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One of the best things about coming to Mobile World Congress is getting away from the cold, dreary weather in London and much of the US to spend a few days on the sunny and pleasant Mediterranean coast of Spain. The 2018 show started off that way, but Barcelona on Tuesday, like much of Europe, …

The Samsung Galaxy S9 will be revealed this Sunday, February 25 and there’s little doubt the upcoming phone will be fast. And on a warm, sunny day at Qualcomm’s headquarters in San Diego, California, we found out exactly how fast that might be. The Galaxy S9 is expected to be one of the first phones in 2018 to use Qualcomm’s …

The Snapdragon 845 processor that ubiquitous mobile chip manufacturer Qualcomm announced back in December 2017 generated a bit of buzz with supervised performance tests on phones earlier this month.  Following that path, the chip manufacturer now has a reference design for standalone headsets for VR, AR and MR that are capable of better performance and higher resolutions than before, as well …

If last year’s Mobile World Congress trade show was a Royal Rumble of phones, this year’s conference is more akin to WrestleMania — if Samsung is perennial winner Roman Reigns. The 2017 edition of MWC faced a giant hole when Samsung opted to launch its Galaxy S8 at a later, separate event at Carnegie Hall in New York. That vacuum …

Companies have for years claimed their phones‘ screens to be unbreakable. I still remember my HTC One X’s allegedly invincible Gorilla Glass 3 that I managed to shatter in just a few months. Oppo isn’t making that claim — but is doing the next best thing. The company is offering free screen repairs for its new R11S and R11S Plus phones. …

The first round of Windows mixed reality headsets are now all present and accounted for.  Made by Microsoft’s PC maker partners, the designs for the new headsets were shown at the end of August at IFA Berlin, one of the world’s biggest consumer technology trade shows. Prices initially started at $299 (roughly £250 or AU$400, converted) for the headsets alone, but …

Three voice assistants walk into a bar and they all start talking. But the conversation never stops. Here’s how to make Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant talk to each other in an infinite loop using their respective smart speakers: the Apple HomePod, Amazon Echo and Google Home ($75 at Walmart). Let’s be real: you probably won’t have three of these …

HTC will now have to find someone new to lead its smartphone division. Today the company announced that its president in charge of smartphones, Chialin Chang, has tendered his resignation because of his “personal career plan.” Currently the investor note announcing the news has “N/A” listed as Chang’s replacement. In a statement supplied to CNET, an HTC spokesperson said “We …

Google won’t say how many Pixel phones it shipped in 2017, but one analyst from the research firm IDC has a number: 3.9 million. The analyst, IDC Research Director Francisco Jeronimo, said the figure includes both generations of the phone, the Pixel 1 and 2. For comparison, it’s a “tiny portion” compared with the entire 1.5 billion market size for …

The promise that we’ll see the first 5G phones by 2019 has now become even more of a sure thing. Eighteen global carriers will start 5G speed trials in 2018, using a new Qualcomm modem that’s built to handle huge amounts of data at almost instantaneous speeds — at least theoretically. The list includes Verizon, AT&T and Sprint in the …