Mobile Phone

  Motorola claims it’s been working on its new foldable Razr smartphone for years, but it wasn’t ready to launch the device in December as originally planned. Verizon now says it’s ready to release the device on February 6th, and pre-orders go live on January 26th. However, the phone will …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in …

Despite the U.S. government’s concerns over TikTok, which most recently led to the U.S. Navy banning service members’ use of the app, TikTok had a stellar 2019 in terms of both downloads and revenue. According to new data from Sensor Tower, 44% of TikTok’s total 1.65 billion downloads to date, …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch collection that summarizes the most up to date OS information, the applications they sustain and also the cash that streams with all of it. The application market is as warm as ever before with a document 203 billion downloads in …

Apple this morning released a year-end retrospective of its Services business, which includes the App Store, Apple Music, iCloud and, new in 2019, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple News+ and Apple Card. In particular, the company highlighted new holiday 2019 records set on the App Store, which sees over a …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with 194 billion downloads last year and more than $100 billion in consumer spending. People spend 90% …

In addition to its new report on the top apps of 2019, app store intelligence firm App Annie also closed out the year with its Decade in Review analysis, which looks at the most popular apps over the past 10 years. Not surprisingly, Facebook dominated the charts, claiming four of …

  If you ask ATT, it’ll tell you it was the first US carrier to launch 5G at the very end of 2018, but that’s only true by some very narrow definitions of the word “launch.” It wouldn’t let most people actually buy or use phones on its 5G network, …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with 194 billion downloads last year and more than $100 billion in consumer spending. People spend …

  Google added a conversation mode to its Translate app way back in 2011, but that requires installing an app. That’s so old-fashioned. Google also added an interesting interpreter mode to Assistant smart speakers recently, but that wasn’t helpful for travel. Now, interpreter mode is available on phones, allowing you …