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award for the best phone of the show. That’s because, more and more, vendors
are saving the big phone announcements for Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona at the end of February.
But there was no shortage of innovation on display. If the products we saw at
CES this year are anything to go by, we’re in for an exciting year.
BEST MAINSTREAM LAPTOP
Dell XPS 13 (2020)
Dell’s venerable XPS 13 ultraportable laptop enters the new year with a slightly
larger display in a redesigned chassis that is minutely more compact but boasts
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because of a switch to the 16:10 aspect ratio, versus the previous (and more
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