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 …
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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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Smartphones are cool and all, but sometimes you just want to answer a call by pressing a button and having your phone snap open. Sometimes you just want to pretend you’re in “The Matrix“. Welcome back, then, the Nokia 8110 4G, a new, updated version of the classic 20-year-old phone. Woah. Enlarge Image The original banana phone is back. Andrew …
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Android Go, a lightweight version of Android designed for lower-end devices with less than 1GB of RAM, promises a world of efficient, decent-performing budget phones with timely security and app updates. What phones can you expect with Android Go? ZTE has one of them: the Tempo Go is heading to the US for about $80. Announced in Barcelona at Mobile …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S9 is all about the refinements. So forget about any big leaps — at least for now. The device, along with its bigger sibling, the S9 Plus, made its debut Sunday at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. The phones, which hit stores March 16, feature improved audio capabilities, thinner bezels around the display and the ability …
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If you’re already in love with Samsung’s new phones, here’s how to get your hands on them. Samsung announced the Galaxy S9 ($198 at eBay) and S9 Plus at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Both phones look a lot like last year’s Galaxy S8 ($180 at eBay) lineup, but offer a handful of new hardware and software upgrades that are …
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If phones are becoming predictable, maybe it’s the accessories that go with them that can be bold. The latest case in point is Samsung’s new DeX Pad — launched today alongside the company’s new 2018 flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus. It’s a second-generation docking station designed to convert those new phones into PC-style workstations in corporate environments. I …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. But not the smartphone of the future? Slashleaks; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When you’re launching a phone, creating mystery is important. Yes, it seems that leakers get hold of most developments early these days. But when it comes to Sunday’s scheduled launch of the …
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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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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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