Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 will make its official debut on Aug. 7. Now leaked Verizon promotional materials appear to confirm there’ll also be a Note 10 Plus variant of the phone with 5G. Along with seemingly confirming the more powerful variant of the phone, the carrier appears to have a promotion that will give away …
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Google’s Pixel 3A drove the search giant’s overall phone sales, CEO Sundar Pichai told investors on Thursday. The budget phone, which debuted in May, was responsible for unit sales of Pixel products doubling in the second quarter, Pichai said in a call after the earnings release. Pichai also credited an expanded distribution network for the success of Pixel 3A, which …
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HMD Global, the company that makes Nokia phones, on Wednesday launched Nokia 220 4G and the new Nokia 105. The entry-level phones provide 4G and 2G connectivity to users in global markets. Nokia 220 4G offers HD voice calls over 4G LTE and allows users to go online via a web browser. Both phones come in durable, polycarbonate bodies, HMD Global said …
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Dish has made a deal with T-Mobile and Sprint to pay $5 billion for their wireless assets, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources. This would apparently set the stage for the Justice Department to give T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion merger with Sprint the thumbs-up as early as Thursday, something the Wall Street Journal reports it is prepared to do. The TV …
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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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Procrastinators, rejoice! You could have saved $300 on a Samsung Galaxy S10 for Prime Day last week. Failed to pull the trigger on a purchase? That’s OK — sometimes fortune favors not the bold but the indecisive. The phones are even cheaper now. Both Best Buy and Amazon still have the 512GB at its Prime Day price, but the savings …
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Selling your phone location data is a lucrative business, but it might not have a place in New York City: The City Council is considering a bill banning the practice within the five boroughs. Council member Justin Brannan on Tuesday proposed a bill that would prevent mobile carriers and apps from sharing people’s location data if that location is within …
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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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Verizon continued the rollout of its 5G network with the addition of St. Paul, Minnesota, the company said in a press release Thursday. This is the carrier’s fifth city with the higher-speed service, following Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis and Providence, Rhode Island. Not all areas of St. Paul will be able to access Verizon’s 5G network. Parts of downtown, Lowertown and West …
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US 4G wireless networks continued to show overall improvement even as 5G’s expansion continues to loom over the industry. In new industry rankings from wireless industry trackers IHS Markit’s RootMetrics and OpenSignal, Verizon continues to be praised for its robust nationwide 4G network while AT&T was once again found to have greatly improved its speed. The new rankings come a …
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