There are still almost two full months left in 2019, but the year is already over as far as smartphone fans are concerned. There are no more big releases set to take place this year, though we will get a peek at the new RAZR revival that Motorola cooked up. It’s exciting indeed, with the same slim clamshell form factor as the original, but with a large folding display inside. We can’t wait to get our hands on it, but sadly we’re going to have to since Motorola isn’t expected to actually release it until sometime next year.

With nothing else of note set to be released in 2019, our attention now turns to 2020. Samsung is expected to start off the year with the Galaxy S11, which should debut sometime in February ahead of a March release. We’ll also see a new Galaxy Fold 2 at some point during the year, and other vendors have all sorts of nifty new flagship phones planned for 2020. Of course, there’s one new smartphone series that’s already generating much more hype than the rest despite being more than 10 months away from launching. That’s right, we’re talking about the new iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max that will be announced sometime in September 2020. It’s still early days, of course, but we already know a bit about the iPhone 12 series’ overhauled design thanks to reports from the world’s most accurate Apple insider. Now, a smartphone blog has taken what we know about the iPhone 12 and used that info to imagine what Apple’s reinvented iPhone might look like next year.

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Behold: This is what Apple’s completely new iPhone 12 design might look like originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 08:17:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Most flagship smartphones these days support wireless charging and if you’re not taking advantage of it, you’re crazy. It might seem like it’s not a big deal, but there’s something so wonderfully liberating about not having to deal with cables and connectors anymore. Don’t take our word for it though, because it’s time to see for yourself with one of the best deals we’ve ever seen on a wireless charger. The Anker PowerWave Pad Fast Wireless Charger is insanely popular and it typically sells for around $15. An Amazon discount slashes that price to $10 thanks to an early Black Friday deal, but the coupon code AKSD0313 cuts it even farther to an all-time low price of just $8.99! Definitely don’t miss out on this killer deal.

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Early Black Friday deal gets you Anker’s most popular wireless charging pad for $8.99 originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 07:54:09 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Researchers, including a person who was responsible for discovering the massive Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that chipmakers and computer makers hurried to patch in early 2018, have discovered a huge security issue that can affect practically every smart speaker from Amazon, Google, or Apple. Apparently, you can use laser beams to target microphones the speakers, which interpret the signal as originating from voice commands. The hackers were able to perform all sorts of actions with the help of these smart devices, and there’s no real fix for the time being. All you can do is make sure your speaker isn’t facing a window, that it can’t access sensitive data or devices. Then again, it’s not like there’s any proof that anyone has been abusing the unexpected flaw. And actually making it work requires plenty of work.

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Researchers prove iPhones, Android, and smart speakers have a huge security flaw that can’t be fixed originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 07:31:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Pixel 4 hit stores only a few days ago, and just like every Pixel phone that preceded it, the phone launched with several issues that Google needs to fix — it’s a sort of Pixel tradition. Smooth Display issues and 3D Face Unlock security are two things Google confirmed it’ll fix via software updates, and the first one has just arrived, with improvements for the Pixel 4’s 90Hz display.

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Google just started fixing the Pixel 4 originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 06:50:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hey, so, you know that flight you have planned for the upcoming holidays? Yeah, I’m sure it’s going to be fine and everything, but one word of advice: Don’t bring anything that looks like a gun with you. I know, you shouldn’t even really have to say such a thing these days, but apparently, not everyone realizes that gun-shaped things can cause problems on planes.

Recently, the Transportation Security Administration agents at the Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey discovered what appeared to be a gun in a traveler’s carry-on page. This, as you might imagine, set off several red flags and agents dove into the person’s luggage to see what exactly they were trying to bring onto the plane. It was not, in fact, a gun.

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Guess what happened when an idiot brought a gun-shaped toilet paper roller on an airplane? originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 23:07:57 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I would like to personally extend a warm thank-you to late-night talk show host and stand-up comedian Seth Meyers, whose Netflix comedy special Lobby Baby premieres on the streamer on Tuesday.

No, the mere fact of that premiere is not what I’m referencing — although, sure, congrats on that, Seth! My focus is instead on the new tool that Seth got Netflix to build and include in his special, a tool that will be greeted with relief and appreciation by many of you who are likely burned out on politics and the Trump news that seems to confront you almost anywhere you go on the Internet.

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Netflix built a new tool for those of you burned out on politics and Trump originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 22:05:35 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nobody likes the idea of a mega-huge company like Amazon listening in on our everyday conversations, but what if Alexa could help solve your murder? Florida police are hoping it’s possible, and they’re asking for Amazon’s help in solving a murder that left 32-year-old Silva Galva dead.

The suspect, 43-year-old Adam Reechard Crespo, was Galva’s boyfriend, and he claims that her death was the result of a tragic accident during a physical altercation between the two. Investigators aren’t so sure, and they’re hoping that the Echo speaker in the apartment may have overheard the incident.

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Police want to interrogate Amazon’s Alexa over grisly murder originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 21:03:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple’s new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max are all terrific. They’re also all really, really expensive. If you already have an iPhone that’s working just fine, you might not want to dive into an upgrade that costs anywhere from $700 up to a whopping $1,450. There are some newer iPhone features that would be nice to have though, such as wireless charging so you don’t have to worry about fumbling with cables and connectors anymore. Check out the Antye Wireless Charging Receiver Case for iPhone, which costs less than $20 and is available for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, and iPhone 7 series. Trust us, you’re going to wonder how you ever lived without it.

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This wireless charging case for iPhone 6, 6s, and 7 is just $17 originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 20:08:06 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone owners know that Apple only refreshes the handset’s design every once in a while, usually when it has something significant to say, design-wise. But, if you’ve been following the iPhone from the start, you probably realized that all the changes Apple made to the iPhone over the years, from the first model all the way to the iPhone X, are baby steps that Apple has been taking towards delivering the perfect iPhone design.

The iPhone X is the latest major design refresh, of course, which Apple used for the iPhone XS and iPhone 11. Come next year, we’re going to get a brand new design, one that’s said to be inspired by the iPhone 4, and a design that should get us even closer to the perfect all-screen iPhone. And Apple is quietly working on bringing that ideal design to life, a new discovery shows.

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Apple is quietly working on the perfect iPhone originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 19:06:49 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From the Pixel 4 announced at Google’s recent Made by Google event to new Samsung, iPhone and Huawei devices, it’s been a jam-packed year for new phone announcements, with all the major releases having officially been unveiled and teed up at this point. This is not to say, however, that the final weeks of 2019 don’t continue to feature leaks and interesting teases about still more as-yet-unannounced handsets. On the contrary.

Case in point: The upcoming Galaxy S10 Lite, the less-expensive (and, correspondingly, less feature-rich) variant of the standard Galaxy S10 that Samsung is rumored to be prepping. We don’t have an official word or timetable for the device yet — but we do have what might be our first solid indication of what it will end up looking like.

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This may be our first look at Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Lite originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 18:35:43 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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