Sprint confirmed Thursday it is negotiating with Japan's third-largest wireless carrier Softbank regarding a "potential substantial investment by Softbank in Sprint." Earlier reports from the Japanese business press said the investment ...
Tags: Japan, wireless carrier, Softbank, Sprint
Amazon unveiled new e-readers and tablets on Thursday -- the biggest surprise to analysts was a $499 Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE tablet. mazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet with 4G LTE wireless and 32GB of storage will sell for $499. ...
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire ...
Tags: RF, CMOS, Silicon On Sapphire, UltraCMOS, RFIC
AT&T Thursday disclosed plans to sell the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones for its 4G LTE networks, along with other Windows Phone 8-based devices, some time in November. AT&T said it's exclusively selling the Lumia 920 ...
Tags: Nokia, Lumia, smartphones, 4G LTE networks, Windows Phone
AT&T confirmed Thursday it will carry two HTC smartphones, the One X+ quad-core smartphone and the dual-core One VX "in the coming months." Pricing was not announced, however. The HTC One X+ AT&T also confirmed it will have the ...
Tags: HTC, smartphones, One X+
Samsung announced it will help develop Sprint's small-cell infrastructure for use in Sprint's 4G LTE network and its 3G network improvements. Samsung, also the top mobile phone provider in the U.S., said in a statement Thursday that the ...
Tags: Samsung, small cell, Sprint, 4G LTE network, 3G network
Mobile startup Ting, which delivers its voice, text and data offerings over Sprint Nextel's network, has become the newest LTE service provider by shipping its first device that uses the fast 4G technology. Ting is now shipping Samsung ...
Tags: Mobile startup Ting, Nextel's network, LTE service, Samsung, Galaxy S III
Smartphone and tablet users prefer using Wi-Fi over cellular connections, and consider Wi-Fi cheaper, faster, easier to use, more reliable and, even, slightly more secure than cellular. These attitudes, reflected in an online survey in ...
Tags: Smartphone, tablet, users, cellular connections, lower cost, speed
Sprint plans to deploy small cell gear from Alcatel-Lucent to augment its wireless coverage -- including in its new 4G LTE network -- in high-traffic areas, the two companies announced Monday. Alcatel-Lucent's LightRadio Metro Cells are ...
Tags: Sprint, small cell gear, wireless coverage, LTE network
Models of Research in Motion's PlayBook tablet have been pulled from online stores of some top retailers in the U.S. and Canada, a move one analyst said could be a sign that the company is readying a successor tablet. The PlayBook tablet ...
Tags: RIM, PlayBook tablet, online stores, US, Canada
Apple has begun notifying customers who have ordered a cellular 4G LTE iPad mini that their new tablet will be shipped next week. An email sent to customers in the US by Apple on Thursday reads: “Good news – we plan to ship ...
T-Mobile USA is offering from Sept. 5 what it has dubbed as its Unlimited Nationwide 4G data plan, which features no data caps or speed limits, the operator said on Tuesday. The new plan will cost $20 per month when added to a value voice ...
Tags: USA, Sept.5, 4G data plan, HSPA+data
Sprint 4G engineering manager Viet chu shows off a new Alcatel Lucent router for LTE service in Baltimore. Sprint officials showed off new 4G LTE cellular service today in Baltimore, the carrier's 16th market in the U.S. to get the ...
Tags: Sprint officials, 4G LTE cellular service, Baltimore, U.S.
Samsung is exploring the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Apple over the next iPhone, potentially arguing that the device infringes on Samsung's LTE wireless patents, according to unnamed industry sources quoted by the The Korea ...
Tags: LTE, next iPhone, Samsung, Apple
Apple today exhausted its supply of the iPhone 5 within an hour of opening its online store for pre-orders, and now is telling customers that their orders won’t ship for two weeks. Apple ran through its iPhone 5 pre-order inventory ...
Tags: Apple, iphone 5 launch, Iphone