There may be more than one way to break into your iPhone X.  A little-known company called Grayshift has been quietly talking about its ability to unlock Apple’s latest phones, including the iPhone X and iPhone 8, according to blog Naked Security. Forbes originally broke the news of the second service.  This comes a week …

I put on a pair of smart glasses and look up at the mock living room before me. On top of a gray wall, I see a colorful bull’s-eye symbol with a “2” on it. Next to it is a bag of balls. Neither is real. I center my gaze at the target and tap a button on the right …

I’m strapped into the shotgun seat of a Porsche Panamera, parked in a lot just outside FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium. My chauffeur for the afternoon: Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro smartphone. You read that right. A phone will be driving this car. No, Huawei isn’t getting into the autonomous car business. The Chinese telecom giant set up this experiment to …

Sprint wants to mount its comeback on the back of 5G. The fourth-largest US wireless carrier is set to roll out 5G capabilities this year to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. With a caveat: As with T-Mobile’s own deployment this year, Sprint customers won’t be able to access 5G until the service launches in 2019. The …

The race to turn 5G from hype into reality has hit another gear. T-Mobile will deploy mobile 5G to 30 cities this year, including New York and Los Angeles, Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray said Tuesday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company still plans to launch the service next year and provide nationwide coverage by 2020. The move …

For the last several hours, my Samsung media badge was, well, a plain media badge: a rectangular piece of cardboard with rounded edges connected to a plastic clip and lanyard that hung around my neck, like so many press credentials I’ve collected over the years. A digital rendering of the Galaxy S9, courtesy of my media badge. Roger Cheng/CNET Its …

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have a new camera, a faster processor and features like animated emoji characters and a new purple color scheme — in other words, par for the course for a new phone. But if you’re a T-Mobile customer, you’ve got another reason to pay attention. More from Mobile World Congress Hands-on with the …

To the wireless industry crowd at the final keynote panel of the Mobile World Congress trade show on Monday, Ajit Pai’s words were music to the ears.  Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, opened his speech with a call to free up more spectrum — the radio airwaves required for carriers to deploy and expand their networks. He …

The Blackberry Key2 has been officially revealed. And yes, it has a physical keyboard. The executives behind BlackBerry Mobile are dreaming big. BlackBerry Mobile is a unit of Chinese consumer electronics maker TCL, which licenses the right to make BlackBerry phones from the original Canadian BlackBerry Ltd and also makes budget phones under the Alcatel brand. Since its launch a year …

Samsung just launched its Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, but mobile CEO DJ Koh dropped a few bread crumbs of a trail to what’s to come.  While Koh was mum on details about the company’s foldable phone project, he said in an interview with CNET on the sidelines of the launch event that the company is making progress on the …