Samsung’s president Young Sohn raised eyebrows yesterday when he said at an event in Germany that the company had . Sohn touted this as proof that Samsung’s decision to launch the “luxury” smartphone despite the ongoing issues was the right one. Now, Samsung has via Korea’s Yonhap news agency that Sohn was incorrect — it hasn’t sold that many phones. Usually, Samsung announcing a million phone sales would be rather poor performance. It usually moves several million phones in the first month of a big release. However, the Fold is no ordinary smartphone. It’s the first Google-blessed foldable device in the world, and it costs a whopping $2,000.
Last night, Microsoft officially unveiled what we’ve been referring to as the Xbox Next (Project Scarlett). Anyone hoping for the sudden appearance of a coherent Xbox branding strategy had their hopes dashed — the follow-up to the Xbox One is the Xbox X Series. In one stroke, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in the “most appearances of a rare Scrabble tile” category. Pity the PlayStation 5, with its predictable naming scheme! Snark aside, the best I can say for Xbox Series X is that it abbreviates agreeably to “Xbox SX” or “XSX.” Microsoft probably likes it because there’s no “Xbone” equivalent.
Today’s top deal is an affordable curved 32-inch display that would be perfect as a budget gaming display or as just an everyday screen for work. This Samsung display utilizes a curved 32-inch display panel with a native 1080p resolution. It also has built-in speakers. Best of all, it’s been marked down nearly 50 percent. You can get one now from Walmart with the price reduced from $249.99 to $129.99. Dell’s XPS 8930 desktop comes with an Intel Core i7-9700 processor with eight CPU cores that can operate at clock speeds as high as 4.7GHz.
If you ask AT&T, it’ll tell you it was the first US carrier to launch 5G at the very end of 2018, but that’s only true by some very narrow definitions of the word “launch.” It wouldn’t let most people actually buy or use phones on its 5G network, but that’s finally changing. AT&T has covering several markets, and it’ll even sell you a 5G phone. Just be ready to drop $1,300 on it. AT&T’s 5G rollout started in late December 2018 with millimeter-wave coverage in a handful of cities. That’s the same technology Verizon used in its rollout, but unlike Verizon, AT&T chose not to sell consumer devices when it deployed its first 5G markets.
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If you are still looking for that perfect gift to buy someone for Christmas, then you’re in luck. Walmart is selling the 128GB version of Apple’s 2019 iPad with a $100 discount, which makes it the same price we saw on Black Friday. The new 2019 iPad features the company’s A10 processor that first debuted in the iPhone 7 at the end of 2016. Although that makes this tablet’s hardware a few years old, you get get the performance of this former flagship with a large high-def screen and with 128GB of storage space. Right now you can get one from Walmart marked down from $429.00 to $329.00.
Samsung talked a big game in the lead-up to the Galaxy Fold launch, hoping to build up hype for the first-of-its-kind phone. However, the original release was canceled following some embarrassing early failures. That apparently did not doom the Galaxy Fold. Samsung now says the foldable device . This news comes by way of Samsung Electronics President Young Sohn, who revealed the number at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. Compared with other smartphones, a million units might not sound like a lot. However, it’s pretty staggering in the context of the Galaxy Fold. Not only did this phone get a lot of bad press, but it also costs almost $2,000.
Perhaps one of the most perplexing aspects of modern “smart home” technology is how willing people are to install internet-connected cameras all over their homes. Yes, the same internet on which people use passwords like “123456.” After a widely reported Ring camera hack, Motherboard and found a network of online ne’er-do-wells specifically targeting the company’s cameras. This week, local Tennessee media reported on a story that’s becoming all too familiar. A family installed a Ring camera to keep an eye on their young kids. Several days later, someone had broken into the Ring account and used the camera to chat with one of the children.
Well, here it is. When Facebook bought Oculus, it assured users that it wouldn’t be using any data gathered via Oculus VR for advertising. It’s a question that’s come up again and again over the years, and it’s always been answered the same way: Oculus and Facebook do not and will not combine data… Except, now, they do. Oculus changes to its privacy policy regarding how data is shared between Oculus and Facebook when you connect an Oculus Rift to your FB account. You are not required to connect your Oculus account to Facebook in order to use your Rift.
