Now playing: Watch this: Hottest phones unveiled at MWC 2017 2:50 Every year phone manufacturers from all over the world flock to Barcelona to unveil their latest devices at Mobile World Congress, leaving us with a batch of brand new phones to compete for our attention. And this year is no exception. Which ones are …
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Apple’s Lightning connector could be history with the next iPhone, if you believe the rumors. A new Wall Street Journal report speculates that Apple’s upcoming iPhone will trade the tech giant’s proprietary Lightning cable for a USB-C connection. The article quotes anonymous sources and also claims the next iPhone could have a curved OLED screen. The iPhone ditching the Lightning …
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The good news: The throwback Nokia 3310 candy bar phone is one of the most buzzed-about items at the Mobile World Congress trade show. The bad news: The throwback Nokia 3310 — and not the new Nokia phones — is one of the most buzzed-about items at the show. The Nokia 3310, which originally launched at the turn of the …
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Nokia, the company that basically made the modern phone what it is today, is back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and it came bearing a bunch of phones: the Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6, Nokia 6 Arte Black Limited Edition and the brought-out-of-retirement Nokia 3310. First, let’s clear this up: This isn’t the same Nokia, rather it’s new …
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This April, the BlackBerry KeyOne will come into the market as a high-end phone — the first with both Android 7.1 Nougat software and a QWERTY keyboard. But when it does, it’ll face staunch competition from a bevy of Android phones that have large touchscreens and premium hardware, from all-metal bodies to powerful processors and cutting-edge camera tech. So how …
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Meet the BlackBerry KeyOne, the latest iteration of the BlackBerry comeback phone. Chinese phone maker TCL on Saturday pulled the curtain back on the KeyOne, previously known by its codename, “Mercury.” The company showed off an early version of the KeyOne at CES 2017, but it dived into all the details of the device today. The KeyOne is the latest …
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Reviving BlackBerry is the mobile equivalent of chasing unicorns — it’s a Sisyphean task that’s gotten only more mythical with time. Four years ago, then-CEO Thorsten Heins tried to reinvigorate the company’s flagging sales with the BlackBerry 10 operating system and the Z10, a modern phone designed to take on the iPhone and Android handsets. Eleven months and several misfires …
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Nokia. Knock-ia. Know-kia. Noh-keea. However you pronounce it, few companies (other than Motorola, of course) have been so influential in creating the cell phone that we use today. Apple, LG and Samsung may get all of the glory now, but Nokia dominated the mobile industry for two decades. When I started at CNET more than 10 years ago, a week …
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Mobile World Congress is upon us, and it’ll be every phone maker for itself in Barcelona. With Samsung keeping its Galaxy S8 under wraps for a future event, companies like LG, Huawei and Nokia will get the chance to duke it for MWC’s most impressive phone lineup. We take a look at what to expect over the next week and …
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It’s going to get crazy in Barcelona. Just about every heavy hitter in the wireless industry is bringing a shiny new phone to Mobile World Congress — held this time each year in Spain’s hippest metropolis — each trying to out-wow the others with its latest wares. But we won’t see any new phones from Samsung. The Korean electronics giant …
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