Brace yourselves, the iPhone 11 is coming — Apple’s online store took its customary nap Tuesday as the company prepares to kick off its Sept. 10 event at 10 a.m. PT at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California. When the store comes back up, we expect to see the three new …

Huawei on Tuesday dropped a lawsuit against the US Commerce Department and other agencies after the government returned telecom equipment it seized back in September 2017. The suit was filed in June, separately to the one the Chinese company brought against the US for the overall ban on its equipment. The seized equipment included computer servers, Ethernet switches and other …

Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a Bloomberg interview that the Trump administration hasn’t provided enough evidence about the national security threat posed by Huawei. Acts like blacklisting the Chinese company shouldn’t be taken without a “sound basis in fact, logic, and the rule of law,” he said. When Microsoft asked US lawmakers to explain the threat, they’ve been too vague for Smith’s …

Apple and Foxconn said they employed too many temporary workers in Chinese facilities where iPhones are manufactured after a watchdog accused them of violating several labor laws, according to Bloomberg. The report came on Monday, a day before Apple is expected to reveal its new iPhones at a California event. China Labor Watch (CLW) reported that undercover investigators in Foxconn’s Zhengzhou …

If you’ve been holding out for unlocked versions of Samsung’s midrange Galaxy A Series in the US, you don’t have long to wait. The rather excellent Galaxy A50 will be available unlocked on Sept. 20 directly from Samsung, Amazon and Best Buy, starting at $350. Preorders from Amazon, where you can get a free Galaxy Fit, and BestBuy, which can …

Update, Sept. 18: We now have a retail model of the Galaxy Fold and have begun to review it. We’ve known for a while that Samsung plans to release its redesigned Galaxy Fold in September, but reports suggest we’ll see it this Friday, Sept. 6. The foldable phone will come out in South Korea that day, Reuters reported on Wednesday, …

Apple will unveil its iPhone 11 lineup for 2019 next Tuesday, but we might already have a glimpse at what it expects to do in 2020. The Cupertino, California, company plans to add a cheaper iPhone — its first since 2016’s $399 iPhone SE — to its lineup next spring to win customers back from competitors like Huawei, Nikkei reported …

Samsung’s delayed Galaxy Fold might be launched this week, but the Korean company might release an even more ambitious foldable phone in 2020. The next one will have 6.7-inch display that folds inwards to turn into a compact “square,” Bloomberg reported Tuesday. It’ll be thinner and more affordable than the $1,980 Galaxy Fold, with a hole-punch selfie camera at the …

We’ll see Apple’s new iPhones in exactly one week, but a suspected benchmarking test might hint at one model’s specs. Geekbench took a closer look at the “iPhone 12.1,” which 9to5Mac said is the successor to iPhone XR (last year’s lowest spec model), and it doesn’t sound like much of a leap forward. The test suggested that the new iPhone is …

The iPhone 11 isn’t the only phone launching this month — Huawei revealed over the weekend that it’ll launch the Mate 30 series in Munich, Germany on Sept. 19. The controversial Chinese phone maker tweeted a short video teaser that emphasized the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro’s cameras. It’s not a surprising approach, given the excellent cameras of 2018’s Mate …