Tag archive: CDMA

One of China’s largest wireless providers will be making its way to U.S. consumers sometime in the new year. In an interview with Bloomberg, president of China Telecom Americas' Donald Tan revealed the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) service will be competitively priced and will target Chinese-American tourists, students, and business travelers. Basically, this option will work by giving its users one line that works in the United… Read More

UPDATE: A Sprint representative tells Ars Technica that it will not offer the iPhone 4S with an unlocked micro-SIM card slot, despite earlier reports that it would. Instead, customers must use Sprint's international GSM roaming service. The Sprint spokesperson also said that Verizon's device likely works the same way. There is no evidence that AT&T will offer its version unlocked either. In other words, if you buy the iPhone 4S… Read More

Today, HTC unveiled the HTC Rhyme, an Android phone with an eye for the ladies. Going against the grain of the typical black/gray/white Android handset, this one is a rich plum color and modest specs. With a single-core 1GHz processor, 5MP camera, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), a light up “charm” that glows when you miss a call, and matching Bluetooth headset & headphones, we imagine this one will be priced quite affordably. Most… Read More

Canadian patent holding company WiLan has announced it has launched litigation against a broad swatch of technology companies, alleging their product infringe on two patents related to CMDA/HSPA technology, as well as Wi-Fi and 4G LTE mobile technologies. The suit specifically targets Apple, Alcatel-Lucent, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, Kyocera, Novatel, and Sierra Wireless, and cites U.S. patent RE37,802 and 5,282,222—of the two, the… Read More

If you've seen or heard an ad about a cell phone or wireless plan lately, you may have noticed that a lot of new buzzwords are being thrown around. Words like 4G, LTE, and WiMax seem to have replaced the last set of words we barely understood: 3G, GSM, and CDMA. But what does it all mean? Is it all a bunch of marketing nonsense or are these words you should know and understand? We've got the scoop in our official mobile broadband… Read More

Apple failed to make any mention of announcing a new i-handheld device at WWDC, but new rumors we've reported on suggest the wait may not be quite as long as we thought. We most recently heard Apple planned to launch the iPhone 4S in September, giving the iPhone 5 a 2012 release date. But according to Apple Insider, reports are making the rounds that Apple will introduce the iPhone 4S in late July or August. As expected, the device is… Read More

Verizon CEO Fran Shammo told Reuters today that the carrier’s unlimited data plans are no more. Verizon will introduce its new pricing strategy this summer, which will now be based on tiered packages – bad news for data hogs. Shammo says the network will beging to offer family plans for its data coverage. “We had individual minutes for individual users. Then we eventually got to what we call family share where everyone in the family shares the… Read More

Apple is reportedly testing a model of its popular iPhone for the T-Mobile network, according to Boy Genius Report. The rumor is backed up by pictures of a device with, sure enough, a little “T-Mobile” on the indicator bar on the top of the phone, which these days only reads “AT&T” or, now, “Verizon,” in the United States. According to BRG, the model number on what appears to be  a white iPhone (but not… Read More

Under certain conditions, Verizon's iPhone 4 is significantly slower than AT&T's, according to a new study released this week by mobile analysis firm Metrico. Metrico looked at several iPhone handsets running in five U.S. cities on both of the wireless providers' networks. The study confirmed what some had already suspected: on overage, the Verizon iPhone downloads data at about half the speed of AT&T's iPhone.… Read More

Phone maker HTC has officially taken the wraps off its HTC Merge smartphone, the company's latest offering based on Google's Android platform. The Merge aims to appeal to bring HTC's high-end Android magic to folks who live and die by messaging, combining a 3.8-inch touchscreen display and 5 megapixel camera with a slide-out QWERTY keypad. The Merge will also be HTC's first CMDA “world phone” running… Read More

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple has begun production on its latest gen iPad, and it sounds like the rumors have been true. The device will reportedly be sleeker than the iPad and sport the seemingly-mandatory front-facing camera. On the inside, the tablet will feature a faster CPU, as projected, as well as an upgraded graphics processor and more memory. One of the more recent debates centered around the iPad 2’s screen. We recently… Read More

Teardowns of the soon-to-be-released Verizon iPhone 4 shows promising signs that  a “world phone” iPhone could soon be on the way. The giveaway is Apple's use of a Qualcomm chip that is both GSM- and CMDA-compatible. Inside, it's been discovered that the Verizon iPhone is, surprisingly, powered by a Qualcomm MDM6600 chip. The reason this is significant is, this particular chip is dualmode GSM and CDMA compatible. This… Read More

China's Huawei Technologies has filed suit against Motorola (PDF), claiming Motorola's plan to sell its cell phone networking gear business to Nokia Siemens will illegally transfer Huawei technology to Nokia Siemens. Huawei says Motorola is failing to protect Huawei's technology during the acquisition, and claims the disclosure will cause them irreparable harm. Huawei wants the court to block the Nokia Siemens deal in order… Read More

We’re months away from a supposed iPhone update, but Apple Insider has already reported some of the projected specs. Citing Apple Daily (a Hong-Kong based publication), Taiwan manufacturer Kinsus will allegedly supply parts for the device, including a new custom processor called the A8. Apple relatively recently acquired two chip manufacturers, Intrinsity and P.A. Semi, which allowed it to dive into creating its own custom ARM processors. The… Read More

Sprint isn't the dying carrier it once was. For the last year it's been patching its wounds and actually added new subscribers in the third and (presumably) fourth quarters of 2010. But is it ready for the iPhone? According to Reuters, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse was asked about the chances of the iPhone coming to Sprint. Apple representatives have said that the iPhone agreement with Verizon is not exclusive. Since Verizon and Sprint both… Read More