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BlackBerry Mobile aims for bigger slice of premium phone market

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. …

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Nokia 1 brings Android Go to your starter phone at MWC 2018

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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Nokia 6 and Nokia 7 Plus rock metal jackets, Android One at MWC

Alongside the flagship Sirocco and reissue of the classic 8110, Nokia has a pair of midrange Android phones that combine neat metal designs with low prices. The Nokia 6 is the cheapest of the two, and is very much just a bumped-up version of the Nokia 6 that the company released last year. The design is much the same, although …

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BlackBerry and Nokia comeback, one year later: Did it work?

Last February, the once-great Nokia and BlackBerry brands each hoped to stage a triumphant return at the world’s largest phone show.   A year on, we’re still waiting for a knockout device that will put either one back in the international spotlight in a meaningful way. Despite the brands launching eight Android phones between them in the past year, it’s …

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Samsung set to overshadow LG, HTC, Huawei, Motorola at MWC

If last year’s Mobile World Congress trade show was a Royal Rumble of phones, this year’s conference is more akin to WrestleMania — if Samsung is perennial winner Roman Reigns. The 2017 edition of MWC faced a giant hole when Samsung opted to launch its Galaxy S8 at a later, separate event at Carnegie Hall in New York. That vacuum …

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The Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 1 possibly leaked in new renders

The Nokia phone lineup might get a bit longer. Renders have recently surfaced of what is rumored to be the Nokia 7 Plus and Nokia 1. While the two phones are still unconfirmed, they may become a reality soon if these renders are accurate. The images were tweeted by mobile tipster Evan Blass, who has a track record of posting …

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Prime Exclusive Phones will soon be ad

If you wanted a cheaper phone from Amazon, that used to come at the cost of having ads take over your lock screen. That won’t be the case anymore, as Amazon is removing them from both new phones and from ones customers have already purchased. Amazon said Tuesday that its line of Prime Exclusive Phones, which include devices like the …

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Nokia 7 Plus could be first Nokia phone with an 18:9 screen

Nokia phones may join the modern world if details about an unreleased device called the Nokia 7 Plus are right.  Enlarge Image These allegedly leaked slides may give us insight on an unreleased Nokia phone. Baidu user 诺记吧阿呆 The leak, which includes several pictures, shows a tall, slim phone with razor-thin bezels, according to purported marketing materials that recently appeared online, as …

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Nokia 3310 throwback phone gets a 4G upgrade in February

When we first saw the retro Nokia 3310 last February, it was nostalgia-laced love at first sight.  The colorful little phone reminded us of simpler times when T9Word was the best way to text your friends and before you’d “accidentally” spend hours scrolling through social media feeds. But although nostalgia helped the phone gain its appeal, using it was like taking a …

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Samsung officially sets Galaxy S9 unveiling for Feb. 25

Samsung has officially marked the calendar for Feb. 25 as the date it will launch its next big phone, all but confirmed to be called the Galaxy S9.  We already knew the global smartphone titan would drop the device at Mobile World Congress — better known by its initials, MWC — next month in Barcelona, the world’s largest show for …

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