Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Apple wants you to know it’s better. Because it says so. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET They like to play aloof in Cupertino. No, no, insisted Apple CEO Tim Cook last week, his company doesn’t follow its rivals. You’d think …
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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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For the last several hours, my Samsung media badge was, well, a plain media badge: a rectangular piece of cardboard with rounded edges connected to a plastic clip and lanyard that hung around my neck, like so many press credentials I’ve collected over the years. A digital rendering of the Galaxy S9, courtesy of my media badge. Roger Cheng/CNET Its …
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At the year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, PC maker Lenovo showed off a handful of two-in-one PCs, some with new smart assistant software and game-ready graphics. The Yoga 730 is the latest laptop to add Alexa, Amazon’s smart assistant. At CES 2018, we saw Alexa announced for select ThinkPad laptops, but those were aimed at business users. The Yoga …
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To the wireless industry crowd at the final keynote panel of the Mobile World Congress trade show on Monday, Ajit Pai’s words were music to the ears. Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, opened his speech with a call to free up more spectrum — the radio airwaves required for carriers to deploy and expand their networks. He …
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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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Are you paranoid about security and sitting on a cryptocurrency fortune? Brazilian company Sikur unveiled a phone with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday that might be just right for you. The SikurPhone is the successor to Sikur’s GranitePhone, which it launched two years ago at the show. It offers the same supposedly “impenetrable …
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Now playing: Watch this: Were you impressed by the Samsung Galaxy S9? (The 3:59,… 4:26 On this podcast, we talk about: The Galaxy S9’s big reveals from Mobile World Congress Nokia trying to win again with a nostalgia-filled release The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News …
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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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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 playing: Watch this: Unboxing Samsung’s …
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