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Qualcomm is facing tough times after Apple iced it out of its latest iPhones and sued the chipmaker earlier this year. But, Qualcomm’s CEO offered a positive spin on the situation Wednesday, saying the company’s timeline to reach a resolution remains on track. Granted, no specific time frame was mentioned. “We have continued to have …

The legal battle continues. Apple isn’t talking to chipmaker Qualcomm “at any level” to settle their long-running patent dispute, according to Reuters. The iPhone maker is reportedly continuing to prepare for trial. Qualcomm declined to comment ahead of its earnings report later Wednesday. Apple declined to comment. The two companies have been fighting over patents since January 2017, when Apple …

Qualcomm has to license its wireless chip patents to its competitors, a judge ruled Tuesday. District Court Judge Lucy Koh granted the US Federal Trade Commission’s motion for partial summary judgment in its suit against Qualcomm. The FTC had sought a ruling that declared “two industry agreements obligate Qualcomm to license its essential patents to competing modem chip suppliers.” Koh …

Europe, the continent that gave the world Nokia, Ericsson and GSM networks, did much to build the mobile phone as we know it today. But the continent’s reign as the world leader in mobile technology has come to an end with the advent of the speediest networks the world has ever seen: 5G. Though some carriers in the US, South Korea …

T-Mobile will almost certainly take the checkered flag for wireless growth this quarter as consumers continue to flock to the Un-carrier.  The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier said it added 1.6 million net total customers, with 774,000 critical postpaid phone subscribers, or customers who pay at the end of the month. Verizon added 295,000 such customers, while AT&T nabbed 69,000 customers. …

Announced in Beijing Thursday at the Forbidden City, the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 is the latest addition to Xiaomi’s line of all-screen flagship phones. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, it has a 6.39-inch display like the Mi Mix with a 2,340×1,080-pixel resolution, meaning 93.4 percent of its body is screen. (The Mi Mix 2 is just 5.99 inches, by comparison.) If you’ve been keeping up …

The iPhone XS and XS Max are the top-tier 2018 iPhones, but the cheaper iPhone XR is capturing people’s attention with specs that are mostly on par with the more expensive iPhones. No, you won’t get the dual camera lenses that come with the XS or XS Max, and screen resolution won’t be quite as high, but all the features …

This is part of CNET’s “Crossing the Broadband Divide” series exploring the challenges of getting internet access to everyone. I sit in a massive green tractor, called a sprayer, as we drive down the field. A tablet in the machine’s cabin shows a map with blue rectangles marking where we’ve applied chemicals. Soon, I can see another sprayer pop up …

President Donald Trump really, really likes 5G.  The White House on Thursday announced that it was developing a plan to “position the United States to lead in next generation wireless networks for years to come.”  5G, which refers to the fifth generation of cellular technology, has been hailed as the foundation for other big trends like self-driving cars and streaming virtual reality. …

HTC just launched its early access period for the HTC Exodus 1, the company’s first blockchain phone. What does a “blockchain phone” even mean? Well, according to HTC, it’s called that because it’s blockchain-encrypted, and dedicated to security and decentralized applications. The phone also acts as its own blockchain node (you can read more about how blockchain works in this …