I’m strapped into the shotgun seat of a Porsche Panamera, parked in a lot just outside FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium. My chauffeur for the afternoon: Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro smartphone. You read that right. A phone will be driving this car. No, Huawei isn’t getting into the autonomous car business. The Chinese telecom giant …
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Google Lens was first revealed alongside Google’s Pixel 2 ($98 at Amazon) and Pixel 2 XL ($249 at Amazon) phones as a tool to help users identify real-world objects. Since then, Google has expanded Lens to more Android phones, and even plans on bringing the feature to the iPhone. Now playing: Watch this: Google Lens is smart enough to identify …
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have a new camera, a faster processor and features like animated emoji characters and a new purple color scheme — in other words, par for the course for a new phone. But if you’re a T-Mobile customer, you’ve got another reason to pay attention. More from Mobile World Congress Hands-on with the …
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For the last several hours, my Samsung media badge was, well, a plain media badge: a rectangular piece of cardboard with rounded edges connected to a plastic clip and lanyard that hung around my neck, like so many press credentials I’ve collected over the years. A digital rendering of the Galaxy S9, courtesy of my media badge. Roger Cheng/CNET Its …
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Mobile World Congress is always the biggest phone show of the year, but 2018 has been different. Rather than counter Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy S9 — the phone that’s all but certain to dominate sales charts for the first half of the year — rivals like LG and Huawei are aiming for standalone announcements later in the year. That …
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For the Galaxy S9 ($198 at eBay) and Galaxy S9 Plus ($198 at eBay), Samsung added another tool to its photography arsenal: a variable aperture. This means pictures taken with both phones should look sharper, have less image noise and handle extreme lighting situations better. The aperture of a lens determines the amount of light that a camera sensor receives. …
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The Blackberry Key2 has been officially revealed. And yes, it has a physical keyboard. The executives behind BlackBerry Mobile are dreaming big. BlackBerry Mobile is a unit of Chinese consumer electronics maker TCL, which licenses the right to make BlackBerry phones from the original Canadian BlackBerry Ltd and also makes budget phones under the Alcatel brand. Since its launch a year …
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Now that Samsung finally announced its latest Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus phones at MWC 2018, you may be giving your current phone some side-eye. Fortunately, the company is continuing its trade-in program for old phones in the US, UK, Australia and China. Samsung said it will also include other “major European countries” so be sure to check if it’s available …
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