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• HMD's new Nokia 3310 turns back the clock -- and turns heads

  26-02-2017 23:52
  
  This year’s Mobile World Congress is starting to look like an oldies tour.It’s a time-honored tradition in pop music for acts long past their prime – some with only a few of their original members – to play a few of their greatest hits at state fairs and other cheery venues. As one star of a bygone era leaves the stage, the next takes over.On Sunday, for the second time in two days here in Barcelona, a licensed manufacturer introduced a handset bearing a venerable phone b
  
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• Huawei showcases new phones in Barcelona, gets mobbed by eager crowds

  26-02-2017 23:28
  
  BARCELONA -- Four years ago, Huawei was giving lessons at its trade show booth here at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on how to pronounce the company's name.
  Now, Huawei is the third largest smartphone maker in the world, behind Apple and Samsung. At a preview event at this year's MWC on Sunday, Huawei launched the P10 and P10 Plus smartphones featuring better dual rear cameras with Leica lenses and longer battery life.[ Further reading:The votes are in: Which mobile data provider is best? ]
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• Cloud companies are eyeing cell services, Nokia CEO says

  26-02-2017 23:04
  
  Enterprises and cloud companies will start trying their hands at cellular this year, Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri predicts.“Enhanced reality” and events such as concerts may be where cloud giants first get into mobile services, Suri said at a Nokia event in Barcelona on the eve of Mobile World Congress.“The first webscale players will enter the wireless access domain with mainstream technologies,” Suri said. Webscale usually refers to operators of big clouds, like
  
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• Samsung's disjointed OS strategy poses a hurdle for users

  26-02-2017 23:00
  
  Samsung's Windows-based Galaxy Books, unveiled Sunday at Mobile World Congress, point to a critical weakness in the company's multiple-OS strategy.
  The company uses Windows 10 in PCs, Android in smartphones, and Tizen across wearables and smart appliances. This has led to a lack of coherence among Samsung devices, in contrast to the near-seamless product integration that has fueled Apple's success as the world's most valued company.
  The specific issues with the Galaxy Books are relatively small
  
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• Nostalgia rules as classic phone brands come alive at MWC

  26-02-2017 21:59
  
  Classic phone brands from yesteryear are coming alive in Barcelona.Nokia, Blackberry and Moto were among the unlikely headline makers ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show, which starts on Monday. Moto is owned by Lenovo, and the unit is still called Motorola Mobility.The new smartphones mixed up retro ideas with new features. A new Nokia 3310 candy-bar phone is the modern version of its classic namesake, while the new Blackberry KEYOne handset has a hard keyboard, which made previous sm
  
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• Akyumen's Hawk smartphone packs a projector

  26-02-2017 20:15
  
  Over the past decade there have been several attempts to cram video projectors into smartphones. All ultimately failed, but a Silicon Valley startup reckons it has the recipe right and is hoping for a warm response from consumers when its phone debuts later this year.The Akyumen Hawk is a 5.5-inch Android handset that packs a low-profile projector into the upper half of the phone. The 35-lumen projector has enough power to display an image over a distance of about a meter in a normally lit room
  
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• Samsung mulls iris scanners on smartphones to log into Windows PCs

  26-02-2017 19:05
  
  Soon, your Samsung phone may be able to recognize your iris and log you into your Windows PC.
  Iris-scanning via phone is not yet a feature available for Samsung's latest Galaxy Book 2-in-1s, which were announced at Mobile World Congress. But the company wants to quickly bridge the gap between its Galaxy smartphones, which run on Android, and its Windows PCs and 2-in-1s.
  Software called Samsung Flow links the company's Android smartphones to Windows PCs. Samsung and Microsoft are looking to coll
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy Tab S3 is like a giant Note7

  26-02-2017 19:00
  
  Samsung always arrives at Mobile World Congress with a new Galaxy device, and this year is no different. However, instead of the S8 smartphone, which won’t be arriving for at least a few more weeks, it’s brought a new tablet, the Galaxy Tab S3.
  It’s been 18 months since the Tab S2 made its debut, so naturally there are a lot of changes. So many, in fact, it’ll be easier to talk about what hasn’t changed first. Put the S2 and the S3 side by side and it’s nearl
  
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• Samsung unveils Galaxy Book, a Windows 10 tablet aimed at the Surface-curious

  26-02-2017 19:00
  
  If Samsung can beat Microsoft’s pricing, then it may just have a wily competitor to the Surface Pro line. On Sunday, Samsung announced Galaxy Book, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 tablet that’s packed with productivity and entertainment features, and immediately evokes thoughts of the Surface Pro 4 the moment you see it attached to its Pogo keyboard.
  Unlike the Surface, which boasts just a single screen size (a 12.3-inch, 2736x1824 display), the new Galaxy Book comes in 10.6- and 12-inch v
  
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• Hands-on with Samsung's Galaxy Tab S3: A tablet that works as hard as it plays

  26-02-2017 19:00
  
  Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S has always felt like a me-too device, an Android tablet built more out of necessity than love. On the surface, it might seem like the Galaxy Tab S3 continues this trend, but this update to the 18-month-old Galaxy Tab S2 doesn’t merely bring Samsung’s flagship tablet up to speed.
  Indeed, with a new and improved S Pen in tow and an optional keyboard, the Tab S3 is also a bid to fill the sizeable productivity hole left behind by the Note7.
  And it just might
  
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• Nokia now has three budget Android phones, but everyone will want the 3310 nostalgia model

  26-02-2017 18:39
  
  Years have passed since its last hit phone, but the Nokia name still commands respect. As one of the pioneers of the modern mobile handset, Nokia is something of an elder statesman in today's market, revered but long thought to be too old and out-of-touch with new trends. But parent company HMD Global is convinced that there's still something left in Nokia's tank, and its new slate of Android phones unveiled at MWC looks to prove that.
  The headline-grabber is the retooled 3310, a modernized ver
  
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• Huawei's P10 camera-phone comes in more colors than the rainbow

  26-02-2017 18:39
  
  Huawei Technologies calls the P10 a smartphone, but its CEO doesn't have much to say about its communication capabilities.Richard Yu, CEO of the company's consumer business group, might instead have been talking about a new camera when he boasted of the device's Leica-style portraiture and, in fact, like its predecessor it was "co-engineered" with camera-maker Leica.The device runs Android 7.0 on a Huawei Kirin 960 processor with four 2.4GHz ARM Cortex A73 cores and four 1.8GHz ARM Cortex A53 co
  
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• Nokia will use its Withings health devices to send data to your doctor

  26-02-2017 16:30
  
  When Nokia bought French fitness technology company Withings last year, it was unclear exactly what the former smartphone maker had in mind. Withings makes smart scales, activity-tracking watches, and other devices to monitor your wellness, and it continued to update those even after the sale. But now Nokia’s plan is clear: The company will relaunch every Withings product with the Nokia name, overhaul the corresponding Health Mate app, and launch a platform for doctors and patients to sha
  
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• Huawei goes all out at MWC with new P10 phones, Android Wear watches

  26-02-2017 16:03
  
  The annual battle of flagship phones that is Mobile World Congress may be missing its most formidable competitor, but a new contender has emerged. After keeping a relatively low profile at last year’s event, Huawei is taking advantage of the void left by Samsung to introduce the P10 family—two high-end handsets that look to cement Huawei’s standing as a major player in the smartphone game.
  The two phones might have different names, but they’re equally sleek and powerful.
  
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• HP’s Pro x2 convertible takes on the iPad with vertical accessories

  26-02-2017 15:00
  
  HP’s Pro x2 convertible would normally be a bit too corporate for PCWorld, but we’re covering it for two reasons. Announced Sunday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it’s among the first Surface clones to appear sporting a selection of 7th-generation Kaby Lake CPUs. It’s also taking on the iPad in areas where the popular tablet dominates. In retail, for instance, you can see iPads in Square payment terminals at checkout counters, and some airlines use them for check-
  
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• HP’s Elite x3 Windows phone gets a job with Mobile Retail and Mobile Scanning Solutions

  26-02-2017 15:00
  
  HP’s Elite x3 Windows phone is getting a job, with two similar scanning accessories designed to turn it into a workhorse for vertical industries—businesses such as retail and healthcare, which have specialized needs. Announced Sunday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, these accessories reinforce HP’s strategy since the Elite x3 launched a year ago: Put it into the hands of corporate employees, and the market share will follow. 
  One of the accessories, pictured above,
  
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• LG launches G6 with 5.7-in. display in narrow body (+ video)

  26-02-2017 14:13
  
  BARCELONA -- LG on Sunday introduced the G6 smartphone with a 5.7-in. display in a new 18:9 aspect ratio that is designed to enhance videos and game play.
  The phone also comes with a bigger 3300 mAh battery -- 500 mAh more than the LG G5 -- that includes heat pipes to dissipate heat, similar to the way some laptops disperse heat. Battery heat is a current concern of smartphone makers, especially after Samsung Note7 Lithium Ion batteries overheated last year, prompting a worldwide recall of the
  
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• Before 5G, some mobile users may get almost-5G

  26-02-2017 13:50
  
  The mobile industry is so anxious for 5G that it’s now planning something that’s almost 5G, but will be ready a year earlier.On Sunday, many of the world’s biggest equipment vendors and mobile operators joined hands to accelerate the 5G NR (New Radio) specification that will define many elements of 5G. The new technology they plan to produce will handle some of the planned uses of 5G but will be ready for large-scale trials and deployments in 2019 instead of 2020, they say.Ther
  
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• Hands on with the LG G6: A nice phone, but not especially innovative

  26-02-2017 13:00
  
  The LG G6 has a particularly tall and narrow display. 
  That’s it. That’s “the thing.” That’s the marquee feature that is meant to grab your attention and make you think that this is your next gotta-have-it phone.
  Oh, sure, the G6 has all the other things we expect from a high-end flagship in early 2017. It has a high-end processor, the Snapdragon 821, as waiting for the 835 would have meant shipping the phone months later. It’s also got USB-C with Q
  
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• Back to the future: BlackBerry KEYone launches with physical keyboard

  26-02-2017 02:31
  
  BARCELONA -- BlackBerry phones with their physical keyboards were around years before the iPhone emerged in 2007. Yet, BlackBerry devices today command less than 1% of the world's smartphone market.
  Under a licensing deal with BlackBerry of Canada announced last year, TCL Communication of China on Saturday announced another physical keyboard smartphone model called the BlackBerry KEYone.
  In a bid to recall the glory days of BlackBerry, the KEYone features a 4.5-in. touchscreen as well as 52 rai
  
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