Verizon Wireless announced today the release of its first 4G LTE hotspot. Available online now and April 21 in stores, the MiFi 4510L 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot is selling for $99.99 after $50 MIR and two-year 4G mobile broadband agreement. (Without, it'll cost you $270.) Contracts start at $50 per month for 5GB of data. Of course the publicized speeds of this 3G/4G device — at 5–12 Mbps...
What at first seemed to be a bug in the HTC ThunderBolt’s Wi-Fi Hotspot app may actually be indicative of larger problems with Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network. The problems may also be throwing a wrench into launch plans for Samsung’s first LTE device for Verizon, the Android-powered phone apparently to be called Droid Charge. Jon encountered the device, then codenamed Stealth, in the...
for $39 billion. While the acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of both companies, it has not yet been approved by the FCC. No matter what sort of deal the two companies have worked out, at the end of the day the FCC can refuse to allow the them to merge. Yesterday’s announcement came in the form of a press release. This morning, AT&T held an press conference to...
Sprint started running weird commercials with cartoon robots yammering about “First is 4G” a long time ago. Now T-Mobile keeps crowing about 4G in their TV ads with that skinny woman in the loud dresses. People are complaining that iPad 2 doesn’t have 4G. I keep writing and tweeting about how awesome my Verizon 4G modem (which I’m using as I post this) is. What is 4G, anyway, and why...
Few observers were surprised that Apple’s iPad was to include a SIM card tray to open the device up to the world of 3G connectivity but a few eyebrows were raised at the discovery that it would be delivered via a relative newcomer to the SIM family. The 12mm by 15mm micro subscriber identity module (MicroSIM) or Third Form Factor (3FF) format was developed by ETSI (European...
Amazon US has announced that the Kindle's bigger brother is now available for worldwide shipping. With that in mind, let's take a quick look at the DX and some other e-Readers that have caught my eye.
As we come to the end of "the naughties", we take a look back over the last ten years and look at some of the gadgets and innovations that have made an impact on our tech-filled lives.