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Motorola Razr preorder and launch delayed

Motorola’s remake of the Razr flip phone just hit some speed bumps. The foldable smartphone will no longer be available for preorder on Dec. 26, and Motorola says it’ll arrive in stores later than the Jan. 9 date the company was targeting.  The phone maker, a unit of Chinese consumer electronics giant Lenovo, didn’t have …

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Marques Brownlee talks Retro Tech

It’s easy to forget that Marques Brownlee is all of 26 years old, until he says that he’d never played a game on a Nintendo Game Boy until recently, or that he was in high school when the first iPhone was released. The New Jersey native, also known as MKBHD, recently crossed the 10-million-subscriber mark on YouTube and has become …

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CNET Innovation Awards celebrate four products that gave us 2019 breakthroughs

CNET writers and editors strive to give you the best buying advice while keeping an eye out for technologies that will open up new possibilities for tomorrow. For two decades, our Editors’ Choice Awards have singled out the products you should spend your money on. This year, we’re fired up to launch our first Innovation Awards for the most groundbreaking …

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New leak purports to show Samsung’s rumored foldable Razr rival

The upcoming Motorola Razr may be bringing back the flip phone design, but it won’t be the only one. According to new leaked images shared on China’s Weibo and resurfaced on Twitter by phone leaker Ice Universe, we now may have a first look at Samsung‘s rumored rival.  The four images appear to show Samsung’s latest folding phone. While the …

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Galaxy Fold vs. Mate X foldable phones: Where Samsung, Huawei win and lose

Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s Mate X are here, offering two different takes on foldable phones. Both were made to inspire, and to transform the way we think about phones. These aren’t yet everyday devices, but they could set the course for a move toward foldable phones instead of the large-screen models that are too big for your pocket today. …

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Here’s why the Galaxy Fold probably won’t be the phone that popularizes foldables

It’s fun to geek out over big, expensive foldable phones like the $2,000 Galaxy Fold, with its 7.3-inch bendable screen and six cameras. But the ultra-large, extra-pricey devices aren’t what most people can afford to buy. Instead, it could be the smaller, simpler foldable designs that wind up getting foldable phones into the hands of more users — not because they’re …

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Cheaper 5G phones are on the horizon, but they probably won’t be very good

We all know that 5G phones are expensive. The ability to connect to ultrafast networks is seen as a premium nice-to-have, but not need-to-have feature that raises the price of any phone by hundreds. High prices will deter billions of people from switching over from 4G phones to faster 5G. Affordable 5G phones for all are on the horizon, but good 5G …

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Galaxy Fold: Samsung dials back exec hint that it’s sold a million foldable phones

Samsung downplayed an exec’s comments that there could be as many as 1 million Galaxy Folds in the wild. A spokesperson for the Korean company told Yonhap that Electronics President Young Sohn could have been referring to the company’s initial sales target for the year. It apparently made it clear that sales of the foldable phone haven’t hit 1 million …

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CNET names 2019’s top tech products of the year

A ton of new tech came flying at us again in 2019. But weeding out the minor upgrades and the products that aren’t ready for prime time from the stuff that’s actually worth your hard-earned money is what CNET’s all about. Our team kicked the tires on a lot of new products, and a bunch of those ended up in …

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Realme XT: A 64

OnePlus is beloved among Android enthusiasts. It hasn’t got the mass appeal of Samsung or Apple, but its phones are excellent and almost always a fantastic deal. You may know that OnePlus’ parent company BBK Electronics is also behind Vivo, a brand mostly only used in China, and Oppo, a brand that’s expanded out of China and into the UK …

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