If you’re strapped for cash or just don’t want to spend the money on Samsung‘s Galaxy S8 and larger S8 Plus, you do have options. Lots of good ones, in fact. Because at $750 and $850 in the US, £689 and £779 in the UK, and AU$1,199 and AU$1,349 in Australia, Samsung’s phones cost a pretty penny. …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Twitter! So many phones, such affordable prices. How to choose? Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Sorry this is so late today! …
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Now playing: Watch this: Nokia 6 is pure Android Nougat in a sleek aluminium body 1:07 What would you do to get a deal on a phone? If looking at ads falls into that spectrum, Amazon is selling five new budget Android phones to Amazon Prime members for between $30 and $80 less than their full retail price. The catch: …
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If you miss the days before touchscreens took over and the Motorola Razr reigned supreme, the Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 may be just your speed. It launched on Thursday in Samsung’s home country of South Korea. The Galaxy Folder 2 is an Android phone with a flip design that puts a touchscreen on top and an old-school keypad on the bottom. …
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Project Fi, Google’s fledgling wireless service, which only works with Google-branded Android phones, has a new feature that may make it more attractive to a wider audience. The just-launched “Group repay” is a new automated system that makes it easy to split your Project Fi group plan bill among up to six members of that plan. Participating members get specific …
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My, my, how things have changed. The way it used to be… Any phone you wanted to buy in the US was tied to your carrier and a two-year contract. But in the last several years (prodded by T-Mobile), the marketplace has burst wide open. Enlarge Image Buying an unlocked phone has its freedoms. Josh Miller/CNET Today… Verizon, AT&T, Sprint …
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Now playing: Watch this: Sprint’s free unlimited data offer has some limits 1:53 Sprint’s free offer is an attempt to nab customers away from rivals. Sprint Sprint must have lost its mind. That’s probably what you’re thinking after hearing that the carrier is offering a year of unlimited data for free. Let that sink in for a moment: FREE. Your …
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For a while there, everyone was going mad for modular. A phone with swappable hardware parts was going to be the industry’s next radical evolution. Google demoed Project Ara with its clever endoskeleton frame, LG launched its G5 flagship with a detachable chin that connected with other accessories, and Lenovo’s trio of Motorola Moto Z phones had magnetic modules for …
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During a full-day briefing of Motorola’s product vision a week ago, I listened to a lot of talk about Mods. Motorola’s clever snap-on accessory system is a dream of a superconnected phone future. And yet, what I mostly saw were battery packs. Practicality aside, that’s not going to get anyone to upgrade to a modular world. Motorola might want to …
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Editors’ note, June 1, 2017: Motorola announced the Moto Z2 Play, a midrange phone with impressive battery life and compatibility with Moto Mods. Below is CNET’s original story on the rumor. Motorola fans can look forward to a new phone coming very soon. Lenovo (Motorola’s current parent company) declared on its Canadian Twitter account that it will announce the next …
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