The biggest innovations from Apple in 2019 likely won’t be its devices. Instead, it’ll be the services that run on them. iPhone sales just aren’t soaring like they used to, and it’s getting harder to make smartphones flashier each year. Apple’s ability to woo users increasingly may come from the software and services — like …

If it’s up to Qualcomm, Windows PCs are about to get even more phonelike and powerful. The company on Thursday unveiled its first processor designed specifically for computers, called the Snapdragon 8cx Compute Platform. The processor aims to provide a big leap over Qualcomm’s year-ago efforts in 2-in-1 laptops. At that time, partners like HP and Asus used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon …

The best way to sell always-connected PCs is downplaying the actual connectivity part. At least, that’s what Lenovo has found through the past year of selling computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon LTE processors, said Matt Bereda, vice president of global consumer marketing for PCs and tablets at Lenovo. Even though all of the devices are capable of running on 4G …

If you want a 5G phone next year, you’re going to pay much more for it.  How much more? In the case of OnePlus, it could be $200 to $300 higher than this year’s flagship OnePlus 6T, CEO Pete Lau said in an interview with CNET. That’s a whopping 36 percent to 55 percent increase. The Chinese handset maker has …

With all the talk about 5G at Qualcomm’s conference this week, it’d be easy to assume that you’d automatically get 5G with the company’s latest Snapdragon 855 processor. You’d be wrong. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 will power most high-end Android 5G smartphones next year — but the chip itself doesn’t actually provide the speedy connectivity. Instead, accessing the new network requires …

Get ready for lots of 5G phones in time for the holidays next year. The first devices for the fast, next-generation network will hit the market in early 2019. Samsung, for one, said it will have a phone for Verizon, AT&T and other networks in the first half of the year. By the holidays next year, every flagship handset — …

Qualcomm’s next processor that’ll power most upcoming Android smartphones is called the Snapdragon 855. And it’s bringing a lot more smarts to next year’s devices.  “That’s the mobile processor that will be in the 5G smartphone as we launch 5G,” Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon said Tuesday at the Snapdragon Technology Summit in Maui, Hawaii. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Qualcomm, hosting its annual …

One of the world’s first 5G phones will be coming to the US from Samsung and Verizon.  The two companies on Monday said they plan to bring a device able to tap into next-generation cellular technology to the US market in the first half of 2019. They didn’t give details about what the device will look like, what it will …

Apple’s iPhone XR has been outselling the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max every day since the cheaper, colorful phone hit the market last month. Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of product marketing, told CNET in an interview Wednesday that the device has “been our most popular iPhone each and every day since the day it became available.”  Apple showed off its three new iPhones in …

When it comes to AI, Qualcomm’s betting big.  The company said on Wednesday that it plans to start a venture fund that will invest at least $100 million in early stage startups working on artificial intelligence. In particular, the fund will look at companies finding ways to do intensive data processing on devices like smartphones and security cameras instead of …