It's safe to say 5G hasn't lived up to the hype — while it's much easier to find than it once was, the sometimes lackluster performance and reliability won't have you scrambling to upgrade from LTE.

I've got a Nokia N73 and somebody told me that I can use it as a modem for my laptop, but I'm not sure how to set this up. It would be really useful because I'm already on a flat-rate data plan and I ...

In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain closed. And Pine ...

Apple is expected to switch to its own 5G modems by 2025. The iPhone 17 or iPhone SE 4 could be the first to have an Apple-designed modem. The switch will lower Apple’s dependence on Qualcomm.

(1) A device that enables a computer to transmit data over analog phone lines. See analog modem. (2) A device that enables an analog telephone to be used in a digital voice service. See analog ...

You can use the cell phone as a "regular" modem, but you'll have to check your service plan, etc. I have an older Motorola StarTAC and a CF card that allowed me to do that with my Pocket PCs. Still ...

Intel CEO Bob Swan says his company decided to bail out off the phone modem business because these products had too few customers to make much money. Apple is the primary buyer of Intel modems, and ...

Apple poached Intel’s lead developer for 5G phone modems, Umashankar Thyagarajan, in February—just weeks before it buried the hatchet with rival chip supplier Qualcomm this April, according to a ...

The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run free and open source operating systems like Manjaro, postmarketOS, Mobian, or Ubuntu Touch. But the phone isn’t 100-percent open hardware: ...