First look: Google is focusing directly on one of the least protected parts of modern smartphones: the cellular baseband. But the company is not trying to rewrite decades of modem firmware. Instead, ...

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US gadget giant Apple long ago got the hang of designing its own CPUs but modems are different matter. It was continued reliance on Qualcomm’s modems that forced Apple to concede defeat in its ...

Qualcomm has unveiled the X105 solution at MWC 2026, a next-gen modem that skips straight past the expected X95 thanks to a significant feature jump. Highlights include being the first Release ...

Qualcomm has announced the X105 modem, which is expected to be paired with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chipset. The new modem delivers 5G connectivity over satellite, faster download speeds, The X105 ...

A Reddit user has reported what appears to be the first documented hardware failure of the C1X modem in the iPhone Air, with the device losing all cellular reception despite no physical damage. While ...

The controversy around the Windows 11 January 2026 Update won't stop rolling in—and now, Microsoft is intentionally disabling support for legacy hardware, not simply breaking it on accident.

Microsoft’s January 2026 Windows 11 update (KB5074109) intentionally disables dial-up modems by removing “unsafe” driver packages like agrsm.sys and smserial.sys. PCWorld reports this security-focused ...

HSINCHU, , February 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaTek and ALCATEL ONETOUCH today announce the LTE-enabled ALCATEL ONETOUCH POP S7, powered by MediaTek's 4G LTE quad-core platform. Available in Q2 this ...

Looking to help modernise and future-proof campus networks across a range of use cases and industries, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) and Nokia have strengthened their strategic partnership to ...

After the release of the iPhone 16e with Apple's first C1 5G modem and subsequently the C1X modem with the iPhone Air, Apple is expected to power all upcoming iPhone 18 devices (including new ...

Today as part of its iPhone Air unveiling, Apple introduced a brand new C1X modem—the successor to the company’s in-house C1. Here are the details. C1X modem is brand new and available in iPhone Air ...