Nokia, the company that basically made the modern phone what it is today, is back at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and it came bearing a bunch of phones: the Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6, Nokia 6 Arte Black Limited Edition and the brought-out-of-retirement Nokia 3310. First, let’s clear this up: This isn’t the …
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Moto is once again out to prove that a budget phone doesn’t have to be bad. Its 2017 refresh brings us the Lenovo Moto G5 Plus and Moto G5, a pair of metal handsets with 5.2 and 5-inch screens, respectively, and some newer tech under the hood compared to last year’s models. We’ve spent a little time with these polished …
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This is not the Nokia flagship phone you’ve been looking for. Startup HMD, which owns the license to build Nokia phones, on Sunday launched a raft of handsets in a bid to once again be a leading light in the mobile world. HMD will need to turn up the wattage. The highest end phone unveiled is the Nokia 6, a …
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If you’ve ever wondered whether Nokia would make a smartwatch, the answer is that in a roundabout way, it kind of already has. In May 2016, Nokia bought French tech company Withings and in doing so brought its whole product portfolio, smartwatches and all, under its wing. From summer 2017, all Withings products will be rebadged with the Nokia name, …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Nokia 3310 is back and so is Snake 1:17 A year ago, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri promised a new generation of Nokia phones. Today, he made good on his word. Nokia partnered with mobile startup HMD Global, a company made up of ex-Nokia employees, to announce four new phones on Sunday here at Mobile World …
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Nokia. Knock-ia. Know-kia. Noh-keea. However you pronounce it, few companies (other than Motorola, of course) have been so influential in creating the cell phone that we use today. Apple, LG and Samsung may get all of the glory now, but Nokia dominated the mobile industry for two decades. When I started at CNET more than 10 years ago, a week …
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It’s going to get crazy in Barcelona. Just about every heavy hitter in the wireless industry is bringing a shiny new phone to Mobile World Congress — held this time each year in Spain’s hippest metropolis — each trying to out-wow the others with its latest wares. But we won’t see any new phones from Samsung. The Korean electronics giant …
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Mobile World Congress is upon us, and it’ll be every phone maker for itself in Barcelona. With Samsung keeping its Galaxy S8 under wraps for a future event, companies like LG, Huawei and Nokia will get the chance to duke it for MWC’s most impressive phone lineup. We take a look at what to expect over the next week and …
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BlackBerry is crying foul against Nokia, alleging in a new lawsuit that its mobile networking products are infringing on as many as eleven of BlackBerry’s patents without being properly licensed, according to Bloomberg. The infringement case reportedly lands in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, in Wilmington, and comes as both the BlackBerry and Nokia names work …
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When Steve Jobs launched the original iPhone in 2007, its revolutionary all-touchscreen design blew away the then-dominant keyboard phones of the day: the Moto Q, Palm Treo, Nokia E62 and BlackBerry Pearl. Enlarge Image BlackBerry’s new phone channels its QWERTY soul. James Martin/CNET Back then, Nokia and BlackBerry were the smartphone standard-bearers and Apple was the daring upstart. Now, as …
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