October 12, 2019
Google’s Pixel 4 briefly went up for preorder on Best Buy Canada
The Pixel 4 is set to be unveiled at an event on Tuesday. This much we know for sure. We know a bunch more, too, (as outlined in…
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October 11, 2019
Life with the Samsung Galaxy Fold
Avoid pressing hard on the screen. Tap lightly to keep it safe. Your Galaxy Fold isn’t water or dust resistant. Don’t allow any liquids or foreign objects to…
Read articleOctober 9, 2019
What the hell is up with this Essential device?
Essential CEO Andy Rubin has been pretty silent over the past year for, well, lots of reasons — both business and otherwise. The company has struggled to sell…
Read articleOctober 8, 2019
With $15M round and 100K tablets sold, reMarkable CEO wants to make tech ‘more human’
The reMarkable tablet is a strange device in this era of ultra-smart gadgets: A black and white screen meant for reading, writing, and sketching — and nothing more.…
Read articleOctober 8, 2019
Arm brings custom instructions to its embedded CPUs
At its annual TechCon event in San Jose, Arm today announced Custom Instructions, a new feature of its Armv8-M architecture for embedded CPUs that, as the name implies,…
Read articleOctober 5, 2019
HTC stopped innovating on smartphones, new CEO admits
Several months back, we invited HTC cofounder and CEO Cher Wang to appear on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sometimes, however, life happens. Two weeks ago, the company announced…
Read articleOctober 4, 2019
HTC’s new CEO discusses the phonemaker’s future
On September 17, HTC announced that cofounder Cher Wang would be stepping down as CEO. In her place, Yves Maitre stepped into the role of Chief Executive, after…
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Samsung pulls the plug on Chinese smartphone production
Samsung this morning confirmed with Reuters that it has shuttered handset production in China. The move comes as the company continues to struggle in the world’s No. 1…
Read articleSeptember 27, 2019
The Galaxy Fold is now available for purchase in the US
This is, surely, the moment some loyal fans have waited for. And understandably so. The Galaxy Fold is, by all measures, an exciting phone. It’s the sort of…
Read articleSeptember 26, 2019
My Galaxy Fold display is damaged after a day
Samsung’s new rebooted Galaxy arrives this week with one job: it just needs to not break. I’d already spent thousands of words breaking down the ins and outs…
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