BROWSING: Smartphone

  When I was 13, I wanted a phone in my room, so I could talk to friends in my own space instead of sitting on the basement stairs or pacing back and forth in the kitchen and ultimately knotting the curly cord like a...

  Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280 and the internet was not shy about testing their boundaries. And we’ll likely see the limit edge ever upwards in the future. Why? Because consumers always push the boundaries of technological scarcity, and given...

Why are smartphone product designers getting it so wrong? Maybe they are using their own personal preferences. Maybe they got some bad data. It doesn’t matter. They are wrong. The entire wireless marketplace does not want huge screens and giant smartphones. A slice of...

Since 2005, Lenovo has done very well. They acquired the ThinkPad brand of laptops from IBM and that success apparently gave them a false sense of security. They thought they had the secret sauce, but apparently they are not bulletproof. They acquired Motorola in...

Signals Research Group conducted 4x4 MIMO testing that showed a 55% speed boost on a live T-Mobile network using Samsung devices. Claimed performance advantages of complex multiple-input/multiple-output antenna technologies appear to have been validated by recent network performance testing conducted by Signals...

More precise antenna tuning can help a smartphone take advantage of new technologies and new spectrum resources. Editor’s Note: In the Analyst Angle section, we’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics...

New Huawei phone to uses additional solutions from Universal Electronics including infrared blaster control technology. Universal Electronics, a provider of universal control and sensing technologies targeting the smart home market, said its QuickSet solution has been integrated in the new Porsche-designed Huawei Mate 9 smartphone. The...

Baby boomers may not be as young as they once were, but their bandwidth demands match those of younger generations. Baby boomers are the rock-n-roll generation that was raised on television. Named for the post-World War II “baby boom” of 1946-1964, this was the first...

PwC’s Strategy& division looks at the impact the removal of smartphone subsidies and new era of used devices and trade-ins is having on carriers and OEMs. The domestic cellular market has witnessed a wave of new operating models highlighted by the push from...

World's most intelligent smart building Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world's smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...

World's most intelligent smart building Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world's smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...

Google has declared the smartphone business is too important to leave to others with its move for tighter integration between hardware and software Google is getting serious about mobile. Of course, it has always been serious about mobile since it acquired Android and, along with...

Tablet customers can now tap in the Sprint unlimited data morass with the carrier offering $20 per month access, in line with rival T-Mobile Sprint is pushing a new tablet-related promotion tied to its recent unlimited data moves, allowing the big-screened devices to access services...

HONG KONG — Qualcomm today introduced three new Snapdragon processors aimed at supporting enhanced user experiences and connectivity for high and mid tier mobile devices. The Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427 processors are designed to deliver higher levels of processing performance than their predecessors, the 652,...

HONG KONG – At the 4G/5G Summit today, Qualcomm introduced three new Snapdragon processors aimed at supporting enhanced user experiences and connectivity for high- and mid-tier mobile devices. The Snapdragon 653, 626 and 427 processors are designed to deliver higher levels of processing performance than their predecessors,...

The recent Samsung Note 7 battery and the SpaceX explosions show things go wrong in spite of our best planning It was shocking to see the recent photos and videos of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploding during a routine preflight test as well as...

When Microsoft bought Nokia in 2014, it brought a dying captain onto a burning ship (or should we say, platform.) Nokia, once the leader in mobile phone sales, was on a downward spiral into irrelevance only helped out by its unflinching loyalty to Microsoft's...

When Microsoft bought Nokia in 2014, it brought a dying captain onto a burning ship (or should we say, platform.) Nokia, once the leader in mobile phone sales, was on a downward spiral into irrelevance only helped out by its unflinching loyalty to Microsoft's...

Traditional TV broadcast generates the most viewers, but video streaming to mobile devices is growing fast The recently held Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were certainly very exciting with out-of-this-world performances by Michael Phelps, Katie Ladecky, Simone Biles and Usain Bolt just to name...

Innovation in cellular and other supporting technologies as well as in applications will sustain the rate of smartphone improvements Press and industry analyst response to the recent announcement of the iPhone 7 has been lukewarm. For example, The Economist notes the “main novelty” is it...

Cricket Wireless and MetroPCS, prepaid proxies of AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile US, respectively, both now offer $30 entry-level plans with “unlimited” services AT&T Mobility’s Cricket Wireless prepaid brand unveiled a new entry-level smartphone plan that includes “unlimited” domestic talk, text messaging and data services for...

What are indoor positioning systems? Indoor positioning systems (IPS) are the indoor equivalent of what GPS offers outdoors: visibility. They are able to locate people and objects inside buildings, usually using a mobile device, like a smartphone or tablet. IPS relies on technologies like wall- or ceiling-mounted...

Sprint claims latest lab test used 60 megahertz in the 2.5 GHz band to support speeds up to 295 Mbps Sprint continues its quest for speed, noting its latest three-channel carrier aggregation lab testing resulted in throughput of up to 295 megabits per second using...

Column updated to correct information on game features Catching the little Pokémon creatures has caught on like the Hula-Hoop, with the real benefit of the game getting people to use augmented reality We’ve all heard a lot in the news about the rage that’s taken over...