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The death of the 3.5mm headphone jack on smartphones — all smartphones, that is, not just expensive flagships where it’s already a rarity — is something many of us have been afraid of. But it has been on the horizon since at least 2016, when Apple had the self-proclaimed “courage” to remove the jack from the iPhone 7. Despite attacking that position in marketing, Samsung would eventually join suit with the Galaxy Note 10 in 2019, meaning that the two biggest players in the smartphone world were on board.
If you have a Wi-Fi dead spot somewhere in your home, then you may have thought about using a Wi-Fi Range Extender. The idea sounds simple enough — plug in the unit, and the range of your Wi-Fi is extended. But how do they work? What are the disadvantages? Where should you place your extender? To get the best from even the cheapest Wi-Fi Extenders, it helps to understand the fundamentals of what is actually going on.
Essential made quite a splash last year when it released the PH-1. The phone’s most striking feature was its edge-to-edge screen — using just a small notch for sensors and camera, the phone is all screen. That’s a great feature, but it means you need to protect that much more screen from falls and other damage. To help with that, we’ve put together a list of the best Essential phone cases you can get today.
If you want to learn more about the world around you, technology has been moving in your favor. Though you might have gained a bit of a reputation as a child, spending hours at the library and reading every book that struck your fancy, the Internet has been advancing in your direction.
Information is literally at your fingertips and your search for knowledge has laid everything out for you. If you ever wanted to know more about an obscure painter, or how something worked, you could just get on Google and run a search for it.
Music is a universal language understood by everyone. It may have different impacts on different people, but music is one thing that can bring people together. If you love listening to music like I do, having your songs with you wherever you go is a luxury you can enjoy with your Android device. No need for separate music players when your Android device is capable of doing almost anything. You just need the right apps to do the job.
LeEco Le Pro 3It brings an inconsistent experience overall with Le features and software that aren’t particularly useful for anyone that just wants a reliable Android experience at a good price.
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To any avid smartphone fans, the Le Pro3 may look a little too familiar – it is honestly just too hard not to think that this phone greatly resembles the OnePlus 3, right down to the antenna lines and the lens popping out at the top.
The larger version of the new Samsung flagship brings a second lens on top of many other camera enhancements, but how does it stack up to one of the most applauded smartphone shooters made by none other than Google? We explore that and the rest of these two devices in this comparison between the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and the Google Pixel 2 XL.
Differences are easy to see right off the bat, as the glass on glass design of the Galaxy S9 remains from the previous few generations.
In this age where announcements on new Netflix TV shows and movies happen almost every day, the biggest premium streaming service in the world decided to hold its own virtual Comic Con-like event for a massive reveal of upcoming content that’s coming to the service. It’s called Netflix Tudum, and fans are already getting hyped about what will be shown, and what will be revealed, during the event.
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Update, February 13 2020 (8:59AM ET): Shadowgun War Games, the latest edition in the long-running franchise, is officially available to play for all. The company announced the news earlier today, and it comes roughly a month after we checked out the closed beta (read the original article below for our impressions).
In case you missed it, Shadowgun War Games is a team-based online first person shooter, offering five-on-five battles. So if you like Overwatch and don’t mind touch controls, this might be up your alley.
Motorola may be the king in the mid-range Android market, but the dominance no longer extends to software updates. The company shared its Android 11 update plans late last year, and they only held good news for a small set of customers. Now you might be wondering which Motorola phones are lucky enough to receive the Android 11 update. We’re here with everything you need to know.
See also: The best Motorola phones you can get