Smartphone Tech in Spotlight at New York Holiday Tech Show
Mobile communications were among products headlining Pepcom’s Holiday Spectacular Thursday in New York, as manufacturers geared up for the Q4 selling season. Motorola's 5G Moto Mod brings 5G capability to the company’s z2 Force and later phones. It will be…
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available at Verizon stores when the carrier launches 5G service in New York Thursday, a Motorola spokesperson told us. Moxee showed a mobile personal safety device that will sell exclusively on the T-Mobile network, beginning Monday, before rolling out to other carriers next year, a spokesperson said. The pager-size device, without a display, lets users press a button to indicate status: a single button shares their location with contacts; two presses sends an alert to contacts, with location; and three presses sends an alert to contacts and a professional monitoring service, he said. Gabb Wireless positioned itself as a kind of anti-smartphone for kids, launching a phone and nationwide wireless network Thursday with no access to the internet or external apps. The company’s message is that kids are exposed to too much technology too early, leading to anxiety and depression, so despite having the form of smartphones, the devices are used for calls and messages. One is made by ZTE.