Thanks to the death of carrier subsidies, phone prices have been creeping up well above the $1,000 mark. Why? Because these devices are now cramming a powerful processor, huge screen, and an amazing camera into a package small enough to lose in an airplane seat.
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The T-Mobile/Sprint merger is a shit sandwich
Southern District of New York judge Victor Marrero is allowing T-Mobile US and Sprint to merge. This is bad for you if you’re a customer of either one. But it’s great for them. Here’s how it happened and why it sucks.
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Pablo Escobar’s brother is advertising a $399 foldable phone with ads featuring nearly-naked models
Today in inexplicable new devices we present the Escobar phone, a $399 foldable phone sold by Pablo Escobar’s brother and advertised using scantily-clad models who seem to enjoy putting things on and around their chests.
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PopSockets clings to life with a thing that holds your AirPods
The PopSocket craze is slowly dying out and the company is looking for new ways to stay relevant. Enter whatever this thing is.
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The new RAZR is a bad idea
While I’m pleased the all but moribund Motorola is trying something new, this Razr seems like a bit of a stretch. The $1,500 folding phone will ship in a few months and essentially looks like the old, foldable RAZR but with a trick – the screen folds down over itself, revealing a cellphone that is about as tall as a paperback book.
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Win an iPhone 11 case from Knapsack
Hello, Dear Readers,
We’ve been running Knapsack for a few months now and we feel like we might be missing something: your input. I’d like to grab a few comments from you all about what you’re looking for in a gadget/gear site and what we’re missing.
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Samsung drops a super-cheap Chromebook
In an era of $999 laptops a $230 Chromebook isn’t very big news. But the fact that you get a solid, usable laptop with all the Google goodies is an exciting prospect.
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The new Dell XPS 13 has six cores
The Dell XPS line is probably my favorite windows laptop. Slim and well-built, I’ve had one for years and its become my go-to Linux machine when I need to do a little open sourcing.
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An oral history of Snake
Few games are as iconic and addictive as Nokia’s Snake. The game, in which a snake eats pellets until it is too big to maneuver, is a classic, a nail-biting bit of fun that turned the early Nokia phones into blockbuster hits.
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Should you buy a new iPhone 11?
It’s the day after iPhone 11, and the tech impressions are in: iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are being received in a mostly-ho-hum kind of way. But is there more going on here, and should you buy one?
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