Launched back in June this year and currently only available in China, the Samsung Galaxy C7 might soon go on sale in the US as well. Retailer B&H Photo has a couple of color options of the device listed on its website. The listings – which are for the 64GB dual-SIM variant of the phone – do not contain any images or shipping time-frame, but do reveal that the device carries a price tag of $459 in the US. Specs-wise, the handset is powered by Snapdragon 625 SoC, and sports a 5.7 inch full HD display. It has 4GB RAM…
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After falling to the lowest level in 50 years, the U.S. homeownership rate bounced up slightly in the third quarter of this year. At 63.5 percent, it is still lower than the same time a year ago and significantly down from its high of 69.2 percent at the height of the last housing boom, according to the U.S. Census. While the merits of homeownership are certainly debatable, household formation is a clear driver of economic growth, and the gains there are accelerating as well. Household formation, which is the number of newly occupied housing units (both rented and owned) climbed…
Gayane Meschyan is taking her time shopping — she expects to own this next purchase for at least 10 years. At age 43, with no spouse or children, she wants to feel sure she’s making the right choice. “I see it as security. It’s an investment, and I want to build wealth,” said Meschyan. “You think you know the future, but you don’t. You can’t fully predict the future, so the best you can do is plan for it.” ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads Meschyan, who has a Ph.D. in psychology and works as a research analyst for Los Angeles…
Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images A sales manager gives a tour of a model home to a prospective buyer in Hesperia, California. America’s housing market is heating up again, fortifying the finances of current homeowners and frustrating potential first-time buyers. After hitting bottom in 2012, home prices took off dramatically before leveling off a bit in mid-2014. In the last two months, though, they turned higher again. The amount of equity homeowners now have — the value outside their mortgage debt — has doubled in the last five years, according to CoreLogic. The latest read on…
The refrain is becoming all too familiar. Mortgage interest rates rise, and homebuyers and refinancers retreat. Total mortgage application volume fell 1.2 percent last week from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Volume is down nearly 11 percent in the past four weeks, as rates climbed. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($417,000 or less) increased to its highest level since June, 2016, 3.75 percent, from 3.71 percent, with points decreasing to 0.36 from 0.37 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan-to-value ratio loans. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Mortgage…
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Bizarre DX12 results don’t take away from Battlefield 1’s brilliance on AMD’s FX-8370 processor and Radeon RX 480. Credit: Brad Chacos 11COMMENTS Brad Chacos | @BradChacos Senior Editor, PCWorld Nov 11, 2016 3:00 AM DICE didn’t let you down this time, folks. Battlefield 4 stumbled out of the gate with connection problems. The less said about Battlefield: Hardline the better. But Battlefield 1 roars in your face and punches you in the gut, blending a surprisingly poignant single-player campaign with the massive, chaotic multiplayer experience the series is famous for, all set in World War I’s frantic trenches. It’s a…
Picking the best low-cost media streamer just got a lot more complicated. AT A GLANCE Amazon Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote (2016) TECHHIVE RATING $39.99 MSRP $39.99 VIEW on Amazon The new Fire TV Stick combines good-enough performance with powerful voice controls and a smart user interface. COMMENTS Jared Newman | @onejarednewman TechHive Nov 11, 2016 3:00 AM Before Amazon’s second-generation Fire TV Stick showed up for review, I thought it could be the cheap streaming device to beat. Amazon has claimed a 30 percent performance boost over the original Fire TV Stick, whose biggest problem was sluggishness.…
Yesterday ZTE finally told us when to expect an Android 7.0 Nougat update to hit its Axon 7smartphone, and today it’s time for OnePlus to come clean regarding its latest flagship, the OnePlus 3. A beta build of Nougat for the handset will become available this month, apparently, with the final release being rolled out by the end of the year. That means OnePlus will beat ZTE at the update game, since the Axon 7 is only tasting Nougat in January. OnePlus has confirmed that its flagship offering from last year, the OnePlus 2, is also in line to receive…