Complete cell phone and Wi-Fi coverage goes live today for all New York subway stations

Ever been on a New York subway platform or jetting off in a train car, and experienced spotty coverage that drops your calls or fails to refresh your Twitter stream? Yeah, we thought so. Today is the day when your New York City underground woes may finally be put out to pasture.
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New Xiaomi phone leaks in live images

Live images of a new Xiaomi phone have been spotted. The leak – which came in the form of a Weibo post – reveals both front as well as back of the silver-colored variant of the handset.
The device is said to be the Redmi Note 4X. However, the design revealed by these images is different from what we saw at TENAA late last month. Following are the images that were revealed by the Chinese certification agency.
Clearly, the position of the fingerprint sensor is different, and not to mention the physical home button – where the sensor is expected to be embedded – is a new addition as well.
While the TENAA listing also doesn"t explicitly contain the name "Redmi Note 4X," some of the specs it revealed are inline with what earlier rumors had said about the device. So the newly leaked images are likely of a different handset, but we are yet to learn its name.
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The Card phone review: The future is modular

Introduction With an OLED screen and a body that"s merely 6.5mm thick, the spec sheet of the Aiek E1 starts off nicely. It"s a one-off device unlike any other that we"ve reviewed in recent years.
Its pet-name being the Card phone, this little fellow comes in a credit-card size but don"t worry, you can afford one even if you don"t have a credit card. Or a wallet. Or even a roof over your head.
As it"s a phone that"s meant to be as affordable as it gets, some compromises had to be made. For example, it doesn"t run the latest Android version. Come to think of it, it doesn"t run any version of any OS whatsoever, but that doesn"t stop it from being the cheapest modular phone there is right now. Forget the Moto X – the Card phone rules modularity.
Don"t believe us? For instance, the Aiek E1 may not support Apple Pay or Android Pay or any other similar service, but that can"t stop you from getting your existing contactless credit ..

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Nokia 6 Android powered smartphone unveiled; phone will launch in China powered by SD-430

Earlier today, we showed you the box belonging to a phone called Nokia 6 that we thought could be the Nokia D1(C). But a press release just sent out by HMD has announced the unveiling of the Nokia 6. The release, dated Sunday because of the time difference, notes that HMD has the exclusive licensing..

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Going hands on with the LG Stylus 3 - a phone with a lot of the Note"s features for a lot less money

When talking about LG"s mobile division, most of the attention is currently being placed on what"s to come next with the company"s successor to the G5. Last year"s modular mess didn"t really pan out how anyone was hoping, and all eyes are on LG to see what their next move wi..

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This is positively the craziest phone commercial we"ve seen

Asia, a vast continent, home to the world"s two most populous nations, China and India, is also the home to some very different sense of humor than we have established here in the West.
We have all been perplexed by it for years now: Japanese weird things, Korean pop culture, and all of that of..

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Coolpad Conjr is an affordable metal phone with a great camera and terrible chipset

Coolpad released an oddball phone – the Conjr. It’s a $180 phone that offers some really top notch specs but a strange choice of chipset derails the whole thing.
The Coolpad Conjr has a sleek metal body with 2.5D glass on the front (70.6% screen-to-body ratio). The screen, by the way, is a 5” IPS LCD of 720p resolution.
Its camera department is particularly impressive, the main camera has a 13MP sensor and OIS, while the selfie cam has an 8MP sensor. Both cameras have LED flash and f/2.2 aperture. There’s even a fingerprint reader on the back.
And here’s where it goes wrong – the Conjr has a quad-core processor (Cortex-A53) clocked at a mere 1GHz. That’s it! And it can’t even record 1080p video, capping the camera at 720p. There’s plenty of RAM – 3GB! – but that feels like too much for a lowly CPU like that.
The Conjr runs Cool UI 8.0 (based on Android 6.0) and has 16GB of built-in storage, expandable through the microSD slot. Note that it’s a hybrid slot, the microSD replaces the ..

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ZTE launches Kickstarter campaign for its crowdsourced, self-adhesive phone, priced at $199

Back in August of 2016, ZTE announced that it wanted to make a mobile product built around the ideas of regular folks. It launched a crowdsourcing campaign allowing anyone to submit a feature that they wanted to see in a ZTE device – anything that was cool and/or useful, that was technically possibl..

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Here"s a close-up look at the Asus ZenFone AR - the first phone with support for Daydream and Tango

As the week moves on, the happenings here at CES 2017 are getting more and more exciting. Mobile-related news has been fairly light so far, but Asus took the stage today to take the wraps off of two new handsets – the ZenFone Zoom 3 and ZenFone AR. Both phones look quite exciting for their own uniqu..

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Asus Zenfone AR is the first phone with 8GB of RAM, but there"s something else special about it

Imagine being able to accurately see how furniture will fit in your home, how exactly clothes fit on your body without even wearing them, and imagine being able to play immersive games with your current environment as the map.
That is the promise of augmented reality (AR), and the newly-unveiled Asu..

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Honor 6X comes to the U.S.: a snazzy $250 phone with dual camera and 2-day battery

The Honor 6X is an affordable yet snazzy new phone.
A 5.5 incher with a dual-lens camera, a 2-day battery, and double the performance of earlier-generation phones, the Honor 6X arrives with some solid promises.
The dual lens camera, an idea similar to that in the iPhone 7 Plus, allows you to change ..

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ZTE exec teases curved display phone

A new teaser has been outed by ZTE, featuring close-up of a smartphone having curved display edges. The teaser image was outed by the Chinese company"s marketing director Lu Qian Hao on Weibo (China"s Twitter).
The text on the image reads: “Goodbye 2016”. In addition, the teaser also wishes us a happy “boundless” new year.
At the moment, there"s no information (not even rumors) on an upcoming curved display ZTE phone, so it"s difficult say anything about the device. But given that the teaser has been officially outed by ZTE, we expect to hear more about the handset in days, or probably weeks to come.
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Asus ZenFone AR, the second Tango enabled phone, will be unveiled on January 4th at CES?

A couple of leaks indicate that the Asus ZenFone AR will be the second smartphone enabled with Tango. This is the Augmented Reality based platform developed by Google. The first smartphone featuring the Tango platform is the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, which was launched last year with a 6.4-inch screen carr..

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This Asus phone runs Android Nougat, features a 4850 mAh battery, and could be a ZenFone 4

An unannounced Asus smartphone – model number X00GD – was recently revealed in China, and there are a few interesting things about it.
According to China"s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center (aka TENAA), the X00GD runs Android 7.0 Nougat, so it could become the very first Asus ph..

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Berlin attack: man held over phone link freed

Image Caption: Anis Amri ploughed a truck into a crowded Christmas market German authorities have released a man who was arrested after they found his number on the phone of Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri.
The 40-year-old, a Tunisian, was taken into custody after officers searched his home and workplace.
Prosecutors had been focusing on a mobile phone voic..

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Alleged Microsoft Surface Phone renders emerge from China (UPDATE)

UPDATE: We now believe these pictures to be fake because the Carl Zeiss branding is no longer being used since 2013. However, the device in the images could be an older prototype, hence the resemblance to the Lumia lineup.
An unannounced Microsoft smartphone with the Surface Phone branding has just ..

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ZTE"s first midrange dual-camera phone, the Blade V8, leaked in its full glory

Manufacturer ZTE, famous for its Axon affordable flagships, is planning to make an appearance at the CES 2017 electronics expo, which starts on the 5th of January. It"s expected that we will get to see the company"s crowdsourced smartphone — a device that was designed and named based on fa..

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Alleged Microsoft Surface Phone renders emerge from China

An unannounced Microsoft smartphone with the Surface Phone branding has just popped up in China. The pictures showing the alleged Surface Phone have been published on Weibo, the Chinese alternative to Facebook, by a well-known leakster.
Even so, we can"t tell whether or not the phone appearing ..

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ZTE"s first dual-camera phone, the Blade V8, leaked in its full glory

Manufacturer ZTE, famous for its Axon affordable flagships, is planning to make an appearance at the CES 2017 electronics expo, which starts on the 5th of January. It"s expected that we will get to see the company"s crowdsourced smartphone — a device that was designed and named based on fa..

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Hulu partners with Disney to bring more than 50 classic titles to a phone near you

Although we used to have to rely on cable and satellite services in order to get access to television programing and on-demand movies, that is no longer the case. Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, DirecTV Now, and Sling TV allow us to get that same content streamed directly to our TVs, smart..

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