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The phone rings in the middle of the night, and it's your child sobbing, calling for your help, and time is running out. Written by William Gillies, Hallow Road offers a claustrophobic setting where fear comes from the unknown of what's going on at the other end of the phone line. It's every parent's worst nightmare.
Samsung has announced a 200-megapixel image sensor intended for smartphone cameras, by some distance the highest resolution phone camera sensor ever made. megapixel setting is intended for low-light usage, but it can also capture full 200-megapixel resolution photos, or use a two-by-two binning technique for 50-megapixel images.
Connecting to both at once will allow you to play a song from your phone or another device nearby to the Roam over Bluetooth — and that music can then also be played across the rest of your Sonos multi-room system. Sound Swap” will let you pass off music from the Roam to another Sonos speaker.
Google goes back to its old tricks, mostly for the better The amount of effort Google seems to put into its Pixel phones while simultaneously ensuring that they look and feel mundane never ceases to astonish me. The Pixel 5 has a simple rear-mounted fingerprint sensor that harkens back to Android phones from 2018, not 2020.
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. OnePlus’ Buds usually cost $79, but they’re just $59 today at Amazon and B&H Photo. The biggest difference to form and fit is that the Buds Z use ear tips for better sound isolation than the standard Buds, which are rigid like AirPods and may not fit will in every type of ear.
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. But when he snapped a photo of a written answer with his iPhone and attempted to upload it to the testing portal, it stopped responding. Students can either type their response or upload a photo of handwritten work. Due to the photo’s size, the conversion took over five minutes.
Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge. But if you do order the foldable flip phone from Amazon, you’ll be greeted by an unusual sight when you open the box: someone else will have already unboxed your new phone and folded it for you. Is this a casual indictment of the fragility of Motorola’s foldable phone? inch OLED panel.
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phone without cutting too many corners. Alongside its lower-tier N100 sibling, it’s the first phone in OnePlus’ midrange Nord series to arrive in the US, available from T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, and unlocked from OnePlus.com and other retailers. So what sacrifices did OnePlus make to create a $300 phone?
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