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A few days after finally getting its waiver approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), AT&T has officially launched its Wi-Fi Calling feature on Apple’s iPhone devices, most especially those of the newer models already updated with iOS 9.
Mobile users based in the United States appear to be warming up to installment plans for smartphones. At least according to the information collected by research firm Kantar WorldPanel ComTech. In three months spanned June, July, and August of this year, Kantar determined that 47 percent of all the smartphones sold in the US were linked to installment plans, as explained by Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at the firm.
Google has introduced a brand new open source initiative, and it is called the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project. As suggested by its project name, the AMP Project aims to bring in a world wherein users can load web pages (most especially news articles) faster on mobile devices. In order to make this happen, AMP publishers will have to adhere to a specific technical specification protocol for quicker loading web pages. Plus, there will ben an option to serve the articles from Google’s own cache.
AT&T is accusing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of favoritism when it comes to enforcing the government agency’s rules. Last week, the American wireless carrier sent a letter to Tom Wheeler, chairman of FCC, saying that the agency has been slow in approving a Wi-Fi waiver for a particular calling feature that does not meet the FCC’s rules about accessibility for speech and hearing impaired mobile users.
A couple of new bugs have been detected in Android, Google’s mobile operating system and the most widely used OS in the planet right now. The discovery was made by the same security company, Zimperium zLabs, that detected an entire series of nasty bugs in the early part of 2015. A few of the bugs discovered by the security researchers are now putting every mobile device out there that is powered by Android at risk.
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive officer of Google, has announced last Tuesday (together with the unveiling of Google’s new Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P smartphones, Chromecast 2.0 and Chromecast Audio, and a new Android tablet called Pixel C) in the city of San Francisco in Calif
Old iPhones have always enjoyed good resales through the years. But it appears that in the near future, resale figures for previous iPhone models may even improve. The reason: more mobile users nowadays are looking to upgrade their iPhones earlier than before, as more wireless carriers in the United States veer away from offering traditional two year agreements. The direct result is that the market for resold iPhones will become bigger, spurred by increased demand for used iPhone devices, especially those models that are just a year old.
It appears to be so, well at least according to a couple of videos posted on YouTube. Apple's two latest iPhone models, the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus, have been subjected to the full water submersion test by YouTube user Zach Straley.
The release of iOS 9, the newest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, has brought some new cool features. One of them is Wi-Fi Assist, a feature which is designed to automatically switch your iPhone to a cellular connection or mobile data connection as soon as your Wi-Fi signal gets disconnected or becomes too weak to be useful.
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