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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

When it comes to the next era of phones, it seems like it’ll be fold times. Samsung unveiled a foldable device this week (called, ahem, the Galaxy Fold). Now rival Huawei looks set to unveil its own bendable buddy. A photo posted to Twitter on Friday appears to show workers at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona installing a billboard …

Update, Sept. 5: We’ve gone hands-on with Samsung’s revamped Galaxy Fold ahead of its revised release later this month. Original story, last updated in February, follows. Foldable smartphones like Samsung’s Galaxy Fold point to a bright future for the mobile world. But that doesn’t mean you should hop on the bandwagon now. Samsung on Wednesday finally offered a longer, closer look at …

Another Chinese phone maker wants to take a crack at the US market. But this one already has a foot in the door in a roundabout way.  Oppo, one of the biggest smartphone players in China, intends to enter the US market, Alen Wu, head of the company’s overseas business, said in an interview through an interpreter. Wu wasn’t specific …

When Samsung executive Justin Denison showed off the company’s concept foldable phone back in November, it was almost anticlimactic. The lights dimmed. Denison held the device with his right hand, and with his left, unfolded it for a short moment before folding it back up and putting it away. It was a brief and frustrating tease. On Wednesday, the Galaxy …

Samsung and the MWC Barcelona conference have long had an up-and-down relationship. The energy at the trade show has ebbed and flowed depending on whether the world’s largest handset maker decides to hold its big first-half phone launch in Spain. If Samsung shows up, there’s a noticeable perk in interest. On Wednesday, just days before this year’s MWC kicks off, …

Samsung wowed us with its foldable Galaxy Fold and four Galaxy S10 phones before MWC — the largest mobile conference on the planet — has even begun. But mark my words, this will be a busy, exciting show, and one that Samsung will use to share even more details about its amazing phone that unfolds into a tablet (even if you …