Samsung is full steam ahead on making a foldable Galaxy phone. Although it isn’t clear if that means the screen itself could fold — there are other ways to make a phone “foldable” — we now know that foldable displays are a major part of Samsung’s mobile strategy. The company said in its earnings report …
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When we first saw the retro Nokia 3310 last February, it was nostalgia-laced love at first sight. The colorful little phone reminded us of simpler times when T9Word was the best way to text your friends and before you’d “accidentally” spend hours scrolling through social media feeds. But although nostalgia helped the phone gain its appeal, using it was like taking a …
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The flagship LG G6 and midrange LG Q6 are about to get a snazzy makeover. LG just announced that the phones will be coming in new colors like “Moroccan blue,” “lavender violet” and “raspberry rose.” Both phones will come in the new shades of blue and violet, while the raspberry tone is reserved for the LG G6. The phones will first roll out in Korea in …
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The flood gates are open. After a slew of rumors and renders of the Samsung Galaxy S9 surfaced recently, in anticipation of the phone’s announcement on Feb. 25, rumors of some key new features have surfaced. The info comes from an APK teardown of the latest Android Oreo beta for the Galaxy Note 8, done by SamCentral. Similar to the HomePod …
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Samsung has promised that its Galaxy S9 phone will have camera upgrades. The company said so in its invitation to the Feb. 25 launch event in Barcelona, Spain. (We’ll be there!) The Galaxy S9 will be all about the camera. Samsung Although the invitation doesn’t provide much in the way of visual clues to exactly what those upgrades will be (seriously, we …
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The Galaxy S9 is coming on Feb. 25 and we’ve heard plenty of rumors about what to expect next month. So now comes another question: what will our color choices be? Samsung typically sticks to safe, neutral tones like arctic silver, orchid gray and midnight black. Poetic Cases, which makes cases for Samsung phones, has made its cases for the Galaxy …
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The dates are set. Google’s annual I/O Developer Conference is penciled in for May 8 through 10, 2018, and will be held in Mountain View, California, at the Shoreline Amphitheater. If you don’t know what I/O is, here’s why everyone who uses an Android phone (or iPhone) should care. Every year, Google uses its developer conference to unveil the latest …
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The world’s first phone with an in-screen fingerprint scanner finally has a name, and a birth date. The Vivo X20 Plus UD goes on sale Jan. 24, starting in China. We first saw the one-of-a-kind tech at CES, the world’s largest technology show. Chinese phone maker Vivo showed us a preproduction device that scans your fingerprint when you place your finger on …
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Last February we got the LG G6, so this February we should get the LG G7, right? Maybe not. Enlarge Image A revamped LG V30 may be in store for MWC 2018. Juan Garzón/CNET Instead of unveiling its next flagship LG G series phone next month — assumed to be called the LG G7 — the Korean electronics giant may …
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Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S9 is nearly upon us, and the latest points to some welcome changes in the S9’s camera. A recent report from Korean site ETNews claims that the larger Galaxy S9 Plus will get dual 12-megapixel rear cameras. The Galaxy Note 8 was Samsung’s first dual rear camera phone and the report claims that the larger S9 variant could …
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