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Jan
AT&T Adds to 5G Confusion
The telecom industry made big strides in making 5G real in 2018 with increasing awareness of the transformational nature of 5G in the general populace. Nevertheless, this year will...
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20DecRead More
With Snapdragon 8cx, ARM processors graduate to performance computing, challenging the dominance of Intel x86
Have you heard the phrase “converting poison into medicine?” Well, that’s kind of what is happening to the PC industry now. Let me explain. Not too long ago, the...
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05DecRead More
Confused about which version of 3GPP Rel. 15 will be used for 5G commercialization? Don’t be!
The side effect of all the attention and hype of 5G is the close scrutiny of its standards development, and undue confusion and unfounded fear because of even benign...
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20NovRead More
How Photorealistic VR And 5G May Change The Future Of Media
I witnessed an impressive 5G-based artificial reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) demo at this year’s Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong. Indeed, AR and VR together, referred to as extended reality (XR), is...
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16NovRead More
Did Intel’s failure to deliver on XMM 8060 make Apple delay iPhone 5G?
In my stint as an analyst, as well as in my long career as an engineer and a marketer in large corporations, I have developed a believability yardstick: believe...
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06NovRead More
Asus Foreshadows 5G Handsets
Asus announced at Computex what could possibly be the most powerful smartphone to date. The Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) is a beast, with features such as vapor chamber cooling (found...
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19SepRead More
Why the iPhone Will Trail in 5G
After almost a week’s worth of coverage of new Apple iPhone Xs, there was very little discussion on the cellular connectivity of these handsets. Probably, Apple is quite happy about...
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11SepRead More
Are you skeptical about 5G millimeter wave?
If you are, think again! In the cellular value chain, the most conservative and last holdouts in making any kind of public announcements are usually operators. Vendors could make...
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10SepRead More
Is this the last major step before the commercial 5G smartphone?
Qualcomm and Ericsson make 5G-NR call with test smartphone Amidst a barrage of unending announcements of “5G firsts” that we have heard and keep hearing, there was a gem,...
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06SepRead More
Living On The Wireless Edge With AI And 5G
We are at the cusp of something truly transformational, driven by two much-hyped yet groundbreaking technology mega trends: artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G. Together they make possible things that...