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.
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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.
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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.
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The chipmaker is having great legal troubles with antitrust and licensing deals, but it has been able to pick up a new contract with Samsung.
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With an epic battery in tow, great camera, reasonable horsepower and especially a QWERTY keyboard, the $500 BlackBerry KEYone looks like a bargain.
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Priced at $180, and up for grabs on Amazon.com, the BLU S1 is nothing to write home about, but it does support Sprint in addition to AT&T and T-Mobile.
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Echoes of the same anticompetitive behavior over CDMA and LTE patents have come out of Korean and US governments as well as Apple.
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Apple and Qualcomm are locked into litigation over anti-competition accusations and failure to hold to licensing terms. The situation has gotten messy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Samsung usually takes a few months to roll out unlocked US units in deference to its carrier partners. We may see the S8 series drag out to August.
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The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have cellular modems from two sources, the first time modem sourcing has been diversified for the device series. Qualcomm provided CDMA-capable chips — to wit, it is the X12 LTE modem that can be found on the Snapdragon 820 — for iPhones destined for the US, China and Japan while other territories got iPhones with Intel modems.Intel is said to be using this opportunity to gun for
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Verizon’s looking forward to leave behind this decade with some of the oldest technology in wireless communications it uses.Its CDMA 1X network, which carries traffic for some end consumers as well as machine-to-machine clients, is scheduled to be entirely off by December 31, 2019. In an interview with FierceWireless, spokesperson Chuck Hamby said that the company is working on converting businesses running CDMA-reliant equipment and will work with customers “one-on-one.”“Should there be ...
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You are being irradiated by everything. X-rays. Airplanes. Bananas. All the nuclear plants in the world. Yes, even your cellphone. And of all the things that could very much be strangling your cells, that last thing might just be the thing you’re most wary of.Well, turns out that it’s way less likely to give you cancer than licking nuclear waste.The National Institutes of Health, which runs the National Toxicology Program, released a study that concludes that constant exposure to radiofrequency ...
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