BARCELONA — Samsung wants to own the entire consumer VR ecosystem. The company already sells the Gear VR headset and the smartphones that power it; now it's going to sell a camera to help regular people like you and I record video for VR.Looking a little like something out of a P … | Continue reading
The future will be filmed in 360 degrees. Samsung joins LG and others in announcing at MWC 2016 a new and compact camera that’s capable of filming everything thanks to two lenses. Called the Gear 360, the little sphere is designed to sit on a table or tripod or even hung from a d … | Continue reading
Lenovo is best known for its computers and smartphones like dozens of other OEMs. But the company is launching a new service that should differentiate its devices from the competition. With Lenovo Connect, you can connect around the world with a low-priced global roaming plan. Re … | Continue reading
Samsung showed off the new S7 and S7 edge at its Galaxy Unpacked event today at MWC 2016 in Barcelona. They’re retro. The new Galaxy phones are a tad thicker than the Galaxy S6 line, but that’s because they rock huge batteries. Samsung also went back to its roots and made the S7 … | Continue reading
Samsung is back with two more additions to its Galaxy smartphone lineup. As expected, the phone manufacturer has introduced its Galaxy S7 and S7 edge at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The devices, while not exactly the most closely guarded secret, have been touted by the comp … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — The successors to the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge phones are here and they're called, predictably, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.Samsung and Android fans will really love the new smartphones. As excellent as the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge were, the switch to a premium metal … | Continue reading
Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship devices and while a short hands-on leaves me excited to spend more time with the device, I can’t help but worry about long-term durability. The new devices very much follow in the footsteps of their predecessors, keeping the larger screen … | Continue reading
In the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI that surrounds the slippery slope of manually unlocking a single iPhone, both the company and the government had a skirmish over one particular detail: who reset the phone’s iCloud back-up. Late this week, Apple had indicated that h … | Continue reading
Samsung says it’s in the business of finding the next big thing by asking: “How do you affect the lives of people and make [them] better?” As part of its focus on the creative process, Samsung today introduced the Samsung Gear 360 camera. With this standalone device, you’re able … | Continue reading
At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona today, Lenovo unveiled a slew of new products. The Chinese company announced two Windows 10 laptops, a Windows 10 tablet, three Android tablets, two Android smartphones, and a global wireless roaming service called Lenovo Connect. Lenovo … | Continue reading
The feeling of silk is what HTC promises with its latest metal smartphone, the HTC One X9. And although no one is going to mistake the device’s body for fabric, its brushed metal back is soft and glossy, making the 5.5-inch 1080p screen feel manageable in the hand. The One X9 was … | Continue reading
Samsung is entering the nascent 360-degree imaging market with a new camera called the Gear 360. The camera was announced alongside the reveal of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge this evening at the company's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, and it will be available in the seco … | Continue reading
Lenovo has three new budget Yoga notebooks at Mobile World Congress this year. After aiming for the premium crowd with the Yoga 900S at CES last month, the trio of refreshed Yogas today are designed to bring Windows 10 to the more budget conscious. Lenovo is catering for everyone … | Continue reading
Samsung had something to prove with last year’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. It wanted to show the world that it too could make high-end smartphones with great design and premium materials, just like Apple and HTC have done for years. And it succeeded: the S6 models were by far the nic … | Continue reading
Samsung has officially lifted the lid on its newest flagship smartphones – the much-leaked Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Following the design cues of their predecessors, the two handsets keep a similar appearance to last generation, but with a few tweaks to the overall styling- such as … | Continue reading
Samsung has announced a new dual sensor-equipped circular camera at Mobile World Congress that allows users to capture still images or videos in full 360-degrees. It achieves this by pairing dual 15-megapixel sensors (front and back) with a mobile app that automatically stitches … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — In a few minutes, Samsung will be huffing and puffing about its new Galaxy smartphones at its annual Unpacked press conference on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2016. But upon entering this city’s convention center (which apparently is largely unknown to most … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Windows 10 Mobile desperately needs a hero and HP's new Elite x3 phablet could be it.Billed by HP as the "ultimate productivity device with the power of a PC," the Elite x3 is the company's umpteenth try at cracking mobile after failing with the webOS-powered Palm Pre … | Continue reading
Uber has confirmed one of its drivers, Jason Dalton, is the suspect in a shooting rampage across Kalamazoo, Michigan. Dalton allegedly picked up riders and pocketed fares in between the shootings, which have so far killed six people and gravely injured a 14-year-old girl Saturday … | Continue reading
GUEST: The difficulty in identifying the next hot startup has lead many venture firms to employ a wasteful “spray and pray” strategy, sometimes making more than 1,000 investments in the hope of getting lucky with a wildly successful startup that more than pays off their other sun … | Continue reading
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After selling its phone business to Microsoft, Nokia had quite the identity crisis.The company remained Finland’s biggest and best-known company, but was a shell of its former self with disparate businesses in mapping, network equipment and patent licensing.CEO Rajeev Suri, who h … | Continue reading
Bethesda Game Studios shipped more than 12 million copies of the post-apocalypse video game Fallout 4 during the holiday season — a stellar achievement that . But Fallout Shelter, the mobile game released last June during a fan event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, managed … | Continue reading
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HP clearly didn’t get the memo that Windows Phone is dead. Meet HP’s first flagship smartphone since the Palm Pre 3. HP calls Elite x3 a “revolutionary mobile platform” but it’s not. It’s just another also-ran from HP. HP says a device like the Elite x3 has never been done before … | Continue reading
HP today unveiled the Elite x3, a Windows 10 Mobile phone launching sometime this summer with Continuum, a catalog of “virtualized apps,” and two docks, one designed to replace your desktop and another made to feel like a laptop. The x3 ships with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 proces … | Continue reading
Samsung's Mobile World Congress press event is an hour away, but a new leak has confirmed some of the rumored specifications for the company's new flagship phone. An image of what purports to be the official retail box for the Galaxy S7 Edge features a fairly complete specificati … | Continue reading
At a time when almost no one else is building Windows phones, HP is about to go all in on one: it's today unveiling the Elite x3, a high-end smartphone running Windows 10 that's designed to be your one and only device — smartphone, laptop, and desktop PC.With a 6-inch, quad HD di … | Continue reading
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BARCELONA — If you think the Oculus Rift's $599 price tag is a lot of money for a virtual reality headset, you're not going to like how much the HTC Vive is going to cost.HTC announced at Mobile World Congress the Vive will cost $799 in the U.S., a $200 premium over the Oculus Ri … | Continue reading
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In a little over an hour – at around 19:00 CET – Samsung’s 2016 Mobile World Congress keynote will begin, with the company rumored to be launching a range of different devices, including new flagship smartphones. We’ve got a team on the ground at the event, but if you can’t be th … | Continue reading
HTC hat schon mal ein paar Details des HTC Vive auf dem MWC präsentiert. Es soll 799 Dollar kosten, im April ausgeliefert werden und ab dem 29. Februar vorbestellbar sein.Der hohe Preis ergibt sich u.a. auch deshalb, weil das HTC Vive zwei d... | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Alongside the LG G5 and Rolling Bot, LG also announced the 360 VR, a virtual reality headset that is one-third lighter than other VR headsets and has a 20% sharper display, at Mobile World Congress.The unit my colleague Stan Schroeder tried on didn't work, but I had a … | Continue reading
GUEST: Some scenarios are impossible to realistically recreate in training. A trainee surgeon can read all of the books he likes on medicine and observe other surgeons performing procedures, but neither will give him a true feel for what it’s like in the operating room. Hazardous … | Continue reading
It’s time to see what Samsung has been cooking up for the past year. After weeks of speculation, Samsung is taking over the CCIB in Barcelona right in time for Mobile World Congress. This year’s Unpacked conference is a big deal. The company wants to make a splash and make Samsun … | Continue reading
Freemit CEO John Biggs issues his advice for raising funds for a blockchain startup during what's being heralded as a down year for investment. | Continue reading
BARCELONA — If you have a smartwatch, a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop and a TV, is there room in your life for any more screens?ZTE believes its new tablet/projector hybrid, called the ZTE Spro Plus, is so versatile that it can push out most of the above and become your second-m … | Continue reading
ZTE's Spro line of mini smart projectors have always been curiosities. Combining the functions of a smartphone, projector, mobile hotspot, and USB battery into one chunky device, the Spro (pronounced "ess-pro") units have always seemed like an interesting idea, but with really ni … | Continue reading
Wir haben eine Weile darauf warten müssen, dass sich einer der großen Smartphone-Hersteller mal etwas weiter hinaus wagt, aber LG scheint mit dem G5 und dem Zubehör, dieser Wurf endlich gelungen. Sie nennen das Konzept: LG Playgroun... | Continue reading
HTC has just dropped the most salient detail for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in the virtual reality experience it’s been cooking up with Valve for the past year: the price. The forthcoming Vive headset will cost $799, the two companies confirmed today. So $200 more expen … | Continue reading
The future of Bitcoin development has taken an interesting turn in the past 24, as the Bitcoin Core developers and close to 80% of the network mining power – read: pool operators – have agreed on hard forking Bitcoin. Such a magnanimous event is a world’s first for the bitcoin ec … | Continue reading
Money is the driving force of life in today’s world. Those who do not agree and say money can’t buy everything, it is time for them to revisit the age-old psychological theory established by Abraham Maslow. The Maslow’s pyramid, also known as Maslow’s hierarchy shows the fundamen … | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we've written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.There are two types of animals in this world: those that t … | Continue reading
Heut mal was anderes sehen als neue Smartphones vom MWC? Wie wäre es mit dem 360°-Video von Omni Verse, das 360 Simpsons Folgen auf ein Mal in einer Art zwangsneurotischen inneren Glaskugel abspielt? Danach seht ihr die Welt mit anderen Au... | Continue reading
The HTC Vive, which made its big debut at Mobile World Congress last year, returns to Barcelona today with an official $799 price and a February 29th preorder date. Announcing the price of the Vive Consumer Edition a day before MWC's official kickoff, HTC has detailed the full ki … | Continue reading
A leaked report at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today said that the HTC Vive will be available in April for the price of $799. Pre-orders start on February 29, and in the box you’ll find two hand controllers, a cable box and a pair of headphones, according to the report tha … | Continue reading
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