Now playing: Watch this: Nokia 3310 vs. iPhone 7 in a real city battle 2:27 Nokia’s new 3310 may have captured our hearts with its retro looks, but how useful is this feature phone when you’re out and about in a city? I headed out onto the streets of Barcelona with the new handset to …
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Now playing: Watch this: Hottest phones unveiled at MWC 2017 2:50 Every year phone manufacturers from all over the world flock to Barcelona to unveil their latest devices at Mobile World Congress, leaving us with a batch of brand new phones to compete for our attention. And this year is no exception. Which ones are worth your precious time? We’ve …
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Budding paparazzi rejoice. A new patent filed Tuesday by Google reveals what could become the newest tool for grabbing candid shots of the Kardashian clan — although that particular use case isn’t mentioned in the document. Instead, Google lists things like “hosting an interactive assistance session,” sending images to social media and sending images and GPS data to an “emergency-handling …
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The BlackBerry KeyOne may soon see some siblings. TCL isn’t wasting time building up its portfolio of phones using the BlackBerry name. The company plans to release as many as three phones this year, TCL Communications Nicolas Zibell said in an interview on Saturday. The company is working on an all-touchscreen version, a spiritual successor to the DTEK 50 and …
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In the future you won’t have to wait hours for your phone to fully charge. That’s the plan at least, according to Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which announced it can charge a phone from zero to full in just 20 minutes at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona. Meizu’s Super mCharge appears to be a lot faster than Qualcomm’s Quick …
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Now playing: Watch this: New Nokia 3310 versus old Nokia 3310 1:38 Nokia launched a feature phone — it barely has a browser — and the internet went nuts. Part of that is because the original was such an iconic phone: simple, indestructible, easy. Now the 3310 is back and better than ever. How much better? We stumbled across an …
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They say that numbers tell the story. If that’s true, then Google’s $15 Cardboard virtual reality viewer plays an oversized role in the virtual reality market. That’s because more than 10 million of the heavy paper viewers have shipped since 2014, and Cardboard apps have been downloaded 160 million times from Google Play. “And 30 of those apps have more …
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Return with us now to a time when most cell phones had a standby time of a week. When phone screens were on a grayscale, texting was a fairly new feature, and having a camera on your phone wasn’t even a thing. Remember those days? One cellphone from the turn of the millennium that many of you are probably familiar …
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Google seems to be at a transition when it comes to its laptop strategy, with the search giant looking beyond its Chromebook Pixel, laptops it’s designed in-house. “We may not see a next generation of the Pixel Chromebook line, but it doesn’t mean Google isn’t still interested in branded laptops and or convertibles,” a source familiar with Google’s thinking said …
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It wasn’t so long ago that Nokia and Google didn’t move in the same circles, but oh, how times have changed. These days they’re bosom buddies, joined at the hip, BFFs — at least for the foreseeable future. Nokia famously bypassed Google’s Android mobile software in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system at the start of this decade. The …
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