December 11, 2019
The vast majority of US consumers aren’t spending $1,000+ on phones
Pricing in the smartphone wars has taken a sharp turn in recent years on the premium end of the spectrum. Ever since the arrival of the iPhone X,…
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December 9, 2019
Google’s Pixels get a ‘feature drop’ with call screen and camera enhancements
Google this morning announced the arrival of its first “feature drop.” The new offering will continue the company’s regular feature enhancements, now arriving every month like clockwork. This…
Read articleDecember 8, 2019
RaySecur, a mailroom security startup, raises $3M in seed funding
Raysecur says at least ten times a day someone sends a suspicious package containing powder, liquid, or some other kind of hazard. The Boston, Mass.-based startup says its…
Read articleDecember 5, 2019
Future iPhones could drop charging ports altogether
Here’s a little early Christmas present for you. Apple analyst extraordinaire Ming-Chi Kuo is out with his latest Apple opus. Per usual, it’s got a lot of fascinating…
Read articleDecember 4, 2019
What we know about Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 865 and 765 chips
Qualcomm’s holding its big annual get-together this week in Hawaii, portioning off Snapdragon news, piece by piece. Yesterday’s event was the big unveiling of the Snapdragon 865 and…
Read articleDecember 4, 2019
Nintendo’s Switch just had its best sales week in the US
Nintendo today noted that the Switch just had its best-ever sales week in the States. Over the course of Thanksgiving week, the three-year-old console moved more than 830,000…
Read articleDecember 3, 2019
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 865 and 765 platforms
This morning at its annual Snapdragon summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm offered a glimpse at two new Snapdragon chips. You know how this works: the chipmaker offers some insight…
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T-Mobile opens pre-orders on two 5G phones as low-band network goes live
The 5G question has long been carts and horses. The next-generation wireless network has always been an inevitability, of course, but the rollout has always felt a bit…
Read articleNovember 28, 2019
The Samsung Galaxy Fold is headed to Canada, with in-store pre-orders starting today
The Samsung Galaxy Fold is a very unique smartphone, in more ways than one. The most obvious differentiator is that it folds out to expose a large, continuous…
Read articleNovember 26, 2019
Leading robotics VCs talk about where they’re investing
The Valley’s affinity for robotics shows no signs of cooling. Technical enhancements through innovations like AI/ML, compute power and big data utilization continue to drive new performance milestones,…
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