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Verizon would have five 4G phones next year

Published on: 19th May, 2010

Lowell McAdam, chief of Verizon, has said the company plans to get multiple 4G phones on its network during the next 12 months. His anticipations are not less than five phones would use the new Long Term Evolution (LTE) network by May next year. Candidates like HTC, Motorola, LG and Research in Motion are expected. [...]

Sprint abandons Nexus One, favors Evo 4G

Published on: 16th May, 2010

Sprint has announced it had abandoned the plans for its own model of Nexus One. It explained that it would no longer need Google’s Android flagship as it would be eclipsed by the Evo 4G. The latter has the advantage of a larger screen, a front video chat camera and an 8-megapixel camera on its [...]

Pre-ordering starts late in May for HTC’s Evo 4G

Published on: 9th May, 2010

HTC’s Evo 4G is expected to be available for pre-ordering late in May in Sprint’s network. Some leaked information confirms the already rumoured timeframe with HTC’s device availability for pre-orders at Best Buy. However, no new information about the price of the smartphone is known. HTC’s Evo 4G is known as the first WiMAX smartphone [...]

Verizon to launch 4G in fall 2010

Published on: 21st April, 2010

Dick Lynch, Verizon chief technical officer, has announced the launch of the company’s 4G network for this fall. The Long Term Evolution (LTE) access will be available to the promised 25 to 30 cities during the last three months of the year. Lynch did not offer any explanation for the delay but reiterated that “friendly” [...]

TeliaSonera announces the first LTE-based 4G network

Published on: 20th December, 2009

TeliaSonera, the Scandinavian carrier, has claimed to be the first company in the world to provide an active LTE (Long Term Evolution) network. The 4G service is currently limited to Stockholm and Oslo and provides speeds higher than 3G and also WiMAX. The LTE users can download files at up to 100Mbps when at its [...]

BlackBerry to be sold with China-based 3G and 4G

Published on: 13th December, 2009

Research in Motion has announced its intention to produce special versions of its devices to be sold in China by the China Mobile provider. This implies that RIM has to make its devices compatible with the Chinese unique TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE networks in order to enter a market where the products of the Canadian company [...]

Infineon and Nokia – a team to develop 4G chipsets

Published on: 30th November, 2009

Infineon will partner with Nokia to develop chipsets for mobile Internet 4G based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard. This is not an exclusive deal and has as a first goal to ensure that Nokia’s technology licenses are supported by Infineon 4G hardware. The two partners will make sure that development is speeded up [...]

New Markets for Sprint 4G

Published on: 10th October, 2009

The wireless provider Sprint announced earlier this week the expansion of its 4G ultra high speed mobile broadband service to the following main markets: Texas and include Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen-Temple, Lubbok, Midland-Odesssa, Waco and Wichita Falls. Salem, Oregon and Milledgeville, Oregon also get the new network. Earlier this year, Sprint launched 4G in [...]

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