Patrick Holland

The best Galaxy Z Flip features that you need to try first

On Friday, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone went on sale just days after it was formally announced at the Samsung Unpacked Event in San Francisco. It comes out a week after the Motorola Razr — another foldable-screen clamshell phone — hit stores. The Razr and Galaxy Z Flip have a lot in common, but …

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Moto G hands

The Motorola Moto G family of phones has a history of finding that sweet spot between well-considered necessities and an affordable price. Over the past three years, the Moto G5 Plus, Moto G6 and Moto G7 showed us just how good budget phones can be. Last year, the budget landscape got more crowded when Google launched the Pixel 3A and …

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iPhone 9 (aka iPhone SE 2): Apple’s budget iPhone needs to be small and affordable

Update, April 22: Read our iPhone SE 2020 review. Original story follows. The iPhone SE from 2016 was Apple’s first budget phone and a new version of it called the iPhone 9 or iPhone SE 2 might be coming out this spring. The timing couldn’t come any sooner, since rumors of an iPhone SE 2 have been percolating for a couple …

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is a beautiful phone, until you touch it

On Tuesday at the Samsung Unpacked event in San Francisco, the new Galaxy Z Flip was announced. The phone, which has an ultra-thin glass screen, folds in half to form a perfect square kind of like the Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP. But it’s the exterior of the shiny $1,380 flip phone that is catching our attention… or rather our fingerprints. …

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Motorola Razr will be available in Blush Gold starting this Spring

One of the most interesting phone releases in years is the Motorola Razr. It takes our nostalgia for the original 2004 Razr and injects it into one of the most thoughtful designs I’ve seen in a long time. The new Razr blends its folding screen with elements of the original Razr, such as its chin and external display. However, one …

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This fitness tracker helps identify when your cat might be sick

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Fitness trackers come in all shapes and sizes, and give you a way to find out things like how many steps you walk, how many calories you consume and how many hours you sleep. This type of info can be used …

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Unboxing the Motorola Razr: Take a peek inside this foldable phone’s box

Along with the hype and excitement surrounding foldable phones such as the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X we’ve seen disappointment: delays, undesirable folding mechanisms and other concerns. Just when it seemed folding phones might have been nothing more than a passing fad, we were introduced to the Motorola Razr foldable phone, an updated version of the nostalgic Razr of yesteryear. Featuring a folding …

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Motorola’s Razr folds in half without a crease. The secret is in the hinge design

When I held the new Motorola Razr foldable phone in my hand, all I wanted to do was open and close it a thousand times. Not because I wanted to test the screen or durability (like we did with the Galaxy Fold and will do again with the Razr on Thursday), but because that’s what I did all the time when …

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Black Shark 2 Pro: We go hands

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. In a packed ballroom at the Mirage hotel at CES 2020, a neon green logo beckoned me toward it like a siren calling to sailors in The Iliad. Fortunately for me there were no treacherous rocks waiting to send me to …

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Apple Watch and iPhone: How to pair, unpair

If you just got a new Apple Watch Series 5 ($349 at eBay) and are planning to sell your old Apple Watch Series 3 ($199 at Best Buy), here’s how to set it up and unpair your old model. The newest Apple Watch brings a number of refinements and new features to last year’s Series 4. Released alongside the iPhone …

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