From The Verge: Amazon has reportedly agreed to acquire smart home company Ring for more than $1 billion, according to Reuters. Ring is best known for selling its connected doorbells, security cameras, and floodlights, while Amazon introduced its own line of smart home solutions last fall with the...
From CNET: Sprint wants to mount its comeback on the back of 5G.
The fourth-largest US wireless carrier is set to roll out 5G capabilities this year to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. With a caveat: As with T-Mobile's own deployment this year, Sprint customers won...
From PC Mag: Qualcomm may end up accepting Broadcom's acquisition offer, but only if Broadcom pays up.
In a Monday letter, Qualcomm's chairman urged Broadcom to come up with a higher offer. The companies made progress on a deal during a Friday meeting, Qualcomm said, but price has been a sticking...
From PC World: Sony has once again brought a brand new Xperia flagship phone to Mobile World Congress, but there’s a lot that’s different about this year’s model: It has a new design, an 18:9 screen, and a fingerprint sensor that will work in the United States.
The Xperia XZ2 is technically a...
From CNET: HMD Global, the startup behind the latest incarnation of Nokia phones, is coming to America after all.
The Nokia 6, which made its debut at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Sunday, will hit the US market in May. It won't be available through any carriers, but instead...
From The Verge: It’s been rumored that Apple will launch three new iPhones this year, and we may have just gotten our first look at the display for the so-called 6.5-inch “iPhone X Plus.” The photo was originally posted on the MacX forums, but it has since been deleted.
While it’s hard to tell if...
From PC World: LG is starting to think different about phone releases. If you were hoping for a new LG flagship phone at Mobile World Congress, you got your wish. Well, sort of. Instead of the G7, LG has launched the V30S ThinQ, which freshens the V30 with smarts, not specs.
The V30S has the same...
From CNET: A bold new camera, a state-of-the-art processor with an Android Oreo operating system and a fix to the Galaxy line's biggest design misstep -- all in a body that looks strikingly similar to last year's model.
That, in a nutshell, is the Samsung Galaxy S9 (5.8-inch screen) and its larger...
What better way is there to celebrate than to eat cake together with a group of friends? Recently, I was tasked with ordering one from Costco to commend the success of an event we ran on campus a few weeks ago. Since Costco allows you to fill out custom orders and write anything you want on the cake, some of the leaders suggested we inscribe it with the word "Yes". When time came for me to fill out the order form, I thought writing "Yes" was a...
From The Verge: Sony’s Mobile World Congress plans seem to have leaked out ahead of time: details for its new flagship Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact smartphones have hit the internet a few days early, according to Evan Blass at VentureBeat.
According to Blass, Sony will be announcing the 5.7-inch XZ2...
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