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Verizon has confirmed what many of us suspected: it will have a Motorola 4G LTE smartphone in the not-too-distant future. The company had previously said that it will offer smartphones for its just-launched next-generation mobile data network but it hadn’t named a handset maker. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless COO…
We all know that Palm is readying an Apple iPad competitor for early next year and a few more details about the PalmPad have leaked. The folks at Fox News got the scoop and the image above, as the PalmPad is expected to be unveiled at the CES trade show in early January and it…
Sprint has lit up a good chunk of the country with WiMax, so it seems like the huge tech hub that is the San Francisco Bay Area is well behind when it comes to the official launch of the 4G network. But in a few days, that will all change. While a great deal of…
Google said it will allow users to continue making free calls to the United States and Canada for all of 2011 and this is definitely a cool thing. Still, we can’t help but wonder when this VoIP free calling will be landing on mobile phones through Google Voice. If you don’t know, the search giant…
Recently, the ITU decided to succumb to the pesky carriers by allowing LTE, WiMax and HSPA+ or any evolved 3G technology to be called 4G. T-Mobile is aggressively pushing its HSPA+ network – which will always be “3G” in my heart regardless of what anyone tells me – as America’s largest 4G network. Now the…
Samsung’s own operating System, bada, is due for a 2.0 upgrade in 2011, which will host a bunch of new features. The most notable among them is near-field communications, a feature Android recently adopted for 2.3 Gingerbread, but Bada 2.0 will include a lot of other stuff, like multitasking, SDKs for Mac and Linux, FlashLite…
You might want to hold off on getting a new smartphone this holiday season because Verizon will be introducing an Android phone with 4G LTE in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. “Jan. 6 at #CES: #Android and #LTE – could it be like peanut butter and chocolate? YUM!,” Verizon tweeted from its official account.…
Everyone has one, so why not T-Mobile? The carrier appears to be readying a MiFi, or mobile hotspot, launch that will be compatible with its HSPA+ network next year. Although I still cringe at calling evolved 3G technologies “4G,” the ITU has recently decided that it’s ok, so yes: this will be a 4G MiFi…
After Symbian and Android, fring is bringing its fringOut service to the iPhone users, allowing them to call for less. This can come pretty handy if you or one of your friends/relatives is stranded at some European airport. In that sense, the company is also launching a neat campaign offering $5 of fringOut credit to…
In an about face, the International Telecommunications Union has expanded the term 4G to include WiMAX, LTE and HSPA+. Previously, the ITU had established WiMAX 2 and LTE-Advanced as the only networking technologies worthy of the 4G name. As a result of this decision, WiMAX, LTE and HSPA+ were considered to be 3G technologies. Despite…