The FCC has named four companies that will act as spectrum access system (SAS) managers for the upcoming OnGo-branded CBRS network access.
IHS Markit released its State of the Mobile Union report for second half of 2019, with metrics that measure network performance in major cities across the U.S. Results were quite mixed, but Verizon was the clear overall winner. The report also details the growing pains each carrier is experiencing with 5G rollout.
Sprint lost 115,000 subscribers, and though the overall loss was less than expected, prospects for the fourth-largest carrier seem grim unless the merger with T-Mobile is approved.
Qualcomm's aptX Voice audio is a new codec that brings aptX HD audio quality to voice calls. It works with existing Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765 devices and future devices with Qualcomm's next Bluetooth chipset
The FCC has issued a report calling into question the accuracy of official coverage maps from Verizon, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular. These maps are used to allocate federal funds.
Mint Mobile announced Ryan Reynolds, the Deadpool actor, has purchased an ownership stake in the company and will help with communications and marketing as well as decision-making
T-Mobile's Connecting Heroes Initiative will give free 5G access to all first responder agencies for the next 10 years
Using your iOS or Android phone, a free app, and your wireless network, this product will help you feed your pets. Enter information about your fur baby into the app. It'll recommend meal portions and then dole out food on the right schedule.
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When it comes to the best VR experience, there are some substantial differences between the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8 Plus.
This marks the conclusion of Talk Mobile 2013. After fifty episodes, more than a hundred breakout videos, and two hundred essays, it's time to wind down the insanity and take a step back an look back at what all transpired. While Talk Mobile brought new tools to the mix, both technical and editorial, the crowning accomplishment was the conversation - not between the writers, but the...
Mobile You. The last of ten weeks of Talk Mobile 2013, and it was all-too-appropriately all about you. From how to find the right smartphone for you to how to customize that phone to how to manage your family of mobile devices and mobile device users, week ten was about the mobile you. The modern smartphone is a beast that has changed the way that we live and communicate. It's...
For all the time we've spent in Talk Mobile talking about specs, services, carriers, and usage, we haven't spent much time on what these devices look like. Sure, they're mostly glass slabs with white or black framing (with a few exceptions), but beyond that glass, what else is there? With unit sales moving well past the millions monthly, with people willing to line up overnight to be...
More than anything in the past, the internet offers the opportunity to rocket your notoriety into the stratosphere overnight. News used to run in a daily cycle, with the morning newspaper, maybe an afternoon edition, and the evening news. Today the news runs in an unending unstopping cycle, augmented, supplemented, and in large part supplanted by social networking and media. What you...
We humans are social characters by nature. We gather with friends, we pair off with mates, we love and care about our families to the point of being irrational. Modern technology enables those bonds to transcend space and time, but they add a whole new layer of complication to our lives. The same decision making processes that we have to apply to making our own smartphone purchasing...
For the longest time your options with mobile devices were limited. If you wanted a smartphone, chances are you'd be getting one with a physical keyboard, either the Treo/BlackBerry-style "candybar" smartphone or a horizontal slider. If you wanted a tablet, you were looking at a thick stylus-driven experience mated to laptop-style internals. And if you wanted a laptop, well, you could...
Back in late 2009, CrackBerry's Kevin Michaluk composed what he termed "the smartphone hierarchy of needs". Based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which stretched from the physiological (food, water, shelter, air, etc) to self-actualization (creativity, morality, purpose, meaning, etc), Kevin's hierarchy sought to classify what he looked for in a smartphone, and in what order. The...
Having a smartphone isn't enough anymore. Our mobile devices exist in a whole ecosystem of accessories, from connected speakers to fitness monitors to thermostats, refrigerators, and cars. We've gone from standalone devices that queried the internet to cloud-connected mobile hubs that coordinate all of the devices in our lives. The smartphone has domain over everything, and now it's...
There's one thing we can be almost certain of in the years to come: we're going to wear and carry more tech with us every day. Our smartphones will be more powerful, our watches smarter, and our glasses more connected. We'll carry sensors and radios everywhere, and they'll collect more data than ever before. But what are we going to do with that, where are we going to access it all, and...
When it comes to expensive purchases, cars rank right up there. Not only are they designed to go fast, they're designed to do so in relative comfort and safety, while costing as little to do so as possible. Even with all of that design they're still complicated machines to operate. Yet, they can simultaneously be boring. What's engaging about coasting down an open stretch of highway?...