Samsung on Thursday offered a tease of the press event it’ll hold the day before Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. The Korean consumer electronics company will reveal the next generation of its Galaxy Book line of laptops at the Feb. 27 event, it said in a blog post. It didn’t offer any hard …
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TCL’s next 5G smartphone is now available for $300, a price that makes it the cheapest device that can access the new C-band spectrum of Verizon’s high-speed 5G network. The TCL 30 V 5G was first revealed at CES 2022, but more details make it clear how much of a value this phone might be, with the device packing midrange …
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Lenovo has decided to pull out of in-person attendance at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, though the conference will go on as scheduled. Citing “ongoing trends surrounding COVID,” the company said Tuesday via its @LenovoNews Twitter account that its attendance this year will be fully virtual. MWC UPDATE: Due to the ongoing trends surrounding COVID, Lenovo’s activation at MWC …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. If you’d rather wear your TV on your face than put it in your living room, TCL might have just what you need at CES 2022. On Tuesday the company revealed its next pair of TV glasses, which refines last year’s …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. TCL beat its phone rivals to CES 2022 on Tuesday by announcing the first of its 30-series phones. Both promise 5G connectivity at affordable prices and will be more widely available to consumers than previous phones from the brand. The TCL …
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Carriers around the world have launched their 5G networks. Nationwide coverage is available in the US from the big three providers. Compatible smartphones are getting cheaper. The next-generation wireless technology is rapidly maturing. So let’s talk about the next-next-generation wireless technology. Yes, 6G. Each wireless generation lasts about a decade, so 6G is a long, long way from becoming reality. …
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Elon Musk’s satellite broadband service, Starlink, will be available worldwide except the North and South Poles starting in August, the billionaire entrepreneur said Tuesday during a talk at the virtual Mobile World Congress 2021. Starlink is “operational now in about 12 countries, and more are being added every month,” Musk said. The high-speed broadband service has over 1,800 low-orbit satellites …
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Elon Musk took the virtual stage at Mobile World Congress 2021, with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO speaking about his satellite internet venture Starlink. The high-speed broadband service is set to become available worldwide in August and expects to serve more than 500,000 customers, Musk said Tuesday. You can rewatch the entire presentation live on YouTube or right here. Starlink …
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Samsung’s next Galaxy watch is being announced at an Unpacked event later this summer, and its new Google co-designed OS and interface is called One UI Watch. The news arrived Monday at a virtual Samsung event as part of this year’s Mobile World Congress. But all Samsung showed for now is the software interface. The actual watch design remains unknown, …
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Phones are getting a speed boost. Qualcomm on Monday unveiled its newest, highest-end smartphone processor, the Snapdragon 888 Plus. The chipset supercharges the Snapdragon 888, which arrived earlier this year in premium phones like the Samsung Galaxy S21. Qualcomm increased the clock speed on the Snapdragon 888 Plus’s CPU — the brains of the chipset — to 3GHz from 2.84GHz in …
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