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comcast is going cellular the cable giant announced that the company is launching a comcast mobile network by mid-2017 but there's a twist comcast network runs on the verizon wireless network you see it's designed to depend on the 15 million xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots across the nation and when there's no hot spot it's going to jump to verizon's network some hot spots are public such as at the park but other hotspots are actually customer routers inside people's homes so Comcast's network is really made of its own customers routers with verizon filling in the spaces between comcast CEO Brian Roberts announced the plan at an investor conference as reported by The Wall Street Journal but Roberts did not discuss pricing or any other details such as where it will roll out first and speaking of mobile google is expected to unveil its new phone in two weeks at an October fourth event google teased the news in this tweet with a video where the search bar turns into the shape of a phone a phone that's drawn with a thin line perhaps align the width of a pixel because all reports indicate Google is going to call it a pixel phone instead of a nexus in fact the blog android police posted some leaked images of what could be the new pixel phones made by HTC we'll know for sure when the event starts at nine a.m. Pacific on the 4th but if you are looking for something more basic perhaps you're interested in Microsoft's brand new nokia feature phone it's the Nokia 216 it's a very basic phone probably the last Nokia phone to come from microsoft says it did sell the nokia feature phone division to a foxconn subsidiary and hey it has a headphone jack that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / updates you