Turns out customers who bought their Essential Phone and stuck it with Sprint are just now getting the latest and greatest features... but at least it's all at once.
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The Google security patches are in place faster than plenty of Pixel phones. Plus, Bluetooth 5 spec improvements are finally here!
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The chipmaker says that this feature is proprietary to items incorporating aptX HD codec and the Snapdragon 845 platform.
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The standard-bearer iPhones get new Retina Displays, new cameras and new price tags. And all of them are on the upside of things.
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At least one techie Weibo account has dropped a fairly in-depth specifications list of what we should expect from the Galaxy S8 that should be coming relatively soon.By the way, it’s just a screenshot of a two-column list that looks formatted perhaps for a blog. Even KJuma, a well-known entity around these social parts, is asking a couple of other techie Weibo members if they think the list is a bluff — though she hasn’t gotten an answer back. You’re free to believe or ...
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We’ve been using the iOS 10 and Apple Watch OS 3 developer preview BETAs for almost a week. How is Apple stacking up to it Android competition? Bluetooth 5 is coming with more bandwidth and a focus on “Internet of Things”. And, Net neutrality is defended again, this time in the courts. Will companies start accepting it now as the law of the land? These stories and we’ll be tackling your questions and comments. Make sure you’re charged and ready for episode 205 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on June 17th (click
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As teased for months and months now, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is releasing Bluetooth 5, a wireless standard that doubles the speed of its last major iteration as well as quadruples the effective range and increases capacity eightfold.It’s the standard’s big joust into the Internet of Things, competing with
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Bluetooth 4.2, introduced in December of 2014, is about to be replaced. The wireless standard, which hasn’t seen much change at the center of its core specifications, will see its biggest update since July of 2010 with the launch of Bluetooth 5.No point versions. Just “5”.The Bluetooth Special Interest Group will release the details of Bluetooth 5 at a London press event on June 16. It has been said to have double ...
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