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Motorola and Nokia have agreed to a licensing agreement which could help make sure that there is a smoother transition to the 4G era. Motorola and Nokia didn’t reveal many details about the deal but it will include intellectual property agreements regarding 4G products like Long-Term Evolution, WiMax and Long-Term Evolution Advanced. “We are pleased…
AT&T will be helping Apple target the business crowd with the iPad. According to the carrier, it will offer both Wi-Fi and 3G models to businesses with discounted plans. Good news for business who want to adopt the iPad for its wealth of applications and wireless capabilities. This might also be bad news for RIM,…
Stop me if you’ve heard this before but a Verizon iPhone is on track for early next year. Now, an analyst is saying that March 2011 is the scheduled release date. “It’s on track,” said Brian Marshall, an analyst with Gleacher & Co. “It won’t be just for Verizon. There are international carriers that use…
Best Buy confirmed that it will be carrying four new smartphones and mobile devices this holiday season. The illustrative lineup was previously spotted in a leaked sales flyer and includes the following: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 in White on AT&T with the Essential Taylor Swift Experience: The A&T Sony Ericsson X10 will be available in…
AT&T was late to jump on to the Android boat and, when they did, it wasn’t pretty. The second-largest U.S. carrier is the exclusive carrier of the Apple iPhone, and for a time, AT&T probably felt that they didn’t need to do much more than watch the money pile up because of this exclusivity. That’s…
When it comes to naming all the various flavors of 3G technology, and knowing what they’re all capable of, you really need a pocket guide otherwise you’d go a little nuts. For the sake of shortness, let’s just say that the fastest speeds achievable by 3G today hovers around 42 Mbps. This uses a technology…
Clearwire is in a bit of a bind. Creating the nation’s, probably the world’s, largest WiMAX network wasn’t cheap. The airwaves needed to broadcast the signal, the towers to put up antennas, and the funds used to advertise that “4G is here” when that’s truly not the case, have put the company in a situation…
Microsoft launched Windows Phone yesterday with nine handsets and a launch plan that includes 30 wireless carriers worldwide. Now that the press event is over and we have had some hands-on time with all nine handsets, it is now time to wrap-up the event and combine all of our information together into one comprehensive post.…
INQ, a company that’s a small division of the huge global operator Hutchison, builds feature phones with smartphone features deeply integrated. Last year they launched several devices in the UK that had Facebook, Twitter, MSN and even Skype built in. They were cheap, but the user interface was playful and indeed easy to use. Now…
Drowning in this barrage of Windows Phone 7 handsets? Here’s another for you: the LG Quantum – an AT&T-bound slider smartphone with a landscape QWERTY keyboard. The Quantum will feature a 5MP camera, 1GHz processor, 16GB of internal storage and it will also feature DLNA out for you video fans. The Quantum looks and feels…