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Sprint is moving closer toward releasing one of its first LTE handsets, the LG Viper 4G. We knew the LG Viper was hitting store shelves soon, once a document leaked last week. The company is slowly rolling out its LTE network, with the first test in Kankakee, Ill, so Sprint will begin to offer LTE…
Someone in Nokia’s marketing department is about to get into a lot of trouble. The company’s YouTube channel accidentally posted a video demoing a new product, the Lumia 610 NFC. Said video was pulled down immediately, but that didn’t stop the guys at Nokia Buff from downloading it to their local machine and then reuploading…
Hardware expert Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, believes the WiFi issues some owners of the new iPad are reporting aren’t a hardware problem. Instead, they could be quickly fixed with a future software update. Apple acknowledged the problems a few days ago and started looking into them. “Symptoms can include, but are not limited…
US Cellular is moving up in prestige with its announcement that it has begun selling its first 4G LTE smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S Aviator. The carrier promised back in February that its first LTE phone would be released in April and has clearly stuck by its word. The Galaxy S Aviator is a mid-range…
Not many folks know this, but LG, the handset maker, has their own wireless network in South Korea. Known as Uplus, today the company is announcing that they’re the first operator in the world to cover an entire country with 4G LTE. According to TeleGeography, the high speed wireless network cost $1.1 billion to build…
After a rough few months, 4G Internet service provider LightSquared may be on the verge of bankruptcy. Philip Falcone, founder of Harbinger Capital hedge fund and LightSquared, told Reuters that he is seriously considering a voluntary bankruptcy to keep creditors at bay while LightSquared tries to figure things out. According to the Reuters report, Falcone…
MetroPCS has put into effect a price hike on its top-tier data plan. A plan that once costed $60 per month to receive unlimited calling, texting, data including 4G LTE, email and either MetroStudio on-demand video or Rhapsody now costs $70 but it throws both the MetroStudio and Rhapsody music. Considering all you get, it’s still…
Wild predictions are being made about the future of 4G speed by CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks Hossein Moiin. He thinks that by 2020, significant advancements will be made to the technology that will allow for speeds to become 1,000 times faster than they are today while costing as little as $1 per gigabyte, which…
France will get LTE network(s) later this year, with the country’s leading mobile operator Orange announcing its 4G pilot for June, starting in the city of Marseille. The France Telecom-owned carrier has a combination of two frequencies (2.6GHz and 800MHz) for its LTE services, and will use the network infrastructure supplied by Alcatel-Lucent. Aside from…
Berg Insight is out with a new report, looking at the shipments of NFC-enabled devices. According to the research company, global sales of such products increased ten-fold in 2011 to 30 million units and are set to reach 700 million units in 2016, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 87.8%. At the…