Thank you to Apple for finally listening to my suggestions and your customer cries over the last several years. Next week they will announce four different iPhone models and one in particular should be very successful for a group of Apple customers who have...
There's no 5G-capable iPhone available yet (although one is expected to be announced as early as next week). But a recent consumer survey conducted by Global Wireless Solutions found that nearly half—49%—of U.S. consumers with iPhone believe the device in their hands is capable...
Key Wi-Fi Vantage features include Passpoint, Wi-Fi Agile Multiband and Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity
Wi-Fi Alliance is upgrading its Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage certification program to include advanced features for Wi-Fi 6 devices. Vantage is designed to make it easy to identify and select devices that provide...
The lack of an Apple iPhone that is 5G-capable has held back 5G adoption in the U.S. -- but as Apple and Google join the 5G fray this fall, more users could get a jolt to their speeds, according to new analysis from OpenSignal....
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies currently holds sufficient stock of chips for the company’s network equipment businesses to overcome supply chain obstacles raised by U.S. sanctions, rotating chairman Guo Ping said during a media rountable at Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, China.
The executive also noted...
According to Unmanned Systems Technology, 5G will enable three prominent drone technologies
It has been shown that flying drones on cellular networks, particularly 5G networks, is a viable option for delivering low-latency and high-performing drone applications such as emergency supply delivery, search and rescue missions...
Softbank will retain a 25% stake in Brightstar
Softbank is selling Brightstar, the Miami-based cell phone distributor that it purchased in 2014, to the private equity firm of Brightstar Capital Partners (BCP), which will acquire a majority stake of the company at 75%, while Softbank...
It is bliss, as an engineer, to witness a whopping 2Gpbs speed on a live commercial network, using an off the shelf device. And that was my experience a few weeks ago, using the new Lenovo Flex 5G on Verizon’s live mmWave network in...
The 5G hotspot uses Wi-Fi 6 and can support up to 32 Wi-Fi devices
AT&T has announced the Netgear Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot Pro, the provider’s first 5G hot spot for consumers. Before, only businesses had access to the company's 5G hot spot, and the...
On this week’s episode, Julie Purves, CEO and founder of B2M Solutions, discusses mobile analytics in the time of COVID-19 and the growing role that mobile devices play in the workplace. She also explores the question: Are failing devices making your employees sick?
The 5G device ecosystem continues to grow and the number of announced 5G devices has hit 400, more than doubling since the start of 2020, according to a new report from the Global mobile Suppliers Association.
Four hundred and one 5G devices from 93 vendors...
Every time I see the frontline users chugging along those thick, heavy, oversized rugged phones, I feel there should be a way to make them sleek, and stylish like consumer phones, without compromising on the functionality. And I am delighted to say that Samsung...
On this week's episode of Well, technically... prominent Tech Analyst Carolina Milanesi discusses her new company The Heart of Tech, which aims to help technology providers in two key areas that should be on the minds of every tech company: education and diversity.
IDC predicts that the global smartphone market will fully recover by 2022
According to International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the global smartphone market is forecast to decline 9.5% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units, following a...
Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson said they have completed interoperability tests for 5G standalone (SA) carrier aggregation across both FDD/TDD and TDD/TDD bands.
The partners explained that 5G carrier aggregation technology allows operators to use multiple sub-6 GHz spectrum channels simultaneously to transfer data between base...
Testing, inspection and certification company Bureau Veritas announced that its Silicon Valley laboratory in Sunnyvale is now fully equipped and ready to offer 5G certification service for Global Certification Forum, PTCRB and key carrier requirements.
The new location in California extends Bureau Veritas' existing portfolio of 5G...
As public safety users rely more and more often on mobile technology, what are the common issues they encounter with smartphones and tablets that are almost always designed for consumer use?
At the recent virtual incarnation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Public...
Analysts: 'Huawei’s smartphone market success an unexpected and remarkable result'
Huawei has had a tough go of it lately as the U.S. continues to box the Chinese company out of 5G network deployments. However, the company has experienced a few wins this week, securing a...
XR market will experience strong growth from 2021 onwards, says Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics predicted that, despite a challenging year, the XR market will experience strong growth from 2021 onwards. Specifically, the report anticipates XR shipments to grow six-fold from 2020 to 2025 with revenues...
The Snapdragon 865+ boasts a 10% increase in both clock speed and graphic rendering
Qualcomm released an updated to its Snapdragon 865 SoC, the Snapdragon 865+. While the Snapdragon 865 is already powering a number of well-received Android smartphone devices this year, including the Galaxy...
GSA: 135 5G devices are already commercially available
Earlier this week, the Global mobile Supplies Association (GSA) reported that there are now 317 devices around the world that support 5G. Of those, 135 are understood to be commercially available, up from 112 5G supported devices...
OPPO worked with Ericsson, MediaTek and Qualcomm on Vodafone's SA 5G network
A few days ago, Vodafone UK switched-on what it claimed was the first live standalone (SA) 5G deployment in the country with a number of partners including Ericsson, MediaTek, OPPO and Qualcomm. Today,...
The Lenovo Flex 5G is outfitted with the Snapdragon 8cx 5G compute platform
Verizon will launch the first 5G laptop for its Ultra Wideband network this week, which will complement the offering of its new 5G Ultra Wideband Connected Device Plan, starting at $30 a...
Video made “business as usual” possible, Brightcove report says
Enterprise video use is supporting business continuity and has skyrocketed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a 91% year-over-year increase in views of enterprise videos and a 35% increase in minutes watched, according...
