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 …
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Want to upgrade to one of the best phones on the market for free? With this CNET giveaway, your chances are better than ever because we are giving away five unlocked V30’s courtesy of LG. Now playing: Watch this: LG V30 is the ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ phone 2:15 The LG V30 is among the best phones for 2018, and …
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Unless your company is Samsung, it can be hard to grab any real attention at the world’s largest mobile industry trade show known as MWC 2018. Samsung’s habit of debuting its marquee phone, this year known as the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, to much fanfare has a tendency to take up most of the tech headlines during the show’s …
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Mobile World Congress is always the biggest phone show of the year, but 2018 has been different. Rather than counter Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy S9 — the phone that’s all but certain to dominate sales charts for the first half of the year — rivals like LG and Huawei are aiming for standalone announcements later in the year. That …
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Now playing: Watch this: Were you impressed by the Samsung Galaxy S9? (The 3:59,… 4:26 On this podcast, we talk about: The Galaxy S9’s big reveals from Mobile World Congress Nokia trying to win again with a nostalgia-filled release The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News …
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Malcolm Turnbull has a history of justifying the NBN’s globally noncompetitive speeds by questioning whether people will actually find use for 100 megabits-per-second internet. A BuzzFeed report found out how fast Malcolm Turnbull’s NBN connection is. You can already guess where this is going. Prime Minister Turnbull’s Point Piper residence was revealed on Monday to have been hooked up with …
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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 …
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Google is continuing its push to make its digital assistant a global hit. At Mobile World Congress, the search giant said Monday that developers can now create apps for Google Assistant in seven new languages: Hindi, Thai, Indonesian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Dutch. More languages should be added by year’s end, the company said. Google, by the way, dubbed these …
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It’s probably not a surprise anymore when a Chinese company blatantly clones other companies’ phones to catch eyeballs, but you have to give it to Leagoo for having the gall to do that at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Samsung is showing off its new Galaxy S9. The phone in question, the Leagoo S9, basically is a $150 (around …
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Are you paranoid about security and sitting on a cryptocurrency fortune? Brazilian company Sikur unveiled a phone with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday that might be just right for you. The SikurPhone is the successor to Sikur’s GranitePhone, which it launched two years ago at the show. It offers the same supposedly “impenetrable …
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