Month: February 2019

Verizon planning on rolling out true 5G in 30 cities by 2020

CompuScoop Staff February 22, 2019 0

Verizon’s CEO, Hans Vestberg, shared today that the carrier will be rolling out true 5G service to its network across 30 cities this year. However, he didn’t share a timeline or many other details.

As reported by The Verge, Vestberg told investors today that it will be true standards-based 5G service to rollout to the 30 cities this year. However, he didn’t reveal the cities, when the rollout will begin, or how well the cities will be covered. He did say the 30 cities will see the next generation cellular standard by the end of 2019.

Verizon previously launched its “5G Home” internet service in four test markets last October. However, it’s not true 5G service and the company has reportedly halted expansion of the service until actual 5G hardware is available.

While it’s unclear which cities will see Verizon’s true 5G service first, it will likely start the rollout sometime soon. Verizon partnered with Samsung on its new Galaxy S10 5G smartphone expected to arrive in the first half of this year. As for Apple, the company isn’t expected to include a 5G modem in its iPhones until 2020. But with the 5G rollout from Verizon and other carriers likely being slow, actual 5G coverage will hopefully be solid for many consumers by the time iPhone supports the new standard.

Via: 9to5Mac.com

Five new Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Episode Titles Revealed

Dan Uff February 21, 2019 0

Web site Treknews.net has found out the names of 5 coming episodes of Star Trek: Discovery.

They are as follows:

“Light and Shadows” – February 28, 2019

“If Memory Serves” – March 7, 2019

“Project Daedalus” – March 14, 2019

“The Red Angel” – March 21, 2019

“Perpetual Infinity” – March 28, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery streams every Thursday even at 8:30pm on CBS All Access.

Most analysts think Apple won’t come out with a foldable iPhone until 2020

CompuScoop Staff February 21, 2019 0

Samsung’s “Galaxy Fold resembles a conventional smartphone but opens like a book to reveal a second display the size of a small tablet at 7.3 inches (18.5 cm),” Stephen Nellis and Hyunjoo Jin report for Reuters. “[Starting at US$1980], it will go on sale from April 26.”

“The phone, which can operate three apps simultaneously and boasts six cameras, also challenges the notion of what a phone can cost, debuting at nearly twice the price of current top-of-the-line models from Apple and Samsung itself. ‘Due to price, it’s likely to be sold mainly to early adopters. Prices are key to expanding sales,’ said former Samsung mobile executive Kim Yong-serk, who is now a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea,” Nellis and Jin report. “‘It will help Samsung burnish an image as an innovative company, but it is unlikely to be profitable. I expect Apple to wait say for one year and come up with foldable phones with more features, as they did with the smartwatch,’ he said.”

“‘We believe it will be difficult to achieve meaningful sales with a 7.3-inch screen,’ Meritz Securities analysts said in a note to clients. ‘For it to succeed, it has to evolve further so that it can support 10-inch or bigger screen with multiple foldings,'” Nellis and Jin report. “Most analysts expect Apple to wait until 2020 to match the foldable phone.”

Read more in the full article here.

Some people really like the iPhone SE, but Apple doesn’t seem to care

Dan Uff February 21, 2019 0

“Apple has put yet another batch of iPhone SE smartphones up for sale at its clearance store – it keeps selling them, people keep buying them, but will the company ever get the message?” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.

“Apple invented the user interface, has developed the world’s fastest mobile processor, bought us the iMac, iPhone, iPod, iPad and yet it still hasn’t joined these dots: If you can keep selling a two-year old product in 2019, then there’s probably a market for that product,” Evans writes. “A couple of years old the existing model still does much of what most users need. Just because you don’t see yourself as a reborn Don McCullin dedicated to capturing the world in pictures, or aren’t yet ready to live like a Jetson in some augmented reality doesn’t mean you don’t want all the other things that make iPhones great. Mail, apps, music, web and social media is enough for many of us – what’s wrong with that?”

Evans writes, “Yet the whispers from the secret squirrels churning out confidential data from inside of the Apple rumor gold mine (and it is) suggest Apple has no plans to launch an iPhone SE 2.”

Read more in the full article here.