Samsung and Huawei on Tuesday asked a court to pause proceedings in a patent infringement dispute after agreeing to settle their 2-year-old legal battle. The case, filed in 2016, involves both phone makers suing each other for breach of contract and patent infringement. A trial for the case was set to start in September, when …
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Samsung Galaxy S11 5G may be slimmer, last longer thanks to Qualcomm
5G’s just getting started, but Qualcomm’s already talking up its third chip for the ultra-fast networking tech. And Samsung’s planning to use it in future Galaxy S devices. Qualcomm on Monday at MWC in Barcelona unveiled its first processor that integrates its 5G modem technology with the Snapdragon applications processor that serves as the brains of a device. The first …
Read More »Foldable phones are here, and they’re crazy expensive (The 3:59, Ep. 524)
On this podcast, we talk about: What Roma’s Oscar wins mean for Netflix. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold phone is joined by the Huawei Mate X and several concept devices, as part of the foldable phone trend. Now playing: Watch this: The foldable phones are here, and they’re crazy expensive… 5:05 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top …
Read More »Huawei sides with Trump on 5G: ‘US is lagging behind’
Huawei Chairman Guo Ping says President Donald Trump is right about the US limping toward 5G. “I have noticed the president’s Twitter, he said that US needs faster and smarter 5G, or even 6G in the future, and he has realized that the US is lagging behind in this respect, and I think his message is clear and correct,” Guo …
Read More »ZTE unveils Axon 10 Pro 5G flagship and Blade V10 with a 32
Hot on the heels of LG, Huawei and others announcing their first 5G-enabled phones at MWC 2019, ZTE announced its own 5G phone on Monday too. The Axon 10 Pro 5G is the newest device from the Chinese phone-maker, which will be able to connect to the next-gen network of high-speed mobile data. The Axon 10 Pro is equipped with …
Read More »Why OnePlus won’t be leaping into the foldable phone craze
Foldables might be the future of smartphones, but not all companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Chinese handset maker OnePlus won’t be developing a foldable phone anytime soon, CEO Pete Lau said Monday in an interview with CNET at MWC in Barcelona. That’s largely because of price. The first foldables unveiled from Samsung and Huawei cost about double — or …
Read More »Galaxy Fold’s cheaper challenger: TCL’s foldable phone bends into a watch at MWC 2019
Out in the showroom, TCL’s first foldable phone stands in a glass box as though entombed, safe from the greedy hands of the journalists who have come to see the cheaper alternative to Samsung’s $2,000 Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s just-announced Mate X. But behind closed doors, TCL’s GM of global marketing, Stefan Streit, lets us paw over a modest pile …
Read More »Huawei highlights new Nvidia MX250 graphics in its MWC laptops
Between high-end phones and international intrigue, you might have forgotten that Huawei makes laptops, too. It even makes from pretty good ones, such as the Mac-alike MateBook X Pro. One of my colleagues called the 2018 edition of that 13.9-inch laptop “the best little laptop you’ve never heard of.” The MateBook X Pro is back. It’s got the same name …
Read More »Xiaomi moves into 5G with the Mi Mix 3 5G at MWC 2019
The flood of 5G phones continues. Xiaomi on Sunday became the latest company to launch a 5G phone, the Mi Mix 3 5G. The device — a variant of the recently released Mi Mix 3 — will cost 599 euros ($679) and will launch in May. Xiaomi’s initial 5G wireless partners include Europe-based Orange, Sunrise, Telefonica, Three, TIM and Vodafone. It …
Read More »Sony’s new Xperia 1 flagship phone needed to be so much more
With the glossy Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and powerhouse Huawei Mate 20 Pro on offer, the competition in the flagship phone arena has never been more fierce. Time then, you’d have thought, for Sony to pull something really special out of the bag with its latest launch. But the Xperia 1 is, at best, entirely forgettable. It’s the screen that …
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