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LG V30 is Getting a Big Ol’ 6-Inch, Curved-Edge POLED FullVision Display

Kellen August 2, 2017 49

LG announced this evening that its "next major smartphone" is going to rock one of its new next-generation FullVision POLED displays. They are talking about the LG V30, of course, which should be announced at the end of August at an event during IFA. In the...

Verizon Now Selling ASUS ZenFone AR at $27 Per Month (Updated)

Kellen August 2, 2017 21

The ASUS ZenFone AR, a Google Tango-supported phone that was first introduced back in January at CES, has finally arrived in the US as a Verizon exclusive. We knew the phone was coming exclusively to Verizon because Google and ASUS told us as much back at...

Samsung is Actually Updating the Unlocked Galaxy S8 and S8+ Pretty Quickly

Kellen August 2, 2017 16

Back in March, two days before Samsung announced the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, I shared my frustrations over the lack of updates to the US unlocked models of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. The mild rage was triggered by a security patch that rolled out that...

Skype Adds PayPal Integration, Lets You Make Payments While Chatting

Kellen August 2, 2017 4

Skype and PayPal announced today that they have teamed up to allow easy, in-the-moment payments between Skype users. Should you be on a Skype call or in a chat and need to send over some cash, you can now do that using your PayPal account without ever leaving...

Verizon is Retiring Smart Rewards in Favor of Verizon Up, Which You Should Probably Avoid

Kellen August 2, 2017 16

Verizon's long-running rewards program called Smart Rewards is being retired on November 1. In its place is a new program called Verizon Up that went live yesterday and should be simpler to use, while potentially offering better returns for the credits you...

Case Makers Think This is the Pixel 2 and That It Won’t Have a Headphone Jack

Kellen August 2, 2017 93

The Pixel 2 case maker dance has begun. You know the move, where all the case makers on the planet want to show you what the next hot phone is by placing questionable or partially accurate renders they've created in-house into a case of theirs to get their...

OpenSignal Mobile Networks Report is Out and T-Mobile Cleaned House

Kellen August 2, 2017 52

You are probably going to hear a lot from T-Mobile today, thanks to good news out of the latest OpenSignal "State of the Mobile Networks" report for August 2017. The Uncarrier managed to sweep the awards that are handed out for categories like download speed...

Galaxy Note 8 vs. Galaxy S8+ vs. Galaxy S8: Image Comparison

Kellen August 1, 2017 54

Thanks to leaked press images of the Galaxy Note 8, we get to do a simple side-by-side comparison of it to the Galaxy S8+ and Galaxy S8 before the phone is ever announced. Now, I should point out that these images are by no means to scale and are simply...