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Archive for October, 2011

T-Mobile & Walmart: Prepaid 4G Android

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 26th, 2011

T-Mobile USA and Samsung are offering a new budget-conscious 4G smartphone, the Samsung Exhibit II 4G, the first no-annual-contract 4G smartphone to be sold at most Walmart stores, starting Oct. 27. The Samsung Exhibit II 4G is expected to cost $29.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate card with a two-year service agreement or $199.99 without an [...]

Nokia Unveils Windows Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 26th, 2011

“Lumia is the first real Windows Phone,” declared Nokia CEO Stephen Elop today at Nokia World in Helsinki. Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone – the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 – along with a range of feature-phones aimed at developing markets. The two Windows Phone devices run on the latest 7.5 version of the [...]

Motorola Launches Public Safety LTE Solutions

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2011

Motorola Solutions this week announced the commercial release of their public-safety LTE solution with shipments beginning Nov. 11, 2011. AT&T and Harris have also formed alliance to deliver next-generation LTE to public safety, combining it with a narrowband voice solution. Motorola’s system will support a host of public-safety applications such as Motorola’s PremierOne for managing [...]

Sprint: We’re Going LTE-Advanced, Too

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2011

Sprint said it plans to deploy LTE-Advanced technology after rolling out its LTE network next year, according to Fierce Wireless. Speaking at the 4G World conference in Chicago this week, Iyad Terazi, Sprint’s vice president of network development and engineering, said it would occur in the first half of 2013. LTE-Advanced is a faster version [...]

Kindle: Ignition Point

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2011

There’s a fire, sir. – The Andromeda Strain J.P. Morgan Internet analyst Douglas Anmuth, says Amazon will sell 5 million Kindle Fire tablets in the fourth quarter and expects to see multiple models in 2012, including 7 and 10-inch units and models with 3G radios in addition to Wi-Fi. Amazons Kindle Fire will become to [...]

Tablet Ads: Salvation for Newspapers?

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 25th, 2011

Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. A new study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in collaboration with The Economist Group, says about half (53%) get news on their tablet every day, and they read long [...]