The Galaxy S20 (and probably not the Galaxy S11 as originally thought) is one step closer to reality. After a promotional video surfaced that accidentally revealed the date of the launch, Samsung has now made its Unpacked event official — the brand will reveal its first phones for 2020 on Feb. 11 in San Francisco at 11 a.m. …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. A $350 foldable phone named after late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was unveiled last month, but we won’t be seeing the Escobar Fold 1 at CES 2020. Escobar Inc. has apparently been banned from the trade show, which kicks off …
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If Huawei wants to survive in 2020, it’ll have to go all out. That’s the message from rotating Chairman Eric Xu. In a New Year’s message, Xu said Huawei had a strong year but will face a “difficult” 2020 as the US continues to ban devices and equipment from the Chinese telecom giant and phone maker. The company estimates sales …
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Apple’s entry-level iPhone XR turned heads when it debuted last year. It offered the latest mobile chips, a pared-down camera and a lower-quality screen. But for all those trade-offs, Apple said it would charge $749 — that is, 25% less than the $999 iPhone XS at the time. When the iPhone 11 came out this year, offering many of the …
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When you think of what you love most about your phone, what comes to mind? Its brilliant screen, perhaps, which makes movies and games a joy to watch. All the cameras on the front and back that capture your memories. Maybe it’s the all-day battery life that keeps your phone humming along so you can enjoy all of the above. …
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Update, March 26: The Huawei P40, P40 Pro and the P40 Pro Plus have now officially been launched. Read our first take here. Huawei will be upgrading its next line of flagship smartphones with a 10x optical zoom, according to a report Friday. There will be a periscope telephoto lens on the back of the device, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said …
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Motorola’s remake of the Razr flip phone just hit some speed bumps. The foldable smartphone will no longer be available for preorder on Dec. 26, and Motorola says it’ll arrive in stores later than the Jan. 9 date the company was targeting. The phone maker, a unit of Chinese consumer electronics giant Lenovo, didn’t have a lot of specific details …
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CNET writers and editors strive to give you the best buying advice while keeping an eye out for technologies that will open up new possibilities for tomorrow. For two decades, our Editors’ Choice Awards have singled out the products you should spend your money on. This year, we’re fired up to launch our first Innovation Awards for the most groundbreaking …
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It’s fun to geek out over big, expensive foldable phones like the $2,000 Galaxy Fold, with its 7.3-inch bendable screen and six cameras. But the ultra-large, extra-pricey devices aren’t what most people can afford to buy. Instead, it could be the smaller, simpler foldable designs that wind up getting foldable phones into the hands of more users — not because they’re …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s Mate X are here, offering two different takes on foldable phones. Both were made to inspire, and to transform the way we think about phones. These aren’t yet everyday devices, but they could set the course for a move toward foldable phones instead of the large-screen models that are too big for your pocket today. …
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