The Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus are packed full of features and specs, but there’s one new trick for the S Pen die-hards among you that Samsung hopes you’ll love. The digital stylus can now control the Note with gestures. Last year’s Note 9 introduced a Bluetooth connection that makes it possible to take …

Samsung is hours away from launching its new Galaxy Note, rumored to be the Galaxy Note 10 with a 6.3-inch screen, and an even larger Note 10 Plus with a 6.8-inch display. Today, we may take the Note line for granted, but when the first Galaxy Note  launched in 2011, it was met with derision. In those days, the Note was …

The Galaxy Note 10 has its work cut out for it. Samsung phones have had a rough year. There have been a lot of them, but most have failed to make a meaningful splash (here’s proof that Galaxy S10 phones aren’t selling) and the one phone that did is now delayed. That leaves the Note 10 (and rumored Note 10 Plus) as …

Embrace it or disdain it, the 5G data revolution is coming either way. 5G’s ultrafast speeds will soon land on new phones, starting at the high end. But we’ve already learned what these first-generation 5G phones will be like, and they shed light on some of the challenges that everyone might face in these early days of 5G. We’ve tested 5G speeds in …

Update, Sept. 5: We’ve gone hands-on with Samsung’s revamped Galaxy Fold ahead of its revised release later this month. Original story, last updated in July, follows. The second coming of the Galaxy Fold is almost here. Samsung will relaunch the Fold with improvements said to fix the screen’s tendency to break, flicker or bulge as it did on some review devices (though not CNET’s). Months after pulling the plug …

91 days after it was supposed to go on sale, Samsung announced a new release window for the Galaxy Fold, its first foldable phone. Or rather, a release month: September. And only in select countries, as initially planned. Samsung said it would share specific sale dates as the month nears — we’d guess as early as August. With this announcement, the …

Note: Samsung has announced it will relaunch the Galaxy Fold in September. Even before Samsung’s mobile chief, DJ Koh, admitted that he “pushed [the Fold] through before it was ready“, massive delays to the first major foldable phone slammed the brakes on what was once billed as nothing short of a phone revolution. In the 67 days since the Galaxy Fold was initially …

5G has launched on all four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile — and we got a chance to test them all, from Los Angeles to New York.  (We tested 5G in the UK and Australia, too.) After dozens of tests in cities across the US, we can firmly say that fast 5G is coming, and with it, one of …

Google did something un-Googley last week: It officially released an image of the Pixel 4, the next version of its flagship phone. This is a phone we all expected to appear, based not just on rumors, but also on Google’s pattern of an annual October release. Teasing a photo of an unannounced phone is a move we expect from LG …

That feeling of panic and despair that hits your gut and steals your breath the moment you realize your phone is missing. It’s awful. It’s consuming. In a divided world of Android versus iPhone ($899 at Amazon), this common terror sometimes feels like the one thing that brings phone owners together. Phones are prime targets for thieves, or for opportunists …