If you thought Huawei’s P20 Pro brought the heat with three cameras on the back, the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS ups the ante with a fingerprint reader built into the display. That makes this mouthful of a phone the second to boast a trio of cameras on the back (after the Mate P20 Pro) …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Reaching for a new world. Apple; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Whenever Apple has one of its product unveilings, it likes to release an uplifting ad, full of feel-good flavor. After its launch Tuesday of a new $329 iPad to help schools get ahead, the …
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A key milestone in the nationwide public safety wireless network known as FirstNet has been met, according to AT&T, which is building the network. AT&T announced on Tuesday that the “core” of the dedicated 4G wireless network, which acts as the “brain and nervous system” for the network, is live and ready for local agencies to begin the work of …
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai is proposing new rules that would bar telecommunications and broadband companies from using a government subsidy program to buy telecom equipment and services from “any company that poses a national security threat.” Pai didn’t specify which companies or countries would be banned as part of the proposal. Officials from the FCC said on a call with …
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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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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image But who will sell it best? Andrew Hoyle/CNET My inbox dripped with emails. After my visits to three Bay Area carrier stores last week in an attempt to see how — or even whether — the new Samsung Galaxy S9 was being sold, …
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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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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A good idea? Or a touch annoying? Android Authority/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s not easy being shunned. You can feel hurt. You might even want to protest. This may be what inspired Huawei to place mobile billboards outside Apple and Samsung Experience stores in …
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That Galaxy S9 Plus sure isn’t cheap to make. A report from Tech Insights pegs the cost of components and assembly at $379, up $36 from last year’s Galaxy S8 Plus and up $10 from the Note 8. The biggest increase in cost from the older devices came in the camera. Samsung packed a second lens in this year’s S9 …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Can I live with it? Marvel Studios It was pouring with rain. So it was time to go to the dark side. As a longtime iPhone user, I decided to buy a Samsung Galaxy S9 to see what it was like to live …
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