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Samsung debuts 6.2" Galaxy S9+ and 5.8" S9 with f/1.5 and f/2.4 dual aperture, dual cameras on S9+, AR Emoji; ships March 16 for $840 and $720 respectively — The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ fuel new discoveries with Super Slow-mo video, best-in-class low light camera and AR Emoji for a more personalized way to express yourself
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S9 and S9+ hands-on: same look and feel as S8, fingerprint reader placement is a welcome improvement, AR Emoji not as precise as Animoji, Bixby button lives on — The Galaxy S9 will feel very familiar to S8 owners — Last year, Samsung walked out of the ashes of the Note 7 debacle …
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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2018 liveblog — Mobile World Congress isn't always a huge show for Samsung (last year we got a couple of tablets and some vague 5G news), but this year the company's not messing around. Between the many teasers and seemingly endless deluge of leaks, the Galaxy S9 is all but announced at this point.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Huawei announces Matebook X Pro Windows laptop with 13.9" touchscreen that has 91% screen-to-body ratio and 3 Android tablets - 8" and 10.8" M5 and 10.8" M5 Pro — The webcam is built into the keyboard — Huawei isn't bringing a new flagship phone to Mobile World Congress this year …
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HMD announces $85 4.5" Nokia 1 with Oreo Go and MediaTek SoC, €279 5.5" Nokia 6, €399 6" Nokia 7 Plus, and €749 Nokia 8 Sirocco with 5.5" edge-to-edge display — HMD Global had a good first year making Nokia-branded phones. In 2017, the Finnish company sold 70 million devices across …
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Analysis: HMD sold 9M Nokia smartphones in H2 2017, more than brands like Sony, HTC, Lenovo as its focus on Android One and new high-end phones looks promising — At MWC 2018, Nokia-brand licensee HMD Global unveiled a new Google relationship and five striking new handsets, notable features include:
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Indictment claims Paul Manafort and Robert Gates exchanged incriminating evidence over email because Manafort wanted Gates to convert PDFs to editable Word docs — There are two types of people in this world: those who know how to convert PDFs into Word documents and those who are indicted money laundering.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is working on a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could debut in the fourth quarter of 2018 at the earliest — Capitalizing on early success with AirPods, Apple is readying a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could launch …
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Three-minute promotional video for Galaxy S9 and S9+ leaks, showing off new DeX Pad and other features, emphasizes S9 as a great business phone — As if the Galaxy S9 hadn't been leaked enough before its official announcement at MWC, Samsung accidentally went and uploaded its launch video.
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US officials say Russian hackers breached several hundred computers during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and made it look like a North Korean operation — Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to U.S. intelligence.| GSMArena.com: |
Xiaomi says Mi Mix 2S with Snapdragon 845 is coming on March 27, hints at 273,741 AnTuTu score; rumored specs include 5.99" 18:9 FullHD+ display, 8GB RAM — The flow of leaks and rumors on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S is coming to an end. The company just announced on its Weibo profile the launch date for the new phablet.| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
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