Verizon to debut LTE in 38 cities, ‘half a dozen’ 4G smartphones and tablets in 1H 2011
We're live from CTIA 2010 in San Francisco, where newly-appointed Verizon president and COO Lowell McAdam has taken the stage. He's been on the job just five days now , but he's already got a nice spot of news: Verizon will have LTE connections in 38 markets as soon as they flip the switch -- up from the 30 football cities announced earlier this month. More exciting, a host of LTE devices are on the way, too: "Come CES at January, and we will show half-a-dozen smartphones and tablets from the top OEMs in the world that will be available in the first half of the year," said McAdam.
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Sprint guns for mid-range Android: $149 Samsung Transform, $99 Sanyo Zio, and $49 LG Optimus S include ‘Sprint ID’
The rumors were dead-on -- the Samsung Transform and Sanyo Zio are headed to Sprint this week, and by the end of the month the carrier will play host to an LG Optimus smartphone as well.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: business, ctia 2010, decline, engadget, half-the-story, phones, samsungtransform, smartphone, video, zio
Bitbop hands-on: is this the Hulu of mobile?
Fox Mobile unveiled its Bitbop venture this week that promises to provide a wealth of TV and movie entertainment from a variety of top-tier studios, and if you can get past the fact that you're actually going to have to pay for this content, it's shaping up to be a pretty promising system when it launches later this year.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ctia 2010, down-the-road, fox mobile, fox mobile group, girl, gossip, gossip-girl, mobile-video, payment, Promising, result
Samsung debuts U820 QWERTY slider at CTIA, no one notices
Not everything can be an Android smartphone , fellas... sometimes you just need an unobtrusive design, maybe some social networking connectivity, and a modest price point. That's what the Samsung U820 says to the world
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: communities, ctia 2010, engadget, qwerty slider, Radar, samsung, samsung u820, samsungsch-u820, social, touchwiz, touchwiz 2.0
LG Remarq hands-on
LG launched the eco-friendly Remarq this week at CTIA , and this tiny -- well, when shut -- device at least points those interested in green mobility in the right direction. The packaging that the Remarq ships in is made from 87 % post-consumer materials and the device itself is crafted from 19% recovered plastic. Sound fun
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: carbon, ctia, ctia 2010, direction, engadget-mobile, follow-the-fold, martin-valdez, martinvaldez, remarq, ships, trees, walking, week
LG launches Cosmos and eco-friendly Remarq
LG saw fit to launch a device for each of its CDMA friends: Sprint's Remarq (pictured left) and Verizon's Cosmos. Both of these sets are fairly low-end, but that won't stop them from likely garnering some support in the messaging segment
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cosmos, ctia, ctia 2010, keyboard, martin-valdez, mobile, rebates, remarq, segment, sprint remarq, verizon, verizon cosmos
Live from CTIA 2010′s day two keynote with Dan Hesse
Hot off the killer HTC EVO 4G announcement yesterday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is helping to lead up CTIA's day two keynote session today alongside Clearwire boss William Morrow, Deutsche Telekom chief Ren
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: ceo, clearwire, ctia, ctia 2010, danhesse, deutsche, entry, hesse, result, sprint, william, william-morrow
AT&T 3G MicroCell starting nationwide roll-out in mid-April
Unless you've been in one of a few key test markets, you've been pretty much out of luck boosting your AT&T signal in the comfortable confines of your home since the 3G MicroCell first launched -- until now.
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Ventev EcoCharge whacks vampire draw, charges two devices for the price of one
Thought AT&T's Zero charger was going to cruise along with no competition? No sirree
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: charger, ctia 2010, ecocharge, energy, energy-star, entry, kills-the-power, vampire draw, vampiredrain, ventev
T-Mobile USA reiterates that ‘breadth’ of 3G footprint will get HSPA+ this year
It's easy for something as grandiose as a national wireless network upgrade to get delayed ad nauseam, so we're happy to hear here in March of 2010 that T-Mobile is still looking to blanket the "breadth" of its existing 3G footprint with 21Mbps HSPA+ service by the end of this year, covering over 100 market areas and about 185 million peeps. That's an extraordinarily aggressive timeline for a carrier that was way, way late to the 3G game, and realistically, it's exactly what they needed to stay competitive in the face of 4G deployments coming down the pike from all of its national competitors -- in fact, they're specifically calling out the deployment as being "4G-like" and touting the fact that they'll be hitting way more pops this year than Sprint's WiMAX network will. Them's fightin' words to be sure, but hey -- competition is extremely healthy when it comes to fast, widely-deployed wireless, isn't it?
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