The Motorola identity crisis is over. Last year was a confusing time for the business. First, there was the plan to phase out the Motorola name in favor of “Moto by Lenovo,” its Chinese parent. Then there was the question of how the Lenovo brand would co-exist with Moto. With a new leadership team, things …
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Return with us now to a time when most cell phones had a standby time of a week. When phone screens were on a grayscale, texting was a fairly new feature, and having a camera on your phone wasn’t even a thing. Remember those days? One cellphone from the turn of the millennium that many of you are probably familiar …
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Google seems to be at a transition when it comes to its laptop strategy, with the search giant looking beyond its Chromebook Pixel, laptops it’s designed in-house. “We may not see a next generation of the Pixel Chromebook line, but it doesn’t mean Google isn’t still interested in branded laptops and or convertibles,” a source familiar with Google’s thinking said …
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It wasn’t so long ago that Nokia and Google didn’t move in the same circles, but oh, how times have changed. These days they’re bosom buddies, joined at the hip, BFFs — at least for the foreseeable future. Nokia famously bypassed Google’s Android mobile software in favor of Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system at the start of this decade. The …
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Who says 5G is all hype? Verizon, after all, is set to launch a field trial of the super-fast service in 11 markets across the US this year. It’s not full cellular service like 4G LTE, but instead a replacement for home broadband. It’s supposed to be 10 times faster than even Google Fiber, which offers internet connections as fast …
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Ajit Pai wants to make it clear: There’s a new chairman in town. The newly christened chairman of the Federal Communications Commission likely won over the telecom-centric audience at a keynote session during the Mobile World Congress trade show on Tuesday. In his prepared remarks, Pai laid out a vision of light-touch regulation and reversing the policies of his predecessor, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Hottest phones unveiled at MWC 2017 2:50 Every year phone manufacturers from all over the world flock to Barcelona to unveil their latest devices at Mobile World Congress, leaving us with a batch of brand new phones to compete for our attention. And this year is no exception. Which ones are worth your precious time? We’ve …
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Budding paparazzi rejoice. A new patent filed Tuesday by Google reveals what could become the newest tool for grabbing candid shots of the Kardashian clan — although that particular use case isn’t mentioned in the document. Instead, Google lists things like “hosting an interactive assistance session,” sending images to social media and sending images and GPS data to an “emergency-handling …
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The BlackBerry KeyOne may soon see some siblings. TCL isn’t wasting time building up its portfolio of phones using the BlackBerry name. The company plans to release as many as three phones this year, TCL Communications Nicolas Zibell said in an interview on Saturday. The company is working on an all-touchscreen version, a spiritual successor to the DTEK 50 and …
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In the future you won’t have to wait hours for your phone to fully charge. That’s the plan at least, according to Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which announced it can charge a phone from zero to full in just 20 minutes at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona. Meizu’s Super mCharge appears to be a lot faster than Qualcomm’s Quick …
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