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Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers
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Stable lithium-sulfur battery could see smartphones run for five days
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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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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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The Light Phone
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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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How oppo ended up making realme become the 7th largest phone brand globally in a year
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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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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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Tutorial on how to enable RCS on any carrier/device with Android Messages
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NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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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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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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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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The stakes are too high for Apple to spin the iPhone exploits
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Apple will give indie repair shops the tools to fix iPhones
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus review
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Yubico releases the first Lightning security key for iPhones
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The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
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Real or fake? I X-rayed my Samsung Galaxy Phone to find out
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Galaxy Note 10 hands on
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What are your thoughts on the Blloc phone?
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How I made my own Android phone - in China
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Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem business
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Samsung says it has fixed the Galaxy Fold and will release it in September
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iOS 13 redraws your eyes using ARKit so that you're looking at the camera instead of the screen
@schukin: How iOS 13 FaceTime Attention Correction works: it simply uses ARKit to grab a depth map/position of your face, and adjusts the eyes accordingly. Notice the warping of the line across both the eyes and nose. https://t.co/U7PMa4oNGN
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Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
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The researcher behind the smartphone “horns” study sells posture pillows
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