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With Sidekick G4, T-Mobile Casts Me Into Smartphone Replacement Purgatory
Sara really loved her HTC G1 from T-Mobile, and bought the similar-ish Samsung Sidekick 4G as a replacement when its years of loyal service ended. The new phone has not been so loyal. It locks up, won't respond to the touchscreen, and periodically wipes its memory card for no clear reason. Sure, she could back up the memory card content elsewhere, but the non-operational phone is a real problem. Now she's on her third replacement. T-Mobile is happy to send her a replacement, but she doesn't want a fifth phone that will inevitably have the same problems. Sara, welcome to
smartphone replacement purgatory!
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Maybe Your New TV Is Watching You
It's the entire point, really. New smart TVs from Samsung boast video cameras with facial-recognition software and microphones with speech-recognition software. They can tell who's in the room, understand spoken commands, and be controlled with gestures. That's great news for those of us who can never find the remote, but made our friends over at HD Guru wonder: is there anyone behind that camera watching us back?
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What Is This "Connected Appliance" Stuff All About Anyway?
While much of the buzz at any Consumer Electronics Show revolves around the sexier kids in school — TVs, computers, cell phones — there is a quiet rumble surrounding the impending release of a horde of "connected appliances," which is a blanket term for fridges, washers, dryers, dishwashers, stoves and ovens that communicate in some way with each other and maybe with the outside world.
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Photos: Behind The Scenes At CES 2012
In a few hours, the folks at the Consumer Electronics Show will fling open the doors to the Las Vegas Convention Center and a crowd the size of a small city will begin gawking and toying with the latest in doodads and whatsthats. But for the second year in a row, me and my trusty camera phone were able to convince someone I had a reason to be on the show floor so I could snap a handful of last-minute preparation pics before anyone caught on to my antics.
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Samsung Delighted To Announce Ads On Your Smart TV's Home Screen
Samsung was delighted to announce this morning at CES that they intend to place ads to the home screens of your fancy new Smart TVs. Does this annoy you?
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European Cell Phone Regulators Worried About War Between Apple And Samsung
Look, Apple, Samsung — your fight over patents and intellectual property could affect all of Europe. Think about
that, while you're locked in battle over intellectual property rights! And now you've gone and upset EU regulators.
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Vote Here For The Worst Ad In America Awards!
You told us which TV ads annoy you the most, now it's time to select the worst of the worst!
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Samsung Tries To Distance Itself From Worst Ad-Nominated TV Spot
Yesterday, we announced this year's
slate of nominees for the Worst Ad In America awards, and among the TV spots slugging it out for the title of Absolute Worst Ad is one that appears to be for the Samsung Infuse 4G... or so you might think.
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Announcing The 2011 Worst Ad In America Nominees!
For the second year in a row,
we asked you to tell us which TV commercials get on your last nerve, and you didn't hold back. After sifting through hundreds of comments and e-mails, we've finally whittled down all those annoying ads to the elite few worthy of recognition in the Second Annual Consumerist Worst Ad In America Awards.
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Only Samsung Has The Power To Reinstall Windows On Your Laptop
When the hard drive of Joseph's Samsung laptop began to make clicking noises, he thought it would be simple enough to make a backup image of his hard drive, install a shiny new solid-state drive, and put the backed-up image on his new drive. This didn't work, and he's stuck without Windows on his drive. Now he yearns for those long-ago days when computer manufacturers actually shipped copies of the software installed on computers with those computers.
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