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HTC confirms the astuteness of Apple’s 4G strategy
With everyone clamoring for 4G, Apple has been happy to ride the 3G train and record breaking iPhone sales confirm that people prefer a solid user experience on 3G than a subpar one on 4G. Tim Cook famously said that Apple was hesitant to jump into the 4G pool due to battery concerns and bulky [...]
Continue reading...iPad 3 to include quad-core A6 and 4G LTE support
Monday, January 16, 2012
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Much like CES 2011, CES this year was replete with a large selection of tablet devices keen on stealing away marketshare from the iPad. But not one to rest on their laurels, Apple is already gearing up to release its next-gen iPad, with the latest rumors pointing to a release sometime in early April. Feature [...]
Continue reading...Analyst sees iPhone 5 with larger screen and 4G connectivity as huge growth driver for Apple in 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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According to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, Apple’s biggest growth driver in 2012 will be the iPhone 5, a product that doesn’t officially exist yet, but one that Wu claims will feature 4G LTE technology along with “a sleeker, thinner form factor, and a slightly larger screen.” Now 4G smartphones are already plentiful in the [...]
Continue reading...AT&T rolls out 4G coverage to 11 new cities; Still lags behind Verizon
Monday, January 9, 2012
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Walter Isaacson recounts in Steve Jobs’ biography how Jobs, on the same day he tendered his resignation to Apple’s board, “peppered” Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller about upcoming Apple products, “especially about what capacities the fourth-generation cellular networks might have and what needed to be in future phones.” It’s widely believed that one of the [...]
Continue reading...AT&T and Apple working to put ’4G’ icon in iPhone 4S status bar
Sunday, October 9, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: This is my Next has some interesting news for us. It turns out that AT&T confirmed to them that they’re working with Apple to put an 4G indicator icon on the iPhone 4S status bar. Even though AT&T’s current HSPA+ network isn’t technically 4G, the company has been branding it as such [...]
Continue reading...Verizon and Sprint rolling out 4G networks? Not exactly…
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Everywhere you go, advertisements for 4G networks are sprouting up all over the place. From Verizon to Spring, one would think that 4G supersonic speeds are not only right around the corner, but are already available in select US cities. Not so fast. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ruled a few weeks ago that 4G [...]
Continue reading...Verizon rumored to roll out LTE network on November 15, phones by Nov. 26
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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BGR reports that Verizon, starting on November 15th, will begin rolling out its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network in 25 markets which will soon be followed by a “slew of new devices” available on Black Friday, November 26th. “While 25 markets might not sound like a lot,” the report notes, “apparently they’re enough to give 100 million [...]
Continue reading...AT&T partners with Alacatel-Lucent and Ericcson for planned LTE rollout
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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AT&T announced today its plans to partner up with Alcatel-Lucent and Ericcson as it moves forward with its plan to deploy a 4G LTE broadband network. The selection of the two suppliers paves the way for AT&T’s planned field trials of LTE technology later this year, with commercial deployment scheduled to begin in 2011. AT&T’s [...]
Continue reading...iPhone on Verizon is “exclusively in Apple’s court”
Monday, October 26, 2009
Earlier today, Verizon releases its quarterly earnings report which was highlighted by increased revenue and subscribers. Still, overall profits for Verizon decreased during the past quarter. During Verizon’s earnings conference call, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg was asked about the possibility of adding the iPhone to its fleet of smartphones. Seidenberg responded, This is a decision [...]
Continue reading...Verizon reportedly rushing out 4G network in anticipation of Apple Tablet
Monday, July 27, 2009
Hot on the heels of a rumor which has Apple releasing a tablet sometime in early 2010, comes a report that Verizon is working as fast as it can to accelerate the rollout of its 4G network, presumably so that it’s ready in time for the tablet launch. While everything at this point still falls [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2012
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