Category: Hardware
Phone manufacturers eye their next move as 5G goes mainstream
For two years running, Samsung played the same trick and front-loaded its annual event by announcing a new foldable. Last year’s announcement of the Fold was a huge one — the first viable (relatively speaking, of course) foldable handset from a major manufacturer. Of course, some stuff has happened in…
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Will Apple, Facebook or Microsoft be the future of augmented reality?
Tim Merel Contributor More posts by this contributor VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper) Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023 Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence…
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Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down
Essential was supposed to disrupt the smartphone industry. And when it was done with that, it was coming for the smart home. The company came out of stealth with a $330 million funding round and grandiose plans for a new brand of handset, led by none other than Android head,…
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Daily Crunch: Samsung unveils another foldable phone
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: This is more like it When the Galaxy Fold was finally…
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Nokia pulls out of MWC over coronavirus concerns
More big names are stepping away from the biggest phone and telecom trade show event this year. Nokia, one of the omnipresent firms at major tech trade conferences, won’t be attending this year’s Mobile World Congress, it said Wednesday citing health and safety concerns over coronavirus outbreak. Electronics giant HMD,…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on: This is more like it
The buyer beware adage is never more true than among early adopters. It was price, however, that made the Galaxy Fold such a difficult pill to swallow. When it was finally released to the public after numerous delays, the device came swaddled in warnings. It was a long list, and…
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