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Motorola’s new high-end Moto P30 6.2-inch phone has launched in China, looking uncannily like the Apple iPhone X — but with a cool ceramic and glass gradient back that helps it stand out from the notch-filled crowd.  Motorola Top-of-the-line for Motorola, a budget-phone biggie, means something different to Moto than it does to Apple, though — the …

Oppo is known for making strong midrange phones, so anticipation for its first high-priced premium device, the Oppo Find X, is high. Now we know when we can get our hands on it. At an event in Sydney Wednesday, Oppo announced that the Find X will be available from Aug. 16 and retail at AU$1,099. It will be exclusive to JB Hi-Fi and …

It’s a fine example of a first-world problem: Spend $1,000 on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 now, or endure the wait until next year and the potentially massive upgrades to come. That’s a decision some of you will have to make after Samsung unveiled its Note 9 on Thursday. To be fair, this is a question everyone could ask themselves. …

Note 9 phones, Bixby smart speakers, Galaxy smartwatches, Spotify partnerships, Fortnite exclusives and even a little toss-in mention of AR. Samsung’s latest Unlocked phone event had everything. Except for one technology the company’s been pushing for years. VR. I realized it only after I left the event in Brooklyn. After I’d worn smartwatches and looked at speakers and played Fortnite …

Samsung‘s heavily rumored Galaxy Note 9, announced Thursday in New York, is a 6.4-inch phone with dual rear 12-megapixel cameras, up to 512GB of storage and a new Bluetooth S-Pen stylus.  Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy Note 9 vs. S9 Plus: What’s the difference? 2:58 It goes on sale on Aug. 24 with a starting price of $1,000 for the …

Though we don’t expect to see the rumored Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL introduced officially until this fall, we may have gotten a sneak preview from a Ukrainian Telegram user.   As reported by Android Police, Telegram user @LuchkovCH has posted an extensive series of photos (and a brief unboxing video) of what they say is a Pixel 3 …

Check out photos, videos and first impressions at CNET’s Galaxy Note 9 hands-on first take. Today Samsung launches its biggest phone of the year — both literally and in terms of what it can do. The Galaxy Note 9 is scheduled for a grand introduction this morning at Samsung’s signature Unpacked event. The Galaxy Note is Samsung’s top-of-the-line phone and the …

The next generation of Android is on its way. And you guessed it — the P is for Pie. Android Pie, the new version of Google’s mobile operating system, previously called Android P, comes first to the search giant’s Pixel smartphones starting Monday. Google initially announced a preview version of the software in March, then demoed some features at its annual I/O developer …

It looks like the cat, well chip, is out of the bag. A teardown of Xiaomi’s beautiful Mi 8 Explorer Edition, which features a transparent back panel that lets you supposedly peek into the phone’s innards to see stuff like a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, has revealed that the chip you see isn’t actually a sticker, but it’s also not the actual processor …

Qualcomm says Intel reneged on a promise to provide documents on its latest radio frequency components being used in recent Apple iPhones, but it still wants them. As part of its patent legal battle with Apple, Qualcomm filed a motion late last week in a San Jose, California, federal court to compel Intel to supply it with technical documents and …