SAN DIEGO–A year ago at CTIA (now known as MobileCon), Huawei announced plans to become a top-five vendor in three years’ time. A year into its push to crack the U.S. market, Huawei is only baby steps closer to reaching its goal. When I met with Huawei in San Diego earlier this week, company spokespeople …
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Now playing: Watch this: LG’s Optimus G offers a full four cores of CPU power 1:50 SAN DIEGO–CNET has spent enough time with LG’s new flagship, quad-core LG Optimus G to portend great things for LG’s image, especially now that the Android 4.0 powerhouse will come to both AT&T and Sprint. There’s just one early snag. Yesterday, I spent some …
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SAN DIEGO–T-Mobile hasn’t announced pricing information or a concrete release date for its version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (II), but a press release issued today promises the 5.5-inch smartphone/tablet hybrid “in the coming weeks.” Related stories: Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 CNET UK reviews the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Quad-core Samsung Galaxy Note 2 launches …
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The day before MobileCon kicks off in San Diego, T-Mobile and LG prime the mobile pump by unveiling the LG Optimus L9. Running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the midrange handset also features a 4.5-inch qHD display made with Corning Gorilla Glass 2, a 1GHz dual-core processor, and a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and 1080p HD video recording. There’s …
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MobileCon, the rebranded mobile show that used to be known as Fall CTIA, runs October 9 to 11 in San Diego, CA. As before, the show will have a strong IT and enterprise focus, but we’ll still see consumer goodies crop up in the form of new handsets. Related stories HTC One X+ hands-on HTC Windows Phone 8X first take …
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Related stories: CNET UK: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (CNET US) Samsung Galaxy S3 sales hot despite iPhone 5 Samsung has announced the Galaxy Note 2 smartphone/tablet hybrid, paraded it around our various U.S. offices, and is even planning a big ol’ coming-out party. But we don’t have the phone yet. Luckily for …
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CEO Stephen Elop speaks with CNET about Nokia’s strategy for taking the U.S. by storm. Josh Miller/CNET Nokia CEO Stephen Elop knows that the U.S. is a clutch market for Nokia’s revival, and competition is only getting hotter. With the Nokia Lumia 920 coming to AT&T — and apparently only AT&T — Nokia will have to work even harder to …
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Related stories: Windows Phone 8: What you need to know HTC Windows Phone 8X vs. Lumia 920 Hands on with the Nokia Lumia 920 Mark your calendars for Microsoft’s official launch of the Windows Phone 8 smartphone OS. We have. CNET will be there, fingers flexed and laptops raring to go, to cover the San Francisco launch of Microsoft’s latest …
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Blackberry PlayBook owners will see a small bump in features and capability with its next OS update to PlayBook software 2.1. Among the changes available for the Wi-Fi tablet are security features that let owners lock down all data with enterprise-level encryption, not just corporate secrets. RIM also shares a new version of the BlackBerry Bridge software that lets PlayBook …
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Google may own Motorola, but when it comes to making and selling phones, the Android smartphone manufacturer says they’re on their own. “We’re operating as an independent OEM, so there’s a firewall between us and the Android team,” Motorola Senior Vice President of Product Management Rick Osterloh told CNET, explaining the sometimes-distant relationship between Motorola and its owner. “It’s very …
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