It’s time for the Galaxy S9 to watch its back. Huawei’s new P20 and P20 Pro are coming up fast, with enough camera tricks and hardware specs to put Samsung’s premier phone smack in the middle of the Huawei P20’s target. With a total of three camera lenses on the back, the Huawei P20 Pro deserves your …
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A key milestone in the nationwide public safety wireless network known as FirstNet has been met, according to AT&T, which is building the network. AT&T announced on Tuesday that the “core” of the dedicated 4G wireless network, which acts as the “brain and nervous system” for the network, is live and ready for local agencies to begin the work of …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image But who will sell it best? Andrew Hoyle/CNET My inbox dripped with emails. After my visits to three Bay Area carrier stores last week in an attempt to see how — or even whether — the new Samsung Galaxy S9 was being sold, …
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It looks like 5G deployments in the states will be getting a kick-start. The $1.3 trillion US government spending bill signed into law Friday includes a bipartisan effort to speed the rollout of 5G: the Ray Baum Act, named in honor of the late Energy & Commerce staff director who died last month. The legislation folds in language from the …
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Consumers can expect heftier bills for TV service if AT&T is allowed to buy Time Warner. That’s according to a lawyer for the US Justice Department, who delivered opening remarks in Washington on Thursday during the federal trial to stop the $85 billion merger. Long lines formed to get into the building where AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Time Warner CEO …
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Will AT&T get its hands on “Game of Thrones” and CNN? That’s what a federal judge will decide as AT&T and Time Warner head to court this week to defend their proposed $85 billion merger, which would marry one of the nation’s largest wireless and broadband networks with one of the largest media companies. On the other side is President Donald Trump’s …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Can I live with it? Marvel Studios It was pouring with rain. So it was time to go to the dark side. As a longtime iPhone user, I decided to buy a Samsung Galaxy S9 to see what it was like to live …
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus hit shelves today, and carriers are scurrying to lure buyers on board. Sprint is even rewarding early-bird customers with the honor of naming a star. The Galaxy S9 ups the ante on last year’s Galaxy S8 by bringing an upgraded camera with tricks like variable aperture, super slow-mo video and 3D avatars called AR Emoji. It also packs a blazing …
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Samsung wants to give you $350 off its new Galaxy S9. Sound good? All you’ve gotta do is trade in your iPhone X! (Or a Galaxy S8, but let’s focus on one phone at a time.) This might be a good time to mention that a brand new iPhone X, which came out less than four months ago, costs $999. …
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The Federal Communications Commission’s 2015 net neutrality rules will officially be dead in a matter of weeks. So naturally, people are anxious about what that means for the internet as we know it today. It’s this anxiety and fear that’s likely fueling recent blog posts stating that AT&T is rolling out so-called “internet fast lanes.” But is it true? Is …
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