Read our full review of the Nokia 8 Sirocco, the latest Nokia phone from HMD Global. HMD Global, maker of Nokia phones, laid bare its ambitions for capturing every corner of the phone market when it unveiled five new devices at its Mobile World Congress press conference in Barcelona on Sunday. Appealing to a spectrum of …
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Read our full review of the Nokia 8 Sirocco, the latest Nokia phone from HMD Global. HMD Global, the startup behind the latest incarnation of Nokia phones, is coming to America after all. The Nokia 6, which made its debut at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Sunday, will hit the US market in May. It won’t be …
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For the last several hours, my Samsung media badge was, well, a plain media badge: a rectangular piece of cardboard with rounded edges connected to a plastic clip and lanyard that hung around my neck, like so many press credentials I’ve collected over the years. A digital rendering of the Galaxy S9, courtesy of my media badge. Roger Cheng/CNET Its …
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Mobile World Congress is always the biggest phone show of the year, but 2018 has been different. Rather than counter Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy S9 — the phone that’s all but certain to dominate sales charts for the first half of the year — rivals like LG and Huawei are aiming for standalone announcements later in the year. That …
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Unless your company is Samsung, it can be hard to grab any real attention at the world’s largest mobile industry trade show known as MWC 2018. Samsung’s habit of debuting its marquee phone, this year known as the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, to much fanfare has a tendency to take up most of the tech headlines during the show’s …
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For the Galaxy S9 ($198 at eBay) and Galaxy S9 Plus ($198 at eBay), Samsung added another tool to its photography arsenal: a variable aperture. This means pictures taken with both phones should look sharper, have less image noise and handle extreme lighting situations better. The aperture of a lens determines the amount of light that a camera sensor receives. …
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If you’re like me, you’ve been listening to “The Matrix” soundtrack all morning, celebrating the news that Nokia is bringing back its retro 8110 slide phone. The OG handset for trenchcoat-wearing hackers, the 8110 was first launched by Nokia in 1996, gaining serious fame in 1998 as Neo’s phone of choice. No Nokia 8110 reboot for Australia? Keanu grieves. Warner …
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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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Of the five phones that Nokia introduced on Sunday here at Mobile World Congress 2018, the Nokia 1 doesn’t stand at the front of the feature queue. Instead, it’s built for anyone who wants an affordable easy-to-use phone, primarily for (gasp) making calls, but still wants to be able to be able to go online, take a photo and listen …
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