We didn’t see a new flagship Android smart phone from LG at Mobile World Congress this week (though we have a few guesses as to why not). Instead, LG showed off a rather incremental upgrade to last year’s V30. Ho hum, right? Maybe not. According to Evan Blass at VentureBeat, the Korean manufacturer held a private, …
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Fitbit’s latest earnings were a disappointment. The Fitbit Ionic, the company’s feature-studded smartwatch that launched last fall, hasn’t sold well, prompting the company to reveal that a lower-priced watch was coming soon. Tech website Wareable has some convincing leaked images of what could be that watch, and a report on what the watch’s features will be. I just rereviewed the Fitbit …
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The Galaxy S9 looks like this, according to these renders +19 more See all photos The big day is upon us. This Sunday, February 25, at 6 p.m. Barcelona time — that’s noon ET and 9 a.m. PT — Samsung lifts the curtain on the next generation of its flagship smartphone. On the eve of Mobile World Congress, we’ll finally get …
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You may have another way to charge your Apple things soon. Apple’s newest iPhones support the wireless Qi charging standard, but Apple has another proprietary spin on contactless charging on the way, called AirPower. Announced and briefly seen at last year’s September iPhone event, the AirPower mat could debut next month, according to a new rumor via 9to5Mac, originally posted …
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There’s no shortage of alleged leaks and fan-made renders to satisfy our appetite while we await Samsung’s official Feb. 25 unveiling of its next flagship phone. We’ve heard rumors about the Galaxy S9‘s performance and features — like its potential face-scanning features and camera upgrades — but we’ve also heard murmurs about the phone’s design. At first glance, the Galaxy S9 could look …
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The Galaxy S9 is coming on Feb. 25 and we’ve heard plenty of rumors about what to expect next month. So now comes another question: what will our color choices be? Samsung typically sticks to safe, neutral tones like arctic silver, orchid gray and midnight black. Poetic Cases, which makes cases for Samsung phones, has made its cases for the Galaxy …
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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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Samsung’s foldable phone for 2018 is pretty much a done deal — the head of Samsung mobile said so — but will you really want one? That will depend, for one thing, on what we mean by “foldable.” We’ve seen one Samsung patent application for a handset that bends at the middle so the top of the phone can touch …
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Samsung could unveil the Galaxy S9 in a little over two months. The phone giant is rumored to announce the company’s follow-up to the Galaxy S8 in late February at the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, according to Korean news outlet The Bell. The report posits two possible Galaxy S9 launch dates: Feb. 25, the day before the …
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Samsung may finally make its move against the Amazon Echo and Google Home with a smart home speaker powered by its Bixby software. The speaker is slated to arrive in the first half of 2018, Bloomberg reports. Early rumors of the smart speaker date back to July, but they gained credence when Samsung Mobile president DJ Koh confirmed that the …
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