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The beginning of a new year means a lot of things: shameful recollections of your New Year’s Eve party, resolutions that never really panned out in the last year, and, of course, the largest consumer electronics show of the year. With CES Las Vegas 2011 kicking off in just a few short days, the IntoMobile…
MetroPCS introduced a trio of new unlimited LTE plans that start at a rock bottom $40 for unlimited talk, text, 4G web browsing and unlimited YouTube access. As with all MetroPCS plans, this ultra-low price is available contract-free and includes all applicable taxes and regulatory fees. As long as you stay within the terms of…
An LTE BlackBerry has reportedly been in the works for about the last two years, which is roughly the length of RIM’s development cycle, but a variety of factors have apparently slowed progress to a standstill. Rumour has it that costs for LTE chips are too high for RIM, that 4G is too much of…
LTE devices for Verizon will be here soon! And of course, the first of many we’ll see are the HTC Thunderbolt, which we’ve been hearing plenty about, and the Samsung SCH-i520 – not so popular for now. These Android devices are pretty promising, especially the sexy Thunderbolt we’ve seen so much of, and they’ll also…
Pictures of the HTC Thunderbolt leaked a few days ago, with few specs other than LTE connectivity, but a whole batch of info on the unreleased device has made its way out of Germany recently. The particular processor mentioned hasn’t actually been released by Qualcomm yet, so take it all with a grain of salt.…
Next week’s CES show will bring a slew of tablets and ViewSonic will join the crowd by introducing a 4-inch Android tablet/phone hybrid, according to The Wall Street Journal. The device, which hasn’t been named yet, is supposed to be a 4-inch touchscreen display and it will run Android. I don’t know why that classifies…
We can’t wait for next week’s CES show to see the upcoming Motorola Android Honeycomb tablet and we’re seeing multiple leaks come out. We’ve already heard that it should be called the Xoom and we’ve heard that it won’t have 4G LTE support built in but AndroidandMe says it will be able to access this…
How nice of you to join us, HTC Thunderbolt, we’ve been expecting you. Actually, we weren’t expecting the Verizon-bound Thunderbolt specifically, but we knew something like this LTE-capable Android phone was due to show its face sometime soon. Today, Verizon’s first LTE device, poses for the camera in newly leaked product photos. Droid-Life managed to…
LTE-enabled, mobile cloud-based gaming is coming. A company called Ubitus has recently demonstrated its GameCloud solution on DOCOMO’s LTE network and it looks promising. Basically the idea is that users with any handheld device, smartphone included, will be able to play high-end games. All the heavy stuff is processed on servers (in the cloud) returning…
We know that HTC is preparing a smartphone for the Verizon 4G LTE network and the ad picture in this post indicates that it could be called the Thunderbolt 4G. We have previously seen this device when it was code-named Mecha and some thought it would be called the Incredible HD, but this ad sends…