Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its ALT6702, ALT6725, AWC6323, AWC6325, and AWT6624 LTE, CDMA, and WCDMA power amplifiers (PAs) to Samsung ...
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Apple didn't include near field communication technology in the iPhone 5, a decision that one NFC backer said the company might come to regret. But several mobile payment experts said Apple probably made a good choice for now, given the ...
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Used iPhone values dropped as much as 8% at several trade-in firms after Apple announced the new iPhone 5 and cut prices for two older models yesterday. In the last week, the price quoted by NextWorth for a used 16GB iPhone 4S fell by 8%, ...
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After starting amid the smoldering ruins of AT&T and T-Mobile USA's failed merger,2012 ended as a big year for mobile carrier deals in the U.S.,and possibly a final changing of the guard for a long time. If all the reshuffling that ...
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Hewlett-Packard, ZTE and mobile operators such as AT&T and SK Telecom have pooled their LTE patents under a program led by Via Licensing, aiming to provide a one-stop shop for companies to license their technology. Via Licensing organized ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Just how much does Apple dominate competitors in the U.S. tablet market? The question has always been one left to estimates by analysts, but documents recently filed as part of the court battle between the company and Samsung provide actual ...
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As the latest iPhone went on sale Friday, with T-Mobile USA once again left out of the party, the fourth-place U.S. carrier started turning on a network that is designed to offer high data rates on unlocked iPhones. On Friday, T-Mobile ...
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Sprint Nextel will spend $2.2 billion to take complete ownership of Clearwire, a move that will help it expand its network capacity. Clearwire's board of directors has accepted the latest bid allowing Sprint to purchase the nearly 50% of ...
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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
Samsung today announced it would be providing the backbone for 3 when it rolls out its 4G network in the UK. The deal is Samsung’s first commercial mobile network deployment in Europe, which will see it install an LTE radio access ...
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Despite widespread calls for more spectrum to carry mobile data, there is a wide range of technologies already being used or explored that could help to speed up networks or put off the day when more frequencies need to be cleared. ...
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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