Apple’s iPhone sales plummeted 20% as consumers awaited the release of its iPhone 12 amid the continued spread of the coronavirus pandemic, which has upended lives, disrupted business and slowed manufacturing across the globe. But Apple executives said they aren’t terribly worried about it. That’s primarily thanks to Apple’s delay releasing the iPhone 12, creating a fluke in financial …
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Verizon is slowly building up its 5G Home broadband offering. On Thursday the carrier announced that it’s expanding the service on Nov. 5 to parts of four new locations: Atlanta, Dallas, Denver and San Jose. The move makes 5G Home available in parts of 12 cities. We don’t know the exact locations where the service will be available in each …
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OnePlus boldly chose to launch its new 5G phone a day after the debut of the iPhone 12. The $749 OnePlus 8T is the Chinese phone-maker’s attempt at “raising the bar,” after it launched the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro in April. (The OnePlus 8T’s UK price of £549 converts to about AU$1,000.) Although the timing seems curious, it follows OnePlus’ usual …
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T-Mobile’s TVision, a newly announced bundle of live streaming channels, gives the company’s traditional wireless customers another reason to stick with the carrier. And just around the corner is a 5G-based home broadband service that could make leaving T-Mobile a much more complicated task. Phone. Television. Home internet. Sound familiar? T-Mobile is in effect resurrecting a 2.0 version of the …
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T-Mobile has nearly doubled its midband 5G coverage area, and plans to offer 5G coverage to 100 million people by end of the year, the company said Wednesday. Following the expansion, T-Mobile midband 5G now reaches nearly 410 cities and towns across the country. The mobile carrier said areas with midband 2.5-gigahertz 5G are currently averaging downloads speeds of around …
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The pandemic-caused lull in demand for phones appears to be over, at least for Samsung. The company on Wednesday reported its highest ever quarterly revenue, thanks to “significant increase in consumer demand” for its smartphones, computers and other products. The company reported its third-quarter operating profit soared 59% from the previous year to 12.35 trillion won ($10.9 billion), while its …
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Verizon’s first phone with 5G built-in was the $1,300 Samsung Galaxy S10 5G in April 2019. Over 18 months later, the nation’s largest carrier now has its most affordable 5G phone, the $400 TCL 10 5G UW. First announced back at CES in January, the TCL 10 5G UW offers decent specs for its price. It has a 6.53-inch full …
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Verizon has a new, cheap 5G phone. TCL, which is known for selling Alcatel phones, on Tuesday introduced its $400 TCL 10 5G UW. It’s available exclusively on Verizon’s network starting Thursday. The device sports a 6.5-inch LCD display, a triple-camera array on the back and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor. Unlike pricier phones, it lacks wireless charging, waterproof ratings …
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AMD has entered an agreement to acquire Xilinx for $35 billion, AMD said Tuesday. It’s an effort to make AMD “the industry’s high-performance computing leader,” according to Lisa Su, the company’s chief executive. The two firms would focus on producing a variety of chips and software for PCs and gaming, as well as products and software across the automative, communications, …
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5G wireless technology promises to change the world. And it might! Millions of people expect to experience the new superfast wireless tech on smartphones this fall, but the reality is that 5G is complex and might change business sooner than it improves your phone’s download speed. Even as more 5G-ready phones are arriving, we’re still watching as networks get set …
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