First Android Go phones, more Android One devices, and new Lens/Assistant...
On Monday, Mobile World Congress 2018 will officially begin in Barcelona. The Samsung Galaxy S9 will be announced on February 25, one day before the start of the event. Other major Android OEMs will...
View ArticleTCL Announces Alcatel 5 and Alcatel 3 Series Phones, 1T Series Tablets, and...
On the eve of Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, Chinese smartphone maker TCL took the wraps off a menagerie of new devices on Saturday. In addition to the Alcatel 5, Alcatel 3, and...
View ArticleThe LG V30S ThinQ Improves on the V30 with 256GB of Storage, 6GB of RAM, and...
LG didn’t hold a press conference at Mobile World Congress this year, but that hasn’t stopped the South Korean electronics giant from trying to steal some of their competition’s thunder. The company...
View ArticleHuawei Anounces MediaPad M5 Tablets with Kirin 960 SoC and Android Oreo
High-end Android tablets may have largely gone the way of the dodo, but that hasn’t dissuaded Huawei. At the 2018 Mobile World Congress, the company took the wraps off the MediaPad M5 series, a range...
View ArticleZTE Announces the Blade V9, Blade V9 Vita and ZTE Tempo Go at MWC 2018
Mobile World Congress 2018 is here, and it’s the perfect opportunity for ZTE to showcase its latest smartphones. While we’re still waiting on official word about an Axon 7 successor, ZTE has unveiled...
View ArticleHMD Global Announces Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, new Nokia 6, and Nokia 1...
Leave it to Finnish company HMD Global, which just came off a wildly successful year (it sold 70 million smartphones in 2017), to unveil a new Android Go smartphone, a feature phone, three new...
View ArticleSony Announces the Xperia XZ2 and the Xperia XZ2 Compact with 18:9 Displays...
At Mobile World Congress 2018, Sony unveiled the Xperia XZ2 and the Xperia XZ2 Compact. The phones are Sony’s next-generation flagship smartphones, and their headlining features are 18:9 aspect ratio...
View ArticleASUS Unveils the ZenFone 5 and 5Z with iPhone X-Style Notches, and the 18:9...
ASUS announced the ASUS ZenFone 5 series at Mobile World Congress 2018, a lineup of new high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices: The ZenFone 5Z, which features Qualcomm’s 845 chip; the ZenFone 5, a...
View Article5G Samsung Galaxy S10 and a 5G LG flagship may debut at MWC 2019
It seems like 5G is going to be a major selling point for smartphones throughout 2019. Not only are wireless carriers going to be advertising their newly upgraded network, but we’ve already seen both...
View ArticleLG G8 may launch in March separately from a new 5G phone
5G is gearing up to be the big buzzword of 2019. Several manufacturers and carriers are already showing their interest in this budding technology. Many see it as the best way to profit off of the users...
View ArticleWith the ZTE Axon 9 Pro nowhere to be seen in the US, ZTE is preparing to...
Remember the ZTE Axon 9 Pro? The last few months of 2018 was packed full of new flagship smartphone launches, so I wouldn’t blame you if you forgot about ZTE’s flagship. The Axon 9 Pro was supposed to...
View ArticleTCL unveils the Alcatel 3, 3L, 1S, and low-cost foldable displays
TCL has been a known resident at MWC for the past couple of years. Usually, they announce a few different smartphones, most of them from the budget or mid-range categories. 2019 is no different. The...
View ArticleOPPO Find X2 and Xiaomi Mi 10 global launches postponed, Realme X50 Pro...
Following an exodus of exhibitors from Mobile World Congress Barcelona, MWC 2020 in Barcelona has been canceled. While no doubt it’s the best decision the GSMA could make in order to avoid potentially...
View ArticleMWC 2021 delayed from March to June 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns
Big tech conferences were canceled left and right this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though some events managed to successfully go virtual, others, like MWC 2020, weren’t able to make the...
View ArticleMobile World Congress 2021 is happening, but who’s attending?
Mobile World Congress is set to go forward with an in-person event this summer. But some of the largest companies won’t be in attendance, echoing what happened last year as the COVID-19 pandemic was...
View ArticleCES 2022 will be held in Las Vegas next year as an in-person event
The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, was completely digital this year as a precaution against the global coronavirus pandemic. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has now announced that the...
View ArticleSamsung’s next big event will be at Mobile World Congress
Samsung’s last major product announcement event was just one week ago, on February 9, but the company is seemingly gearing up for another event. Samsung announced on Wednesday that it will have...
View ArticleSamsung confirms the death of the Galaxy Note series, Galaxy S Ultra to carry...
Samsung has officially confirmed the death of the Galaxy Note series. The writing had been on the wall for some time now and, with the newly launched Galaxy S22 Ultra incorporating the best features...
View ArticleHands-on with the Honor Magic V: Honor’s first foldable phone
Honor unveiled the Honor Magic V at a Chinese launch event in January 2022, its first foray into the foldable smartphone market. It’s a Chinese exclusive with no international launch date in sight,...
View ArticleHands-on with the Astro Slide 5G: Slider in your hand, Debian in your pocket
In the smartphone world, we pretty much only have two choices of devices when it comes to operating systems — iPhone and Android. However, Planet Computers has been finding a bit of a niche with past...
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