Tag Archives: huawei

With MWC 2020 canceled, most new Android phones face a tough debut

With Mobile World Congress 2020 officially terminado — thanks to the coronavirus — mobile vendors, big and small, are now scrambling to figure out their next steps. Some, particularly Chinese companies, are mulling plans to proceed with their events in Barcelona, Spain, even though the official conference won’t take place.  MWC brings together companies from …

Read More »

MWC organizers cancel show as big companies bail on coronavirus fears

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. At the end of the month, many of the world’s top mobile companies were scheduled to make their annual pilgrimage to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. But worries about the coronavirus outbreak proved too strong to ignore. On Wednesday, the show’s organizer canceled MWC 2020, …

Read More »

US finds Huawei has backdoor access to mobile networks globally, report says

Chinese tech giant Huawei can reportedly access the networks it helped build that are being used by mobile phones around the world. It’s been using backdoors intended for law enforcement for over a decade, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing US officials. The details were disclosed to the UK and Germany at the end of 2019 after the US …

Read More »

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip rumors: $1,400 foldable phone takes aim at Motorola Razr

Two days before Samsung’s Unpacked event is set to kick off on Feb. 11, the company teased its upcoming foldable flip phone in an ad that ran during the Oscars. The Z Flip, as the device is known to be called, marks the company doubling down on foldable phones. We’ve known since October that a foldable clamshell design is coming and for months, rumors, …

Read More »

Samsung’s foldable Z Flip has something Razr doesn’t: A bendable glass screen

Samsung’s newest foldable is real. The company on Tuesday officially unveiled its Galaxy Z Flip smartphone after months of leaks, hints and even a teaser commercial played during the Oscars. The device, Samsung’s second foldable after its Galaxy Fold, features a clamshell design similar to Motorola’s new Razr. The Z Flip, like the Razr, is essentially a high-tech flip phone, with an …

Read More »

Galaxy S20, Z Flip foldable, Galaxy Buds Plus: What we’ll see at Samsung Unpacked today

Samsung Unpacked is here. On Tuesday in San Francisco at 11am PT (watch live here), the world’s largest phone-maker will take the wraps off its newest phones for 2020, expected to be the Galaxy S20, S20 Pro or Plus and S20 Ultra 5G phones and the Galaxy Z Flip, a foldable phone that bends vertically and rivals the Motorola Razr. Samsung …

Read More »

With the Galaxy Z Flip, Samsung looks for its foldable do

A year ago, Samsung took the stage at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco and unveiled a device poised to change the entire smartphone market: the Galaxy Fold. It captured the attention of everyone at the event and even intrigued the non-tech-savvy tuning in from afar. But it wasn’t long before the Fold had problems: defects in the …

Read More »

TCL cancels MWC 2020 press conference on coronavirus concerns

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. TCL on Monday became the latest mobile phone company to change its plans for the MWC 2020 trade show amid worries about the coronavirus.  The Shenzhen, China-based company has canceled its Feb. 22 press conference at the Barcelona, Spain, show “out of an …

Read More »

Rumored S20 Ultra wouldn’t be the first with a 108MP camera. But are more megapixels better?

Next week Samsung is expected to announce a new suite of Galaxy S phones at its Unpacked event in New York. Rumors and leaks point to three phones: the S20, S20 Plus and the S20 Ultra. That S20 Ultra, whispers say, will have a main camera with a huge 108-megapixel sensor. This would certainly make the S20 Ultra a headline grabber …

Read More »

Does our Motorola Razr fold test mean this phone won’t last a year? Not quite

Now playing: Watch this: Motorola Razr fold test: The day after 6:28 When I first caught wind of a new Motorola Razr on the horizon, one of my initial reactions was, “We’ve got to put it in the FoldBot!” Spoiler alert: The Razr’s fold test didn’t come close to the 120,000 folds that we achieved with the Galaxy Fold last …

Read More »