T-Mobile is joining AT&T and Verizon with a new plan designed to give discounts to first responders and their families. Called Magenta First Responder, the new plan launches on Friday, Nov. 1, and will offer a 50% discount on family plans for “state and local law enforcement officers, firefighters and EMS personnel.” As part of …
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AT&T plans to include HBO Max for free at launch for 10M current subscribers
As it gears up for its spring 2020 launch, more details are finally starting to come out about AT&T’s forthcoming HBO Max service. While we still don’t have all the details on what will be on the new HBO-centered service — that will likely need to wait until AT&T’s WarnerMedia investor day on Oct. 29 — a new report is …
Read More »Motorola updates G and E series, adds new One Macro, as foldable Razr looms
While anticipation builds ahead of Motorola’s Nov. 13 event in which it teases a “highly anticipated unveiling of a reinvented icon,” the company isn’t putting all of its eggs in a foldable basket. Instead, on Thursday the Razr creator announced a host of new devices destined for countries beyond the US that are more traditional phones than the expected folding Razr. …
Read More »Hey, Apple TV app, welcome to Amazon’s Fire TV
Amazon announced that starting Thursday, Apple’s TV app is now available for download to Amazon Fire TV devices, namely the newest Fire TV streaming stick and the Fire TV Stick 4K. Amazon says the app is coming soon to more Fire TV devices, including older Fire TV streamers, the Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Edition televisions and the Nebula Fire TV Edition sound bar. …
Read More »iFixit teardown shows what’s inside the Pixel 4 XL
Google’s Pixel 4 and 4 XL are now shipping and while we’ve known about the device for months, on Thursday the folks at iFixit took Google’s latest XL phone apart to see just what goes into the handset. While much of it is relatively unsurprising, the teardown reveals just what Google is doing with Soli — its radar tech that allows …
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T-Mobile is adding a new phone to its 5G stable, and it’ll be one of the first to support its forthcoming, new, low-band 5G network. On Wednesday the wireless carrier announced that it will be adding the OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren later this year when it turns on its new low-band 5G network. While not as fast as the millimeter-wave, high-frequency …
Read More »Verizon 5G Home’s expansion boosts broadband with mobile tie
Verizon is expanding its 5G home broadband network, with a twist. The wireless giant said Monday it will expand its service to Chicago on Thursday, joining parts of Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento and making it the fifth city to get home internet from its 5G network. Chicago’s network, however, will be unlike the initial 5G Home cities Verizon …
Read More »Apple might launch AirPods Pro before the end of the month, report says
Update, Oct. 28: Apple unveils AirPods Pro with new design and noise cancellation Those rumors about new AirPods being around the corner? Well, there is a new report that claims they can be here before the end of the month. According to China Economic Daily, Apple is planning to bring out a new AirPods Pro before the end of October. The …
Read More »OnePlus 8 Pro leak shows a hole
It’s been only a few weeks since the OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro were announced but OnePlus‘ next phone is already starting to appear. Rumored to be called the OnePlus 8, a new leak from noted leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer (aka OnLeaks) and the website 91Mobiles seems to outline some of what we can expect in the next phone. For starters, …
Read More »Apple says that 50% of iPhones are now on iOS 13
Apple’s iOS 13 may have only launched last month, but it’s already finding a home on a fair number of iPhones. In an updated support post to developers on the App Store, Apple revealed that, as of Oct. 15, its latest mobile software is on 55% of all iPhone devices introduced in the last four years and on 50% of …
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