Lenovo has decided to pull out of in-person attendance at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, though the conference will go on as scheduled. Citing “ongoing trends surrounding COVID,” the company said Tuesday via its @LenovoNews Twitter account that its attendance this year will be fully virtual. MWC UPDATE: Due to the ongoing trends surrounding …
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The world in your pocket: How smartphones will get smarter in 2022
This story is part of The Year Ahead, CNET’s look at how the world will continue to evolve starting in 2022 and beyond. New phones for 2022 are already debuting left and right, and it’s barely been two weeks. During CES 2022, Samsung announced the Galaxy S21 FE, the follow-up to its popular 2020 phone the Galaxy S20 FE. OnePlus …
Read More »Honor’s Magic V foldable is another ‘creaseless,’ China
While the US foldable market has largely been dominated by Samsung’s Galaxy Z line, things have recently been getting a bit more competitive in China. On Monday, Honor announced its first foldable smartphone for its home market, the Magic V. Like Oppo’s recently announced Find N, the Magic V will be available only in China when it launches on Jan. 18. Pricing …
Read More »Louis Vuitton’s new smartwatch is more chic than geek
For years, luxury fashion houses have strived to bridge the gap between fashion and consumer technology. Although a number of products from these brands tend to fall into the fashion side of the spectrum rather than the function, their ambitions live on. (Understandably so.) This week, Louis Vuitton launched a new consumer tech product in its latest attempt to connect …
Read More »Huawei plans to launch new foldable phone next week
A new clamshell foldable phone from Huawei was shown off in a photoshoot on Chinese social media ahead of its global launch next week. Known as the Huawei P50 Pocket, the device which looks similar in appearance to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 3, was teased in a series of photos posted on Harper’s Bazaar China’s official account on Weibo, China’s …
Read More »Getting a new iPhone every 2 years makes less sense than ever
We all know the drill. As Apple’s annual fall event draws close, many of us start to check in on our previous two-year smartphone plan to see if we’re eligible for an upgrade in September. After all, the newest phone is only the newest phone for so long. Even for discerning shoppers like me, it takes serious willpower to resist the …
Read More »Google Pixel 6 review: This phone is everything I wanted
Nov 2021 Editor’s note, Nov. 18: The combination of price, design, cameras, processor and software make the Google Pixel 6 one of the best value phones you can buy, which is why we’ve given it a CNET Editors’ Choice Award. The original review follows. The Pixel 6 exemplifies the best of what Google services and Android 12 have to offer. So …
Read More »Biden signs law to restrict Huawei and ZTE gear in US
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation that will prohibit companies that the US considers a threat to national security from getting licenses for new gear from US regulators. The Secure Equipment Act bars the Federal Communications Commission from approving applications from certain tech equipment makers, like Huawei and ZTE, that the government says pose a national security risk. This new …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE review: An affordable iPad Pro alternative
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE (short for Fan Edition) is a midlevel 12.4-inch Android tablet that starts at $529 for a Wi-Fi-only model (£519, AU$799) and $669 for one with 5G. Yes, it might cost more than a basic iPad, but it’s less than an iPad Pro, and this product sits roughly between those two popular products on the …
Read More »The $1,800 Sony Xperia Pro
The Sony Xperia Pro-I isn’t the first phone to have a 1-inch camera sensor. But it’s the first to put the 1-inch sensor from the popular Sony RX100 VII camera into a phone. Lucky for us, Sony didn’t stop there and added a mechanical dual aperture, a new 50-millimeter lens, EyeAF support to video and a new app called Video …
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