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We already know that AT&T will deploy 4G LTE later this year but the company said it will have at least one 4G LTE smartphone by the end of the year. AT&T senior VP Peter Ritcher told Mobiledia that the company will have a hotspot, laptop card and a handset that can support this faster…
Big changes are stirring at Clearwire as it just announced a new President and CEO. The new position goes to former COO Erik Prusch, and interim CEO John Stanton takes his position as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. This is big news in light of the other big news, where Clearwire made it,…
A roadmap of Wireless Giant’s upcoming BlackBerry devices has revealed a trio of RIM accessories are due to go on sale on October 31. One of them, the Cyclone, is what we’ve heard will be a TV accessory, and is described as “Streaming HDMI”. The other two, dubbed Beats and Calypso, are Wi-Fi stereo devices.…
The T-Mobile Hercules has been floating around since May but has mostly remained a mystery as to what it would truly be. Initially, it was believed that T-Mobile would be receiving it’s very own version of AT&T’s Samsung Infuse 4G, but it looks like the demigod of a phone is actually the real-deal god of…
The other night was a little disappointing since neither of the new BlackBerry devices announced (the Torch 9810 and Torch 9850/60) had near-field communications or mobile Wi-Fi hotspot features. The upcoming Curve 9360 (code-named Apollo), may very well have them included, however. This is pretty interesting, considering we’re expecting the 9360 to be a lower-tier…
After a false start this morning, the Skype video and voice calling app for the iPad has been released. All of the standard bells and whistles are included, like instant messaging, friends list management, SMS texting, and of course video and voice calls to other Skype users as well as land lines. No multi-user video…
It looks like Kyocera’s unique dual-screen Android handset, the Echo, has been hiding away a near-field communications chip as well as Wi-Fi calling capabilities. Kyocera is officially listing features for the upcoming Gingerbread 2.3.4 update, and beyond NFC and Wi-Fi calling (presumably over the UMA standard), there are a few other additions. An upgrade to…
Even with the impending AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile, the fourth largest US carrier still isn’t lacking when it comes to great smartphones. T-Mobile’s latest handsets can easily go toe-to-toe with most handsets available in the United States and we’re going to lay out the top five smartphones available for the carrier. Sensation 4G Not…
By now, you’ve heard the big news that Sprint and LightSquared are partnering to build out a 4G LTE network and this could give the carrier a next-generation mobile data network which can match AT&T and Verizon’s 4G networks. But what will happen to your existing WiMax 4G handset and will devices like the Photon…
Twilio — provider of pay-as-you-go cloud communications services which we’ve already covered in the past — launched Twilio Client, a software toolkit for web, iOS, and Android development that allows developers to enable voice communications within any application. Here’s the official pitch: With Twilio Client, millions of web developers worldwide can now build Skype-like voice…