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HTC today announced its first LTE smartphone, called the Raider, for availability Canada. The HTC Raider will be coming soon to both Bell and Rogers networks, following on an initial announcement in Korea. The new Canadian bound device packs some pretty impressive features like a 1.2 GHz processor, 1080p camcorder and Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread with of course…
An LTE iPhone has been on customers’ wish lists for the past year due to the influx of Android devices that have added 4G support. Now, Apple may finally be preparing to release an LTE offering for 2012. DigiTimes reports that as the competition gets more fierce, “Nokia, Apple, RIM and Sony Ericsson are expected to…
The bean counters at In-Stat are at it again, this time predicting that during the year 2015 there will be over 1.2 billion near field communication (NFC) chips shipped in various sorts of products. That’s a pretty big number when you consider that you can count the number of NFC enabled smartphones on one hand.…
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, more commonly known as the Bluetooth SIG, announced way back in April 2010 that the Bluetooth 4.0 specification is “ready to roll” and that it’ll start appearing in devices by the end of that year. One of the most promising features that comes with the new version of Bluetooth is…
Sprint just killed unlimited 4G data from its mobile hotspot plans, which means the few reasons to go with Sprint in the first place are becoming smaller. It also means that if you’re looking to sign up for new service for a mobile hotspot, there really is no reason to choose Sprint over Verizon, whose…
Mobile VoIP clients downloaded to the smartphone will account for four fifths of 640 million mVoIP users by the end of 2016, while alliances between carriers and mVoIP specialists will remain relatively few in number. According to Juniper Research, the factors that will mostly drive the adoption of this technology are improved technology, more intuitive…
We’ve already told you about CounterPath‘s enterprise-grade, SIP-compliant VoIP apps Bria for Android and iPhone. Now the company announced these two will get the video support, starting with the Bria iPhone Edition later this fall. As a result, CounterPath users will be able to check the availability and status of colleagues, friends and family members,…
New Jersey’s public transit system, the 3rd largest in the U.S., has just announced that they’ve given Google a big bear hug and will soon start supporting Google Wallet. According to the press release, customers will be able to buy tickets from “New York Penn Station ticket vending machines and ticket windows, Newark Liberty International…
The Motorola RAZR has been officially announced and it’s certainly one doozy of a phone. The handset is packing some very high-end specs that should satisfy the power users of the world and is kept in a terribly thin body. First up, the RAZR is a mere 7.1mm at its thinnest point, which makes it…
Presumably feeling some heat as the only major U.S. carrier without the iPhone, T-Mobile is stepping up its game to lure in new customers with fresh usage plans in the Monthly4G lineup. The new $60 unlimited plan is arguably one of the best bangs for the buck available to mobile subscribers. That plan gets you…