Apple officially killed AirPower last week citing an inability to “achieve [Apple’s] high standards”, and I was crestfallen. I had been looking forward to finally trying AirPower, the wireless charging pad for iPhones, AirPods and the Apple Watch that would simultaneously charge multiple devices, up to three in Apple’s case. Uniquely, it would communicate with the devices to …
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AirPower is dead. But it’s no big deal. In fact, it’s the least of Apple’s problems. After being unveiled alongside the iPhone X in September 2017, the wireless charging mat — designed to juice up to three Apple devices simultaneously — never saw the light of day. Marketing chief Phil Schiller said at the time it would ship in 2018, …
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Qualcomm’s former CEO won’t take the company private after all. Paul Jacobs has dropped his attempts to buy the chipmaker, according to The Wall Street Journal. Instead, he plans to focus on his new wireless technology company, called XCOM, the publication said. Qualcomm declined to comment. Jacobs couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Virtually every major handset maker — besides …
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Update, Nov. 14: The foldable Motorola Razr has been launched, and we went hands-on. Original story follows. Last month, a foldable phone epidemic swept through the MWC 2019 trade show in Barcelona. Samsung had a mic-drop moment and launched the Galaxy Fold just days before the conference got started. Huawei said “hold my beer” and announced the Mate X. Then, TCL (the company …
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5G-ready phones such as the Galaxy S10 5G, foldable Huawei Mate X and LG V50 are just some of the handsets that are waiting for carrier networks to come online. 5G promises to make phones anywhere from 10 to 100 times faster than your current device, connecting to the internet instantly. But some are arguing that phones such as the Galaxy S10 Plus …
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Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Fold, a 4.6-inch phone that can be opened into a 7.3-inch tablet, on Feb. 20. The company was beaten to the punch, though, when Xiaomi showed off its own folding phone in a video a month prior. The Chinese tech company has given us a second teaser for its yet-to-be named phone. A 10-second video was …
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It was just days ago that Huawei unveiled its new P30 line of phones in Paris, but the bustling tech giant is already looking forward to September. That’s around the time its next flagship phone, the Mate 30 Pro, will launch, an executive said in Malaysia on Wednesday. The Mate 30 is currently being tested in Huawei’s labs, Huawei Product …
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Whether you know the telecom giant because of its popular Android phones or because it’s made an enemy of the US government, you’ve probably heard the name Huawei. This fact alone marks a big shift from just a couple years back, when people struggled to even pronounce the name of the Chinese company — now the number two phone maker …
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Periscopes? RYYB sensors? There’s enough new camera tech packed into the Huawei P30 Pro that you might be baffled by the new terminology. Mostly all you need to know is that the flagship smartphone’s camera is versatile, outdoing competitors in some key areas like zoom and nighttime shots. But Huawei’s technology could well spread farther across the industry, so it’s …
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Huawei may have just announced the P30 Pro, which has four cameras on the back, but we’ve already had hours to put this new Android phone’s photography skills to the test. What better a foil than the Galaxy S10 Plus, Samsung’s flagship phone for spring, which has three very good rear cameras of its own. There are some important differences here that …
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