones in speed tests, and Google even had to fix a severe RAM issue via a software update. With that in mind, you shouldn’t expect a better performance from the Lite versions of Google’s newest Pixels, and we have a leaked benchmark to prove it.
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Pixel 3 XL Lite benchmark suggests this isn’t the cheap Pixel flagship we wanted originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 22:05:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple wanted to use Qualcomm modems on its 2018 iPhone lineup
A surprising detail that emerged during the FTC’s antitrust suit against Qualcomm is that Apple actually wanted to use Qualcomm chips across its 2018 iPhone lineup. Notably, Apple hasn’t utilized Qualcomm chips since the iPhone 7 and, as a result, it was widely assumed that Apple was flat-out refusing to work with the chipmaker. As it turns out, it was the other way around.
According to testimony from Apple COO Jeff Williams (via CNET), Apple wanted to use both Qualcomm and Intel modems in its iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max models. Qualcomm, however, balked and thus caused something of a mini-panic inside Apple.
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Apple wanted to use Qualcomm modems on its 2018 iPhone lineup originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 21:30:14 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New leak indicates SNES games could come to Nintendo Switch Online soon
The most notable perk of the Nintendo Switch Online service is its library of free NES games. Unlike the Wii and the Wii U, the Switch shipped without a Virtual Console, which means there’s no other way to play classic games on the console. Unfortunately, the selection of games has been rather limited, with just two NES games added this month. The good news is that there are signs the feature will improve drastically in the near future.
Over the weekend, a modder who goes by KapuccinoHeck claimed on Twitter that he “was finally able to look around NES Online’s strings a bit myself and noticed the sheer amount of SNES games planned.” Over 20 SNES games are mentioned in the code that Kapu shared, which you can view in full here on Pastebin.
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New leak indicates SNES games could come to Nintendo Switch Online soon originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 21:03:50 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The US Army is working on autonomous weapons that don’t need human operators
Will the military weapons of the future be killer robots, essentially? Recent comments from a US Army official might spark such concerns, given that he acknowledged the army is very much looking into the development and use of completely autonomous weapons that don’t need human operators.
At a Defense Writers Group breakfast a few days ago in Washington DC, the Army’s Assistant Secretary for Acquisitions, Logistics and Technology Bruce Jette argued that when it comes to operating weapons, the human factor could increasingly prove dangerous by its very existence. If everyone else, in other words, is going all-in on the development of AI-controlled weapons, it will be dangerous for us to still rely heavily on the human-operated equivalent which would be easily outmatched by machines, Jette argued.
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The US Army is working on autonomous weapons that don’t need human operators originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 20:08:50 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone XR to see more price cuts in China, report says
A series of reports last week claimed that not only is Apple cutting iPhone prices for retailers in China, but that some of iPhone resellers in the country are passing even more significant savings on to customers.
A few days before that, Apple announced a guidance correction for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2019, following a weaker than expected iPhone sales performance during the period, with particular emphasis on China. Now, a new report says that Apple may not be done cutting iPhone prices in China this year.
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iPhone XR to see more price cuts in China, report says originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 19:06:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NBC plans to launch its own free streaming TV service in 2020
We’re one step closer to complete market saturation as Bloomberg reports that NBCUniversal (which owns MSNBC, CNBC, Syfy, USA Network, and more) plans to launch a free streaming service next year. The service will have ads, but NBCUniversal says that there will be an ad-free version available to users as well for a fee.
As has been the case with other media companies that have launched or are planning to launch streaming services in recent years, NBCU says that it will “retain rights to certain titles for its new service,” which seems to imply that some shows currently available on other platforms will be eventually be exclusive to NBC’s service.
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NBC plans to launch its own free streaming TV service in 2020 originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 18:35:32 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Smartphone production could plummet 19% this quarter to its lowest point since 2013
Companies like Apple and Samsung have blamed China in recent weeks as the reason for their respective smartphone sales slowdowns. More broadly, meanwhile, factors like steadily rising handset price tags — with premium models starting at $1,000 and above — as well as better all-around quality have led consumers to wait longer than ever to upgrade and increasingly hold on to their current models as good enough for now.
All of which are among the reasons a new industry estimate predicts that global smartphone production will plummet another 19% this quarter, marking the fifth straight first-quarter decline.
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Smartphone production could plummet 19% this quarter to its lowest point since 2013 originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 18:04:44 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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