Waiting for AirPlay 2 to come to your new TV? Your watch is ending. Announced at CES in January, Apple’s streaming system is now rolling out to compatible LG and Vizio TVs. Previously limited to the Apple TV streaming box, AIrPlay is similar to Google’s Cast, allowing iOS and Mac users to stream content directly from their devices …
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If you’re looking for a new, weird thing to do with your next phone, consider hands-free use. Google’s upcoming Pixel 4 is going to throw a hands-free twist to its front-camera array: In addition to facial recognition, it’ll sense motion and hand gestures. This technology, originally called Project Soli, uses radar to detect 3D movement in space. And that’s in addition …
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While we’re still awaiting official word on the iPhone 11, expected in September of this year, there’s already advance word on what to expect from the 2020 edition of the iPhone. And the latest on that is that all three versions of the 2020 iPhone should have 5G capabilities, according to a new report. Analyst Ming-chi Kuo had earlier predicted …
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Embrace it or disdain it, the 5G data revolution is coming either way. 5G’s ultrafast speeds will soon land on new phones, starting at the high end. But we’ve already learned what these first-generation 5G phones will be like, and they shed light on some of the challenges that everyone might face in these early days of 5G. We’ve tested 5G speeds in …
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Company T-Mobile (TMUS) Sprint (S) Ranking by total number of customers No. 3 No. 4 Employees 52,000 30,000 Revenue $43.3B $33.6B Price per share (Following announcement 7/26/19) $82.53 $7.90 Shares outstanding 854,303,011 4,090,807,600 Market cap $70.51B $32.32B Total wireless customer count 81.3M 54.5M Total wireless postpaid 45.54M 32.77M Total wireless prepaid 21.2M 8.8M Coverage map https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map https://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp? Retail store numbers …
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5G subscribers are expected to reach 1.1 billion by 2023 across the Asia-Pacific and North America regions, where the next-generation network has been launched. That would be triple the number of subscribers 4G reached in the same five-year time period after launching, IHS Markit said in a report released Wednesday. 5G, already launched in some parts of the US by Verizon, …
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Apple is getting closer to buying Intel’s smartphone modem business, with the iPhone maker now in “advanced talks” with Intel, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The deal could be worth $1 billion and include patents and employees, according to the report. Such a deal could help Apple’s attempts to develop its own 5G chip for the iPhone. It follows …
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Update, Nov. 13, 2019: Apple has introduced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro with a larger screen and improved keyboard. It completely replaces the previous 15-inch model. When Apple announced updates to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro in early July, most of the attention was paid to easy-to-spot differences: The lower price on the Air, the always-there Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro, …
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The LG Pay mobile payment service, designed to compete with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay, has arrived in the US. Before LG phone owners download the app, though, they need to make sure they own the one phone that currently works with the service. First launched in South Korea in 2017, the LG Pay app became available to download in the …
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Consumers aren’t flocking to buy mobile phones like they used to. This year it’s estimated that global shipments of mobile phones will decline by 68 million units, or 3.8%, compared to the preceding year, according to a report released Wednesday by Gartner. The research firm projects this as the worst decrease to date for smartphones. The report attributes the lower demand …
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