Alcatel is a phonemaker that often slides under the radar, but the company has made some pretty great value handsets in the past, so we like to keep an eye on what it’s planning. Ushered into a sun-lit luxury suite at CES 2018, Alcatel didn’t share many details about its upcoming crop of new phones …

Wonder Woman is coming to the US — not to fight for justice, but to sell phones. Samsung competitor Huawei has just named “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot its official brand ambassador in the US, in the hopes that Gadot’s popularity and backing will put the world’s third-largest phonemaker on the national stage for the first time in years. For …

Using the world’s first phone with a fingerprint scanner built into the display was as awesome as I hoped it would be. There’s no home button breaking up your screen space, and no fumbling for a reader on the phone’s back. I simply pressed my index finger on the phone screen in the place where the home button would be. …

Facebook will try to “get a billion people in virtual reality,” by appealing to a company in the world’s most populated country: China. Oculus’ VP of VR, Hugo Barra, at an Oculus event in 2017.  James Martin/CNET In the middle of a Qualcomm press conference where tech jargon flew at a rat-a-tat rate, up jumped a familiar face in the …

FOMO is real. Luckily, you can kick your fear of missing out of Huawei’s affordable, classy-looking Honor phones — because they’re both coming to the US. At the annual CES show in Las Vegas, the company announced that the Honor 7X will sell for $199 (roughly converting to £150 and AU$255), to be followed later in 2018 by the Honor …

Samsung’s foldable phone for 2018 is pretty much a done deal — the head of Samsung mobile said so — but will you really want one? That will depend, for one thing, on what we mean by “foldable.” We’ve seen one Samsung patent application for a handset that bends at the middle so the top of the phone can touch …

Slim bezels. All-screen designs. Portrait photos galore.  The phone world in 2017 made these traits mainstream. Devices got faster, cameras took better low-light photos and more handsets than ever added wireless charging, which will help put public charging stations in higher demand.  Meanwhile, while some top-of-the-line phones pushed prices to nosebleed heights, those propping up the budget end of the …

For last-minute shoppers and deal-hounds alike, Sprint will give you a free iPhone 8 when you buy the phone using its Sprint Flex plan. Or, if you’d rather take a savings, you’ll be able to knock $300 off the bill of the same iPhone 8 or even an iPhone X when you trade in your old device. Those trade-in savings …

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of every CNET phone review? The process is straightforward — but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. We rate phones based on major categories like design, features, performance, camera quality, battery life, waterproofing and how well they compare to other devices in their field. We come to the final rating using a blend …

Facebook has just made it easy for you to see if you ‘liked’ any accounts seeded by Russian agents. A new tool that simply pastes into a browser reveals which content users of the social network may have unknowingly boosted as part of a Kremlin-linked campaign to interfere with the US presidential election.  The tool lists accounts from Facebook or …