Will we see true 5G soon? Is Gigabit LTE worse or just as good? Will I actually ever get to use either of them on my phone? Let’s tear down the differences between these two networking technologies and find out.
Technical standards The problem with both 5G and Gigabit LTE is that various companies and carriers have been using the terms to describe different things. We’ve already explored some of the differences between 5G Non-Standalone and the (upcoming) 5G Standalone standard and what that means for products and use cases – put simply, 5G is not yet a single “thing”.
Misplaced smartphones can be tough to find, especially if they fall behind a sofa cushion or bed. Unless you have a vague idea of where you left it, you could waste hours hunting for it. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to locate that device. If you own a Fitbit smartwatch, you can use the Find Phone app to track and reunite with your beloved phone in a few minutes or less.
Today, Qualcomm has unveiled its latest 5G modem, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X55. The chip is the company’s second-generation 5G modem and successor to the Snapdragon X50 that was announced back in 2017. Headline features of this new chip include multi-mode 4G and 5G in a single chip, blazing fast 7Gbps speeds, and futureproof support for the 5G Standalone specification.
What is 5G, and what can we expect from it?
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Samsung and LG stand as two monolithic companies in their homeland of South Korea. Both companies have revealed their flagship phones for the first half of 2019, first Samsung with the Galaxy S10 followed by LG with the G8 ThinQ. Though each phone is part of a larger family, these two models go head-to-head in terms of size, price, and features.
The S10 slots into Samsung’s lineup between the smaller S10e and larger S10 Plus.
LG’s latest V-series smartphone is upon us. The LG V40 ThinQ is the fourth generation of the South Korean company’s end-of-year phablets, and like its predecessors, it’s packed with goodies.
While the V40 ThinQ includes typical flagship components like a Snapdragon 845 chipset, 6GB of RAM, and high-resolution OLED display — as we’ve seen on many of the best Android smartphones of 2018 — it also has a handful of features stashed away that you won’t find on just any Android handset.
Today marks the anniversary of Microsoft buying Nokia’s phone unit in 2013, in a deal valued at €5.4 billion (over $7 billion) at the time. It was a major moment in mobile history, as Nokia was a pioneer in the industry and the acquisition gave Microsoft access to a ton of related patents and expertise.
Unfortunately, history shows us that the two companies failed to make a dent in Android and iOS over the long run.
However, Google took mercy on us and at least gave us the ability to turn off YouTube autoplay. Additionally, you may not know that you can also turn off YouTube autoplay when you’re watching videos, so another video doesn’t start to play when your current video is over.
Here’s how to turn off YouTube autoplay for both situations.
How to turn off YouTube autoplay even if you’re watching a video Step 1: Open up the YouTube app.
The Samsung Galaxy Plus model is in a somewhat awkward position each year: not as feature-packed as the Ultra model but not as cheap as the vanilla model. This seems to be the case in sales too, as initial domestic sales of the Galaxy S21 series showed that the S21 Plus was the least popular model out of the three S21 phones. Part of the reason is that the Plus model hasn’t always completely justified its higher price tag over the base Galaxy flagship, even though it tends to be a great phone on its own merits.
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The free-to-play game Star Wars: Rivals is being shut down by Disney. The game — which didn’t even get a stable release — is already gone from the Google Play Store. Disney will not be issuing refunds for any in-app purchases made within Star Wars: Rivals. But it seems that one game didn’t quite make the cut, and that’s Disney’s Star Wars: Rivals — a free-to-play action shooter game that didn’t even make it to a stable release before getting the axe (or, in this case, lightsaber).
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Earlier this year, Samsung confirmed some bad news for fans of its ultra-premium flagships: there would not be a Samsung Galaxy Note phone in 2021. Of course, the company didn’t make any commitments beyond that, which left hope that the Note line could make a return in 2022.
However, last week we got our first look at the likely design of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.