Samsung has finally unveiled MetroPCS’ first LTE phone – the Craft (SCH-r900). It’s the world’s first commercially available phone supporting LTE, multi-mode, CDMA networks. Samsung Craft goes for $299 after $50 instant rebate and features a 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.2MP autofocus camera with panorama, mosaic shots support, Wi-Fi, GPS, […]
Samsung Craft LTE phone pictures leaked
MetroPCS and Samsung haven’t really shared many details about their upcoming LTE device except its official name. Now thanks to a forum poster, we’ve got the first images of Samsung Craft (SCH-R900) aka MetroPCS’ first LTE phone. The poster who leaked the images apparently appears to be a tester and claims the phone will […]
Qualcomm joins hands with Global Holding & Tulip Telecom for India LTE venture
Qualcomm today announced its initial shareholders that will take forward its LTE plans in India. Qualcomm who won the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum in four circles have announced that Global Holding Corp. and Tulip Telecom will be its joint shareholders for LTE business in India. Qualcomm will hold a 74 percent stake in […]
Samsung’s 4G modem for TeliaSonera now supports 2G/3G bands
Samsung had started selling its first USB-based 4G-only modems for TeliaSonera in December last year and promised to launch 2G/3G supporting modem in first half of 2010. Well, they’ve delivered it with the launch of GT-B3730 that will give the same blistering speeds while connected to a 4G network or 2G/3G in case of […]
Samsung to launch SCH-r900 4G device for MetroPCS
MetroPCS has roped in Samsung to deploy LTE network in various metropolitan cities across United States. Samsung will not only provide MetroPCS with its commercial infrastructure network products, they’ll also have a phone, the SCH-r900 during the 4G roll out in the second half of 2010. We don’t know how Samsung’s LTE device looks […]
LG’s LTE Modem is the first to receive Japanese certification
LG has proudly announced that its LD100 LTE modem is the first LTE device to receive Telecom Engineering Center (TELEC) certification, which is required by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC). This approval not only means LG’s device adheres to Japanese Radio Law technical regulations but will also allow LG to field […]
Indian telecom operators contemplating to skip 3G, go for 4G
When operators were willing to spend an arm and leg for 3G spectrum, the government was struggling to fix a base price and when government is ready, operators are thinking to give it a miss. An article in Business Line says that cellular operators are contemplating to skip 3G and instead go for 4G […]
Commercial 4G/LTE network goes live in Stockholm (Update: and Oslo)
UPDATE: The network’s live in Oslo, Norway. TeliaSonera has become the first operator in the world to commercially launch the 4G or LTE services in Stockholm, Sweden. It is touted as the largest deployment till date and is 10 times faster than HSDPA, giving about 100Mbps down speed. LTE or Long Term Evolution is […]
Samsung will provide TeliaSonera world’s first to sell 4G/LTE USB modems
TeliaSonera have struck a deal with Samsung that will mostly make the European operator, the first ones to sell 4G/LTE modems. The modem (GT-B3710) is USB-based and will be available commercially in Sweden and Norway in 2010 with a promise of up to 10 times higher speed than available today. The chip inside the […]
LG readies world’s first LTE modem chip for mobile phones
LG’s visionary approach has resulted in a development of mobile phone’s 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem chip . The theoretic speeds suggest 100Mbps for downloading and 50Mbps for uploading but a demonstration by LG showed actual download speeds reaching 60Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps, which still surpassed the current HSDPA download speed […]