Mobile Phone

Qualcomm doesn’t normally announce when it’s shipping new SoCs to customers, but the company has done so this time. According to QC, its unnamed next-generation SoC is sampling to specific customers with an included X50 5G modem. That’s a significant achievement for the new product, since pushing 5G out to …

It’s not unusual for information about mobile devices to leak online weeks or months before the hardware goes on sale. It is unusual for an device to leak before the manufacturer has even announced a date for said smartphone’s launch event. But that’s what appears to have happened to the …

Apple recently strengthened its App Store policies on data collection, which has led to numerous apps getting the boot. The latest casualty of the policy is somewhat more notable than the rest. Facebook’s free Onavo Protect VPN client has been removed for violating Apple’s user data rules. A VPN client …

Plenty of consumers have run into mobile data caps, and the availability of “unlimited” plans doesn’t guarantee you a truly unlimited experience. Carriers still regularly throttle users who consume what the carrier considers “too much” data, and a California fire department can tell you how frustrating that is. While personnel …

A new app called HiHello is taking aim at business cards. While plenty of apps in the past have tried to kill the business card, they never achieved critical mass. Mainly, this is because most required that both parties — the business card holder and recipient — have their app …

Tinder is today rolling out what may be one of its smartest additions yet with the launch of Tinder U, a feature designed specifically for Tinder users in college. Once enabled, students with a .edu email address will be able to register with their school, then swipe on students who …

Over the last few years, companies like Qualcomm and Apple have regularly led the transition to new process nodes. This year, that flag may go to Huawei, if the company’s recent press statements are accurate. That’s not normally a reference one would write, but Huawei’s description of its own launch is …

Google has acknowledged that it still tracks users who disable Location Tracking, after an investigation from The Associated Press. It’s not the first time the company has slammed into privacy problems related to its phones — in November 2017, the company acknowledged it tracked cell phones that didn’t have a …

In what has become something of a yearly tradition, consulting firm DisplayMate has crowned the new Galaxy Note as the king of display quality. According to the report, the Galaxy Note 9 has record high color accuracy. Displaymate goes so far as to call it “visually indistinguishable from perfect.” That’s …

In the United States, Samsung and Apple command nearly a supermajority of the phone market, with an estimated 64 percent of the space between them. Here, Samsung has been a dominant player for so long, it’s hard to imagine the company falling on hard times. But in other markets, the …