Outside St. Louis, on the grounds of an army base that used to train nearly every soldier west of the Mississippi River, is an old building with a new purpose. Inside are hundreds of old and not-so-old telephones on display, from a replica of Alexander Graham Bell’s first working phone to the cellphones preceding the …

Samsung’s giving early adopters a first look of its next operating system update with the One UI 5.0 beta, but it’s only available in Germany so far, according to reports. What’s more, only owners of the Samsung Galaxy S22 series released earlier this year can access the One UI 5.0 beta, as SamMobile reported, stymying older Samsung handset owners.  One …

Smartphone shipments have dropped for the fourth quarter in a row as inflation begins influencing consumer spending in the mobile market, according to a report by analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Supply chain issues led to lower phone shipments last year as companies scrambled to ramp up production amid the COVID pandemic, but uneasy economies have become a more …

T-Mobile continued adding mobile and internet customers in the second quarter and raised its expectations for the full year, an uncharacteristically confident sign in the middle of so much economic uncertainty.   But the company took a loss in the period as a result of continued costs from the Sprint merger, as well as a settlement related to one of …

T-Mobile continued adding mobile and internet customers in the second quarter and raised its expectations for the full year, an uncharacteristically confident sign in the middle of so much economic uncertainty.   But the company took a loss in the period as a result of continued costs from the Sprint merger, as well as a settlement related to one of …

On Friday, Google fired Blake Lemoine, a software engineer who went public with his concerns that a conversational technology the company was developing had achieved sentience.  Lemoine went outside the company to consult with experts on the tech’s potential sentience, then publicly shared his concerns in a Medium post and subsequent interview with The Washington Post. Google had suspended Lemoine in …

Sure, 5G networks are in their early stages and we’re only starting to get better streaming video, lag-free gaming and wireless-based home internet. But that’s just a taste of what’s possible. The life-altering uses for 5G promise things like connected cars that warn each another in milliseconds so as to avoid crashes, or chic augmented reality glasses that guide you …

Verizon on Friday said it lost wireless consumers and saw revenue growth inch up in the second quarter as inflation and a challenging economic environment hit the carrier hard. Verizon lost 215,000 consumer postpaid phone subscriptions, the metric used by the industry as a key indicator of success because it includes customers who pay at the end of the month …

People often gripe about smartwatch battery life, and for good reason, as even premium watches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 last only two to three days before needing a recharge. But Qualcomm’s upcoming W5 chips promise to extend battery life by up to 24 hours thanks to a slew of performance and efficiency advancements. These new designs, officially called …

Ever been to a concert where the sound mix or acoustics were just wrong enough to ruin a good show? That could be a thing of the past. Mixhalo, a company that broadcasts musician audio going into soundboards straight to smartphones via an app, has used T-Mobile’s 5G network to send that audio to phones faster than it takes the …