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Apple expanding in-house wireless chip creation team

Per Apple’s activity on the job listing boards, Apple is creating a new office that will focus on wireless chip production, thus bringing more of its chip development in-house. Apple is hiring a few dozen engineers for an office in Southern California to develop components that may eventually replace parts that are currently sourced from […]

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Ultra Wideband feature availability expands to additional countries

If you’re traveling this year, there’s a decent chance you can now use the Ultra Wideband functionality in additional countries. The Ultra Wideband functionality found in the Apple Watch Series 6, iPhone 11, and iPhone 12, has now been expanded to additional countries, including Argentina, Pakistan, Paraguay, and the Solomon Islands. Apple is not allowed […]

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Rumor: iPhone 13 to include Wi-Fi 6E standard, utilize 6 GHz band

The rumor mill is now reporting the Apple’s upcoming iPhone 13 handsets will introduce the Wi-Fi 6E standard. Per DigiTimes: GaAs IC foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC), and GaAs epi-wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) are all poised to log significant revenue gains in the second half of 2021, buoyed […]

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BT to offer 5G connectivity anywhere in the UK by 2028, will terminate 3G network in 2023

British wireless carrier BT announced on Wednesday that EE will offer 5G connectivity anywhere in the UK by 2028. 3G services offered by EE, BT Mobile, and Plusnet will be phased out by 2023, by which time the company will have built a new 5G core network. 3G usage has been in steady decline in […]

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Wi-Fi patch in iOS 14.7, iPadOS 14.7 betas show that overall fix may be on the way

If you’ve been having trouble getting your iPhone or iPad to successfully log into a Wi-Fi network, help is on the way. The latest beta for iOS and iPadOS 14.7, released to developers this week, patches a bug that disabled an iPhone’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi if a user connected to a specific Wi-Fi network with […]