Tag archive: 4G

According to a report from Apple enthusiast site 9to5Mac, the next revision of the iPhone will be hitting store shelves during the summer months of this year. This release window would align with the upcoming contract expiration date of 1.7 million AT&T customers that purchased the iPhone 4 within the first three days of release on June 24, 2010. The same source that provided this information to 9to5Mac also predicted that the iPhone 4S was… Read More

At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, we began to wonder if LG had abandoned the tablet market. After all, it's been more than six months since its first and last tablet, which was marketed through T-Mobile as the G-Slate last year, which is a lifetime in the fast-paced mobile industry. It looks like the company was merely waiting. LG today unveiled the Optimus Pad LTE, its first 4G LTE-enabled tablet.  Like the G-Slate (review),… Read More

A roadmap of Research in Motion's plans for new hardware during 2012 has been leaked. Surprisingly, rather than concentrating on BlackBerry 10 handsets, it features not one but two new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. Yes, it seems one tablet not selling very well isn't enough, as information given to N4bb.com shows a new 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook will be coming in April, with a 10-inch model to follow at the end of the year in… Read More

When 150,000 people gather in the middle of the desert to gawk at technology, a sense of perspective becomes even harder to find than an unoccupied bathroom. Among all the shiny metal and glass, silicon and plastic, megahertz and gigabytes heaped into one room, it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. Or see the future from the gadgets that will herald its arrival, as the case may be. Fortunately, that’s why all things Vegas must come to an… Read More

Though there weren't dozens of new Windows Phones shown at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, Microsoft may have had a more impressive showing than Android. Nokia finally debuted its first 4G LTE Windows Phone 7.5 device, the Lumia 900, and HTC quietly announced a sequel to its newly released 4.7-inch Titan phone. Oddly, the manufacturer didn't have a presence on the show floor, but Microsoft let me play around with one during… Read More

When Dell introduced the Streak 5-inch tablet in 2010, it completely bombed. Since then, phone screens have been inching their way back toward the Streak and now Samsung has unveiled a version of the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note that's bound for the US market. It's huge and it may not fit in your pocket, but it's coming to AT&T. My first impressions are below. Half smartphone, half tablet The Galaxy Note is an odd beast of a… Read More

In the mood for a tablet? Got a few hundred dollars and $30 to $50 bucks a month to spend on a Verizon 4G LTE connection? This may be the tablet for you. Samsung's Android tablets are definitely not cheap, but they have consistently been the best. Always experimenting with new screen sizes, Samsung is releasing a 7.7-inch tablet in the US. Yesterday, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE was announced at Samsung's pre-CES press conference and… Read More

The LG Spectrum has a few things going for it: It has a dual-core processor, it connects up to Verizon's 4G LTE network for high-speed data, and it has a fancy new type of HD screen LG is calling “True HD IPS, and it costs $100 less than it's chief competition, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Droid Razr. Does this spell out a hit? Possibly. We spent a bit of time checking out the Spectrum at LG's crowded CES booth today… Read More

Nokia hasn't had much of a presence in the United States and Canada for a few years now, but it's about to mount its comeback, and its platform of choice is Microsoft's Windows Phone. At its pre-CES conference yesterday, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 900, its new smartphone designed specifically for the North American market. What does that mean? Well, it's mostly a Lumia 800 with a larger screen. Fortunately, the Lumia 800… Read More

In the wake of the abandoned merger effort from AT&T, T-Mobile USA parent company Deutsche Telekom is looking for ways to keep the number-four U.S. mobile operator afloat—and, according to the Financial Times (registration required) that could include issuing new bonds and selling off cell towers—although the company does not expect to announce its strategy for T-Mobile USA until after its next financial results in February.… Read More

CES 2012 is upon us, and that means the months of predictions are finally coming to a head. While there are always a few surprises that manage to sneak through, we're thoroughly prepared to see some long-standing speculation and rumors fulfilled. Get a look at all our CES predictions, and stand by for full confirmation starting next week.  Ultrabooks We might as well put this category out of its misery right away. Ultrabooks have become… Read More

Those of you on Sprint, your time is coming. Sprint is expected to debut its LTE network in the first six months of 2012 and it looks like the Galaxy Nexus may be the first device to take advantage. Yesterday, The ad above appeared on CNET. It shows a 4G LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor (faster than the Verizon and Unlocked models, which are 1.2GHz dual-core). Though carriers love to meddle with designs, it… Read More

Mentioned in an official blog post on the company site, Skype is setting up free Wi-Fi access many sections of New York City to celebrate the new year. Skype is partnering with Towerstream to accomplish this feat and will provide free Wi-Fi service to anyone in “Times Square, West Village, East Village, South Village, Greenwich Village, NoHo, SoHo, Lowe East Side, Clinton, Chelsea, Union Square, Midtown, Midtown South, Murray Hill,… Read More

It looks like Windows Phone will indeed get LTE before the Apollo update in late 2012. Paul Thurrott, host of Windows Weekly and owner of WinSupersite has decided to come out with what he knows about  Microsoft's planned LTE rollout. He claims that Microsoft has chosen AT&T for its first LTE Windows Phones and that the first LTE-based devices will debut at CES in January. The Nokia ACE, HTC Radiant, and Samsung Mendel (these could be… Read More

Yesterday, Verizon said that it's 4G LTE network was back up and running after its third major crash in December. For those wondering why such a thing could happen–especially to a carrier that prides its service so highly that it plans to charge its customers $2 for the privilege of paying their own bill each month–Verizon has issued an explanation, sort of. In a statement, the company doesn't directly apologize, but… Read More