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Galaxy S9, S9 Plus trade

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 …

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The LG V30S ThinQ phone is the V30 with Ai and a memory boost

LG is out with a new smartphone. Sort of. Ahead of the Mobile World Congress 2018 trade show, the company on Saturday unveiled the V30S ThinQ, a version of last year’s flagship V30 with slightly better specs and a focus on artificial intelligence. (Because who isn’t talking about AI nowadays?) The V30S represents LG’s new strategy of quickly releasing minor …

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Galaxy S9: Launch, release date, price, specs and more

The Galaxy S9 looks like this, according to these renders +19 more See all photos The big day is upon us. This Sunday, February 25, at 6 p.m. Barcelona time — that’s noon ET and 9 a.m. PT — Samsung lifts the curtain on the next generation of its flagship smartphone. On the eve of Mobile World Congress, we’ll finally get …

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Galaxy S9 with Snapdragon 845 will be crazy fast: Speed test

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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Google Lens is coming to phones from Samsung, LG and more

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 Typing a search was outdated.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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LG G7: 5 reasons why it won’t be at MWC 2018

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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LG K8 and K10: Mid

LG is kicking things off a little early. A few days before the start of MWC 2018, otherwise known as the world’s biggest mobile industry trade show, the company announced it will unveil two new phones at the conference. Known as the K8 and K10, these phones will be available in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. They come …

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LG’s next flagship phone may be unveiled later in June, codenamed ‘Judy’

Just because you won’t be seeing the next big LG phone this month doesn’t mean the company has nothing up its sleeve. According to VentureBeat, LG is working on its next big phone, which is scheduled for a June debut. Citing a “person briefed on the company’s plans” the phone is code-named “Judy” and it will not necessarily be branded with …

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Samsung set to overshadow LG, HTC, Huawei, Motorola at MWC

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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Our Mobile World Congress preview show (The 3:59, Ep. 358)

On this podcast, we talk about: Expectations for the Mobile World Congress show, which starts next week. Samsung is planning to reveal its newest flagship phone there. Also ahead of MWC, what’s next for 5G. The latest on cryptocurrencies. Steven Seagal backs a new coin, and CNET chats with “Free Money” guy Matthew Lesko about the crypto bubble. Now playing: Watch this: Our …

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