Nokia phones may join the modern world if details about an unreleased device called the Nokia 7 Plus are right. Enlarge Image These allegedly leaked slides may give us insight on an unreleased Nokia phone. Baidu user 诺记吧阿呆 The leak, which includes several pictures, shows a tall, slim phone with razor-thin bezels, according to purported marketing …
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YouTube TV now available on Roku and Apple TV
Just in time for the big game, the Winter Olympics, the Oscars and everything else, YouTube TV has finally made its way to Roku and Apple TV. Roku makes the most popular streamers and is a perennial favorite of CNET’s streamer and smart TV reviews, which are the best values on the market. Apple TV is more expensive but still highly recommended …
Read More »Best big TVs for the big game 2018, starting at just $370
Looking for an excuse to finally buy that big-screen TV you’ve been coveting? Look no further than a certain upcoming football game, whose stringent trademark restrictions prevent me from naming directly. Want another arrow in your new-TV-rationalization quiver? Prices on many sets are at their lowest levels yet as manufacturers and retailers tackle 2017 inventory in advance of 2018 models. …
Read More »The LG G6 and LG Q6 come in violet, rose and blue this Feb.
The flagship LG G6 and midrange LG Q6 are about to get a snazzy makeover. LG just announced that the phones will be coming in new colors like “Moroccan blue,” “lavender violet” and “raspberry rose.” Both phones will come in the new shades of blue and violet, while the raspberry tone is reserved for the LG G6. The phones will first roll out in Korea in …
Read More »Galaxy S9: Camera upgrades we expect, per Samsung’s own site
Samsung has promised that its Galaxy S9 phone will have camera upgrades. The company said so in its invitation to the Feb. 25 launch event in Barcelona, Spain. (We’ll be there!) The Galaxy S9 will be all about the camera. Samsung Although the invitation doesn’t provide much in the way of visual clues to exactly what those upgrades will be (seriously, we …
Read More »Drop test: Which is the toughest case for the iPhone X?
Even if you’ve never dropped a phone in your life, putting a case on it is almost non-negotiable. Especially if it has glass on either side, like the iPhone X, the Galaxy Note 8 or just about every other major flagship phone from LG to Samsung. Need convincing? Just take a look at some of our drop tests. The iPhone X cracked on the first drop, …
Read More »Samsung officially sets Galaxy S9 unveiling for Feb. 25
Samsung has officially marked the calendar for Feb. 25 as the date it will launch its next big phone, all but confirmed to be called the Galaxy S9. We already knew the global smartphone titan would drop the device at Mobile World Congress — better known by its initials, MWC — next month in Barcelona, the world’s largest show for …
Read More »How quantum dots could challenge OLED for best TV picture
We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Samsung’s QLED TV technology is not the same as LG’s OLED TV technology. Sure they have similar names, down to the little slash that makes an “O” into a “Q,” but according to CNET’s tests for picture quality, OLED is superior. It’s also fundamentally different from the LCD-based TVs that comprise the …
Read More »No LG G7? LG could announce the V30+ Alpha in Feb. instead
Last February we got the LG G6, so this February we should get the LG G7, right? Maybe not. Enlarge Image A revamped LG V30 may be in store for MWC 2018. Juan Garzón/CNET Instead of unveiling its next flagship LG G series phone next month — assumed to be called the LG G7 — the Korean electronics giant may …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S9: What if the phone gets these six features?
We’ve been collecting a long list of features that the Samsung Galaxy S9 is rumored to include when it launches next month at Mobile World Congress, the show for all things mobile. Meanwhile at CES, the show for every sort of tech (not just mobile), we saw plenty of innovations that could find their way into future handsets like …
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