Broadcom announces dual-core BCM2157 processor, promises high-end features for cheap Android phones
As you might have heard , 2011 is shaping up to be a big year for dual-core smartphones , and it looks like you can now officially count Broadcom in on the act. It's just announced its new dual-core BCM2157 platform that provides both HSDPA modem connectivity and applications processing courtesy of some dual-core, 500MHz ARM11 processors.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: broadcom, complete, handsets, Modem, obviously-doesn, press, processors, some-dual-core, standard
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
Laptop data plans: comparing LTE, WiMAX, and HSPA+ by speed, price, and value
Now that Verizon's gone official with its LTE pricing for an initial launch in some 38 markets this Sunday, we wanted to take a quick look at how it compares to the other players in the laptop data market -- after all, how much you're paying month to month can be just as big of a determining factor (if not a bigger one) in choosing a carrier than the speeds you're seeing.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: break-it-down, data plans, determining, factor, initial-launch, laptop, launch, mobile, Modem, result, rover, verizon, verizon-wireless
Verizon’s Pantech and LG LTE modems leak out in ad form
Verizon's promised a 38-city LTE launch by the end of the year, and it looks like things are ramping up -- we were just sent this ad for the LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 4G USB modems. We've seen the VL600 at the FCC and in the wild before -- it's dual mode CMDA / LTE modem that'll work pretty much anywhere Verizon has coverage, while the UML290 has a note about global capability "coming soon," so we'd assume there's a GSM radio tucked in there as well.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 4gmodem, data modem, datamodem, global, leaks, lte, mode, Modem, pantech uml290, pretty-huge, radio, rumored-third, seen-the-vl600, usb, vl600
Windows Phone 7 USB tethering uncovered on Samsung phones
If you're the proud owner of a Samsung Focus or Omnia 7 , you can scratch a pretty major item off the list of basic features missing from WP7: USB tethering. A couple of sites have come upon a quick and relatively easy hack to enable using your handset as a 3G modem on Microsoft's new platform. You'll need to dial up ##634# to get into a diagnostics menu, switch over to a "Modem, Tethered Call" mode and deal with a few more prompts along the way, but the end result is that you'll have a pretty much automated USB tether setup on your hands
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: basic-features, easy, focus, handset, Modem, perhaps-because, phone, samsung omnia 7, testing-on-htc, windowsphone7
NTT DoCoMo launches, no joke, 28 phones; pegs December 24th for LTE launch
NTT DoCoMo and its Japanese competitors have a long, rich history of announcing dozens of new phones in one fell swoop, but the carrier is saying that its latest line -- comprised of a mind-bending 28 devices -- is its largest single launch ever.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 1080P, Carrier, competitors, consumer, docomo, engadget, hotspots, Modem, notables, touchscreens, unlimited-data
Sprint’s ZTE Peel embracing your iPod touch sans contract on November 14th?
Still clinging on to your iPod touch in the hope that Sprint will one day launch an iPhone ? Well, it's rather early to make a call, but news has it that we may get the next best thing very soon.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: actually-turn, apple-peel, appleipodtouch, buddies, fcc, grab-yourself, ipod, ipod-touch, Modem, our-buddies, overdrive, peel, sprint, zte3200
Lumigon T1 with ICEpower amplifiers officially unveiled, to arrive ‘by the very end of this year’
Just as promised, Denmark-based Lumigon has finally lifted the curtains over its much hyped T1 Android handset. Specs include an 800MHz Freescale i.MX515 chipset with an optional Qualcomm HSDPA modem, along with a 3.5-inch 480 x 800 capacitive touchscreen LCD, 5 megapixel autofocus camera, A-GPS, Bluetooth and FM radio
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bang olufsen, denmark, entry, europe, lumigon p-gui, Modem, phoe, really-selling, sister
Motorola prepping 4G USB modem for LTE networks, doesn’t say which ones
Motorola is definitely tossing its hat in the LTE mobile broadband ring -- it just announced this plug-and-play USB-lte 7110 modem at the 4G World conference in Illinois. It's rated for FDD-LTE Category 3, meaning the little exclamation-point-shaped dongle is theoretically capable of 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload speeds, and it's got a pair of omni-directional MIMO antennas to help you pull down as much of that juicy, low-latency data as Motorola's unnamed partners intend to squeeze.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, break, Dongle, exclamation, lte, Modem, omni, play, pretty-sure, upload-speeds, usb, usb-lt7110, usb-lte 7110, usbstick, wwan
Verizon gets official with Wireless Fivespot mobile hotspot, touts awful global roaming plans
Really, Verizon ? Play up the global roaming features of your new-but-not-unexpected Wireless Fivespot , only to strangle it with GlobalAccess plans that top out with 200MB of international data? Thanks, but no thanks.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 100mb, access, card, data, global, mobile, mobile hotspot, mobileinternet, Modem, plan, radio, wireless-fivespot