AT&T will soon have its first 5G phone. The Samsung Galaxy S10 5G will come to the nation’s second-largest network on June 17, but with a catch. Samsung’s 5G phone will only be available for business customers. The phone, previously an exclusive to Verizon, will work with AT&T’s millimeter wave 5G network (what the carrier calls “5G+”), which is currently live …
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The Huawei P30 Pro’s amazing Leica quad-camera system makes it one of the best and most unique phones released this year. If you pride yourself as a phone camera enthusiast the P30 Pro is worth your consideration. But with the recent news that the White House banned US companies from doing business with Huawei, you might feel a little nervous …
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AT&T will be lending a hand to get Uber’s air taxi service literally off the ground by 2023, the carrier said on Tuesday. The two companies are partnering on next-generation electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) and cargo drones using AT&T’s 5G and LTE networks. They aim to launch commercial services in 2023 across Los Angeles, Dallas Fort Worth …
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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 at which 5G networks are live in …
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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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The Federal Communications Commission’s second 5G spectrum auction has ended, raising $2 billion in gross bids. 5G, already launched in the US by Verizon and AT&T, is the next-generation network being used by smartphones to provide faster speeds and more capacity. Through its second auction, the FCC sold off a batch of millimeter-wave (mmWave) high-bandwidth spectrum in the 24GHz band, with …
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Editor’s note, May 27 2021: Philo will be raising its price for new subscribers to $25 as of June 8. Entry-level live TV streaming services like AT&T Watch TV and Philo promise a cable-like TV service for a lot less money. But there’s a lot of compromises, especially compared to more expensive competitors like Sling TV, Hulu With Live TV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV …
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One of the key takeaways from the 9/11 Report was that emergency communications were a mess. You would think that was addressed long ago, but only now is a new mobile network called FirstNet arriving, along with a move toward using cellular networks as mission-critical infrastructure. Now playing: Watch this: With the black SIM, first responders’ calls go ahead… 7:18 …
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Those still “hodling” their bitcoin after the cryptocurrency crashed in 2017 are slowly seeing a rebound in its value. Now they can even use the crypto to pay their AT&T phone bill. On Thursday, AT&T said it’ll begin accepting cryptocurrency for online bill payments. Customers will see the option when logged on to the carrier’s website or the myAT&T app, and …
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Verizon and Samsung are both restless to get the 5G data speeds that signify a world of ludicrously fast downloads, real-time sports streaming from every angle and pin-sharp online games off the ground. Last week’s test of the Galaxy S10 5G in Chicago planted that flag for both of them, one that wavered precariously when I first tested Verizon’s then-day-old 5G network — an experience that left …
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