As long as there is someone asking whether or not a particular gadget will run Doom, there will be someone else who wants to prove that, yes, it will Doom. This week’s installment: an ordinary-looking office phone! It’s not truly an ordinary office phone — this is a CaptionCall, an accessible phone that features a […]
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Honor Magic3 packs a Snapdragon 888 punch and some crazy camera options
Historically, Huawei spinoff brand Honor has been focused on building midrange hardware. The company seems to be heading in a slightly different direction now with the launch of the Magic3 series. The trio of phones that Honor just revealed are legitimate flagships. There are three different models in the Magic3 line-up: the base Magic3, the […]
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HMD’s latest feature phones include a Nokia 2720 revival
Before their were smartphones, there were flip phones (and a whole bunch of other phones that were… less intelligent, I guess). But what’s old is new again, and HMD has been reviving classic phones for folks who don’t always need a full-fledged web browser and app store. The company has already brought back the Nokia […]
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Palm’s new phone goes on sale next week (Verizon only)
The Palm is a smartphone with a 3.3 inch, 720p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and a $350 price tag. It’s the first Palm-branded smartphone to be announced since 2010, but this isn’t the same Palm that brought us PalmOS and webOS. The new Palm smartphone runs Google […]
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Light Phone 2 is a simple 4G phone with an E Ink display (crowdfunding)
Smartphones are basically mobile computers and communication devices that we use for everything from GPS navigation to watching movies and playing games, with a lot of social media thrown in for good measure. The Light Phone 2… isn’t one of those jack-of-all-trades devices. It’s a phone that’s designed first and foremost for making phone calls […]
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Researchers develop a phone you never have to plug in
You’ve seen plenty of smartphones launch with massive batteries. How many have you seen launch with no battery whatsoever? Apart from NoPhone, which is really just a black plastic slab, probably none. Without a battery, most phones would be pretty much useless. Not the prototype developed by researchers at the University of Washington, however. It’s […]
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Would you buy a $300 Windows Phone with Continuum support? (Cerulean Moment hits Indiegogo)
5 Comments on Would you buy a $300 Windows Phone with Continuum support? (Cerulean Moment hits Indiegogo)Microsoft may be continuing to crank out updates to its Windows 10 Mobile operating system, but there are only a handful of phones that actually run the software at this point, and soon Microsoft will even begin selling Android phones that run some Microsoft apps. So is there really any demand for new Windows phones? Or […]
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Ubuntu Linux heading to tablets, smartphones
Ubuntu is already one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions for desktop and laptop computer users — and the operating system powers a fair share of servers as well. Now founder Mark Shuttleworth says the next step is to bring Ubuntu to phones and tablets. You can already install Ubuntu on a tablet […]