It wasn’t ever going to be clear-cut. In a video shoot-out between the iPhone 7 Plus and the Pixel, Apple’s phone came out on top. But that comes after the Pixel won the photo contest. We discuss how important the camera is to consumers (very, but not as important as your loyalty to an operating …

Remember Windows 10 for phones? Apparently, Alcatel does. The Chinese handset maker said on Tuesday a version of its Idol 4S phone equipped with Microsoft‘s operating system will head to T-Mobile on November 11. The phone will cost $470, and will include a pair of Idol 4S VR Googles. The company is also offering a 45-day trial of Hulu Plus …

Google is trying to make good on the Pixel delays. The company has struggled to meet demand for its phone, leading to long wait times for eager customers. In exchange, the company is offering $50 in credit to its Google Play store. Reddit users got an email saying their credit would arrive (also via email) once the phone was delivered. …

Verizon is treading carefully with Yahoo, but still wants to seal the deal. “The deal makes strategic sense,” said Marni Walden, the executive vice president of business innovation for Verizon and the person who pushed for the acquisition. “We won’t jump off of a cliff blindly.” She continues to believe there’s value in the Yahoo name, noting that it won’t …

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is excited for AT&T’s takeover of Time Warner. No, really. “It’s clearly very exciting,” he said. “It’s a bold move.” What gets Legere going? The prospect of AT&T customers fleeing to T-Mobile with AT&T distracted by its $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner. “I’m looking forward to the donation of customers over the next year,” he …

AT&T may have overshadowed T-Mobile’s earnings announcement, but the Un-carrier had the last laugh. T-Mobile was forced to reschedule its third-quarter earnings conference call on Monday after AT&T abruptly scheduled its own call to discuss its earnings results, which it released Saturday right after announcing an $85.4 billion deal to acquire Time Warner. But while AT&T promised a revolution in …

Count Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam among the fans of AT&T’s planned acquisition of Time Warner. “It makes very good sense for AT&T,” McAdam told the Intel Capital Global Summit, of AT&T’s offer for Time Warner is $85.4 billion. Big deals, McAdam told CNET, shake up the status quo and force companies to re-evaluate their positions. That doesn’t mean, however, that …

Maybe AT&T can offer a free HBO Now subscription to every wireless customer. That might help reverse the company’s flagging growth in its core wireless phone business, as illustrated in its third-quarter results (PDF). They were released shortly after AT&T confirmed it would purchase media company Time Warner for $85.4 billion. Perhaps Time Warner will put a spring in AT&T’s …

Who will win the “Game of Thrones“? It may just be AT&T. The massively popular show, the HBO channel it runs on and a host of other entertainment properties including CNN, Cartoon Network and movie studios Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema — all part of Time Warner — will join the telecommunications giant as part of a $85.4 billion …

Is Yahoo the shot in the arm that Verizon needs? That’s a debatable sentiment. In the past few weeks, Yahoo — which Verizon is planning to acquire for $4.8 billion — drew the kind of headlines that make you cringe. It suffered what could be the biggest hack of all time, coughing up the account information of at least 500 …