Sprint is looking ahead to its $26 billion merger with T-Mobile as it shuffles top executives and makes its pitch for the merger to federal regulators in Washington, DC. On Wednesday, the company announced CEO Marcelo Claure will become executive chairman while the company’s chief financial officer, Michel Combes, will take over as CEO by …
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Don’t you just hate it when you buy something new, only for it to be obsolete a week later? In the world of tech, this is bound to happen. New products are released, sometimes without warning, all the time. However, you can protect yourself somewhat by keeping in mind when new products are due to arrive on the market. Maybe …
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The LG V30S ThinQ will start at $930 once it’s released in the US in the near future. (That converts to about £685 or AU$1,235.) LG confirmed to CNET that the preorder price — previously spotted at B&H Photo by Android Police — is official. The V30S ThinQ was announced in February at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. …
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Update: The LG G7 ThinQ has been officially announced. Read CNET’s full review of the LG G7 ThinQ. The Samsung Galaxy S9 may have kicked off 2018’s phone season with a bang, but for Android fans, it’s just the beginning. In March, Huawei launched its marquee P20 and P20 Pro phones and the Nokia 8 Sirocco wowed us with its …
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This story is part of “Follow the Money,” a look at how digital cash is changing the way we save, shop and work. Think about every little thing you do when you walk into a store and pay for something. You stand in line, pull out your wallet and withdraw your credit card. You chat to the cashier as you …
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Looks like Arm doesn’t plan to buy part of Qualcomm after all. CNBC reported on Thursday that Qualcomm’s former CEO, Paul Jacobs, had been talking to strategic investors to help raise money to take the mobile chipmaker private. One investor name listed was Arm, the UK company that designs the architecture that’s the basis of most mobile chips. Its customers, …
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Fancy a phone with a notch but don’t want to break your wallet? Asus could have just the thing for you with its 2018 ZenFone 5. Announced back at Mobile World Congress earlier in March, the midrange notch-design Android phone is now available in Taiwan and Singapore, the latter being an exclusive with Alibaba-backed regional e-commerce site Lazada. Sporting a Qualcomm …
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When it comes to 5G, the possibilities are the stuff science fiction dreams are made of. We picture our lives inside our seamlessly connected smart homes, with autonomous cars to take us to work and the speediest, most reliable internet connectivity ensuring that our streaming video never buffers. After all, 5G has been hailed as the advent of the fourth …
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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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Here’s a basic rundown of Oppo, a company you may or may not have heard of: It’s the fourth biggest phone brand in the world and it makes some great phones — but they usually look way too much like iPhones. The Chinese giant’s newest phones, the R15 and the R15 Dream Mirror Edition, were officially unveiled on Tuesday. In …
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