Today AT&T and Sony Ericsson announced the addition of the CyberShot C905a to AT&T’s lineup of camera phones. The C905a’s primary feature is an 8.1 megapixel camera with autofocus, xenon flash, and video capture. The C905a has a number of advanced shooting modes and image editing features that allow users to fully customize how the [...]

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Today Sprint announced a major planned expansion of its WiMax-powered 4G footprint. Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland and Seattle will all see service launched some time during 2009. Sprint also said that it plans to launch WiMax service in Boston, Houston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. during [...]

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The Apple iPhone 2,1 or 4G on the photo is titanium and glass, the future of the Macbook and perhaps of all luxury cellphones in the future. It’s not going to be cheap and may not be feasible at all considering that you’ll have to sneak a GPS receiver and WiFi in a super-thin frame, [...]

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Sprint announced that it will be offering dual-mode CDMA/WiMax wireless modems before the end of 2008. The modems will allow users to connect to the Internet via either Sprint’s CDMA network or Clearwire’s Clear WiMax network under a new MVNO agreement with Clearwire. Sprint will act as a mobile virtual network operator to sell services [...]

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Alltel announced that it has chosen LTE as its 4G network technology. The company said, however, that it will be at least three to five years before the LTE network is built out and operational. This is significant, because Alltel–a CDMA carrier–is following Verizon’s footsteps by switching networking technologies to match what will likely be [...]

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Speaking to investors, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said that the company will enable 20Mbps downloads via its HSPA wireless network as early as 2009. He also said that by 2010, its network will be capable of 100Mbps downloads. AT&T has chosen LTE for its 4G technology, which is targeting 100Mbps downloads as [...]

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Verizon Wireless said that it will use its 700 MHz spectrum winnings from Auction 73 to deploy its 4G Long Term Evolution network. The winnings increase Verizon’s spectrum depth from an average of 52 MHz to 82 MHz. Verizon Wireless plans to launch its LTE network in the 700 MHz spectrum in the 2010 timeframe.

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Some web-source has posted an interesting image of Nokia devices in the February edition of a big US retailer company. Nokia N830 Internet Tablet being one of them.
The design of the N830 resembles that of the N810 with a slide-out QWERTY-keyboard, but in black colored housing. The device might support WiMax networks, remember that last [...]

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A final set of specifications for Long Term Evolution has been approved by the 3GPP. LTE, which uses OFDM and advanced antenna technologies such as Multiple Input Multiple Output, is the next evolutionary step in the HSPA technology path. LTE will enable downlink peak speeds of 326 Mbps and uplink peak speeds of 86 Mbps, [...]

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LG has introduced a WiMAX-communicator at the current CES 2008 show in Las Vegas. This is a modification of LG KS20 with 4Q networks support. Like the previous model the new communicator is powered by Windows Mobile 6 and has a big 240×320 pixel touchscreen display, which takes almost the entire front panel (the keyboard [...]

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Today Verizon Wireless announced that it has officially selected Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its 4G wireless technology. LTE is the evolutionary path for current GSM and HSPA technologies, rather than the CDMA technology currently used by Verizon Wireless. By choosing LTE, Verizon Communications and Vodafone, owners of Verizon Wireless, can pool resources and offer [...]

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The International Telecom Union (ITU) has voted to make WiMax one of the official 3G technologies for 2.5 GHz spectrum, along with LTE. Even though carriers and the public are referring to both these standards as 4G, the ITU has not yet given that designation to the technologies. The ITU approved the OFDM TDD WMAN [...]

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Motorola unveiled a new chip design that will support 3G and 4G mobile devices. The modem is designed to comply with WiMax 802.16e Wave 1.0 and 2.0, and uses MIMO matrix A and B antenna configurations. The modem can provide voice and data communications at broadband speeds, and is more power efficient than current 3G [...]

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Santa Clara, CA — The Marvell PXA 320 application processor (Internally code named Monahans) with XScale technology, enables high-end graphics, gaming and multimedia capabilities for the LG-KCI as well as delivering optimal business applications while consuming ultra-low levels of power.”The new LG-KC1 is designed to offer the advanced functions of a smartphone, high-bandwidth wireless connectivity, [...]

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