Two things we’ve been hearing a lot of lately are true wireless earbuds and live translation. Skype’s the major player in the latter, adding a translation feature a couple years back that allows two people speaking different languages to call each other — it doesn’t always work, but it’s improving. It’s a relatively new field, and […]
Mobile World Congress had at least one newcomer at this year’s show — Olay. Yep, every company is a tech company in 2017. The skincare brand made an appearance to show off an update to their smart skincare system, powered by the most advanced machine learning technology available (and selfies). The Olay Skin Advisor has actually […]
Mobile World Congress – it might as well be the official start to the year’s smartphone shopping season. Every year, we see the first salvo of new premium phones that will battle it out for sales supremacy, using the the latest and greatest components. While a certain Samsung phone didn’t make it to the party this […]
All too often when we see luxury design houses get involved with electronics, the result is something subpar on the hardware side — nice brand name and materials, outdated tech. Not so with Porsche Design. Late last year they had a version of the excellent Huawei Mate 9, and at Mobile World Congress 2017 they’re getting […]
As was foretold by prophecy (leak, whatever), the king is returning. The famously indestructible Nokia 3310 is getting a re-release, a fresh new paint job, and preloaded games that, if we’re being real, are still better than the ones preloaded on smartphones today. As you can see, the Nokia 3310 is still not a smartphone. […]
At CES earlier this year, ZTE showed off the Blade V8 Pro, a midrange phone with a handful of premium features, including a dual camera array. At the time, it was the cheapest phone at retail with such a camera system, but it seems like that reign is about to end. At Mobile World Congress […]
As we’ve noted often, it is really, really difficult to make an Android smartphone stand out. Well, to say the least, Alcatel has managed to do so at Mobile World Congress. They’ve just announced the A5 LED, a smartphone with its back covered in flashing LED lights. Might as well be the official smartphones of […]
With Lenovo usually saving the big Yoga news for the fall, their midrange stuff usually comes out earlier in the year. This year, they’re revealing their midrange Yoga 2-in-1s at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where they’re also showing off the low-end Miix 320. But, don’t let the mids and lows discourage you — all of […]
Last year, Lenovo announced the budget TAB3 tablets, making options for business use and family use. They’re back at it with the Tab 4 series, but the company is taking a different tack this year, doubling down on home use. The TAB3 7 and 8 were pitched as family-friendly options at Mobile World Congress 2016, […]
Most premium Android phones are more or less the same these days. For the past couple years, phone makers have been trying to find differentiation anywhere they can — battery size, camera quality, clever uses for the fingerprint sensor, and whatever else. Well, the Huawei P10 announced this weekend at Mobile World Congress has another idea — […]
Lenovo just announced its midrange smartphone plans for Motorola at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and if you’re a fan of their Moto G series, take note — Lenovo is switching things up. Like last year, there will be both G and G Plus models, but the difference is much more stark between the two this […]
The last time we saw the S Pen, it was being jettisoned from shelves along with the Note 7. Fortunately, you can’t keep a good stylus down — Samsung is announcing the Galaxy Tab S3 at Mobile World Congress this weekend, and in addition to some helpful changes from the previous generation, it’s coming with support […]
Samsung has never gone too hard into laptops, and while that’s not necessarily changing at Mobile World Congress this weekend, they do have a pretty cool 2-in-1 for artists to consider. While the Galaxy Book can’t compete with the Surface Pro on specs alone, some cool S Pen tricks make the latest tablet-style 2-in-1 device […]
With Qualcomm and Intel (and a few others) leading the charge toward 5G deployment, the 4G era is coming to a close. But, it’s going to go out with a bang — the Qualcomm X16 modem found on the new Snapdragon 835 SoC makes Gigabit LTE speeds possible. That means 1 Gbps download speeds — in theory, anyway. […]
LG is going big at Mobile World Congress 2017. At the Barcelona show today, the company announced their 2017 flagship smartphone, the LG G6, and it’s a significant departure from last year’s G5 — a phone that took some risks that, ultimately, didn’t pay off. The G5’s marquee feature was a battery module that could be […]
Last month, Intel pulled ahead of Qualcomm with the introduction of a 5G modem that could support wide-band 28 GHz mmWave and sub-6 GHz connectivity, the new bands that will be put to use in the speedier, more localized 5G era. Well, Qualcomm just blew the doors off all that by announcing some big advances they’ve […]
Last year, we learned that BlackBerry would stop making their own hardware and put more resources into developing their security software. Did that mean no more BlackBerry phones? Far from it! Earlier this year, BlackBerry revealed a business partnership with hardware company TCL (one that probably dates back to last year) while teasing a new […]
