It is official. The official details about the HTC HD2 that would hop on to the T-Mobile network have been let out by the carrier. The decision to make things official came close on the heels of a leak. T-Mobile will bring to customers the new HTC smartphone on March 24, and that date is just a few days away.
Verizon is all set to start off its 4G LTE network deployment in the US later this year. They are still running tests networks in Boston and Seattle and they are reporting being able to coax out as much as 40-50 Mbps downstream and 20-25 Mbps upstream bandwidths.
Asus has a lot of old stuff as well as new stuff at its booth at the CeBIT 2010. Here is one thing that caught our eye. Its a router, it packs a lot of stuff including 802.1b/g/n, USB, 3G and much more. But whats so special about it ? Well, the fact that it has a profile about as thick as a pencil. And it also has this crazy, silver-grey metallic sheen that makes it look like something out of a spaceship in a scifi movie.
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Verizon Wireless have just made an official statement concerning the recent outage in eastern US earlier today. According to the company, the data service outages took effect for more than four hours.
Many of the major US broadband carriers such as Verizon and AT&T offer pre-paid mobile broadband plans. In most of these cases, you have to buy a 3G-capable phone or USB modem upfront and then pay for the bandwidth as well. Telava has unveiled a new device today called the Broadband Bullet, which offers PrePaid 3G connectivity without having to buy the device itself.
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10 Mbps internet connectivity without the need of any cables sounds lovely and that is what WiMAX technology brings to the forefront and with Sprint announcing its first WiMAX laden handset arrival for this summer, the tech geeks are surely excited. Sprint did not mention the precise handset to be released but gadget gurus are already expecting it to be the (A9292) HTC Android Supersonic.
Sprint told Forbes about the WiMAX laden handset arrival within the first six months which has contradicted earlier reports where WiMAX capable Sprint devices were touted to arrive after Q3 2010.
With nine BlackBerry and Android phones on the Verizon Wireless network all set to welcome Skype on board, the industry will open its arms to a new fruitful collaboration. Verizon Wireless and Skype have announced that the two will work together to bring Skype to handsets Verizon network. The first version for the smartphones from Skype will be ready to go on stream next month.
You may shun the movie Twilight with caustic criticism for being a girl fantasy film but you will sure not criticize the ‘rip off’ Verizon advert that targets the poor AT&T 3G network. With the festivities over and things getting to the business end in the second month of 2010, the two giants have drawn their daggers yet again, putting an end to the notion that things have improved with the year changing. (video after the jump)
The iPhone App Store is in the middle of a brewing storm. Or so it seems. The Mobile World Congress venue this morning was witness to as many as 24 leading telecommunications operators giving shape to a Wholesale Applications Community, which in effect would build an open platform that delivers applications to all mobile phone users.
Aimed at bringing together a fragmented marketplace and create an open industry platform that benefits everybody, from applications developers and network operators to mobile phone users themselves, the Wholesale Applications Community could be seen as a move that is in direct response to Apple’s success with its iPhone App Store.
Here comes a bit of exciting news! Google is on road to building and testing an experimental broadband network that would be 100 times faster than what is available today. The move may be seen as Google’s attempt to redefine the way consumers currently use the Internet. A network 100 times faster, could mean real, real fast. The move also means that Google is taking the plunge into a region that is currently monopolized by major names in telecommunication.
