Samsung LTE phone with front-facing camera headed to Verizon?
Let's be real: it should come as little surprise that Sammy -- a company with multiple Android phones on Verizon already -- would be joining LG , Motorola , and HTC in prepping a new model for its LTE network . Sure enough, Gizmodo has scored an alleged shot of said phone, showing Froyo (Android 2.2.1, to be specific) along with a front-facing camera and a model number of SCH-i520; it's said to feature TouchWiz (as most non- Nexus S Android phones from Samsung tend to do) and, fortunately, lacks the Bing integration that Verizon's been pushing on its low- and midrange smartphones lately.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: come-as-little, galaxy, i520, lte, result, samsung, smartphones, verizon
Novatel’s USB551L LTE modem for Verizon in the wild, does Mac support out of the box
How many dedicated LTE -capable USB modems does Verizon need? At least three, apparently, because we've just been sent shots of Novatel's upcoming USB551L that looks perhaps a tad glossier and sleeker than the Pantech and LG models that have preceded it . Hard to say from the spec sheet here, but it looks like there's at least a chance this is LTE-only without CDMA / EV-DO fallback since there's no explicit mention of it; unlikely considering how small Verizon's LTE footprint is for the time being, but you never know.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: date-or-pricing, entry, from-the-spec, gallery, lte, mac, modems, novatel, Sheet, support, time, usb, usb modem, verizon
ITU capitulates, admits that the term ’4G’ could apply to LTE, WiMAX, and ‘evolved 3G technologies’
Though it's standing firm on the definition of its original 4G specification -- IMT-Advanced -- which only WiMAX 2 and LTE-Advanced are currently capable of meeting, the ITU is easing off its earlier rhetroic , admitting that the term "4G" realistically could apply "to the forerunners of these technologies, LTE and WiMAX, and to other evolved 3G technologies providing a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed." The whole dust-up started when carriers around the world deploying LTE and WiMAX networks ( ahem , Sprint and Verizon) were throwing the "4G" term around very, very loosely -- and to their credit, the networks are indisputably a generation beyond CDMA2000 and UMTS / HSPA, so if anything, we'd fault the ITU for leaving today's modern networks without a generation to call their own. The "evolved 3G technologies" verbiage in the ITU's statement would seemingly even leave room for T-Mobile USA's claim that its 21Mbps HSPA+ network constitutes 4G... so yeah, score one for marketing campaigns.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: itu, leaving, level, lte, lteadvanced, marketing, modern-networks, seemingly-even, sprint, the-definition, usa
HTC’s Peter Chou says LTE handsets are coming next year, and the world keeps on spinning
Stop us if you've heard this one before, but a very popular handset maker will be introducing smartphones that incorporate the latest wireless technology at some point in the upcoming year.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adopters, factors, handset-maker, holographic, htc, interview, lte, money, operator, peter, peter-chou, pushing-the-lte, seeing-the-rest, working-on-lte
TeliaSonera brings LTE to Denmark
It should come as little surprise that it's TeliaSonera bringing Denmark its first LTE network -- after all, the Swedish company was the first to launch LTE service commercially anywhere in the world in mid-2009, so we already know they're moving aggressively to spiff up northern Europe's data services. Currently covering the four largest Danish cities, TeliaSonera says that it wants to cover 75 percent of the population (which is very different from 75 percent of the country's surface area, keep in mind) in 2011
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: come-as-little, country, danish, dec, denmark, engadget, engadget-mobile, lte, mobile, population, surface, teliasonera
Samsung’s SCH-LC11 CDMA / LTE mobile hotspot gets FCC approval, probably Verizon bound
We've heard rumors that Novatel is working on an LTE -enabled version of its MiFi for Verizon, likely for launch early next year -- but you've got to figure that a few other manufacturers would like a slice of that sweet, juicy 4G pie, right?
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: approval, device-right, fcc, hotspot, lte, novatel, Relationship, verizon, verizonwireless
Motorola planning 4G devices for Verizon, 7- and 10-inch tablets early next year
It looks like this CES could be a hot one for Motorola.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 10-inchtablet, ces 2011, chests, credit suisse, creditsuisse, hotspots, initially-heard, Keynote, lte, outset, result, sanjay, stingray, tablet, though-it-might
Sprint wouldn’t mind if T-Mobile bought 4G spectrum from Clearwire
Considering Sprint's heavy investment in Clearwire -- and the fact that it shares its WiMAX network with the company -- you can understand why it might be a little weary of letting other carriers in on the spectrum. That said, a Goldman Sachs analyst that apparently met with Sprint execs this week has said that they "have encouraged" a wholesale spectrum deal that would bring cash in from T-Mobile USA -- a company that has yet to settle on a next-gen network strategy beyond HSPA+ -- though it would ultimately depend on the price. Considering Clearwire's somewhat bleak financial picture , it seems likely that Sprint's looking at this as a do-or-die situation -- it isn't necessarily interested in dumping cash into the company by itself ad nauseam, but if it allows the company to falter, that could have unsavory consequences on Sprint's own 4G ambitions.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ambitions, clearwire, engadget, execs, goldman, lte, nauseam, price, spectrum, sprint, strategy-beyond, usa, wimax
Verizon LTE / 4G preview with the LG VL600 modem
We've just gotten our hands on the less-insane version of Verizon's LTE modems, the LG VL600.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, bars, ispot, lgvl600, long term evolution, lte, lte modem, Modem, seen-the-device, Sim, verizon, verizon 4g, verizon lte, verizon4g, vl 600
Verizon’s LTE network announcement event live at 12:00 ET!
So as you probably know, today's the day that Verizon comes clean with all the details on the commercial launch of its LTE network, having scheduled a press conference for noon Eastern Time. We already know many of the details , but we're crossing our fingers for some juicy extras in the event, namely any hints of information on when we'll see LTE-enabled handsets in the marketplace like the rumored HTC Mecha and that unnamed LG . Oh..
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: details, entry, launch, lte, marketplace, network, pricing, pricing-details, rumored, the-commercial, verizon, verizon-wireless