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A smartphone with HSPA+ capabilities for T-Mobile has just passed through the Federal Communications Commission and this looks to be the much-heralded G2. The device came through the FCC as the “HTC PC10100” and it sports 802.11n WiFi, 3G for T-Mobile’s AWS bands and references to HSPA+. We know that T-Mobile has been pushing the…
MetroPCS has already confirmed their first LTE handset to be the Samsung Craft, seen also passing through the FCC. We’ve got some pictures now, and unfortunately they reveal that it’s using the same flavour of TouchWiz as the Caliber – no Android here. As far as connectivity goes, the Craft will run on dual band…
ChinaTel Group and CECT-Chinacomm Communications are working together to deploy a WiMAX network in the 3.5GHz band across 29 markets in China, including Shanghai and Shenzhen. Chinatel has 20 megahertz of spectrum which it got from the Chinese government as a grant as part of a mandate to WiMAX-enable 12 markets by June 2011. The…
RIM has just announced a new product in their accessory line, the HS-700 Bluetooth headset. It’s an innocuous little Bluetooth headset with a nice leather finish, but what makes it special is that you can launch into actions using only your voice. Using voice alone, you can start a call, mute a call, redial, call…
Although we’ve had the luxury of owning the iPhone 4 for nearly two months now, not everyone has been so lucky. For China Unicom customers, it must have been a long wait, but the iPhone 4 will be hitting the carrier next month. While there have been issues with selling Wi-Fi capable iPhones in China…
They say the sequel is never as good as the original but that trope doesn’t apply to tech and the WiMax 2 high-speed wireless technology should become standardized by next year. WiMax is already delivering up to 10 Mbps download speeds on the go with Sprint’s 4G network but the tech has a lower theoretical…
It looks like Verizon will be pulling a Sprint and will charge customers an extra $10 to $15 for the privilege of using the carrier’s 4G LTE data service -the charge will be added on top of the existing data plan for compatible devices. We can’t we say we’re surprised, but it’s going to be…
If your life is lacking some epic-ness, you’ll be happy to know that you can now preorder the Samsung Epic 4G from Sprint. The Samsung Epic 4G will be available on Sprint August 31 for $249 and most of the high-end devices this summer have sold out, so you may want to preorder it to…
In case you were wondering, the answer to the question of whether or not Verizon will have a smartphone with LTE inside by the end of this year is no. What about tablets? Still no. During the Oppenheimer Annual Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference, Verizon Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer John Killian had…
While many of developed countries still wait for the first LTE network, Ucell — a subsidiary of Sweden’s TeliaSonera — is launching second LTE network in Uzbekistan. As you may recall, Russia’s MTS was the first operator to offer LTE services in the country, using hardware from China’s Huawei. Other Chinese company, ZTE, provided the…