The Apple Watch Edition starts at $10,000 and goes as high as $17,000. CNET Apple may have to wait a little longer before it can go toe-to-toe with the luxury watchmakers in their home country. The launch of Apple Watch could be delayed in Switzerland, known as the birthplace of luxury watches, due to a …
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A close-up of the Luneberg Lens Antenna. AT&T As March Madness peaks with the Final Four games on Saturday, the wireless carriers are working to bring their own A-game when it comes to network coverage. High-profile events such as the Super Bowl, South by Southwest or the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s men’s basketball tournament have become chances for the wireless …
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HTC again gets low marks for repairability. iFixit The HTC One M9 may be a looker, but don’t try to pry it open for repairs. HTC’s latest flagship smartphone, which launches across carriers on April 10, earned one of the lowest repairability scores from iFixit, a firm that tears down and analyzes gadgets to get a better look at the …
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The iPad Air 2 is Apple’s latest flagship tablet, but the device hasn’t done much to bolster slumping sales. Sarah Tew/CNET When Steve Jobs showed off what he called the “truly magical and revolutionary” iPad in 2010, no one guessed just how quickly it would take off. The 3-year-old iPhone may have been a surefire hit at the time, but …
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T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray, pictured here at CES 2014, says the new coverage map uses 200 million data points from customers each day. CNET/James Martin T-Mobile is taking a new approach to the staid wireless-coverage map. The company unveiled on Monday its “next-gen” network map, which uses real-time data collected from customers and through third-party sources such as Speedtest.net and …
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“Our financial viability is no longer in question,” BlackBerry CEO John Chen says. Sarah Tew/CNET You can’t keep BlackBerry down. The struggling smartphone manufacturer posted a surprise profit on Friday for the second quarter in a row, eking out gains thanks to a massive cost-cutting effort and an adjustment to the value of its investment in a broad patent portfolio. …
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The HTC One M9 has stiff competition on April 10. Andrew Hoyle/CNET April 10 is shaping up to be a busy day for smartwatch and smartphone fans. HTC said Thursday that its latest premium smartphone, the HTC One M9, will land in carrier and retail stores on April 10. That’s the same day that Samsung plans to release its Galaxy …
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Samsung hopes to reverse its fortunes with a radically redesigned flagship smartphone. The company on Thursday said that its Galaxy S6 smartphone, alongside its curvy sibling, the Galaxy S6 Edge , will go on preorder Friday and then become available for purchase at carrier and retail stores on April 10 — the same day that HTC’s One M9 goes on …
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Here’s the M9 alongside its predecessor, the M8. Can you tell them apart? (Spoiler: the M9 is on the left.) Andrew Hoyle/CNET BARCELONA — HTC’s Peter Chou wants his One family of smartphones to be the Range Rovers of the mobile world. That’s not to say Chou — who on Friday stepped down as HTC’s chief executive to take over …
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A labor agency judge has ruled that T-Mobile violated federal laws when it suppressed its employees’ efforts to organize. Sarah Tew/CNET T-Mobile, known for bashing its competitors in the wireless business, is in hot water for the treatment of its own employees. One of the nation’s largest wireless carriers violated federal labor laws by illegally restricting employees from discussing basic …
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