Now playing: Watch this: Explaining the Note 7’s battery flaws (with cake) 2:31 Four months after Samsung first recalled its acclaimed Galaxy Note 7 phone, the electronics giant finally announced what caused Note 7 phones from two separate batches to catch fire in the first place: a design failure in the first battery and a …

If you’re thinking about buying the Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus — two different sizes of promising, very eye-catching flagship specimens — then you also need to think about the Galaxy Note 8. We know that despite Samsung‘s missteps with the Note 7’s battery disaster, mobile chief DJ Koh told CNET that an “innovative” Note 8 is coming — most …

Samsung’s new Bixby assistant for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus (and beyond) isn’t exactly like Siri, Google Voice Search, Amazon Alexa or Microsoft Cortana, and that may confound you. Especially when Google Assistant also lives on both S8 phones. So what is it? I find it’s easier to think of Bixby as an app in three parts — Bixby …

Amazon Alexa on an Android phone is here, and Huawei Mate 9 owners in the US will get it first in an over-the-air update (and later through the Google Play store). But if the thought of Amazon Alexa on a phone conjures images of an always-listening digital servant to answer your every whim and summon taxis to your exact locale, …

Imagine if Siri and Google Now had an app store filled with 7,000 extra tricks you could teach them for free. That’s the promise of Amazon’s cloud-based Alexa assistant on a phone, which has debuted in the Amazon shopping app for the iPhone and iPad, and on Huawei Mate 9 phones in the US, through a specialized app. The integration …

My AI is smarter than your AI. That’s the taunt that Samsung Galaxy S8 owners may be able to lob at Google Pixel users if the S8’s rumored Bixby Assistant launches with seven or eight languages, as reported by SamMobile. Enlarge Image Samsung’s Bixby AI will go after Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa for phones CNET In the …

If there’s one thing we learned from Samsung’s battery debacle, it’s that you can never be too prepared to handle a phone that’s just burst into flames. Samsung has been under intense scrutiny for its recent Note 7 troubles, but the company isn’t alone. Batteries in other phones, hoverboards, headphones and laptops have also been known to overheat and burst. …

Now playing: Watch this: Hottest phones unveiled at MWC 2017 2:50 That’s a wrap for another Mobile World Congress. With the exhibit halls in Barcelona cleared out and the press conferences long done, it’s time to look back on the week that was — and what it means for the future of the wireless industry in 2017 and beyond. 1. …

It could have been Moto’s show. With Samsung’s Galaxy S8 out of the picture, LG, Sony and Huawei were left to fight it out on the high end. But if we learned anything at this year’s Mobile World Congress conference, it’s that high-end doesn’t always win the day. For example, this year’s breakout surprise was the Nokia 3310 throwback, which …

There’s a Samsung-shaped hole in the new crop of phones we saw this week at Mobile World Congress, the industry’s largest mobile show. And that’s because Samsung didn’t launch one. Instead, it introduced a tablet and a two-in-one, and tacked on a disappointing video teasing the Galaxy S8 event, taking place March 29 in New York. Samsung pushed the Galaxy …