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For those of us outside the US, Huawei has maintained its presence in a number of markets in which it has grown its sales over the last decade. Even without access to Google Services or TSMC, the company has been producing hardware and smartphones as it pivots to a new strategy. To lead off in 2022, that strategy starts with the Huawei P50 Pro, the next generation of flagship photography camera. The P series from Huawei has often been the lead device for new cameras and new features to attract creators, and the model we have today is a new twist in the Huawei story: our model comes with a Qualcomm flagship Snapdragon chip inside.
Netgear Augments Wireless Broadband Gateway Options with Nighthawk M5 5G Wi-Fi 6 Mobile Router
Netgear's mobile broadband product stack has a variety of different product offerings mostly targeting the personal hotspot market. However, with 5G, wireless home broadband has become a credible proposition...
3 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2020Quick Bytes: Qualcomm’s Prediction of 1.4 Billion 5G Smartphones by 2022
I wanted to cover a quick comment that Qualcomm made yesterday at its Snapdragon Tech Summit event. We’re currently in 2019, with the first wave of 5G devices currently...
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/4/2019Quick Bytes: Qualcomm’s Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Demo with 5G and 4G
One of the key elements of any new wireless coverage standard is how to carve up the frequency spectrum. We’ve covered in previous articles that 5G will operate in...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/4/2019Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G Modem
For the last 3 years, Huawei has announced its next generation SoC at the IFA technology show here in Berlin. In every occasion, the company promotes its hardware, using...
153 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/6/2019AMD Makes a Surprise Appearance: Ryzen Mobile with Qualcomm LTE
One of the surprises at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit was the presence of AMD. Out of no-where, Kevin Lensing, CVP and GM of the Client Business Unit at...
31 by Ian Cutress on 12/5/2017Intel Announces XMM 8060 5G & XMM 7660 Category 19 LTE Modems, Both Due in 2019
Intel last week announced that its first commercial 5G modem, the XMM 8060, is now under development and will ship in a couple of years. As part of the...
41 by Anton Shilov on 11/20/2017Broadcom Announces BCM21892 - Their First 4G LTE-Advanced Baseband
It was teased at this year's CES demonstrating VoLTE calls, we saw it working in a reference design, and today, Broadcom is finally ready to make their first LTE-enabled...
17 by Brian Klug on 2/12/2013Novatel MiFi 4620L Jetpack Available on April 12th for $49.99
We got a chance to check out Novatel's next generation MiFi at CES this past January, and came away impressed with the update. Officially titled the Novatel Wireless MiFi...
12 by Vivek Gowri on 3/28/2012The iOS 5.1 update, "4G", AT&T, and the 3G Toggle
When the iPhone 4S first launched, AT&T ominously noted (through a document leaked to The Verge) that it was "working with Apple" to update the 3G indicator to 4G...
12 by Brian Klug on 3/7/2012CES 2012 LTE Face-Off - AT&T versus Verizon Wireless
My friends often think I've lost my mind given how many times I run speedtests on handsets in the process of reviewing them. The reason I'm compulsive about testing...
24 by Brian Klug on 1/13/2012Verizon Announces Jetpack - Two new LTE-enabled WiFi Hotspots
Recently, Verizon made some waves by EOLing its entire LTE data card and personal portable hotspot line. It was pretty much obvious at that point that replacements would be...
2 by Brian Klug on 1/9/2012AT&T Flips the LTE Switch in 11 Markets, Sprint Announces its First 4 LTE Markets
Today has been a busy day for wireless carriers in the USA, with both AT&T and Sprint making 4G LTE related announcements. AT&T today enabled LTE service in 11...
5 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2012Motorola Droid RAZR Review - A Better Clad Bionic
Recently Motorola unleashed a bunch of devices it was keeping up its sleeve, and the latest for Verizon is the Motorola Droid RAZR. A while ago we reviewed the...
76 by Brian Klug on 12/16/2011The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G
A while after the iPhone 4S announcement, I posted a piece on the iPhone 4S' cellular architecture and talked about the new inclusion of HSPA+ alongside CDMA2000 1x/EVDO and...
54 by Brian Klug on 10/9/2011Initial AT&T LTE Devices Launching August 21
We've known for some time now that AT&T's 4G LTE network is slated to start turning on this summer, and now we have some dates for when the first...
7 by Brian Klug on 8/16/2011T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide Review - Photographers Wanted
When T-Mobile launched the G2, I was super psyched. It was an HTC-designed slider, ran the stock Android UI, and happened to be one of the first phones running...
24 by Vivek Gowri on 8/12/2011Clearwire Makes its LTE Advanced Plans Official
We've suspected for a long time now that this was inevitable, but Clearwire today announced its official intent to build an "LTE Advanced-ready" network alongside its existing WiMAX network...
8 by Brian Klug on 8/3/2011Novatel Wireless MiFi 4510L Review - The Best 4G LTE WiFi Hotspot?
A while back we explored almost all of Verizon’s 4G LTE network launch hardware - two USB modems, the Samsung SCH-LC11 hotspot, and the HTC Thunderbolt, to be exact...
24 by Brian Klug on 7/14/2011Samsung Droid Charge Review - Droid Goes LTE
Samsung is doing something interesting lately. Instead of outright releasing Galaxy S 2 in the US, each carrier is getting a mid-cycle refresh of the Galaxy S with 4G...
61 by Brian Klug on 6/22/2011