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T-Mobile won’t claim it has a more reliable 5G network following ad board decision

T-Mobile has been asked to stop advertising its 5G network as more reliable than the competition by the National Advertising Review Board (NARB), which investigated T-Mobile’s claims made primarily in an ad featuring celebrity scientist Bill Nye after complaints from Verizon earlier this year. But the NARB also says T-Mobile shouldn’t have to mention the… Read more

Sprint’s Galaxy Note20, Note20 Ultra 5G start receiving Android 11-based One UI 3.0 update

The Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G locked to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon’s network has already received the Android 11-based One UI 3.0 stable update, and now it’s the Note20 Ultra 5G locked to Sprint’s network that’s getting a taste of Samsung’s newest custom Android skin. The vanilla Note20 5G on Sprint’s network is also receiving… Read more

T-Mobile and Verizon are now updating their Galaxy Note20 and Note20 Ultra to Android 11

Around a week ago AT&T started rolling out the update to Android 11 with One UI 3.0 to its Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G units, and today both T-Mobile and Verizon have joined in on the fun, for both the top of the line Note as well as the vanilla Note20. As usual, these rollouts are… Read more

CES 2021: what to expect from the first all-digital CES in January

Home News (Image credit: CTA) Continuing this year’s theme of nonconformity, the world’s biggest annual consumer electronics show will be a markedly different affair in January. Rather than taking over Las Vegas for several days in the new year, CES 2021 – the 51st edition of the event – will be an all-digital experience for… Read more

Sony, OnePlus and Xiaomi execs to speak at Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit

Qualcomm is expected to announce its latest 5G chipsets at its annual Snapdragon Summit, including the next flagship, Snapdragon 875. The two-day event will take place in Hawaii, and today the San Diego-based company revealed all of the high-profile executives that will hold a keynote. Some of the names worth noting are Lei Jun, CEO… Read more

Brief information: Wind energy, TomTom, Arecibo, Buzzfeed

On European coasts 300 gigawatts of wind energy are to be captured The EU Commission has presented a strategy to generate clean electricity on and from European seas on the way to 2050 to become climate neutral. Europe’s capacity to convert wind power into electricity at sea will increase from currently 12 gigawatts to 300… Read more

The baby blue Google Pixel 4A is real, and you can buy one right now

If you’ve been put off by the astoundingly excellent-for-$349 Google Pixel 4A because it only comes in black, you should know that’s no longer true. In September, we got wind that Google originally intended to offer a baby blue color, too, and you can now officially buy it at Google’s website for the same $349… Read more

Will there be small smartphones again?

How many people really want a small smartphone? If you sort small phones in the Pricewatch from 2020 – maximum 15 x6,6cm for example – then you will only find two models: the iPhone SE 2020 and iPhone 12 mini, not coincidentally from the same manufacturer: Apple. In the category of slightly larger phones, there… Read more

Nokia 8 V 5G UW is the mmWave-supporting Nokia 8.3 for Verizon

HMD unveiled the Nokia 8.3 5G back in March and now the company is introducing a special version for Verizon dubbed Nokia 8 V 5G. The big change is that the 8 V 5G supports the carrier’s mmWave 5G as well as the slower but more widely available sub-6GHz standard. Other than that the smartphone… Read more

Why we don't have super fast 5G yet

Quiz question: When was the last time an iPhone had two different designs to support network technologies in different parts of the world? Now that 5G has arrived in the Benelux, many people see back in practice what we already concluded in September during the big 5G test; 5G is not really faster than 4G… Read more

Better Business Bureau finds T-Mobile to be misleading Americans about 5G in ads

A new release from The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB (Better Business Bureau) National Programs is calling out T-Mobile for its most recent marketing ads that could mislead customers about its 5G network. The ad in question may lead customers to believe that T-Mobile and Sprint’s networks have combined and resulted in immediate benefits… Read more

Nokia 8 V 5G UW is likely going to be unveiled for Verizon on November 9

Nokia’s first 5G phone, the 8.3, has already been released in some places, following its announcement way back in March, and now it looks like it may be headed to Verizon as well. The official Nokia YouTube account posted, then promptly took down, a countdown timer to a livestream that would take place on November… Read more

Motorola Moto G 5G pops-up online, running a Snapdragon 750G 5G chipset

When Motorola announced the rhythmically-named Moto G 5G Plus back in July, it was pretty apparent that a vanilla Moto G 5G should eventually follow. Now we seem to have the scoop on a Moto device, codenamed “Kiev”, allegedly coming to market as the Moto G 5G. The original source on this is somewhat sketchy…. Read more

Vergecast: this week’s Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets

This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) yells at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gadget makers are going to QVC, and it is weird phone season once again. Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior reporter Adi Robertson about the latest congressional hearing with the big tech… Read more

OnePlus 9 is headed to Verizon and T-Mobile, apparently

If you’re in the US and are wondering which carriers are going to offer the upcoming OnePlus 9, that may be coming sooner than expected, then wonder no more. The enterprising folks over at XDA Developers have discovered, through a deep dive into the OxygenOS code, that the OnePlus 9 is in fact headed to… Read more