5G is the next big thing for your phone, promising 2x to 10x faster download speeds — so as the technology begins to roll out on carriers across the world, it’s little wonder that you might want to tracking it. A 5G coverage map from Ookla, maker of the popular Speedtest.net app, provides a detailed look …
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Three became on Monday the third UK network to announce its 5G launch plans. Three will flick the switch on its 5G in August, promising mobile coverage in 25 cities by the end of the year. Its initial offering, though, will consist of a broadband-only product. The network’s home broadband will be available only to Londoners at first and will consist of a …
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China approved 5G licenses for a quartet of state-owned bodies on Thursday, winning investment in vendors like Huawei, a report said. Carriers China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, as well as broadcaster China Broadcasting Network Corporation, got the licenses, according to Reuters. The carriers were given trial licenses at the end of 2018, but Thursday’s announcement lets them begin …
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Huawei‘s inked a deal to help with Russia’s 5G network. The embattled Chinese telecom will work with Russian counterpart MTS to develop the country’s next-generation cellular network over the next year. Huawei Chairman Guo Ping and MTS boss Alexei Kornya signed the agreement in the Kremlin on Wednesday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping watching. “We …
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Samsung has launched a 5G gaming app in partnership with cloud-streaming game service Hatch. The Hatch for Samsung app is designed for the Galaxy S10 5G and for use with 5G mobile networks such as those launched by Sprint and Verizon. 5G, also already launched in the US by AT&T, is the next-generation network being used by smartphones to provide faster speeds …
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Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 10 phone could still have physical buttons for power and volume, says a frequent Samsung tipster. In a tweet last week, spotted by Android Central, Ice Universe said it looks like the final version of the Note 10 will keep the buttons. Note10 pursues stability and maturity. In the first version, Note10 did not have physical …
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With phone makers struggling to differentiate themselves in a crowded market, the question often asked is how to best evolve the selfie camera. Right now a notch atop the display is the most common way of incorporating a front camera while taking up minimal screen space. Oppo on Monday offered another route: a camera built into the display. This means …
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When 5G arrives in force, it won’t just be for you. It’ll be for the robots, too. Or maybe more precisely, for you and the robots working together. That was the point of one of the demonstrations Thursday at Verizon’s 5G lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a knee-high humanoid robot trundled up and down several steps and along the length …
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After a rough start, Verizon, the top wireless services provider in the US, showed off the blazing speeds that 5G is capable of. Now it’s Sprint’s turn. In a bid to prove its 5G readiness, the country’s fourth-largest network operator turned on its network in areas of Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Kansas City on Thursday. In the coming weeks, Sprint expects …
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Justice Department officials want T-Mobile and Sprint to form a new, competing wireless carrier as part of a deal to approve their $26.5 billion merger, according to Bloomberg. The two wireless carriers are working on possible concessions to get the deal approved, unnamed sources told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Merging T-Mobile and Sprint would reduce the number of major US carriers …
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