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The Galaxy S8 is officially on the way. Samsung just sent out invites to the press for its Unpacked 2017 event, taking place on March 29. It shows off the silhouette of a phone, so there’s no doubt there as to what Samsung will be unveiling. The invite has the tagline “Unbox your phone,” which probably alludes to the phone’s longer aspect ratio and curved screen corners we’ve seen throughout numerous leaks. If you’re having deja vu, perhaps that’s becau

During Samsung’s presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Greenpeace protesters unfurled banners to call attention to the company’s handling of the disposal of millions of recalled Galaxy Note 7 phones.Greenpeace protestor takes the stage at Samsung #MWC2017 conference. "I think you've made your point" says Samsung exec. pic.twitter.com/wdajZZ9vK0— Andrew Lanxon Hoyle (@Batteryhq) February 26, 2017A protester stood on the steps of the stage while Samsung El

 Turns out there might actually be money in VR hardware. Since going on sale just four months ago, Sony details to the NYT that the company has sold 915 thousand of its virtual reality headset, the PS VR. The article also details that Sony had originally set internal goals to sell one million headsets in the first six months of sales, a number that the company seems well-positioned to meet… Read More

As if nostalgia wasn’t getting a huge boost with the Nokia 3310 today, Samsung has jumped into the fray with its own throwback design: an S Pen that’s built to look like a classic Staedtler Noris pencil. That black-and-gold striped pencil is something many of us grew up with, using it to scribble messages to friends in class before phones were everywhere.Samsung didn’t have much more to say about it during its Mobile World Congress event today — it felt more like a fun te

Samsung will launch the Galaxy S8 on March 29th in New York, officially unveiling the much-anticipated device for the first time. The company has sent out the teaser above, and an accompanying video below.
Obviously this is going to be a big moment for Samsung, which needs to come back from the worldwide debacle that was the Galaxy Note 7. The company lost a lot of money over the Note 7, but more importantly, it lost prestige and consumers' trust. The S8 needs to fix this. We've seen q

Google’s Spotlight Story program has come a long way since Windy Day landed on Moto X phones in 2013. Since then, the company has consistently produced short films to take advantage of smartphone hardware. In 2015, the company worked with former Disney animator Glen Keane to produce the lyrical Duet, and later signed Fast and Furious director Justin Lin for the live-action monster movie Help!. Each effort has pushed the envelope in one way or another, all in order to move stories told in 3

Ahead of the Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona, Nokia has brought back its beloved 3310 feature phone. The device’s near-indestructible build and practical design made it a smash hit worldwide when it launched back in 2000, and it’s now back with a bunch of new features. The $50 handset features a design that draws heavily from that of the original 3310; it comes with a full set of physical buttons, runs the Nokia Series 3.0 OS, and promises more than 22 hours of talk time on

Samsung has just announced yet another new Gear VR virtual reality headset — this time with a physical controller accessory that “provides quicker selection and interaction.” The headset itself appears largely identical to the version that was created for the now-recalled Galaxy Note 7. It’s still got a 101-degree field of view and is compatible with both USB-C and MicroUSB Samsung devices including the Galaxy S7, S7 edge, Note5, S6 Edge+, S6 and S6 Edge. Samsung’s

If you’re on Twitter, chances are you’ve seen a picture of a dog with instructions to look closely at its nose. The meme seems to have originated with a Tweet from Daniel Alexander. It’s simple: zoom in on the dog’s nose, which has a snippet of text that’s hard to see until you look closely. The text gives you directions to look in another part of the picture, leading you to a short message.zoom in on the dog nose pic.twitter.com/5Kjlq1w2PX— snck ★উ

 Forward, a new type of futuristic doctors office launched its first location in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district at the beginning of this year. Some in the health industry have had their doubts about a doctor’s office with propriety tools like a body scanner, stethoscope and its own in-house lab. So we asked founder and former Googler Adrian Aoun to show us around… Read More

It wasn’t very long ago when Samsung was releasing literally dozens of new tablets every year, but these days the company’s tablet efforts are bit more subdued. They are getting shook up a bit this Mobile World Congress though, as the company is announcing not one, but three new high-end, productivity-focused tablets.
Two of the new tablets run Windows 10 (you can read more about them here), but the most mainstream one is the Android-powered Galaxy Tab S3. The 9.7-inch Tab S3 is a di

Last year, Samsung launched the Galaxy TabPro S, a Windows 10 tablet that borrowed and improved upon many of the ideas put forth by Microsoft’s Surface line. Now it’s launching two new tablets that feature even more improvements on the productivity tablet idea.
The new Galaxy Book 10 and Galaxy Book 12 both run Windows 10 (you can read more about Samsung’s new Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab S3, here) and come with styli and keyboard cases. They both have slim, aluminum designs

Look, some things are just never coming back. Your free time; your youthful waistline; your carefree attitude towards life — all gone forever. But, if you wish really hard, and pay some money to a company set up purely to extract money from a cherished brand, you can play Snake again on a Nokia 3310. Just like old times.
Okay, well, slightly different to old times, but near enough.The version of Snake on the resurrected Nokia 3310 (built by HMD and announced today at MWC along with a trio

Our first look of the long-awaited sequel to 2014’s Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor appears to have leaked early thanks to a Target listing today.The follow-up, titled Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, appears to continue the story of Talion (and the wraith Celebrimbor that possesses him), as the duo continue to seek vengeance against the Dark Lord Sauron. The first game saw Talion battle his way through the Orcish hordes of Mordor in an effort to avenge the death of his family at the hands of S

A slew of new Moto Mods are headed our way, which include a power pack, a wireless charging adaptor, and a turbo charging adaptor. But the most interesting of the bunch is the Amazon Alexa Moto Mod, which will add the virtual assistant into any Moto Z device.
At its Mobile World Congress keynote, Amazon’s Director of Alexa Voice Service Jon Kirk announced that it would partner with Motorola to create a speaker Moto Mod that essentially turns your phone into a portable Amazon Echo. In a con

Nokia has sold 126 million of its original 3310 phone since it was first introduced back in September, 2000. It was a time before the iPhone, and Nokia ruled with popular handsets that let you play simple games like Snake. Now the 3310 is making a nostalgic return in the form of a more modern variant, thanks to Nokia-branded phone maker HMD. Like its predecessor, it will still be called the Nokia 3310, but this time it’s running Nokia’s Series 30+ software, with a 2.4-inch QVGA displ

Nokia’s phones are making a comeback. HMD Global, the Finnish company that licensed the rights to produce Nokia phones, is unveiling a trio of Nokia-branded Android devices today that are designed to cater for the mid-range of the smartphone market. They’re not the premium Lumia-like devices we’ve seen in recent history, but they have one thing in common: pure Android. HMD is taking a fairly unique approach, just like Motorola, to these Nokia phones by offering up Google’

Bill Paxton, best known for his roles in films such as Aliens, The Terminator, Twister, and Big Love, has died at the age of 61 due to complications from surgery, according to his family.Born in 1955, Paxton began his acting career with an uncredited role in 1975’s Crazy Mama, and later appeared in three iconic science fiction franchises: The Terminator, Aliens, and Predator 2, earning the dubious distinction of being one of only two people (the other being Lance Henriksen) to be killed by

At Nokia’s event in Mobile World Congress, the company’s Vice President of Digital Health and former Withings CEO Cédric Hutchings announced that Withings products will be rebranded under Nokia by this summer. This includes its smartwatches, fitness wearables, connected scales, thermometers, and more.Alongside the name change, Hutchings also said the company will release a redesign of its Health Mate later this year to bring “improved user experience,” such as ways

The big story in the drone industry over the last year has been the collapse of several high profile consumer facing efforts and a pivot to industrial grade units. Now the market leader is getting into the action. DJI announced the Matrice 200 today, an all weather unit that can carry up to three cameras at once and packs a wealth of sensors that allow it to capture navigate with centimeter lever precision.The M200 has a forward facing camera built into its nose for the pilot, and has a dual gim

Lenovo has officially announced the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus, two new Android 7.0 Nougat smartphones that will begin shipping in March. The G series is the best-selling phone under Moto’s brand. Traditionally, they’ve proven to be decent phones for very attractive prices. This year the company has completely overhauled the design to focus on a premium metal finish. They look less like their predecessors, with an appearance that’s much closer to the recent Moto Z family.The alum

It’s been 30-odd years since the movie Revenge­ of the Nerds became a sensation. Even still, it seems Hollywood is only now finally ready to recognize that geek is chic. Over the past decade technology has become a central theme in movies and TV.  While I do become agitated when obvious tech gaffes are displayed for all to see, it’s nice to see the depiction of intelligent people in popular culture. It’s only right then, on this Oscar-weekend, that we take a look at t

My closest friends know that I love dancing. They also know I dance crazy: I like jumping up and down, jiggling my legs as if I’m having a seizure, and spreading my arms wide in a dance move I call “the bird.” Mainly, I do all these things because I have fun dancing this way. And if I’m out on a dance floor, I want to have fun.Earlier this month I saw a scientific study that made me really mad. It was about female dance moves that are considered sexy, at least according t

ZTE announced this past week that it would debut a gigabit phone at Mobile World Congress. The device is supposed to make 360-degree VR, 4K video, and instant cloud storage possible on the move. While it’s possible ZTE will bring a physical phone along for the show, the company has clarified that it will not be releasing this device for the time being. It’s a proof of concept that demonstrates how the company might eventually create a gigabit phone.ZTE explains that it would rely on

It's Oscars time, everyone. Football teams have gone back into hibernation and the fools gold that is the Golden Globes has become a little more than faded memory. Tonight, it's time for the big leagues: the 89th Academy Awards, as Hollywood rolls out the red carpet to take over TV (and Twitter) with incredible outfits, heartbreaking snubs, and Cinderella story upsets in pursuit of those all-important golden statutes.Who's up for awards?
The musical La Land Land looks to continue its run as this

The Huawei P9 was one of my favorite phones of 2016, combining rock-solid build quality with a minimalist design and a very attractive price. It was, in many ways, the definition of the flagship phone for those who couldn’t afford or simply didn’t care for all the bells and whistles of a full-on premium device like an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S.
For its reprise in 2017, Huawei returns with the P10, a phone that’s very much faithful to the P9, though this time it has an extra co

Now that Google has officially launched Android Wear 2.0 and released its own smartwatches made by LG, it’s time for the rest of the Android Wear partners to launch new models. And the first one out of the gate is Huawei, which is refreshing its Huawei Watch from 2015 with two new, sportier models.
The Huawei Watch 2 and the Huawei Watch 2 Classic are loaded with connectivity and new features, including LTE (in the case of the Watch 2), GPS, heart rate sensors, and NFC for Android Pay. The

After seemingly endless leaks and rumors, the LG G6 is, at long last, official. We got the chance to go hands-on with the device and its gorgeous 2:1 screen a bit before its Mobile World Congress announcement, and we like what we see so far. Specs and key features 5.7-inch QHD+ display 18:9 aspect ratio. Also known as 2:1. You know, ratios. Dolby Vision and HDR10 support IP68 water and dust-proofing MIL-STD-810G drop resistance Dual 13-MP cameras. F2.4 ultra-wide angle and F1.8 standard Snapdra