The 2015 Audi Q3’s features will include an HSPA+ wireless connection. Audi LAS VEGAS — AT&T is hooking up another Audi car with a wireless connection, as well as making it part of AT&T’s Mobile Share family data plan. The 2015 Audi Q3 crossover vehicle is the second model from the automaker to get a …
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere at an earlier event. He’ll be at Uncarrier 7.0 on Wednesday. T-Mobile Just a day after Apple’s iPhone 6 event, T-Mobile is planning something of its own. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier by subscriber is holding its “Uncarrier 7.0” event in San Francisco on Wednesday. This is T-Mobile’s third event and fourth Uncarrier program this year, …
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LAS VEGAS — Microsoft’s Lumia 830 smartphone has a new home at AT&T. Microsoft’s head of devices, Stephen Elop, talks up the new Lumia 830. Roger Cheng/CNET The colorful Windows Phone-powered handset, which was unveiled last week at the IFA consumer electronics trade show, will come to AT&T during the holidays, said Stephen Elop, head of Microsoft’s devices business. Elop …
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Twitter executive Adam Bain talks about the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch. Roger Cheng/CNET LAS VEGAS — Twitter is a big fan of Apple’s new mobile-payment service. Apple earlier Tuesday unveiled Apple Pay, a new service that lets you use your iPhone 6 to pay at the register, utilizing its Passbook app to store credit-card information. It comes a day …
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The new Moto G improves upon the original, but retains the same low price. It’s been a winner for Motorola. Sarah Tew/CNET For one Motorola Mobility employee, it was customer feedback of the most extreme kind. About six months ago, members of a research team from Motorola traveled from Chicago and Sunnyvale, Calif., to an undisclosed city in the heartland …
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AT&T Digital Life allows you to control your home through a single app on your smartphone or tablet. Seth Rosenblatt/CNET LAS VEGAS — AT&T’s Digital Life home automation and security platform has legs, both domestically and internationally. AT&T and Spanish telecommunications Telefonica said on Monday that Telefonica would begin testing out the Digital Life smart life service in its own …
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Glenn Lurie, CEO of AT&T Mobility, announces trials of Digital Life Care this year. Roger Cheng/CNET LAS VEGAS — AT&T plans to expand its home security and automation service, called Digital Life, to include elderly care. The company made the announcement at a Digital Life showcase home outside the main strip a day before the CTIA industry trade show kicks …
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Motorola takes pains to ensure that you can make a crystal-clear call. Pictured: A room designed to project background noise and a dummy head that can make voice commands and phone calls. Sarah Tew/CNET CHICAGO — Motorola Mobility held a belated housewarming party on Thursday, throwing open the doors to its inner sanctum of mobile-device development. The headquarters, based in …
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Motorola Chief Operating Officer Rick Osterloh talks up the company’s two new smartphones, the Moto X and Moto G. Sarah Tew/CNET Motorola Mobility President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Osterloh is confident that the Moto X smartphone will be a top player in the market — even if it takes 10 years. “We’re going to keep doing this until everyone …
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Motorola’s Moto X gets a sequel — also called Moto X — with a bigger body and more premium materials. Sarah Tew/CNET Motorola Mobility — the unit that is owned by Google — is going out with a bang. The smartphone manufacturer, which will start new life as a unit of Chinese electronics maker Lenovo when the deal is completed …
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