Verizon LTE plans start at $50/month for 5GB of data (update)
And here we go: Verizon just announced its 4G LTE pricing and full list of coverage areas.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 2012-or-2013, after-the-break, airports, breaking-news, breakingnews, chicago, coverage, coverage-area, entry, francisco, handoff, like-the-modems
Mobile DTV ready to roll out, upgrading 20 major metros to portable TV by 2012
Slowly but surely, the biggest US cities are catching up to the rest of the world -- just imagine, by this time next year, we might even have broadcast television beamed to our tablets and cell phones. That's because the Mobile Content Venture formed from twelve media giants in April has just promised to start upgrading TV stations to deliver Mobile DTV (aka ATSC-M/H) around the country, with the intent of reaching 20 major markets and a total of 40 percent of the US population by "late 2011." Each of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, Tampa, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Orlando, Portland, Cincinnati, Greenville, West Palm Beach, Birmingham and Knoxville can expect to have a pair of ad-supported TV channels before long, assuming citizens are willing and able to pick up hardware with a old-school RF antenna sticking out -- and that whole "streaming" thing doesn't take off. PR after the break.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, atsc, biggest, channels-before, chicago, country, houston, metros, mobile dtv, mobile-content, school
Shocker! MobiTV customers prefer larger, easy to see displays
MobiTV wants you to know that its ESPN Mobil TV offering had 100 percent uptime during the recent World Cup . Also, it's parsed some of the subscriber data that it accumulated during the tournament, and the analysis is in: subscribers with 5-inch displays watched an average of 118.2 minutes of soccer, while those with 2-inch displays watched almost half that (about 61.1 minutes on average). That's right: people with displays that are large enough to actually see what's goin' on will watch more TV than those with displays roughly the size of a postage stamp
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: chicago, mobitv, over-the-air, overtheair, see-displays, Sleep, stamp, tournament, tweenager, winmo, wins-at-125, world
Verizon’s LTE network launching November 15 with two data cards and over 30 markets?
We're being fed some information on Verizon's launch strategy for its first commercial 4G markets today; the bad news is that it's looking like you'll have to wait until the holiday shopping season, but the good news is that they should have a surprisingly decent footprint at launch. Specifically, we're hearing that two data cards (presumably including that LG VL600 USB stick ) will kick things off on November 15 with over 30 markets around the country -- including biggies like New York, LA, Chicago, and Philadelphia -- alongside ten airports, perfect for you globetrotters on layovers.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: airports, bad, biggies, chicago, data, exclusive, holiday, philadelphia, verizon, vzw
Fring update approved for iPhone, does video calling with front cam over 3G
We weren't exactly sure whether Apple was going to approve third-party video calling apps using the front camera on the iPhone 4 , but good news: the answer is "yes." Fring just slid in a new version of its longstanding iPhone app today featuring support for video calling, which is pretty awesome in and of itself -- but the real news is that it works just fine over 3G, as you can see in our quick test above between Chicago and London. This opens the door for services that could have potentially broader implications than FaceTime itself, since Apple's service is limited to WiFi and currently only works between iPhone 4s. Just make sure you're wearing clothes when you call, alright?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: answer, apple, chicago, clothes, exactly-sure, iphone 4, iphone4, london, news, opens-the-door, party, result, video calling, videocalling
Motorola’s Jha: moving headquarters to Cali not a ‘driving priority’
Rumors have run rampant that the head of Motorola's soon-to-be-independent Mobile Devices division, Sanjay Jha , has plans to high-tail back to the Californian home from whence he came (where his family still resides, coincidentally) once the split wraps up. That may still be the case, but it looks like it's not necessarily happening any time soon coming off comments this week from the dude himself. In comments to shareholders on Monday, Jha said that "the mobile devices headquarters is in [Chicago suburb] Libertyville, and that will continue at the point of the split," qualifying the statement by saying that he'd "evaluate [their] needs" afterward but that doesn't "know" that relocating the business "is a driving priority right now." Moving the business clearly has personal benefits for Jha -- not to mention likely brings a refreshed Motorola access to a greater pool of high-tech talent in the Valley -- but regardless of what happens, he says that he doesn't think the company will "dramatically change [its] space in Chicago." Might not be a bad idea to fly all the engineers away from those nasty Chicago winters for a couple months, anyway, right
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: california, californian, chicago, from-the-dude, mobile, mobile-devices, moto, motorola, result, statement, valley
AT&T 3G MicroCell service spotted in Chicago?
So we're in the middle of testing our Sony Ericsson X10 here -- stay tuned for that review, by the way -- and in the course of flipping through the settings, we noticed something strange: it's reporting two 3G MicroCells nearby.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 3g microcell, 3gmicrocell, att, chicago, micro, situation, small-handful, sonyericsson
Iliad To Be France's Fourth Mobile Operator – Wall Street Journal
France24Iliad To Be France's Fourth Mobile OperatorWall Street Journal"We are preparing ourselves for when they launch services by focusing on inn...
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Street Tags: BlackBerry, california, chicago, france, france-telecom, india, intel, newest-stories, news-feeds, phone, telecom, united-states, usa, verizon, wireless
Nokia confirms New York and Chicago flagship stores are closing in early 2010
No surprises here, but Nokia has confirmed a Nokia Experts report today that the company will be shutting down its North American flagship stores in New York and Chicago, leaning on big boxes and carriers to handle the in-store experiences going forward. Considering the fractional market presence Nokia has in the States compared to the UK -- where it's closing its Regent Street location -- the move comes as no shock, but it's still a shame to see these really attractive, high-tech hero locations close down. The way we saw it, these stores were never about sales; they were about exposing Nokia to the public and vice versa in a cool, hip environment, and regardless of how you feel about the company's handsets, they'd effectively accomplished that with the flagship strategy
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 9th-2009, BlackBerry, breaking-news, breakingnews, chicago, flagship, flagshipstore, new-york, newyork, nokia
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