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Okay, that’s kind of a baiting headline but an interesting topic came up this morning while I was at a state of the mobile union talk with Broadcom: Are the carriers not pushing hard enough to make smartphones have better battery life? I’m not even talking about the connectivity part, although that’s clearly leading to…
AT&T has just announced that it will launch LTE in five U.S. cities this summer: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The announcement was made by AT&T Business Solutions President and CEO John Stankey during the Barclays Capital Global Communications, Media and Technology Conference. Finally, AT&T will have a true 4G network – none…
We’ve just gotten our review unit for the HP Veer 4G, and we figured we’d better get this thing unboxed for you guys sooner than later. It’s the newest webOS device for AT&T, and this thing is tiny. If you thought the Pre or Pixi was small, wait until you see this thing. Its length…
Sprint, who has been very opposed to the AT&T and T-Mobile deal since its announcement, now wants California and West Virginia to follow Louisiana’s lead in putting the deal under some scrutiny. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has said that a merger could create a duopoly in the U.S. wireless market, and that it would stifle…
During a visit to AT&T’s Foundry Space in Plano, Texas, Stacey Higginbotham, a writer for GigaOM, asked if she could get a demo of the soon to launch 4G LTE network and the engineers were more than happy to let her run some speed tests. The numbers she got: 28.87 Mbps down and 10.4 Mbps…
It’s smartphone bonanza at Amazon, which is offering few of the hottest devices for less. Without further ado, here’s what they got: AT&T’s HTC Inspire 4G is available for $29.99. The Android-powered smartphone rocks 1GHz processor, 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera, 4GB of internal storage and so on. Sprint’s HTC Arrive could be yours for…
If you’re itching to get a Windows Phone 7 smartphone on AT&T and the existing lineup didn’t appeal to you, then you’ll be happy to know that the HTC HD7S will be landing June 5 for $199 on a new, two-year contract. If you think this looks almost exactly like the HD7, you’d be right,…
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the BlackBerry PlayBook could only handle e-mail through the browser unless tethered via Bluetooth to a RIM smartphone, at launch AT&T didn’t even approve the app for their branded phones. Barring the particularly industrious that employed a workaround, this made the PlayBook a non-started for AT&T BlackBerry owners.…
The Samsung Infuse 4G for AT&T embodies the three directions that mobile phones seem to be headed – larger screen sizes, thinner bodies and more powerful processors. That’s right – the Infuse 4G manages to wrangle all three, and in a very usable package. Its 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display is rich and vivid, though…
Remember Cisco’s enterprise friendly Android tablet, Cius? It’s gearing toward the launch and now we’re hearing AT&T will most likely get to carry it. The upcoming tablet will sing along the carrier’s HSPA+ network, allowing business users to collaborate and attend video conferences using Cisco’s software. Moreover, the two companies will also team-up to entice…