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An upgraded OnePlus Nord could land in the US
Leaked details offer a glimpse of OnePlus' next mid-range Nord phone.
Motorola's 5G-capable Edge is $200 off right now
The Motorola Edge drops to its pre-order price of $500.
Verizon spends big in FCC auction ahead of mid-band 5G launch
Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) was the biggest winner in the FCC’s recently concluded auction for licenses in the 3.5 GHz band.
Acer's Spin 7 convertible will support sub-6 and mmwave 5G
The company claims it's the first Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 notebook to do so.
Qualcomm is bringing 5G to its entry-level Snapdragon 4-series chipsets
Qualcomm plans to scale its 5G tech to entry-level 4-series chipsets.
Qualcomm promises better AI for its next Snapdragon PC chip
The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 follows up 2018’s Snapdragon 8cx, and back then the company said the “x” in the name stood for “extreme” power. Amon pointed out the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2’s image signal processor (ISP) as a means to help webcams deliver better quality.
HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns after less than a year
HTC President and CEO Yves Maitre has resigned due to personal reasons, and chairwoman Cher Wang is back in charge.
The Galaxy A42 could be Samsung's cheapest 5G phone yet
Samsung latest phone is a mid-range device with 5G connectivity, a large 6.6-inch display and four main cameras.
Samsung's latest Galaxy Book Flex gets 5G and 11th-gen Intel CPUs
The 2-in-1 has a '13MP world-facing camera,' in case that's something you ever wanted.
Niantic creates a 5G supergroup for 'planet-scale AR' experiences
Niantic, the AR specialist behind Ingress and Pokémon Go, has made a telecommunications dream team with some of the world’s biggest carriers. The ‘Planet-Scale AR Alliance’ has been formed with Deutsche Telekom, EE, Globe, Orange, SK Telecom, SoftBank, TELUS and Verizon. Niantic has been building and teasing a “planet-scale” AR platform for some time that will help developers make their own location-based experiences.
Motorola's latest mid-range phone is a sub-$500 stunner with 5G
Motorola has been on a tear this year: It has announced or released more than ten new smartphones in 2020, and rumor has it there's at least one more big reveal coming soon. For what it's worth though, the brand's latest mid-range offering the -- Motorola One 5G -- might be its most appealing new release yet. Motorola promised earlier this year it would release a 5G smartphone for under $500, and, well, you're looking at it.
T-Mobile's latest Revvl phone offers 5G speeds for $200
The 5G revolution isn’t quite upon us, but it doesn’t hurt to own a phone that’s primed and ready. The company believes the hardware — which costs $399.99, or $16.67 per month over two years — is “America’s most affordable 5G smartphone, ever.” The phone will be available through T-Mobile’s Metro sub-brand, too, for the same price.
Cricket launches 5G service with just one phone
Cricket Wireless has introduced 5G service, but there's only one phone that can use it.
The 5G BlackBerry could be 'the most American-made phone out there'
BlackBerry faithful were dealt a harsh blow earlier this year when TCL, the biggest company to build phones for the brand, said it would stop. That left enthusiasts clinging to their KEY2s, wondering about would-be replacements, and raising glasses to the good old days — at least until an upstart Texas outfit announced plans to pick up where TCL left off.
BlackBerry phones are back, baby
The startup OnwardMobility plans to release a 5G BlackBerry smartphone in the first half of 2021.
ZTE's Axon 20 5G smartphone will have the first under-display camera
ZTE has announced that it will release the first smartphone with an under-display selfie camera. The Axon 20 5G is expected to have a 6.92-inch OLED display, but there’ll be no notches, punch holes or other blemishes where a front camera would normally go. We just hope that under-display tech has improved since we last saw it on an Oppo prototype, because that model showed a fair amount of hazing.
Motorola will show off its latest Razr successor on September 9th
We'll likely see the company announce a new version of its Razr foldable.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ hands-on: It's all about that spec sheet
Samsung is one of few companies still making premium Android tablets, and it’s getting pretty good at it. The company announced the new Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+ at its Unpacked event yesterday and based simply off the specs, these are very impressive devices. The Tab S7 is smaller and uses an LCD screen, while the 12-inch S7+ is clearly the higher end model.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+ are the first 5G tablets in the US
Among the five products that Samsung unveiled today at its Unpacked event are the new Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+. The company is one of very few Android tablet makers left, and the S7 and S7+ are the latest in its premium slate lineup. In fact, Samsung itself said the Tab S7 and S7+ “combine the power of a PC, the flexibility of a tablet and the connectivity of a smartphone.”
T-Mobile switches on its standalone 5G network in thousands of cities
Unlike other 5G networks in the US, it's not built on top of LTE infrastructure.