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Get 3 months of no

In the market for a new mobile carrier? For the past couple weeks, Mint Mobile, which uses T-Mobile’s network, has been offering a pretty compelling trial deal: Three months of service for $20. After that, you pay the regular rates, which I’ll come back to in a moment. How could this deal possibly get any better? By becoming free after rebate …

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iPhone and Intel are at the center of Qualcomm’s 5G crosshairs

The world’s largest mobile chipmaker is using 5G phones to go after Apple’s iPhones and Intel — hard. That was clear after Qualcomm’s tech summit in Hawaii last week where one after the other, executives compared the speed and battery gains of Qualcomm’s processors that will power 5G and 4G phones and laptops to Intel and Apple’s competing models.  The potshots came fast and …

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