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The traditional way to make a cellphone call is for your handset to ping whichever base station you’re closest to, with your voice and the voice of the person you’re speaking to flying through the air via radio waves. However, there might be times when the signal between your phone and the base station is weak, or…
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This week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android and Apple users. It started with the failure of Nothing Chats and recently extended to the shutdown of Sunbird.
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For many of us, the holidays are when we level-up devices for ourselves and our loved ones, because pretty much everything is on sale. It’s right after Apple, Google, and Samsung have refreshed their offerings. As Gizmodo’s resident smartphone expert, I think this is the best time to toss out the old and swap in the…