Sonos’ long-rumored wireless headphones have just been awarded a new patent in the US. The headphones would use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, according to the Aug. 25 patent, spotted earlier Monday by Protocol.  Sonos dominates the high-end wireless speaker market, but this could extend its influence to mobile use. The headphones, according to patent, would include …

OnePlus is reportedly working on a smartwatch as well as a new, entry-level phone, according to two reports. First up, a OnePlus Watch is now in the works, according to a TechRadar report on Thursday citing a former OnePlus employee.  [OnePlus] has “actively been looking into a smartwatch for the last year,” the former employee reportedly told TechRadar, which added …

A rumored new Sony flagship phone has leaked online Thursday, with the Xperia 5 II reportedly set to be announced next month. The phone would be a followup to the Sony Xperia 5, which launched for $800 in November 2019. But it also follows the higher-end Sony Xperia 1 II, which was unveiled in February 2020 for $1,200 and marked …

Microsoft released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.487 (20H2) on Wednesday, and it came with a long, long list of fixes. It was released to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel, and to commercial customers in the Beta Channel and Release Preview Channel. The 72 fixes in the update range from tweaks to the Start menu and the taskbar to …

T-Mobile has unveiled its new Revvl budget smartphones, the Revvl 4, Revvl 4+ and Revvl 5G. The 5G-enabled smartphone announced Thursday will be available Sept. 4 on both postpaid and prepaid, according to T-Mobile. It’s also coming to T-Mobile’s Metro wireless service. The Revvl 5G is also priced at $200 when you switch or add a line. Its low price …

Facebook is introducing new updates to its Messenger Rooms video chat app, on Wednesday announcing personalization features. With more people separated or working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Zoom competitor also added a more streamlined way to find and create rooms on mobile. To personalize your room, you can now customize backgrounds with your own photos and …

The FCC netted almost $4.6 billion after auctioning off 5G spectrum to US carriers. The midband 3.5GHz spectrum will “further the deployment of 5G,” the FCC said Wednesday. More than 20,000 spectrum licenses were awarded, with the FCC to announce more details later this week.  “This is a banner day for American leadership in 5G,” FCC chair Ajit Pai said.  …

YouTube removed 11.4 million videos between April and June, with the vast majority — 10.85 million — flagged by automated systems alone the company said Tuesday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the video sharing site said, it had “greatly reduced human review capacity” to double-check whether videos breached its user policies. As a result, it decided to “over enforce” by …

India will reportedly remove Huawei equipment from its mobile networks as tensions grow between India and China over the disputed territory of the Himalayan Galwan Valley. The Indian government is concerned about Chinese investment in its networking infrastructure, the Financial Times reported Monday citing government officials and industry executives.  Rather than outright banning Huawei, though, the government is more likely …

Teardowns of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 have found that some have graphite cooling systems, while others have copper vapor chambers, with each cooling system “seemingly chosen at random.” iFixit said Monday it dismantled both the Note 20 5G and Note 20 5G Ultra, and didn’t find copper vapor-chamber cooling — but other teardowns have. “To soak up all the heat …