Users on AT&T’s HSPA+ networks and devices, such as the recently launched HTC Inspire 4G and the Motorola Atrix 4G, can finally experience real 4G speeds come this April according to an AT&T spokesperson. Speaking in regards to AT&T’s controversial position on not enabling full 4G high speed uploads on devices that advertise such capabilities [...]
Sprint is releasing an update to its first 4G mobile hotspot router called the Overdrive. The new model, dubbed the Overdrive Pro 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot Router, is an incremental upgrade from the original model and provides some refinements and a lower price tag. The new Overdrive Pro is still made by Sierra Wireless and will [...]
Sprint may have already begun to migrate its network resources from the aging iDEN system to rolling out a next-generation 4G network based on the LTE protocol, which is being used by rivals Verizon Wireless and to be used by AT&T later this year. Currently, Sprint is offering fast mobile broadband through a rival WiMax [...]
Welcome 4G LTE to a smartphone, and hello HTC Thunderbolt! Verizon Wireless has finally made the Thunderbolt available for online order to eager Android users who are awaiting to taste 4G LTE download speeds. The device can be seen as a rival to the HTC EVO 4G on Sprint’s network, and features many of the [...]
After having been an AT&T customer for 12 years–it started with PacBell Wireless in San Jose, California, which evolved to Cingular, which then became the ‘new’ AT&T–I am finally ready to leave the AT&T family to say hello to Verizon Wireless with the HTC Thunderbolt, the carrier’s first 4G LTE smartphone, on March 17. Unlike [...]
As we had previously reported, T-Mobile has gone ahead and taken the wraps off of the carrier’s new webConnect mobile broadband data packages, which will be compatible with USB modems, tablets, and mobile broadband routers like the MiFi when those devices launch. Pricing seems to be the same as the rumored leaks from the past, [...]
A leaked document obtained by Android Central reveals some important dates for some highly coveted device launches on Verizon Wireless, which includes the Thunderbolt, a 4G LTE smartphone, 2 mobile hotspot routers compatible with the carrier’s 4G network, and a Windows Phone 7 device made by HTC. According to the document, the HTC Thunderbolt is [...]
Sony Electronics may be trying to stem off the decline of the digital camera market to more capable smartphones and feature phones featuring capable integrated cameras with a ‘smart camera.’ The smarter CyberShot model is rumored to come with an embedded mobile broadband chip, much like the 3G edition of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, which [...]
Despite being branded as 4G Android smartphones for AT&T’s HSPA+ network–the carrier will be migrating to LTE for 4G in the latter half of this year–the HTC Inpire 4G and Atrix 4G had failed to ‘inspire’ us with slow upload speeds. Whereas the iPhone 4, a 3G-branded handset, was able to garner upload speeds in [...]
A leaked screenshot shows T-Mobile will be offering a larger 10 GB per month data plan on March 13th in addition to other changes, including a 20% data discount if bundled with a voice plan. The leak, originally reported on TmoNews, outlines that the carrier will not be charging overages on its Even More webConnect [...]
While Sprint is still determining its wireless strategy–the Now Network is partnering with Clearwire to use WiMax as its 4G platform–Sprint’s president of network operations and wholesale Steve Elfman says that the company could deploy a 4G network based on the competing LTE standard by 2012 and expand that to national coverage by 2013. The [...]
When the Galaxy Tab was launched on Verizon, the carrier, like rival AT&T, was one of two to offer the tablet offering only a contract-free offering. While this mean that you can activate and cancel your mobile broadband data at any time, and re-activate data without penalties, it also means that users will have to [...]
It looks like the HTC Inspire 4G may not be the only phone plagued by slow upload speeds as my experience with the Motorola Atrix 4G–a dual-core Android smartphone that supports AT&T’s faster 14.4 Mbps theoretical 4G HSPA+ network–also suffers from slow upload speeds despite the carrier’s claims that HSUPA, or high speed upload packet [...]
As T-Mobile is rolling out a faster 4G HSPA+ network and will be introducing more data devices–including tablets and mobile hotspot routers, the carrier may be examining plans to offer truly unlimited mobile broadband data plans. Currently, T-Mobile’s data plans, at least on smartphones, are limited to 5 GB of data per month, after which [...]
Contrary to what was reported before that the HTC Inspire 4G does not support high speed uploading, known as HSUPA, on AT&T’s 4G HSPA+ network, it seems that the device does have hardware support but either AT&T or HTC had removed the software support for the capability on the handset. Various forum members on Howard [...]
While Xavier’s been over the Sprint Overdrive, a 3G/4G mobile hotspot that’s made by Sierra Wireless to compete with Sprint’s original Novatel 3G MiFi, one possible alternative, which may be better for people in Xavier’s position, for a mobile broadband Internet connection on the go that’s sharable with up to five devices is AT&T’s MiFi [...]
Following a leak of AT&T’s new 4G smartphone data plans to Android Central, which will be introduced alongside the launch of the HTC Inspire 4G, the carrier has issued a statement to the blog that pricing will not change from 3G to 4G smartphone data. AT&T is expected to transition to HSPA+, an evolved 3G [...]
Clearwire, the company building out an enourmous WiMax network in the U.S., is canning its retail strategy. The company will focus on selling its high speed mobile service on a wholesale basis, as it does to Sprint. Clear is strapped for cash, which is not the position you want to be in when you’re not [...]
While there is a lot of talk about Verizon Wireless switching over to a metered data plan like AT&T, Droid-Life is reporting that the carrier may initially offer unlimited 4G data–and possible grandfather those plans in for those who subscribe when the plan is still available–at least initially. Droid-Life is saying that 4G LTE smartphone [...]
Apple is rumored to make an announcement for iOS 4.3 by February 13th, which would bring along with it news of a successor to the first generation iPad tablet as well as the coveted mobile hotspot tethering app that will debut on Verizon’s CDMA iPhone on February 10th. The date for the 13th would coincide [...]
AT&T has recently announced the pricing for its mobile tethering plan as tethering will be a feature that will be available as an option on the company’s upcoming HSPA+ 4G smartphones, such as the HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Atrix 4G, and the Samsung Infuse 4G. The company had previously charged for tethering on the iPhone, [...]
The HTC Inspire 4G is an Android smartphone with the HTC Sense user interface and a 4.3-inch display that debuted earlier this year at CES. AT&T has now just released availability on the 4G HSPA+ device, stating that it will be available beginning on February 13 for $99 on a two-year service agreement. The device [...]
In a move to comfort potential switchers who would leave AT&T for Verizon Wireless as the iPhone 4 is scheduled to arrive early next month to AT&T’s rival CDMA carrier, AT&T is bringing back its unlimited data plans, which the carrier had stopped offering to new customers, to retain its subscribers and hope to avert [...]
A leaked document obtained by BGR reveals wireless carrier AT&T’s plans on imposing different types of tiers for its 4G LTE smartphone plans. Although the carrier will utilize the first half of 2011 to transition to HSPA+ and market those smartphones as 4G, it will be launching 4G LTE smartphones, like rival Verizon Wireless, in [...]
Blazing fast speeds and modest promises help to boost Verizon Wireless’s claim that it is the fastest, most advanced 4G network in America. At its 4G LTE press conference, Verizon Wireless was modest about boasting about its 4G network. The carrier says that it is on track or even ahead of schedule in its network [...]
Novatel told us that in addition to launching a 4G personal mobile hotspot router, called the Novatel MiFi 4G LTE for Verizon Wireless, the company will be working with the U.S. carrier to also deliver a USB data modem. The company didn’t disclose information for pricing nor availability, but a Novatel USB 4G LTE modem [...]
Though the MiFi mobile hotspot router devices have been announced for 4G networks for Sprint and Verizon Wireless in the U.S., neither model are available yet–Verizon Wireless says its 3G/4G LTE model will launch in the first half of 2011 while Sprint says its 3G/4G WiMax model is coming February for $50. We did have [...]
As was previously leaked, Sprint has unveiled its MiFi 3G/4G personal hotspot router, which allows up to 5 devices to share the device’s Sprint Now Network mobile broadband connection over WiFi in a router device that’s about the size of a credit card. The device will allow laptops, tablets, gaming devices, and other WiFi-connected device [...]
Given the popularity of Sprint’s original Novatel 3G CDMA MiFi unit, the successor may be just as popular. Engadget had posted press shots of Novatel’s next generation MiFi mobile hotspot router for Sprint’s 3G/4G WiMax network has emerged and shows an attractive, modern design. There isn’t much information in terms of launch date or pricing, [...]
Along with the announcement of an upgraded 4G HSPA+ network to 42 Mbps download speeds, T-Mobile USA may be on the verge of targeting data for its next generation of growth. TmoNews is reporting on rumors that the nation’s fourth largest carrier and second largest GSM carrier will be releasing a total of 24 new [...]
Sprint is hoping you’ll be saying goodbye to traffic congestion, at least in the Bay Area and when it comes to mobile broadband. The Now Network carrier has just announced, as promised and on schedule, that it is lighting up 4G WiMax access in Bay Area cities, giving residents of high-tech Silicon Valley the opportunity [...]
A leaked document obtained by T-Mobile blog TmoNews indicates that two mobile wireless broadband routers will be headed to T-Mobile USA in 2011. With AT&T having just recently released its Novatel MiFi–MiFi is a trademark of Novatel and has been used in blogs and by the media as a generic term for mobile broadband routers–T-Mobile [...]
The International Telecommunications Union, a coalition that defines how standards such as 4G mobile broadband technologies employed by wireless carriers are comprised, has now backtracked on its earlier definitions of what comprises 4G. The ITU declared last month that Sprint’s WiMax, T-Mobile’s HSPA+, and Verizon’s and AT&T’s forthcoming LTE networks do not meet 4G specifications [...]
As carriers are exploring new methods for pricing access to the Internet from your cell phones–from pay-per-use pricing to tiered pricing–a leaked webinar slide from Alot Communications and Openet–both of which represents AT&T, Verizon, and Vodafone–highlights the importance of the net neutrality discussion as it pertains to the mobile Web. The premise is that services [...]
Verizon will be offering the same $50 and $80 per monthLTE 4G rates to customers that don’t want to bother with a two-year contract. There is a catch however. Those that don’t opt for the Verizon contract will have to pay the full $249.99 cost of the LTE 4G modem. Signing on the dotted line [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
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Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
