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Cool Tech Under $50 – May 2015

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How to Get a Dual Screen Setup for Your Laptop

In this video I show you how to quickly and easily set up a second monitor for your laptop or netbook.

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Apple edged Samsung in Q4 smartphone sales, but OPPO and Huawei were the year’s star performers

Samsung may have won an arguably important Q4 2016 regional battle, as well as the full-year global smartphone shipment war, but Apple still broke earnings records during the October – December timeframe, also coming out on top over the holidays in Strategy Analytics research.

More than 78 million iPhones were sold worldwide in the year-ending three months, up from 74.8M in Q4 2015, and just ahead of Samsung’s latest 77.5 mil quarterly count, which was clearly impacted by the Note 7 debacle, dipping 5 percent annually.

Of course, one swallow does not a summer make, and Samsung easily prevailed in the overall 2016 volume hierarchy, beating Apple 309.4 million units to 215.4M. Both scores are however down from the previous yearly totals of 319.7 and 231.5 mil respectively, as a group of rising Chinese stars continue to chip away at the industry’s manufacturer duopoly.

Huawei is the predictable bronze medalist in both Q4 2016 and full-year contests, reaching double-digit quarterly market share for the first time, and surging an impressive 31.7 million units in total sales numbers for the year.

But believe it or not, it was OPPO rather than Huawei that earned “star performer” status, with a 99 percent annual share increase, and close to 85 million smartphones sold all in all, compared to less than 40M in 2015. In fifth place, Vivo enjoyed a remarkable progress of its own, from 3.3 and 2.7 percent share in Q4 2015 and 2015 as a whole to 5.8 and 4.8 percent respectively now. This five-way battle could get awfully interesting before long.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 (SM-T825) Just Got Its 4G LTE Approved By FCC

The upcoming new Super AMOLED Android 7.0 tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 (SM-T825) just got its 4G LTE approved by the FCC. The new specs are very detailed for the cellular bands, but doesn’t confirm other new specs than we already have from before other than the GPS this time.

So the SM-T825 is the 9.7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 4G LTE version, and it was only the cellular networks that was FCC approved in the first files to be published online. The testing is quite fresh, and only ended about 10 days ago.

Official specs by now for the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 9.7 (SM-T825) 4G LTE model includes a Super AMOLED display resolution of 2048 x 1536, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 12.9MP rear camera and 5MP front camera, Android 7.0 Nougat, 2.4 GHz and 5GHz 2×2 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi with MIMO, Bluetooth 4.2, and GPS.

Based on our digging a few days ago, we came to assume that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 also has faster UFS 2.0 storage, 4K video recording, and DDR4 RAM, because of its benchmarked performance.

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