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AT&T Reportedly Calls Off Deal with Huawei to Sell Phones in the US Huawei, the third-largest phone manufacturer on the planet, has been trying for years to break into  the US smartphone industry, but it hasn’t been easy — Apple and Samsung dominate the market with an estimated 70% combined share . The China-based company was said to be in talks to sell  its latest flagship, the Mate 10, through AT&T, the country’s largest GSM carrier, but AT&T stepped back from the deal at the last second. Huawei and AT&T’s partnership was reportedly going to be announced Tuesday during the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, according to CNBC and The Wall Street Journal , and the carrier’s reasons for calling it off remain a mystery. Had it gone through, it would’ve marked Huawei’s first carrier partnership in the US and could’ve given the company’s smartphone lineup a major boost in visibility. The breakdown of the deal means that ...

Samsung and LG Confirm That They Haven’t Slowed Down Phones Recently,  Apple admitted to slowing down older iPhones’ processor speeds as the batteries aged , ostensibly to prevent unexpected shutdowns. The fallout wasn’t pretty, and Apple’s throttling practices raised concerns that Android manufacturers were guilty of doing the same thing. On Thursday,  HTC and Motorola said that they haven’t slowed down old phones on account of aging batteries . And on Friday, Samsung and LG confirmed to  Phone Arena via e-mailed statements they haven’t throttled devices, either: “ Never have, never will! We care what our customers think. ” LG “ Product quality has been and will always be Samsung Mobile’s top priority. We ensure extended battery life of Samsung mobile devices through multi-layer safety measures, which include software algorithms that govern the battery charging current and charging duration. We do not reduce CPU performance t...