US Cellular: LTE trial in late 2011, full deployment in 2012
Though fellow regional carrier MetroPCS has been arguably the most aggressive carrier in all of North America in getting LTE live , it looks like US Cellular is taking a slightly more laid-back approach. At a conference in New York today, USCC's CFO announced that they're looking at deploying one LTE test market in the latter part of 2011, moving on to a full-force launch in 2012.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, cellular, force, full-deployment, lte, metropcs, most-aggressive, north, result, uscellular, words, york
Clear WiMAX is live in New York City (updated: semi-live)
Sprint and Clearwire's WiMAX service has been making occasional cameos throughout the five boroughs since at least June, but now it's official: the service has been launched, closing up one of the most conspicuous holes in coverage so far. This matches up nicely with the San Francisco go-live we reported on earlier today, so you'll now be able to take your red eye from the Big Apple to the City by the Bay without fear that your EVO's going to get slow when you go wheels-down. Plans run from $25 a month (for the iSpot ) all the way up to $55 for a mixed-mode WiMAX and EV-DO data stick, which works out to somewhere between 0.00001 and 0.0003 percent of your housing costs in Manhattan
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, city, five-boroughs, housing, limited-areas, manhattan, matches, newyorkcity, operational, readiness, york
BlackBerry Torch is official, launching August 12th on AT&T for $200
It hasn't been announced just yet -- we're expecting that shortly at a New York event today -- but the long-rumored BlackBerry Torch (n
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 360-touchscreen, 802-11n-support, att, black, BlackBerry, event, its-less-stodgy, media sync, qwerty, result, slider, the-opportunity, torch, york
Nokia Siemens picks up Motorola network infrastructure division for $1.2 billion
Nokia Siemens has just announced that it will be purchasing Motorola's wireless network infrastructure for a cool $1.2 billion in cash. This comes on the heels of an announcement by Moto that it would be splitting the company in two, one for Mobile Devices and one for Broadband and Mobility Solutions. It's clearly the company's strong showing in both WiMAX and CDMA that Nokia Siemens is after, although The New York Times points out that integrating the 7,500-strong staff, manufacturing, supply lines, and multiple product lines will be quite a challenge
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cdma, devices, engadget, industry, mobile, moto, motorola, nokia-siemens, nokiasiemens, result, siemens, strong-showing, Supply, york
Yes, the iPhone 4 is broken / No, the iPhone 4 is not broken
The controversy over the iPhone 4's antenna issues continues to grow, particularly after Consumer Reports confirmed yesterday that every iPhone 4 suffers from signal attenuation when the phone is held with the lower left corner covered -- a report that we confirmed with results from our own custom signal metering app. At this point, there's no longer any question in our minds that the iPhone 4's antenna can be made to lose signal by holding it "wrong" -- and we definitely think it's more than a little silly that simply holding the phone in your left hand has been nicknamed the "death grip." That said, however, it's not at all clear what the real-world effects of the antenna issue actually are for most people -- as we've repeatedly said, several iPhone 4s owned by the Engadget staff (including our review unit) have never experienced so much as a single dropped call, while others suffer from signal issues that results in lost calls and unresponsive data in a dramatic way. What's more, at this point Apple's sold well over two million iPhone 4s , and we simply haven't heard the sort of outcry from users that we'd normally hear if a product this high-profile and this popular had a showstopping defect.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, antenna-issue, controversy, engadget, industry, iphone, iphone4, outcry, peers, report, users, using-the-phone, well-as-reached, world, york
Droid X ad pokes fun at iPhone 4 antenna troubles
The world of corporate cheap shots has today been enriched in its number with one supersized ad for one supersized phone. BGR reports that Motorola took out a full-page spread in the New York Times on this final day of June, which was ostensibly dedicated to promoting the positives of its mighty Droid X. But Moto has also followed in the footsteps of Nokia in making a not so subtle jab at the latest king of the smartphone realm
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: droid, droidx, iphone, motorola, past-the-break, positives, problem, smartphone, subtle, the-smartphone, york
HTC Droid Incredible officially official for Verizon, April 29 for $200 (updated with a live shot!)
Though some information leaked out of Verizon's pipes yesterday , HTC just got really real with the Droid Incredible at the 99% Conference in New York today. Specs are pretty much what we expected: Android 2.1 with Sense , an 8 megapixel cam, 1GHz Snapdragon (not the underclocked core we'd heard rumored before, thankfully), WiFi, and a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: after-the-break, htc, incredible, officially-official, pipes, time, verizon, verizon-wireless, york
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Oh sure, you love gadgets -- but do you have the chops to write about them? We'd love to know if you think you do, because we're looking to actually pay humans to do this stuff.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cameras, chops, editor, entry, francisco, gadgets, part-or-full, result, Stuff, time, west, wit, york
Verizon Wireless discontinues the $150 'Hub,' a home phone with a …
The earnings narrowly beat Wall Street expectations, and Verizon said demand for cell phones and its new home TV service were holding up well in the recession. Verizon 2nd-quarter profit down 7 percent, but matches Wall Street ...
Categories: BlackBerry, Other, Phone Street Tags: BlackBerry, consumer-electronics, industries, internet, mobile-communications, new-york, north-america, technology, telecommunications, united-states, verizon, verizon-wireless, wireless-technology, york
Video captures Hugh Jackman chastising theatergoer for ringing …
Video captures Jackman chiding cell phone offenderNEW YORK — Hugh Jackman knows how to stop the show. ...
Categories: Other, Phone Street Tags: art-and-culture, celebrity, culture, daniel, daniel-craig, hollywood, jackman, james-bond, new-york, north-america, performing-arts, steady-rain, york