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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has said that Sprint will eventually shut down iDen (which it picked up with Nextel in 2004), and I’m guessing a good chunk of people might be a little annoyed by that. Hesse says that fewer customers are being added to the iDen network and more onto its CDMA network, so…
Verizon is hitting hard with its LTE or 4G rollout starting in West Virginia at the end of this year. We mentioned earlier that Charleston would be the first city to see coverage, but Verizon has announced a slightly more detailed plan in its LTE rollout efforts. Charleston will receive partial coverage at the end…
We know few companies are working on the 3D mobile display technology and we’ve also seen the Samsung W960 sporting such a screen. Now we have another vendor joining the “3D race” – India’s Spice Mobile. The model name is M-67 3D and it comes with a 2.4-inch auto-stereoscopic 3D QVGA (240×320 pixels) display. In…
Sprint is launching WiMax in New York City next week, which is one of its biggest markets to date. Its 4G network will cover all five boroughs, from the Bronx all the way down to Staten Island and everywhere in between. However, coverage will vary dramatically even from street to street and depending on the…
In preparation for the upcoming myTouch 4G, it looks like T-Mobile will be launching a new tethering / mobile hotspot plan starting November 3. For $14.99 every month on top of any unlimited data plan of $29 or up, users will be able to use their handsets as a modem for a single device, or…
Have you ever wondered why Wi-Fi devices can’t just connect straight to each other without the need for a hotspot? Say you want to transfer content from one device with Wi-Fi to another similarly equipped device, but there isn’t a hotspot around to connect the two. That will all soon change as the Wi-Fi alliance…
Nimbuzz, the application/service that allows mobile phone users to keep in touch with their buddies across multiple social and instant messaging networks, announced that they have been asked by Skype to remove support for all Skype services, effective October 31st. The move is understood to be in line with Skype’s mandate to disconnect with all…
The ever-innovative Truphone is fighting hard for its place under the “VoIP sky.” Their latest offer includes free calls, text and data services while in the UK until the end of the year. Moreover, the service also offers savings when roaming across the rest of Europe with in country and international calling rates for U.S.…
AT&T is really looking to beef up its network and is getting ready for LTE. Of course, before that happens, it still has a bit of work to do in terms of deploying HSPA+ and getting its promised 250 million pops covered before the year’s end. There are plenty of areas that still don’t see…
You may recall some of us being upset with how some carriers are describing its next-generation mobile networks as “4G” even though standards bodies didn’t designate technologies as such. Well, the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunications has finally designated which wireless technologies should be called 4G but don’t expect that to clear up the confusion. The…