Orange is the fastest European operator to adopt contactless payments. The France Telecom-owned company plans to bring NFC-enabled services firstly in the UK, France, Spain and Poland, with plans to expand to other Orange markets across Europe at a later point. The company is starting with the Bada-powered Samsung Wave 578 — which we covered…
Telstra launching 4G LTE services later in the year
Australia’s Telstra unveiled plans to upgrade its Next G network with 4G LTE technology later in the year. The company will focus on central business districts of all Australian capital cities and selected regional centres, and use its existing 1800MHz spectrum to bring 4G to areas where traffic demand is most concentrated. At the same…
Hands-on: Samsung Galaxy S 4G
T-Mobile’s fastest HSPA+ 4G handset, the Galaxy S 4G, is both familiar and new all at the same time. The only difference between this device and the original Galaxy S and the Galaxy S 4G is, well, the 4G part, but that doesn’t mean there’s less to love about it. We finally got some hands…
Samsung Galaxy S 4G coming to T-Mobile on February 23rd for $149
We’ve been wondering when T-Mobile would announce the availability of the Samsung Galaxy 4G, and it looks like the rumored date turned out to be true. Next Wednesday T-Mobile will unleash their fastest HSPA+ phone yet, and it’ll hit at the very affordable price of $149. The Galaxy S 4G will essentially be the Samsung…
BlackBerry PlayBook HSPA+ and LTE Flavours Announced
Today at Mobile World Congress 2011, RIM announced two new 4G-ish varieties of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. In the second half of the year, there will be one PlayBook that runs on LTE and Wi-Fi, and another that runs on HSPA+ and Wi-Fi, in addition to the WiMAX version headed to Sprint. The rest of…
LG Revolution handles voice over LTE (VoLTE) and video call over LTE
We told ya’ LG Revolution will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to support voice and super-fast LTE data simultaneously. LG is demoing the device at the Mobile World Congress, showing it handling both Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Video call over LTE. In other words, if you’re a Revolution-ownin’ Verizon customer, you will be…
Japanese Docomo and Korean KT team-up on cross-border NFC
NTT Docomo announced an agreement with South Korea’s KT Corporation to use near field communication (NFC) technologies to develop cross-border services for mobile payments, mass-transit ticketing, promotional coupons and other services. If everything goes as planned, the two market-leading operators will launch in their respective markets from around the end of 2012. Through the joint…
Mobile VoIP service Vopium launches white label solution, again
Although most operators still hate mobile VoIP services, some of them are figuring out there’s no point to resist – users will always look for cheaper alternatives for international phone calls. As a matter of fact, smart carriers like Verizon and Three have partnered with Skype, while others are slowly joining the trend, too. On…
Sprint reverses bleeding, adds 646,000 customers for quarter
After years of bleeding subscribers to other carriers every quarter, Sprint is righting the ship. With nearly 1.1 million new additions, Sprint had its best quarter since 2006. Sparked by 4G Android devices like the EVO helped the company add 58,000 net new postpaid customers. These are the customers that are on long-term contracts, so…
Skype for iPhone now supports TV video-calls
Skype has once again updated its iPhone app to allow users to video-call their buddies on Skype-compatible TVs. Unfortunately that includes only a limited number of TV sets, namely select (and pricey) models made by LG, Panasonic and Samsung. Of course, there’s also an option to buy a camera and connect it to some Internet-capable…