Huawei’s two new tablets are built for video, whether you stream it or download it. Debuting at MWC 2018, the MediaPad M5 and M5 Pro are essentially the same device but come in two distinct sizes and differ in a handful of features. The tablets have curved glass displays, a 2,560×1,600-pixel screen resolution, IPS panels, U-shaped …
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If last year’s Matebook X laptop was comparable to the Apple Macbook, the new Huawei Matebook X Pro is suitable competition for the Macbook Pro. Debuting at MWC 2018, the laptop is similarly slim and sleek with an all aluminum body. This new version is bigger than the Matebook X thanks to the extra selection of ports it offers. It …
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When Google unveiled Google Lens last May, it was billed as the future of search. Typing a search was outdated. Now you could just point your camera at, say, a landmark and instantly learn about it. Take a picture of a book, and there’s all the info you need about where to buy it, who published it and what reviewers …
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MWC 2018, otherwise known as the world’s biggest mobile trade show, kicks off Feb. 26. Though a bunch of phones, laptops and smartwatches are expected to launch during the event, including the highly-anticipated Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, there will be one phone that definitely won’t be there: the LG G7. Despite unveiling its flagship phone at the show in …
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 will be revealed this Sunday, February 25 and there’s little doubt the upcoming phone will be fast. And on a warm, sunny day at Qualcomm’s headquarters in San Diego, California, we found out exactly how fast that might be. The Galaxy S9 is expected to be one of the first phones in 2018 to use Qualcomm’s …
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Uh-oh. Smartphones finally took a nosedive. In the fourth quarter of 2017, smartphone sales fell for the first time ever, according to Gartner. Handset makers sold nearly 408 million smartphones to customers in the quarter, down 5.6 percent from the same period a year ago, the research firm said Thursday. That marks the first annual decline since Gartner started tracking …
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If last year’s Mobile World Congress trade show was a Royal Rumble of phones, this year’s conference is more akin to WrestleMania — if Samsung is perennial winner Roman Reigns. The 2017 edition of MWC faced a giant hole when Samsung opted to launch its Galaxy S8 at a later, separate event at Carnegie Hall in New York. That vacuum …
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Huawei has had carrier deals with AT&T and Verizon fall through in recent months, with rumblings that the US government encouraged the carriers to pass on the Chinese electronics giant. This was confirmed on Tuesday. FBI Director Chris Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that the FBI was “deeply concerned” about the risks posed by Huawei and ZTE, …
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Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro goes on sale in the US this Sunday, and it’s already getting rave reviews from customers over on Best Buy’s site. Wait, what? The company in a private Facebook group offered people the opportunity to “beta test” the premium Mate 10 Pro in exchange for five-star reviews on Best Buy, reports 9 to 5 Google. Screenshots …
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