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Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything
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Is it OPPOsites day? Chinese smartphone giant expected to develop its own silicon
OPPOrtunity knocks etc
18 Feb 15:45 | 8
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Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass
As in, it's easy to damage despite spiel
17 Feb 17:00 | 59
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Samsung gives China wide berth over coronavirus woes, uses sea and air freight to ship smartphone bits to Vietnamese factories
Chaebol switching even more production out of Middle Kingdom
17 Feb 13:15 | 5
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Mi first! Latest Xiaomi flagship storms DxOMark rankings with quartet of powerful cameras
Sold out in China, no word when it arrives in the West
14 Feb 13:47 | 23
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Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches
California Supreme Court skewers iGiant for stiffing loyal drones
13 Feb 23:10 | 100
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Don't break your swanky new Motorola Razr, you probably won't be able to get it fixed
Repairs require complete disassembly
13 Feb 16:45 | 32
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After just one phone, Essential Products ascends to the great venture capitalist in the sky
Misnomer of the century
13 Feb 14:30 | 13
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Best buds? Apple must be fuming: Samsung's wireless earphones boast 11 hours of listening on a single charge
That's enough time for all Nickelback's albums in one sitting!
13 Feb 10:45 | 60
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The virus curing the mobile industry's chronic addiction... and sparking an impressive algorithmic price experiment
ColumnI'll miss the MWC muggers, not the marketeers
13 Feb 10:00 | 30
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Mobile World Congress now none of those things as 2020 industry megashow axed over coronavirus fears
MWCMass drop-outs prove too costly for European comms conference
12 Feb 20:21 | 27
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Razr sharp foldable: Samsung whips out Galaxy Z Flip – and, oh snap, it's £1,300
Barring a blip, still set for Valentine's ship date
12 Feb 17:00 | 22
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MWC now means 'Mostly Without Companies', as Nokia, HMD Global, Facebook, and BT drop out
Samsung and Huawei still in, for now
12 Feb 14:43 | 7
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Sprint-T-Mobile US merger: Bad for competition? Good for standing up to Verizon, AT&T? NYC court goes with the latter
Judge approves $26bn deal, individual states not quite so happy
11 Feb 21:05 | 7
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In a high-security preview, we got our claws on Samsung's Galaxy S20 and S20+... which are annoyingly good
Three cameras, two models – and someone at Sammy likes SD cards
11 Feb 19:24 | 12
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S20 Ultra 5G: Samsung unfurls Galaxy flagship with bonkers 108MP cam, 6.9-inch display
If you tell my hand, my achy-breaky hand, it might fling up and hit the fan
11 Feb 19:00 | 61
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Ever wondered how Google-less Android might look? Step right this Huawei: Mate 30 Pro arrives on British shores
Ignores 'unwanted' presses from the fat-fingered too, apparently
11 Feb 14:28 | 43
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MWC now stands for 'Most Won't Come': Intel, Vivo and MediaTek drop out of mobile industry kneesup over coronavirus
Plus: We know people are dying but OMG! China smartphone sales could plunge 50%, say analysts
11 Feb 12:20 | 6
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NexDock 2 revisited: Could it be more than a handy Pi hole?
ReviewThe Register goes virtual and gets a bit remote with DeX
11 Feb 09:15 | 24
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Google's second stab at preserving both privacy and ad revenue draws fire
With PIGIN skewered, take a look at this lovely TURTLEDOVE
10 Feb 22:23 | 31
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Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report
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Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners
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Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass
As in, it's easy to damage despite spiel
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Severe vuln in WordPress plugin Profile Builder would happily hand anyone the keys to your kingdom
Remote attackers were able create their own admin accounts
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Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick
ColumnMaybe sustainability's not just for hipsters?
10 Feb 10:04 | 209
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Whoa, France. Take it easy. Wow. You're out of control. Fining Apple 55 minutes of revenue for secretly slowing down iPhones? Maniaques!
Prenez-vous les cartes de crédit? asks Tim Cook as he prepares to personally expense this trifling €25m
08 Feb 00:25 | 58
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Like other tech giants, Netflix gets govt takedown demands – and impressively, none of them involve Adam Sandler
Nor any requests to remove the works of Rob Schneider, Kevin James, or Ashton Kutcher, sadly
07 Feb 21:33 | 37
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Latest battery bruiser Android from budget Moto G range appears ahead of MWC after an Amazon whoopsie
Leaks, damn leaks and £219 phones
07 Feb 19:07 | 33
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MWC now means 'Mobiles? Whatever! Coronavirus!' as Ericsson becomes latest to pass on industry shindig
Joins LG under the duvet
07 Feb 12:46 | 18
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Hear, hear: The first to invent idiot-cancelling headphones gets my cash
Something for the Weekend, Sir?Listen to me, Palmer, I said listen to me
07 Feb 11:15 | 127
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Team China: Nation's biggest mobe makers link arms to battle Google's Play Store
How to supplement falling handset margins and rising tensions with the Trump government? Let me see....
06 Feb 19:33 | 9
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Xiaomi what's inside: Wow, teardown nerds find debut smartwatch isn't actually a solder-and-resin nightmare
If you can open the damn thing, that is
06 Feb 17:15 | 25
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Should I stay or should I go now? Mobile industry braces for an MWC overshadowed by Wuhan coronavirus misery
MWCLess than 3 weeks till Barcelona tech show and some are staying away
06 Feb 08:06 | 1
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Atari would love to ship its VCS console but – would ya believe it – there's yet another delay. This time, it's the coronavirus's fault
If you've splashed out, you may get one before the heat death of the universe
05 Feb 14:15 | 25
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The BlackBerry may be dead, but others are lining up to take its place
In a world of virtual keyboards, who's keen for some keypress fun?
05 Feb 09:15 | 22
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Amid coronavirus epidemic, LG, ZTE hang up on Mobile World Congress, organizers call for 'no-handshake' policy
UpdatedCan't we just get a pint and wait for it to all blow over? Is that asking too much?
05 Feb 01:11 | 8
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Who's got the WD-40? Owners of Motorola's rebooted Razr whinge about creaky hinge
So some pholdables still crap then
04 Feb 16:55 | 44
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Where do you draw the line? Escobar Inc doubles down on cut-price gold phone buying demographic with second pholdable
Like glitter and paste jewels? This is your mobe
04 Feb 13:01 | 25
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Flipping heck: Footage leaks of Samsung's upcoming bendy smartphone in action
Ditches mobe-cum-tablet for clamshell
03 Feb 19:00 | 21
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The BlackBerry in your junk drawer is now a collectors' item: TCL says no more new keyboard-clad phones
End of an era in mobe design
03 Feb 17:29 | 49
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Leave it to eager beaver: Pre-orders for Samsung's next flagship are up for pre-order
6 March release date 'leaked'
31 Jan 23:58 | 6
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Stock market rewards LG's display limb for doing less terribly than expected
Glimmer of hope in OLED biz
31 Jan 18:14 | 2
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Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows
The one true Jesus mobe walks away with the Q4 phone market
31 Jan 17:30 | 26
