The dust has barely settled on Samsung’s official unveiling of its latest Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus at MWC 2018, but we got our hands on the bigger S9 Plus anyway. Shown in midnight black, the 6.2-inch phone packs the latest Snapdragon 845 processor, dual 12-megapixel cameras on the back and Android 8.0 Oreo. Now …
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus have a new camera, a faster processor and features like animated emoji characters and a new purple color scheme — in other words, par for the course for a new phone. But if you’re a T-Mobile customer, you’ve got another reason to pay attention. More from Mobile World Congress Hands-on with the …
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Speck makes a lot of different variations of its Presidio Series cases for iPhones (and Samsung Galaxy phones), but the new Presidio Sport may be the best version yet. Available for the iPhone 7/8 and iPhone X in a few different color options, it was ostensibly designed for gym rats or people who run with their iPhones. But it’s basically …
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 is finally here and it has an impressive new camera with a variable aperture, a lightning-fast processor with an Android Oreo operating system and a headphone jack to boot. The S9 comes in two sizes: The regular S9 sports a 5.8-inch screen while the larger model, the Galaxy S9 Plus, has a 6.2-inch screen. You can …
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The all-screen design seen in phones like last year’s iPhone X and the Galaxy S8 is already popular, and an upcoming BlackBerry phone might be following suit. Mobile industry reporter Evan Blass tweeted out a photo Monday alleging to be the BlackBerry Ghost, a high-end, bezel-less phone that would be set for the India market. While TCL holds a license …
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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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Hankering for the new Galaxy S9 after yesterday’s announcement? In the US, UK, Australia and China, Samsung has a trade-in program that will help you pay for it. You either take the old phone to the store, or ship it back when you get your new one. Trading in an old phone will net you up to $350, which you can …
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It’s probably not a surprise anymore when a Chinese company blatantly clones other companies’ phones to catch eyeballs, but you have to give it to Leagoo for having the gall to do that at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Samsung is showing off its new Galaxy S9. The phone in question, the Leagoo S9, basically is a $150 (around …
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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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