Xiaomi’s investment house of IoT surpasses 300 companies
Xiaomi, the Chinese comapny famous for its budget smartphones and a bevy of value-for-money gadgets, said in a filing on Thursday that it has backed more than 300 companies as… Read more »
Category: 5g
China’s Oppo partners with Vodafone for bigger European push
Huawei is facing an uphill challenge in the overseas market as its upcoming devices lack the full set of Google apps and services. That leaves ample room for its Chinese… Read more »
Razor blades hidden behind anti-5G posters by conspiracy nuts, telecoms engineers are being warned
RAZOR blades have been hidden behind anti-5G posters by conspiracy nuts, telecoms engineers are being warned. It comes amid a spike in attacks on engineers, fuelled by a bonkers conspiracy… Read more »
How Huawei is dividing Western nations
The relationship between the United Kingdom and Australia is not usually a flashpoint in international relations. After all, the two allies share a common language, ancestry, and monarch. So what… Read more »
5G devices were less than 1% of US smartphone purchases in 2019
No surprise, really, that 5G smartphone sales are on the way up. Frankly, there’s really no other way to go, according to the latest numbers from NPD’s Mobile Phone Tracking…. Read more »
Google Cloud goes after the telco business with Anthos for Telecom and its Global Mobile Edge Cloud
Google Cloud today announced a new solution for its telecom customers: Anthos for Telecom. You can think of this as a specialized edition of Google’s container-based Anthos multi-cloud platform for… Read more »
Huawei’s ill-fated foldable returns with a more robust upgrade
MWC may have been canceled on account of rising coronavirus concerns, but the party still went on for Huawei (albeit to what appears to have been a mostly empty room)…. Read more »
Sony announces its first 5G flagship, the triple lens Xperia 1 II
Sony has announced its first 5G smartphone: The Xperia 1 II — which, for the curious and/or confused, is pronounced ‘Xperia One, Mark Two’. Which isn’t at all confusing, er…. Read more »
BT launches 5G in 50 towns and cities across the UK – but cheapest plan is £57 a month
SUPER-FAST 5G internet is now available in 50 towns and cities across the UK thanks to BT. Today’s switch-on makes 5G available to all BT customers in huge hubs like… Read more »
Tories express concern over Huawei role in UK 5G network
Letter from Iain Duncan Smith and other MPs requests that ‘high-risk’ vendors are ruled out A group of senior Conservatives has written to Tory MPs expressing concern over the government’s… Read more »
Qualcomm faces fresh competition scrutiny in Europe over RFFE chips for 5G
Qualcomm is facing fresh antitrust scrutiny from the European Commission, with the regulator raising questions about radio frequency front-end (RFFE) chips which can be used in 5G devices. The chipmaker… Read more »
Samsung shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019
Samsung Electronics announced today that it shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019, surpassing expectations set by the company earlier. In September, Samsung Electronics vice president JuneHee… Read more »
China nears completion of its GPS competitor, increasing the potential for Internet balkanization
On Friday, China announced that it would complete its competitor to the U.S.-operated global positioning system network by the first half of next year, increasing the pace of its decoupling… Read more »
Qualcomm launches the XR2 platform for 5G-connected AR and VR devices
At its Snapdragon Boondoggle Summit in sunny Maui, Hawaii, Qualcomm today announced the launch of its XR2 platform, which it describes as the “world’s first 5G-supported extended reality (XR) platform.”… Read more »
What we know about Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 865 and 765 chips
Qualcomm’s holding its big annual get-together this week in Hawaii, portioning off Snapdragon news, piece by piece. Yesterday’s event was the big unveiling of the Snapdragon 865 and 765, the… Read more »
HTC’s new CEO discusses the phonemaker’s future
On September 17, HTC announced that cofounder Cher Wang would be stepping down as CEO. In her place, Yves Maitre stepped into the role of Chief Executive, after more than… Read more »
Countryside communities will be first to benefit from 5G internet under new plans to overhaul planning laws
DIGITAL Secretary Nicky Morgan last night pledged a radical overhaul of planning laws to make Britain’s countryside communities among the first to benefit from 5G internet. She has also announced… Read more »
There’s a 5G version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10+ headed for Verizon
The 5G iPhone isn’t expected until roughly this time next year. But when it comes to the next-gen cellular technology, Samsung has already been there and done that. Back in… Read more »
Verizon adds Washington DC, Atlanta, Detroit and Indianapolis to list of 5G cities
This morning Verizon (TechCrunch’s parent company) flipped the 5G switch on four additional cities. Washington DC, Atlanta, Detroit and Indianapolis join Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Providence in getting coverage… Read more »
Report claims all three new iPhones planned for 2020 will support 5G
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — sometimes described as “the most accurate Apple analyst in the world” — has written a new note to investors saying that the three iPhones expected… Read more »
UK to toughen telecoms security controls to shrink 5G risks
Amid ongoing concerns about security risks posed by the involvement of Chinese tech giant Huawei in 5G supply, the U.K. government has published a review of the telecoms supply chain,… Read more »
Analysts think global 5G smartphone shipments will overtake 4G in 2023
After years of buildup, 5G is finally here — albeit more as a trickle than a deluge. These things take time, of course. Carriers are adding coverage, city by city,… Read more »
Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G arrives on Sprint tomorrow
You surely know the whole deal about carts and horses by now. When Samsung’s first 5G handset, the Galaxy S10 5G, arrives on Sprint tomorrow, users will be able to… Read more »
China grants first 5G licenses amid Huawei global setback
It’s official. After much anticipation, China named the first companies to receive 5G licenses for commercial use on Thursday. The announcement from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the… Read more »
UK report blasts Huawei for network security incompetence
The latest report by a UK oversight body set up to evaluation Chinese networking giant Huawei’s approach to security has dialled up pressure on the company, giving a damning assessment… Read more »
Huawei opens a cybersecurity transparency center in the heart of Europe
5G kit maker Huawei opened a Cyber Security Transparency center in Brussels yesterday as the Chinese tech giant continues to try to neutralize suspicion in Western markets that its networking… Read more »
5G phones are here but there’s no rush to upgrade
This year’s Mobile World Congress — the CES for Android device makers — was awash with 5G handsets. The world’s No.1 smartphone seller by marketshare, Samsung, got out ahead with… Read more »
Huawei: “The US security accusation of our 5G has no evidence. Nothing.”
Huawei’s rotating chairman Guo Ping kicked off a keynote speech this morning at the world’s biggest mobile industry tradeshow with a wry joke. “There has never been more interest in… Read more »
LG gets a 5G flagship, making the world’s longest phone name even longer
For a company with a two letter name, LG loves nothing so much as an unwieldy title. A form of overcompensation, perhaps? Whatever the case, the lengthening of LG phone… Read more »
What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2019
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: 2019 just might be the year that smartphones get fun again. After years of similar form factors and slight upgrades, the… Read more »
Labour leader accuses Boris Johnson of ‘winging it’ in stinging attack Keir Starmer: ‘Boris Johnson has to get a grip and restore public confidence’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all… Read more »
From Spain to Denmark, even those who have coped with coronavirus are aware the world has changed dramatically Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Her customers may… Read more »
