Smartphone

The company plans to test 5G speeds in Barcelona’s streets during Mobile World Congress next week Vodafone claimed to be the world’s first operator to connect 5G smartphones to its …

  Some of the most significant media disruptions have come from using a physical device to create friendlier and more frictionless access to media. Think of the Tivo, Apple TV, …

Qualcomm engineers test Vivo’s 5G mmWave antenna in commercial form factor Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo and U.S. semiconductor company Qualcomm have integrated a 5G millimeter wave antenna array into a commercial-sized smartphone and measured its performance over the …

  Carriers have been smart when it comes to data plans — they’ve adapted plan offerings to consumer usage. It’s time for their phones to follow suit. Consumers no longer …

  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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

Signals Research Group conducted 4×4 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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …