Published on: 9th November, 2011

Three important European regulatory bodies have agreed to a plan to create free bandwidth for LTE 4G phone networks. The European Commission, European Parliament and states members in the European Council have agreed to set wireless spectrum aside for high-speed mobile networks by the 1st of January 2013. The necessary bandwidth has to be made [...]
Published on: 2nd May, 2011

According to a ruling put out by the European Commission, member countries of the European Union have to open up the 1,800MHz and 900MHz bands for 4G phone data. The ruling requires allowing carriers to use WiMAX and LTE on existing frequencies before this year’s end. The faster speeds are not expected to interfere with [...]
Published on: 24th March, 2011

The UK is apparently preparing the largest spectrum auction ever this will include bands spreading across 250MHz of spectrum, no longer used by television broadcasters. Ofcom, the wireless regulation authority, seems to currently be working to finalize a strategy which will guarantee the spectrum is distributed among a minimum of four competing networks. In order [...]
Published on: 13th October, 2010

Yahoo’s vice president of Mobile North America, David Katz, promised a Yahoo Messenger version with 4G or 3G video chat to smartphones. People owning an iPhone 4 or Android phones with front cameras, such as the myTouch on T-Mobile or the Epic 4G from Samsung, will have a two-way chat option regardless of the network [...]
Published on: 6th September, 2010

According to a recent brief rumor, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab could get a unique-to-Sprint model. The tablet’s CDMA-friendly variant is due for Sprint, as soon as November, as an unnamed BGR source declared. If the rumor is true, the tablet will benefit from both 3G through EVDO and 4G through WiMAX; this would make Samsung’s Galaxy [...]
Published on: 11th August, 2010

MetroPCS, regional no-contract carrier, has unveiled the Samsung R900 as being named the Craft and launching in conjunction with the Long Term Evolution rollout (LTE) that is scheduled later this year. Being the first 4G phone in the United States, the Craft would not be more expensive than a 3G handset and would be priced [...]
Published on: 14th July, 2010

Sprint’s 4G mobile data service has now been brought to seven more cities around the world: Rochester and Syracuse in New York, Merced and Visalia in California, Eugene in Oregon, but also Tri-Cities and Yakima in Washington. The high-speed service from Sprint is currently available in 43 markets, with even more launches; this includes cities [...]
Published on: 25th June, 2010

On June 22, 2010, Sprint has started offering Sierra Wireless’s 3G/4G USB 250U mobile broadband modem. This hybrid modem is Sprint’s first device of this type, which supports Mac OS X and benefits from a 180-degree rotating hinge –this is very practical, as it offers an obstruction-free fit on various models of notebooks, including the [...]
Published on: 14th June, 2010

According to Android developers, an artificial restriction has been imposed on the Evo 4G’s screen refresh rate. It seems that its performance is now restricted to 30FPS for 2D and 3D content, even if reasons are yet to be clear. This issue hasn’t been noticed on the Nexus One, even if the two phones share [...]
Published on: 11th June, 2010

Sprint has revealed that its previous first-day sales records have been beaten by the launch of the Evo 4G. No particular data has been given by the carrier, but it said that the Android handset sold three times the number of Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct sold on a single day. The high sales rate [...]