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Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. (credit: Verizon) Verizon has spent years hyping 5G despite it bringing just a minor speed upgrade outside the limited areas where millimeter-wave spectrum has been deployed, but the carrier’s support team advised users yesterday to shut 5G off if […]
Huawei’s phone sales plummet 42 percent in Q4 2020—it’s now in sixth place
Enlarge / A live look-in at Huawei headquarters. (credit: KC Green / Ron Amadeo) The US sanctions on Huawei are really taking hold now. A new report from Canalys Research shows Huawei dropping all the way down to sixth place for worldwide phone sales in Q4 2020, a dramatic drop from its first-place perch earlier […]
SpaceX will soon fire up its massive Super Heavy booster for the first time
Enlarge / A Super Heavy booster rolled out of SpaceX’s production facilities in South Texas earlier this month. (credit: Elon Musk ) SpaceX seems to have gone a long time without launching—or blowing up—a rocket at its South Texas launch site. A little more than two months have passed since the company launched its SN15 […]