Google Home owners can make calls with their device, but most won't be able to link their phone number to it — except for Project Fi and Google Voice users.
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Sprint subscribers can user data while they're making calls on LTE and Wi-Fi to look up maps and cloud drive files in their busy, bus lives... finally.
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The sub-flagship gets some tender loving care with ZTE and a frontline Android update with improved network support from T-Mobile.
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Roughly one month after making the pivotal jump from Android 6.0 Marshmallow to 7.0 Nougat, the US ZTE Axon 7 also gets the less important 7.1 update.
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Speaking at an Ericsson event at MWC 2017, T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said that the carrier will have to work on converting every last call onto VoLTE.
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Why does it seem like the DROID Turbo phones can’t seem to get good software fast enough?It took just until today for last year’s DROID Turbo 2 on Verizon to nab Wi-Fi Calling. The feature’s contained within software update 24.31.22 and must be activated within the “Advanced Calling” section of the ...
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AT&T was granted permission by the FCC to implement Wi-Fi Calling onto its devices late last year. It was able to get all of its current iPhones connected, but the carrier hasn’t been able to touch an Android device since then.Today, Ma Bell announced that the LG G4 now has WLAN-enabled SMS and calling features through a software update. Wi-Fi Calling will spread to other Android handsets sooner or later, but for ...
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AT&T was granted permission by the FCC to implement Wi-Fi Calling onto its devices late last year. It was able to get all of its current iPhones connected, but the carrier hasn’t been able to touch an Android device since then.Today, Ma Bell announced that the LG G4 now has WLAN-enabled SMS and calling features through a software update. Wi-Fi Calling will spread to other Android handsets sooner or later, but for ...
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Another patent holding company is going for the jugulars of three wireless giants, one of them being in Cupertino.Voip-Pal.com Inc. has filed suit against Apple, AT&T and Verizon and is looking to get cumulative damages of $7 billion after the company said it could not negotiate licensing terms with the defendants for its patents.In the case with Apple, Voip-Pal asserts infringement claims against iMessage and the Wi-Fi Calling features. The two patents in question pertain to classifying ...
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If you’re on Republic Wireless, you likely see a cellular connection as a supplement to the vast amounts of data you consume on your local network. Having the gaps covered while hopping between hotspots can fit the small bill you end up paying each month. But Republic’s looking to patch even tinier gaps — the ones in your calls.The Sprint MVNO has introduced Bonded Calling, using a cellular connection as ...
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I’m sitting in my grandmother’s house in my hometown, and I want to make a call. I pick up my phone, dial a number, and hit the giant red Call button. It fails. I remember T-Mobile has literally no service in Pinnacle, North Carolina, so I connect to her Wi-Fi network. “I can use Wi-Fi calling,” I think. Nope. The Moto X doesn’t support Wi-Fi calling. People, this is 2014. This should not happen. I have a perfectly good Wi-Fi network and a perfectly capable smartphone in an area with no service, and I still have no way to place a call, unless I pick up the ...
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