If you walked up to any non-techie, technologically inept individual and tried to explain why an iPhone on AT&T — regardless of cell signal strength, coverage, etc – is still better than an iPhone on Verizon, they’d probably laugh at you and walk away. At least here in the US, AT&T’s image has become synonymous with sub-par quality, coverage, and performance. Verizon on the other hand has benefited from AT&T’s foibles. On the...
Verizon is currently boasting of having LTE live in “30 NFL cities” by years end. AT&T is equally as proud, though admittingly behind Verizon, have stated that they will have some form of LTE network go live mid-way through 2011. However, both Verizon and AT&T have already mentioned that they won’t have any LTE phones in consumers’ hands until 2011 is several months old. With that said, a “little guy” is beating the big guys...
Imagine the day when you can pick up either an AT&T or T-Mobile 3G device and move freely between the two GSM carriers without a care in the world concerning 3G abilities. Such a module seems like it would have been a no brainer. If they can squeeze four 2G frequencies on a chip, what the hell is taking them so long to get three 3G frequencies on a chip? I don’t know the answer, but I can tell you that Motorola is working on a solution. A new 3G module...
If you happened to catch the article we mentioned a few days back highlighting the extremely rough estimate/rumor that a mere 5 official China Unicom iPhones were sold at launch, you probably came to the conclusion that basing overall numbers off of one store — even the largest online retailer in the country — isn’t exactly the most accurate way to reflect sale. In truth however, the main point wasn’t to say “Hey there’s only 5 iPhones in...
If you’re a contractor, dispatcher, or some other typical “business user”, chances are you use or at least have seen Nextel/Sprint Nextel push-to-talk phones out and about your neck of the woods, Whether the phones were powered by Nextel’s iDen or Sprint’s “QChat” doesn’t matter as they were essentially the same technology. Now some may have had a hard time deciphering between the two networks and technologies not wanting to...
