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In this age of $1000+ flagship phones with three or four cameras and displays that can read your fingerprint, it isn't often we find ourselves talking about flip phones. Alcatel gave us reason to do ...

If you have a brand new Android phone, you might wonder what the LTE or LTE+ icon is on the top of the status bar on your phone screen. In short, it refers to your phone establishing a data link with ...

LTE is likely the most complex wireless system ever developed. It incorporates features that could not have been economically implemented as recently as a decade ago. Today, with large-scale ICs, LTE ...