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The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
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The weird world of Apple Watch workout artwork
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Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest phone show, has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns
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An Update from Essential: "we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential"
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What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera
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Stockholm has been named 'smartest city in the world' for its innovations on the environment, digital technology and residents' wellbeing
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Ring's doorbell app for Android sends sensitive user data to multiple analytics and marketing companies
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Smartphones have blurred the distinction between different spaces by turning anywhere into a place you can work, watch TV/videos, talk with friends, and more
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The case for making low-tech 'dumb' cities instead of 'smart' ones
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App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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Stable lithium-sulfur battery could see smartphones run for five days
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Wearable sleep trackers - recommendations?
Is there a good smartwatch/simile that monitors sleep and has excellent battery life (measured in weeks not hours)? I use the Withings (ex-Nokia) Steel HR, but it … kinda sucks. The bluetooth...
Is there a good smartwatch/simile that monitors sleep and has excellent battery life (measured in weeks not hours)?
I use the Withings (ex-Nokia) Steel HR, but it … kinda sucks. The bluetooth pairings very often lose sleep data, it's very inaccurate, the reporting sucks for non-24s, and the leather bracelet is of very poor quality, keeps breaking.
I really don't care for the fitness/step tracking which, as someone else here put it, thinks typing on a keyboard or eating is a step.
I also briefly tried an Oura (https://ouraring.com/), but I never got it to work and had to send it back.
I also don't care much for any of those "sleep quality" trackers that try to detect if I snore and what not. I can do sleep studies in my own time, I just want to have accurate stats on whether and when I am asleep.
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Apparently Samsung just put a removable battery in one of it's new phones
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CES2020: Cyrcle Phone is round and has two headphone jacks
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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Anyone have any experience with eSIMs?
I have ordered a phone with an eSim this week and I have been reading a bit into it. As far as I know so far, you just have to download an app and you can just book some extra data as needed - it...
I have ordered a phone with an eSim this week and I have been reading a bit into it.
As far as I know so far, you just have to download an app and you can just book some extra data as needed - it seems especially cool because you can just book a local plan when you're abroad instead of getting a local sim card. Which can be more or less a hassle - 2019 I went to South Africa where it was pretty easy to get a sim card at the airport, 2018 I went to India, where it was a hassle.
I guess for people in the US this is not a problem? Some of my friends have global contracts, and I had that too when I was there via googles project fi. We don't really have an equivalent in GermanyI found the following pages in case anyone also wants to look into it
https://esimdb.com/ - this is an overview page about different esims
https://www.airalo.com/ - this is one specific offer that seems to be the cheapest for Germany, which is where I would try it, since I live here haha6 votes -
Inside a (3rd party) iPhone battery factory in China
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How much better can smartphones really get?
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Old mobile websites?
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's...
Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for some web 1.0-esque websites, but with the twist of being designed for some ancient smartphones. An example of what I mean would be i.reddit.com , reddit's original (and still fully functional) mobile implementation, or Twitter's site when you access it without a modern version of Javascript (which reverts to a clone of itself from around ~2012). I understand this is a super niche category and there's hardly any of them left, but if you happen to know of any or stumble upon one, please let me know! Thank you! :)
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One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
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PinePhone: Everything you need to know about the $150 Linux-powered phone
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The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
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Apple will reportedly release an iPhone without any ports in 2021
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Inside Apple’s iPhone software shakeup after buggy iOS 13 debut
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Android exploit of system camera apps enabled a malicious app to record and upload photos, video and audio with only "storage" permission
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The PinePhone ($150 Linux smartphone) is now available for pre-order
Some more info about the PinePhone Pre-order page on the Pine Store The early adopter edition of the PinePhone is now available for pre-order. This batch is 3000 units, from what I know ~1000 are...
Some more info about the PinePhone
Pre-order page on the Pine Store
The early adopter edition of the PinePhone is now available for pre-order. This batch is 3000 units, from what I know ~1000 are already sold. These units are currently being produced, and are planned to ship in December/January. Mass production of the consumer edition of the phone is planned to begin in March 2020.
I just pre-ordered mine, is anyone else getting one? Any thoughts on the state of Linux smartphones, whether it's the PinePhone, Librem 5, or something else?
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Researchers have created glass which can bend and compress
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What half of iPhone users don’t know about their privacy
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The new Motorola razr
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Tell me about your smartphone!
Currently I have the Moto G5 Plus that I purchased a little over two years ago for $200. For the most part, it has been a good phone as the gestures to turn the flash light on, turn the camera on,...
Currently I have the Moto G5 Plus that I purchased a little over two years ago for $200. For the most part, it has been a good phone as the gestures to turn the flash light on, turn the camera on, and use the finger print sensor as a swipeable button, has had me pretty satisfied. This was a lower middle range phone when I purchased it so it has lately started chugging even doing basic tasks like internet browsing. Couple that with the battery dying pretty quickly, and battery saver making the phone even slower, and now I am in the market to buy a new phone. Right now I am looking at the OnePlus 7t but the price looks pretty hefty to me at $599. I could make payments but in general I don't like going into debt for small purchases. I'm curious if anyone went from low-tier phone to mid-tier or higher and if you felt the purchase was worth it?
Some other general questions:
- What is your phone?
- Did you finance it?
- Are you looking to upgrade?
- What features are the most important to you?
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Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home
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Tutorial on how to enable RCS on any carrier/device with Android Messages
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New Hampshire lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A completely new camera
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The sad saga of Purism and the Librem 5 (Part 1)
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Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors
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iPhone 11 / 11 Pro Review and Silicon deep dive
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Announcements from Google's 2019 "Made by Google" event
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Microsoft announces new Surface lineup, including two new dual-screen devices, one of which is an Android phone
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Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The $2,000 phone of the future is here—please don’t break it
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Halide 1.14: Updates for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
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First Librem 5 phone rolled out!
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Ring says it doesn't use facial recognition, but it has “a head of face recognition research”
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Announcements from Amazon's 2019 hardware event: Echo Buds, Frames, Loop, Eero, Studio, Ring camera, and Alexa updates
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TCL Communication announces the Alcatel GO FLIP 3 and Alcatel SMARTFLIP, the first flip phones with Google Assistant
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A look inside Apple’s A13 Bionic chip and what it tells us about the future of mobile technology
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Huawei’s flagship Mate 30 Pro has impressive specs but no Google
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iphone 11 pro camera review: china
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Hodinkee's review of the Apple Watch Series 5 Edition in titanium
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