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In Qualcomm anti-trust battles, Korean FTC could be its ticking time bomb
As part of antitrust mitigation measures it's obligated to fulfill, Qulacomm has to renegotiate a bunch of patent licensing deals. It hasn't happened.
The Pocophone F1 is available in the US with big limitations
You can now buy a Pocophone F1 in the United States through some eBay sellers. Just be warned of its limitations before you buy one
The long goodbye to CDMA: Verizon not activating 3G-only phones
The 3G network still has a year and a half before it officially shuts down, but it's been whittled down to a point where Verizon won't take any more in.
Intel’s latest iPhone modem supports CDMA, still needs to share orders with Qualcomm
Intel says it is making great strides with its latest LTE modem which will likely go into this year's new iPhones and has its eyes on the 5G prize.
In New York, Verizon has only 20MHz of CDMA left to replace
A big piece of LTE has come into place in the United States's biggest market for the nation's most subscribed-to mobile network.
LG makes an LTE flip phone for Verizon, holds the CDMA
Verizon's officially quitting its legacy CDMA network. How can we tell? The LG Exalt LTE is a flip phone. And yes, it supports VoLTE.
Verizon HTC U11 is one of the first to ditch CDMA support
If it's not the first, HTC is still getting it in there with LTE-only support on Verizon. Data, messaging, voice, everything through 4G.
Verizon CDMA to finally die (at least in one form) by 2020
The end of 2G is coming. Three and a half years, really. The 1xRTT network, which carries some voice and data traffic, is turning off.
Xiaomi Mi 5 could theoretically be used on any US network
LTE? Sure. All the bands. GSM? Yep, of course. But CDMA? Funny enough, that gets supported on the Xiaomi Mi 5, too.
Simultaneous Voice & Data: The #1 Feature You Take For Granted
Talking and surfing ... at the same time. Once a luxury ability used to differentiate AT&T's network from Verizon's, now it's common-- and underappreciated.
Android Guy Weekly: Is Cellular More Secure than WiFi?
As smartphones are getting faster, we're able to do more with them. In fact, many of us are phasing out the use of traditional computers for their miniature cousins in our pockets. Smartphones and tablets aren't wired down to a network jack, they're…
In Praise of the iPhone and iOS
How well do you remember the smartphone back in 2006? Chances are most of you didn't really care about them or owned one because they were either too expensive or just too difficult to operate effectively. This was the era of predominant QWERTY…
Apple Sells Out iPhone 4S In Less Than 24H, AT&T Accounts 200K
The newly launched iPhone 4S went up on pre-order yesterday as promised and, even if there were some hick-ups with the system not working for everyone on the first try (nothing unusual), Apple seems to have sold out the initial amount of devices. If…
Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch Review (Sprint)
The Samsung Galaxy S II is one of the most highly anticipated devices to arrive in the US in quite some time, and Sprint is the first to receive it in the form of the Epic 4G Touch (shortened name for the sake of time). With a massive 4.52-inch…
Why Are Download Speeds Faster Than Upload Speeds?
It's an age-old question: Why are my download speeds so much faster than my upload speeds? To answer that we need to hop in the time-machine to the days of dial-up modems. Don't worry, we won't stay long. Back in the mid- to late-1990's we had…
Samsung Epic 4G Review
As we've mentioned in the past, Samsung's Galaxy S series of devices are a really big deal for the company. They represent the best engineering the company can muster both in terms of hardware and software for a smartphone device. This is the third…
Simultaneous Voice & Data Coming to CDMA
Further fueling fire behind rumors of an iPhone on Verizon Wireless rumor, CDMA Development Group spokesperson Brad Shewmake told the WSJ that the CDMA group, which provides the standards that Verizon Wireless network in the U.S. is based upon,…