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If you can’t wait to get your hands on the Samsung Epic 4G for Sprint tomorrow, you’ll be happy to know that the carrier’s stores will be opening early to accommodate demand for this new Android superphone. What’s all the fuss about? Well, the Sprint Epic 4G is the carrier’s version of the Samsung Galaxy…
Clearwire’s Monday press event is over and, as expected, the 4G wireless carrier announced its new Rover brand, a spin-off wireless service offering pay-as-you-go 4G mobile broadband service. The Rover service comes in with very affordable tiered pricing plans that include unlimited 4G broadband access for $5/day, $20/week, and $50/month. Being a prepaid service, the…
If you can’t wait until the end of the month for the slick-looking Samsung Epic 4G, a Galaxy S Android phone for Sprint, then you’ll be happy to know that the user guide has gone live. You can view the whole thing at the via link below and it’s full of the standard things you’d…
Are you a big fan of Clearwire broadband services, but you hate commitments or paying for stuff after the fact? The 4G/WiMax service provider has just announced that it will be unveiling a pay-as-you-go, more commonly seen as PAYG elsewhere, on Monday. Details of the plan haven’t been laid out yet, but we can rest…
As we all know, LTE networks are set to bring increased data speeds for mobile users. However, not everyone is super-eager to experience the blazing speeds on their mobile phones and/or other connected devices like netbooks and tablets. As a matter of fact, according to new Juniper Research’s report, only 1 in every 20 subscribers…
Samsung said that WiMAX networks based on its network infrastructure can now cover 200 million people and that number is set to hit 300 million by the end of the year. Unfortunately (for Samsung and WiMAX standard), only about 3 million subscribers (as of July 2010) connect to these networks, though the figure could grow…
Nokia is cooking something interesting for the U.S. market or at least their new RFID-enabled device at the FCC’s website suggests so. We’ve no idea what’s the name of this handset nor whether it’s a smartphone or not. We do know it’s RFID-enabled, meaning it could be used for near-field communication (NFC) — i.e. wireless…
So, for years and years I’ve been talking about how Japan has been using NFC (near field communications) technology to turn all those Japanese featurephones into electronic wallets, but only now are we seeing the beginnings of this tech making its way Stateside. While it’s still not the ideal phone-as-wallet setup that we’d like to…
Sprint is apparently having difficulty gaining 4G or WiMax subscribers according to Aurigia USA analyst Chandan Sarkar. After launching WiMax this past year and rolling it to several cities nationwide, Sprint still isn’t seeing the explosion in 4G users that it was hoping for. Part of that reason is probably because it’s still very much…
Good ole Bean town, it was the first to toss that English tea into the drink and now it is going to be the one of first major hotbeds for 4G technology. Yes, all you Bostonians have cause to rejoice- within the next 6-8 months, you will have not one, not two, but three wireless…