T-Mobile to Launch HSPA+ Phone
Mark Hachman, PC Magazine, 7/21/2010 T-Mobile will release its first HSPA+ phone later this summer, the carrier announced via Twitter on Wednesday. Naturally, the 140-character limit didn’t allow T-Mobile much room for detail: “Big news! Later this summer, T-Mobile will unveil its first HSPA+-capable smartphone,” T-Mobile said. “More details will be available in the coming weeks.” [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, CDMA, HSPA, Sprint, T-Mobile
Verizon Wireless Said to Start Offering IPhone in January
Amy Thomson, Bloomberg, 6/29/2010 Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with the plans said. The device will be available to customers in January, according to the people, who declined to be named [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, CTIA, Motorola, Verizon, Vodafone
The Big Shift: Moving to LTE From WiMAX
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 5/30/2010 If WiMAX is a fad — a short-term bridge on the path to LTE as the global fourth-generation wireless standard — how will operators move from one network technology to another? Russian WiMAX provider Yota said last week that it would stop deploying WiMAX networks and switch instead to LTE for [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, CDMA, Clearwire, GSM, LTE, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiMax
CDMA iPhone seen at Verizon in November
Electronista Staff, Electronista, 5/28/2010 Analyst believes CDMA iPhone being sped up The Verizon iPhone could be on store shelves in November, Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar claimed today. Checks with manufacturers have ASUS’ manufacturing arm Pegatron building iPhones soon enough that it could ship two months before the end of the year. Most rumors have [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: CDMA, Verizon
Sprint evaluating options, open to LTE
Sue Marek, FierceWireless, 5/20/2010 Sprint has issued a request for proposal for its next-generation of mobile network technology and LTE may be one option. Light Reading Mobile reports that at the LTE World Summit in Amsterdam this week Kevin Packingham, senior vice president of product and technology development at Sprint, said that the company is evaluating [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: CDMA, Clearwire, LTE, Sprint, Verizon, WiMax
Verizon, Google Developing iPad Rival
Niraj Sheth, The Wall Street Journal, 5/12/2010 Verizon Wireless is working with Google Inc. on a tablet computer, the carrier’s chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said Tuesday, as the company endeavors to catch up with iPad host AT&T Inc. in devices that connect to wireless networks. The work is part of a deepening relationship between the [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, GSM, Verizon
G&D to Demonstrate First Mobile Phone-based Prototype with a Complete Security Platform at Mobile World Congress 2010
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, April 20 2010 February 15, 2010. Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) today announced that it has developed the first prototype of a complete security platform for a mobile handset, with Qualcomm Incorporated’s support, and will be displaying its proof-of-concept solution running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon™ chipsets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: CDMA
iPhone OS 3.2 references new iPhone, iPod touch, iPad models
Chris Foresman, ArsTechnica, 4/5/2010 The iPad is out, and the staff has been locked in the bowels of the Orbiting HQ until our review is finished. In the meantime, folks are already digging into configuration files hidden deep inside the iPad-only 3.2 version of iPhone OS and turning up references to Apple’s next-generation mobile hardware. Now [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, CDMA, LTE, WiMax
WSJ Reports CDMA iPhone on its way
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Ting-I Tsai and Niraj Sheth, Mobile Tech Today, 3/30/2010 Apple Inc. plans to begin producing this year a new iPhone that could allow U.S. phone carriers other than AT&T Inc. to sell the iconic gadget, said people briefed by the company. The new iPhone would work on a type of wireless network [...]
In: Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, GSM, Verizon, Vodafone
Apple recruiting for iPhone with HSPA+, LTE in mind
Electronista Staff, Electonista, 3/26/2010 Apple job post mentions LTE and 21Mbps HSPA Apple in a job listing has signaled its plans to get advanced 3G and 4G. A sport for a Cellular Technology Software Manager would implement mobile data protocols that include the existing UMTS/WCDMA and HSPA already used by the iPhone but also HSPA+ [...]