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South Korea ended March with a total of 14.48 million 5G subscribers, up from 7 million 5G users in May 2020, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. The total number of 5G …

Chinese vendor Huawei’s business felt the impact of the ongoing U.S. sanctions in the first quarter of the year, with a 16.5% year-on-year decline in revenues. In a release, Huawei reported revenues of CNY152.2 billion ($23.5 billion) in the first …

Singaporean operator Singtel said it is paving the way for the launch of a 5G standalone (SA) network across the country. The telco said it has already deployed 5G SA sites across the island in areas such as Orchard Road, …

Analysts are expecting a good year for the global smartphone market, after years of device upgrade stretching out further and further as users held on to their existing devices and an additional hit in 2020 due to regional lockdowns that …

Chinese vendor Huawei is not expecting the Biden administration to remove the company from the Entity List, the company’s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, said during a session with journalists at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2021. “We believe that we …

Company will shift focus to “growth sectors including EVs, IoT and B2B” South Korea’s LG Electronics is exiting the mobile phone market, planning to wind down its mobile phone business by July 31. The company has been the number three …

LitePoint exec: ‘When compared to 4G, 5G attach rates are one to two years ahead’ LitePoint, a wireless device testing company, saw a 10x increase in 5G mobile phone shipments last year, according to the company’s Director of Marketing Adam …

The most recent Apple phones have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 modem Several publications, including Fast Company and Bloomberg, have reported that Apple is working on the development of its own custom 5G modem. The modem, said to have been in the …

The Qualcomm platform tackles audio from the phone to the earbud Qualcomm is hoping to address consumer wireless audio frustrations with the announcement of Snapdragon Sound, a new end-to-end optimized audio platform. According to the company’s VP & GM, Voice …

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra supports enhanced intelligent Wi-Fi, OpenRoaming and Wi-Fi 6E Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra, announced in January, has a number of features aimed at eliminating a particularly annoying pain point for consumers: The transition between Wi-Fi …

Apple was the top smartphone vendor, shipping 90.1 million devices in Q4 While the global smartphone market took a hit overall in 2020 — declining 5.9% compared to 2019 — the final quarter of last year showed significant improvement, with …

The Lenovo AR glasses are equipped with Qualcomm’s Snadragon XR1 platform While we might not have gathered in Los Vegas for this year’s CES, companies didn’t miss a beat when it came to announcing and showcasing their latest products and …

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 can aggregate T-Mobile’s 600 MHz and 2.5 GHz 5G bands Samsung this week debuted its latest flagship, the Galaxy S21, with across-the-board feature advancements and, of course, support for non-standalone and standalone 5G both sub-6 GHz and …

At CES 2021, Samsung introduced new consumer robot concepts At this year’s virtual CES, Samsung’s President and Head of Research Sabastian Seung made the company’s goal of enhancing the at-home experience very clear. “Our world looks different, and many of …

More than 338 million Wi-Fi 6E devices are expected to enter the market in 2021 One month ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized the first Wi-Fi device for use in the 6 GHz spectrum band (5.925–7.125 GHz), a low-power …

Qualcomm Technologies, LG Uplus and LG Electronics have deployed what they claim is South Korea’s first 5G mmWave network using a commercial 5G smartphone at the Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT). The 5G mmWave network will enable new services …

Germany and Spain are set to receive the Nreal Light mixed reality glasses in spring of 2021 Vodafone Germany announced plans to introduce the Nreal Light glasses for augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) over its 5G network, beginning with Germany …

Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm Technologies have achieved what they claim are the world’s fastest 5G speeds on a commercial network in Finland by delivering 8 Gbps for the first time serving two 5G mmWave devices connected simultaneously, Nokia said in …

Consumers and carriers will both benefit from the inclusion of mmWave support in the iPhone 12 From the perspective of NI’s Head of Semiconductor Marketing David Hall, the release of the iPhone 12, which supports both sub-6 GHz and millimeter …

The augmented reality goggles can improve canine-handler communication. Senior scientist at the U.S. Army Research Office Dr. Stephen Lee told RCR Wireless News that human soldiers already use virtuality reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) products in training and on …

On this episode of Well, technically… Mary Beth Hall, the director of wireless strategy and marketing at Panasonic, weighs in on what enterprises can do today to prepare for 5G, even though it’s still in the early stages of adoption, …

The 5G smartphone market is now outperforming its predecessor generations, including Long Term Evolution (LTE) smartphones, on nearly every metric, including the number of mobile devices, subscribers, and networks available at launch. However, 5G brings with it a whole raft …

  Huawei reported revenues of CNY671.3 billion ($100.5 billion) for the first three quarters of the year, an increase of 9.9% over the same period last year, the company said in a release. In the same period the previous year, …

Head of Verizon’s XR Lab: ‘Apple’s use of LiDAR in the iPhone 12 Pro is a huge step in augmented reality’ Apple forever changed the course of 5G last week when it announced the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone …

The latest iPhone supports both millimeter wave and sub-6 5G It’s finally here: Apple announced the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone Pro Max and iPhone 12 mini, the first models in the series to support 5G, during a launch …