The Galaxy S10, S10 Plus and S10E are yours for the taking. Whether you’ve already bought one, are going to buy one or are still on the fence, there’s a lot you’ll want to know about Samsung’s latest batch of phones. Like how much they cost, what the difference is between them, what the accessories are like …

I’ve been reviewing the Galaxy S10E since Tuesday afternoon, sharing my thoughts on photos, screen quality, the new fingerprint reader and the camera quality. So far, I see a 5.8-inch powerhouse of a device in a much smaller package than most of the phones you can buy today. (After all, the small phone is dead.) I really like the Galaxy S10E. …

Update, Oct. 23: The Huawei Mate X was released, but only in China so far. Original story follows. Last week, Samsung and Huawei announced the $1,980 Galaxy Fold and $2,600 Mate X foldable phones, respectively. I gawked along with everyone else, absorbing every detail I could, but it wasn’t until I spent a good 5 minutes playing around with the Mate X in …

Update, Oct. 23: The Huawei Mate X was released, but only in China so far. Original story follows. When Huawei announced that the Mate X foldable phone would sell for 2,299 euros — roughly $2,600, £2,000 or AU$3,660 — the audience at Huawei’s Mate X launch event at MWC gasped and groaned. But it may not be that way forever.  “It …

The Galaxy S10 in Canary Yellow and Flamingo Pink. The foldable Galaxy Fold in Martian Green. OnePlus 6T in Thunder Purple. The list goes on. Every sales figure and expert tells us that people buy phones for their camera, battery and screen. But any product designer or marketer will tell you that color and finish matter, too. Just think. If color were …

Editors’ note, March 2: Thank you for tuning in to read our ongoing review. Better yet, CNET’s fully rated Galaxy S10 Plus review is in! The latest update to this story remains below. I’ve been using the Galaxy S10 Plus to cover the MWC show here in Barcelona, and it’s been a real crash course on this phone as my daily. It has …

Google Assistant lives in your home and might have its own button on your phone. Now it’s in your Android Messages texting app, too. I got a hands-on demo of how exactly it works, here at MWC 2019 in Barcelona.  Each year at the world’s biggest phone show, Google transforms a concrete passageway between two convention center halls into a …

Oppo has officially become the next Android brand to announce a 5G phone for 2019. At an MWC 2019 press conference, Oppo said its first 5G device will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chipset and X50 modem to latch onto 5G networks. Four carrier networks — Swisscom, Australia’s Telstra and Optus, and Singtel in Singapore — will sell the unnamed 5G Oppo phone first, …

Out in the showroom, TCL’s first foldable phone stands in a glass box as though entombed, safe from the greedy hands of the journalists who have come to see the cheaper alternative to Samsung’s $2,000 Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s just-announced Mate X. But behind closed doors, TCL’s GM of global marketing, Stefan Streit, lets us paw over a modest pile …

Another Chinese phone maker wants to take a crack at the US market. But this one already has a foot in the door in a roundabout way.  Oppo, one of the biggest smartphone players in China, intends to enter the US market, Alen Wu, head of the company’s overseas business, said in an interview through an interpreter. Wu wasn’t specific …