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    All the Great Tech You Can Buy for Less Than the iPhone X

    I laughed when I saw Paul Wagenseil's comment: "iPhones are for children ...". I laughed harder when I noticed that he would spend $500 of the $1000 on video games. There's a child in all of us.
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    iPhone 8 Plus vs. Google Pixel 2 Camera Shootout: Apple Wins

    My take is that for most of these photos, especially the ones where the Apple wins, the difference apears to be exposure: Retake the shot with the Pixel with a +1/2 stop EV and you eliminate the iPhone's advantage. By only using the phones' fully automatic setting you are really just testing...
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    10 Reasons iPhone X Beats the Galaxy Note 8

    Nothing wrong with ALAC. But with the new apple you are taking the lossless music, compressing it and counting on your headphones to decompress it. Some of the phones that use the latest Bluetooth signatures are not bad. But nothing beats a wire. I use a Bose bluetooth set while biking...
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    10 Reasons iPhone X Beats the Galaxy Note 8

    GENEI.09: There is a reason that phones (and still cameras) will not record for more than 30 minutes of video, and that reason has nothing to do with memory or CPU speed or any other technical limitation. Devices that record more than 30 minutes of video are considered video recorders and...
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    10 Reasons iPhone X Beats the Galaxy Note 8

    This was a nice expose of some of the Apple's best features, but as someone else noted: 10 of the 12 slides were straight from apple, and it completely ignored some of the things that Samsung always does better than Apple: 1) I use the phone to listen to music on serious headphones. Because...