5G’s just getting started, but Qualcomm’s already talking up its third chip for the ultra-fast networking tech. And Samsung’s planning to use it in future Galaxy S devices. Qualcomm on Monday at MWC in Barcelona unveiled its first processor that integrates its 5G modem technology with the Snapdragon applications processor that serves as the brains …
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Pretty soon, it may not take all night to juice up your phone with a wireless charger. Qualcomm on Monday said its Quick Charge technology will be coming to Qi wireless chargers, letting them quickly fill up dead batteries. Wireless charging, while convenient, has tended to be slow. Right now it takes much longer to wirelessly charge a device than …
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Out in the showroom, TCL’s first foldable phone stands in a glass box as though entombed, safe from the greedy hands of the journalists who have come to see the cheaper alternative to Samsung’s $2,000 Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s just-announced Mate X. But behind closed doors, TCL’s GM of global marketing, Stefan Streit, lets us paw over a modest pile …
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The flood of 5G phones continues. Xiaomi on Sunday became the latest company to launch a 5G phone, the Mi Mix 3 5G. The device — a variant of the recently released Mi Mix 3 — will cost 599 euros ($679) and will launch in May. Xiaomi’s initial 5G wireless partners include Europe-based Orange, Sunrise, Telefonica, Three, TIM and Vodafone. It …
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When it comes to the next era of phones, it seems like it’ll be fold times. Samsung unveiled a foldable device this week (called, ahem, the Galaxy Fold). Now rival Huawei looks set to unveil its own bendable buddy. A photo posted to Twitter on Friday appears to show workers at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona installing a billboard …
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Samsung and the MWC Barcelona conference have long had an up-and-down relationship. The energy at the trade show has ebbed and flowed depending on whether the world’s largest handset maker decides to hold its big first-half phone launch in Spain. If Samsung shows up, there’s a noticeable perk in interest. On Wednesday, just days before this year’s MWC kicks off, …
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Samsung wowed us with its foldable Galaxy Fold and four Galaxy S10 phones before MWC — the largest mobile conference on the planet — has even begun. But mark my words, this will be a busy, exciting show, and one that Samsung will use to share even more details about its amazing phone that unfolds into a tablet (even if you …
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Chinese phone maker Xiaomi’s latest flagship will stand out from the competition thanks to a few cool tricks. The phone will come with a triple rear-camera set up, for starters, and its specs already show a lot of promise. Now playing: Watch this: Xiaomi Mi 9 hands-on 2:51 The rear triple-camera set up includes a 48-megapixel main camera, a 12-megapixel …
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I place my thumb on the display of a dummy smartphone. A tiny, imperceptible wave of pressure shoots out of the device and maps the ridges and valleys of my finger, verifying my identity. In an instant, another phone that’s connected to the dummy flickers to life as the home page appears. It’s a sunny summer day in July, and …
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Everyday it seems like there are rumors and leaks about another company working on a foldable phone. Xiaomi, Huawei, LG, Lenovo, Motorola all are rumored to have a bendable or foldable phone in the works. On Thursday, Apple updated a patent with drawings of a foldable clamshell phone. This is a continuation of a patent originally filed in 2011 and …
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