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Samsung will reportedly release a Bixby-powered smart speaker next month. The product is said to cost around $300 and Samsung would market it as a high-end music player. This would put it in competition with the Apple Home Pod and the Google Home Max. The Wall Street Journal says the speaker will be bowl-shaped with legs on the bottom and lights on top (hope those lights are shaped like eyes for the proper Batteries Not Included experience).
However, the Google Pixel 3 XL is the latest smartphone from Google itself, the emperor of Android. It has many of the features the 6T has and then some. It starts at a whopping $900, going all the way as high as $1,000 for the variant with 128GB of storage.
Let’s see what happens when we put the two devices up against each other in this OnePlus 6T vs. Google Pixel 3 XL comparison.
LeEco – formerly known as LeTV – may have come out of nowhere in the past year but the Chinese company is intent on making a storm. Earlier this year, it introduced the world’s first Snapdragon 820-powered smartphone at CES and at an event in Beijing, China, the company has announced its new range of smartphones.
The Eco in LeEco stands for ecosystem and this is exactly what the company is trying to build, with the latest line of products designed to integrate into the Ecosystem UI.
LG has just announced that the global rollout of their new flagship G3 smartphone will begin June 27. The device has been well accepted in South Korea, and will hit Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines starting June 27. The rest of Asia will follow in July, along with Europe and the Middle East, among others.
In a bit of a surprise move, LG may have taken a page out of Sony’s play book, not including a US launch date.
If you happen to be sporting one of the many Samsung devices with NFC, you may want to check out the Samsung TecTiles. Or alternatively, if you are already using them, you may want to update the app as a new version has recently landed in Google Play. The TecTiles app has been updated to version 3.0 and it brings the promise of “more programmable settings, deeper app integration and the ability to program multiple commands to a single TecTile.
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The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra doesn’t support native 960fps slow-motion recording. Last year’s Ultra model lacked native output as well due to the 108MP HM3 sensor lacking 960fps support. It’s worth noting that the S22 Ultra uses this same camera sensor. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is the most expensive and feature-packed phone in the S22 lineup, offering functionality like an S Pen slot, dual telephoto lenses with impressive zoom capabilities, and a huge battery.
Amazon’s Echo devices powered by the Alexa voice assistant have been around in India for almost two years now. For the longest time, Indian users had only one language option to interact with Alexa and that is something Amazon calls Indian English. It’s basically the way Indians speak in English as opposed to someone from the US or UK. You get the drift.
Best Alexa speakers: There's more than just Echo
Samsung Galaxy Watch
The Galaxy Watch tries to be a smartwatch that does a little bit of everything. Samsung's execution isn't flawless, but it balances the act of being a fitness tracker and smartwatch in one package extremely well.
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch could be considered the Swiss Army knife of smartwatches. It tries to do a little bit of everything, from sleep tracking, to fitness tracking, to mobile payments, to all the other typical smartwatch functions.
Breaking away from the tradition it started with Android L, Google didn’t wait until Google I/O to make the Android N preview available and instead released it back in March. Since that time, we’ve had two additional previews, with the latest “beta-quality” preview touching down recently during Google I/O 2016.
The latest preview doesn’t look too different from earlier releases on the surface, but underneath there are tons of new APIs, as well as bug fixes and software improvements, that make Android N a very stable affair for the few Nexus devices lucky enough to support it.
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The plastic surrounding the Surface Duo’s USB-C port seems to be breaking for some users. Some users report that the plastic cracked or broke after plugging in and using a USB-C cable. One Surface Duo owner claimed that the plastic broke when they put the device in their pocket. The Microsoft Surface Duo was a critical disappointment in terms of its software experience, but many reviewers praised the foldable device’s thin form factor.