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  • T-Mobile will raise its monthly soft-cap to 50GB

    Ever since smartphones began demanding more data, smartphone providers had no choice but to implement a soft data cap or deprioritize heavy data users in favor of those who use less data. Currently, T-Mobile throttles customers who use more than 32GB of data within one billing cycle. Other carriers are in the general ballpark area…

  • More than 80% of new Apple Watch preorders are cellular models

    One of the most notable Apple analysts, Ming-Chi Kuo, had predicted that about 30% to 40% of pre-orders of the new Apple Watch Series 3 would be for the new cellular enabled version of the new Apple Watch. Well, on Monday, the KGI Securities analyst estimated that the LTE-enabled version of the Apple Watch Series…

  • Sony Xperia XA1, XA1 Ultra, and L1 all get August security patches

    Don’t check your calendar, you’re not wrong – it is September, and it has been for 18 days already. Be that as it may, Sony is now releasing updates containing the August security patches for its Xperia XA1, XA1 Ultra, and L1 mid-range smartphones. Let’s call this a case of ‘better late than never’ then.…

  • Huawei Pay for US possible

    Huawei has been itching to make its big break in the United States but the company has been very conservative about how to penetrate the market and has tested the waters for the past couple of years or so with the Unlocked Mate 9 and three Honor smartphones it officially brought to the US. Rumors…

  • US unlocked Galaxy Note8 receives its first software update

    Samsung’s Galaxy Note8 became available in the US on September 15 (though pre-ordered units shipped much earlier in some cases), at carriers and in unlocked form. While Verizon’s model has already received its first software update on launch day, the unlocked Note8 units for the US are starting to get the same new release today.…

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