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  • Best Apps and Games of the Week

    Clips Clips is a new app from Apple for creating, editing, and sharing videos. The app lets you record a video or photo or import them from your gallery. You can adjust the length of your clips or rearrange them within a simple UI. The app also has a unique voiceover caption feature where the…

  • Counterclockwise: Sony Ericsson T68i, Nokia 7650 and the rise of the cameraphone

    The first portable digital camera was likely the Fuji DS-1P from 1988, that’s the predecessor of modern DSLRs. But we’ll turn your attention to the Game Boy Camera instead – a 1998 accessory for the Game Boy that was credited as the “world’s smallest digital camera” by Guinness World Records. It plugged into the cartridge…

  • Top 10 trending phones of week 14

    The Samsung Galaxy S8 immediately rose to the top of the after its announcement last week and it’s still showing no signs of slowing down. The Redmi 4a put on another brave fight to keep the larger Galaxy S8+ in third, meaning the Top 3 are completely unchanged this time around. Below them the Galaxy…

  • Weekly poll: are you getting the new Sony Xperia XZs?

    Life goes slowly at 960 frames per second, enough to make the Xperia XZ from October last year seem old. Old enough to have a successor that is, the Sony Xperia XZs. The upgraded camera is certainly the highlight of the ‘s’ version, and not just for its action-stopping video. The camera boasts a new…

  • Week 14 in review: iPhone 8 OLED screens, Xiaomi Mi 6 inching closer

    After the Galaxy S8 finally embraced officialdom, our top news stories finally contain something other than the flagship’s leaks. Apple finalized a deal with Samsung Display for curved OLED panels, Huawei launched the impressive Honor 8 Pro with 6 GB RAM and the product presentation of the HTC U leaked in full, revealing a pressure-sensitive…

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