Verizon’s first 4G LTE smartphone is big, bad, and blazing fast. I’ve had one in my hands for a few days now, and while it’s too soon to give a full-on review of the device, I have formed a few first impressions. There’s no getting around ThunderBolt’s size, which is roughly on par with HTC’s other 4G devices, Evo 4G for Sprint and Inspire 4G for AT&T, though Inspire is noticeably...
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...
Something you never hear mentioned in all of those Sprint 4G commercials is the fact that the network is actually powered by a partner company named Clearwire. While there is nothing wrong with Sprint teaming up with someone else for something such as this that will be such a huge investment, what may be wrong is if halfway through they decide they picked the wrong format. After much...
Something is very wrong in Overland Park, KS, the Kansas City suburb where Sprint’s corporate headquarters reside. The number of subscribers lost, while down from previous quarters, was still significant in the fourth quarter of 2009, and it just doesn’t seem like the carrier can do anything to save itself. Will 4G connectivity be the solution? Sprint sure seems to be hoping so....
There has been a lot of talk about how the United States lags behind the rest of the world in broadband speeds to our homes, but what about on the mobile front? With more and more mobile devices coming to market every day, is the U.S.A. ready to handle the increasing demands for broadband connectivity on the go? Possibly down the road, but not right now, that’s for sure. The WiMAX (...