With sunlight pouring in from a giant sliding door in a suite at Palo Alto, Calif.’s luxury Nobu hotel, Carl Pei sits on a firm grey couch. It’s early April and he has a lot on his plate. The company he helped co-found is a month away from announcing the new OnePlus 6 in London. …

A few years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find an elegant, premium phone that was also waterproof. Aside from Sony’s Xperia phones, most waterproof phones were clunky-looking with midtier specs.  These days though, most high-end flagships come with some level of protection against water. In addition to the LG G7, Samsung, Apple and Google all have waterproof marquee handsets that satisfy …

At its annual developers conference today, Google announced Smart Compose for its email service, Gmail. With the help of artificial intelligence, Smart Compose predicts what you will write and suggest common phrases as you type. Now playing: Watch this: Smart Compose will write your emails for you in Gmail 1:08 Google says this feature will save time on repetitive writing …

At a New York press event on Wednesday, LG unveiled its latest marquee phone, the LG G7. As a predecessor to the G6, the G7 is packed with a number of updates including a larger 6.1-inch display, twice the amount of internal storage (from 32 to 64GB) and the Snapdragon 845 chipset. But the G7‘s cameras also received some upgrades. …

We won’t have to wait much longer for the OnePlus 6. After a mix of speculation and confirmed reports, the Chinese phone maker announced that it will launch its next marquee phone on May 16 in London. Called “The Speed You Need,” the unveiling will also be a fan event. Fans can purchase tickets to the 1,000 available seats here, …

Update: The LG G7 ThinQ has been officially announced. Read CNET’s full review of the LG G7 ThinQ. The Samsung Galaxy S9 may have kicked off 2018’s phone season with a bang, but for Android fans, it’s just the beginning. In March, Huawei launched its marquee P20 and P20 Pro phones and the Nokia 8 Sirocco wowed us with its …

On April 3, 1973, while standing on Sixth Avenue in New York, a Motorola employee named Martin Cooper placed the first cell phone call on the company’s DynaTAC phone. The phone weighed nearly two pounds and cost about $4,000 at the time of its release. Now playing: Watch this: ‘My First Phone’: CNET editors reminisce about their… 6:11 Today, exactly …

Magic Leap has begun to ship out its AR headset, the highly anticipated Magic Leap One, to software developers, Bloomberg reported Friday.  “We have an early access developers program, and those partners have hardware,” a Maigc Leap representative told CNET. “All interested developers can sign up for our Creator Portal to learn about Magic Leap and explore our spatial computing solutions …

Modularity — or the ability to switch out individual parts and pieces — isn’t as far-off of a concept for phones anymore. Thanks to big tech names like Google and Motorola (who threw their hats in a few years back), we became more used to the idea of a modular phone being a real product instead of a distant pipe …

The iPhone 8 and Pixel 2 belong in the upper ranks of any best phone list. They’re some of the fastest, most comfortable phones made to hold in the hand. And they have nearly every feature you could want in a handset. But no phone is perfect, and buying either one means you’re trading off some features to gain some …