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18 Jul

The HMD Skyline is a mid-range smartphone that’s all about repairability

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Today, HMD unveiled its newest own-brand smartphone called Skyline. This phone runs on a mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen2 CPU, and it offers up to 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM. It has 15W Qi2 wireless charging and its 4600mAh battery lasts “up to 48 hours.” The screen is a 6.55-inch full HD+ panel with a 144Hz refresh rate and up to 1,000 nits of brightness. Pick either pink (maybe they had leftovers from the Barbie collab) or black for your phone's color. Skyline phones will be available starting in August and will cost $499.The spotlight feature for Skyline is…

15 Jul

The best budget Android phone for 2024

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One of the best things about the Android ecosystem is the availability of truly affordable phones for as little as $150. By comparison, the cheapest iPhone is based on a dated design and starts at $429. However, picking the right cheap Android phone can be a bit tricky, as reducing the price of a phone can sometimes result in too many trade-offs when compared to flagship phones. So to give you a hand, we tested a bunch of the most popular options and put together a list of the best budget Android phones you can buy.How low should you go?We…

09 Jul

A British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phones

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A lot of school districts have instituted smartphone bans for students during the school day but a British boarding school has taken it one step further. Wait, scratch that. They’ve taken it one step back.Eton College, the historic and elite British boarding school with famous alumni such as Prince William and Harry, Ian Fleming and Tom Hiddleston, has instituted a new mobile phone policy for its first-year students starting in September. Those students will have to leave their smartphones at home but bring their SIM card to school and put it in an old school, offline Nokia cell phone with…

04 Jul

The best iPhone cases for 2024

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Your iPhone is likely your most used gadget on the regular, so it’s worth protecting your investment with a case. It’s understandable to want to show off the handset's sleek design, but the last thing anyone wants is for that shiny new iPhone to get a dent in its back or a crack in its screen. There are dozens of iPhone cases out there, and it may be tempting to just get whichever Amazon serves you first when you search for one. But not all iPhone cases are created equal: not only do you have to make sure the case…

04 Jul

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6 product pages have been leaked

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The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 will come with a 50-megapixel rear camera for the first time, a bigger battery than any of its predecessors and a bunch of AI features, according to the product pages leaked by Evan Blass on Substack. Also known as @evleaks on X/Twitter and other avenues, Blass is known to have a good track record for leaking accurate information about unreleased devices. This time, evleaks has obtained and released copies of product pages for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 ahead of an Unpacked event happening on July 10, though the…

21 Jun

Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

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The Eiffel Tower is 330 meters tall, and the nearest pizza parlor is 1.3 miles from my house. These facts were astoundingly easy to ascertain. All I had to do was type some words into Google, and I didn’t even have to spell them right.For the vast majority of human history, this is not how people found stuff out. They went to the library, asked a priest, or wandered the streets following the scent of pepperoni. But then, for a brief period when search engines existed but it was too expensive to use them on your shiny new phone, people…