4G LTE phones won't work abroad on 4G LTE

World travelers beware: 4G LTE phones won't work abroad
CNET (blog)
by Marguerite Reardon January 10, 2012 4:00 AM PST Follow @maggie_reardon LTEmay be the global standard for next-generation wireless networks, but that doesn't mean you can take your 4G Verizon Wireless phone abroad and expect to roam on other 4G ...

CNET (blog)

LTE 4G Phones are Springing Up Like Weeds Here at CES 2012
Popular Mechanics
This will be the year that LTE cements its place as the 4G standard, and the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is silly with LTE phones. Unfortunately, if our experience here is any guide, even the highest-capacity networks can get overwhelmed when you...

Popular Mechanics

Cool stuff: Seagate contemplates 4G LTE for mobile storage hot spot
CNET
by Dong Ngo January 10, 2012 7:25 AM PST Follow @riceandstirfry The Seagate's prototype of the Personal Server 4G LTE Wi-Fi being demoed at CES 2012. LAS VEGAS--When on the go, you want to stay connected at all times and carry as much data as possible ...

CNET

CES 2012: LTE Nokia Lumia 900 'Ace' lives! 800 news, too...
Computerworld (blog)
At CES 2012, the Nokia Lumia 900 'Ace' breaks cover, on AT&T's LTE. Espoo (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) also brings news of the Lumia 800 for the US In IT Blogwatch, bloggers live in a world of lost wages. Your humble blogwatcher (@richi ) curated these ...

Verizon Unveils Two World-Ready 4G LTE Hotspots at CES
PC Magazine
By Alex Colon LAS VEGAS—Verizon today announced two new world-ready hotspots that also tap into the carrier's 4G LTE network. There's the Verizon Jetpack MiFi 4620L from Novatel and the Verizon Jetpack EuFi890 from ZTE. Curious naming conventions ...

Samsung Galaxy Note (AT&T) LTE smartphone live from CES 2012
mobileburn
As much tablet as smartphone, this LTE 4G capable hybrid device can be used to make calls, but is really quite a handful to juggle. More info: http://www.mobileburn.com/18161/news/samsung-galaxy-note-with-lte-officially-announced-for-att.

4G Africa AG Now Offers Windows Live to its YooMee® Customers in Cameroon
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
4G Africa, through its subsidiary company 4G Cameroon - Cameroon's first high speed wireless internet network provider - announced it is providing the latest generation of Microsoft Windows Live to its customers in Cameroon. 4G Africa AG, through its ...

Hands On With MetroPCS's New Phones
PC Magazine
While we played with the carrier's new LTE smartphones, execs dished about tablets, mobile TV, and Android 4.0 upgrades. By Sascha Segan LAS VEGAS – MetroPCS is all phones for now, and the phones are getting better and better. ...

4G LTE-Enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Coming to Verizon
Tom's Guide
Samsung is launching a 7.7-inch version of the Galaxy Tab featuring support for Verizon's 4G LTEnetwork. On Monday, Samsung and Verizon announced that a 7.7-inch version of the Galaxy Tab tablet is heading to Big Red's wireless network with support ...

Wi-Fi Alliance's Wireless Predictions and Projects for 2012
PC Magazine
By Samara Lynn With shipment of W-Fi devices reaching nearly 1.1 billion in 2011, the organization responsible for promoting and standardizing wireless technology—the Wi-Fi Alliance, is busier than ever. Member companies of the Wi-Fi Alliance are ...

Sony shows off 4G Xperia Ion, bound for AT&T this year
BetaNews
These new Xperia devices are the Xperia ion, first LTE Xperia smartphone from Sony available exclusively with AT&T in the US, the Xperia S, the Xperia acro HD, and the Xperia NX, a variant of Xperia S for the Japanese market. ...

BetaNews

Nokia Unveils First LTE Windows Phone for AT&T
Bloomberg
The handset will be one of the first Windows-based phones to use the next-generation technology known as long-term evolution, or LTE. Nokia didn't give details on price or an exact sales date. AT&T is the biggest US carrier to announce a Nokia Windows ...

Bloomberg

Sequans Powers New AAEON WiMAX Tablet for KDDI in Japan
MarketWatch (press release)
PARIS, Jan 10, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 4G chipmaker Sequans Communications SA /quotes/zigman/4742901/quotes/nls/sqns SQNS +2.89% announced that it is the provider of theWiMAX chip inside the new AAEON (an Asus company) TOUGH tablet PC recently ...

ZyXEL Broadband Gateways Interoperable With Hitachi SuperJ(TM) Applications ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Consumer Electronics Show -- ZyXEL Communications Inc., a leading provider of secure broadband, security networking connectivity and routing products, announced today several of its broadband CPEs ...

Motorola Droid 4 LTE from Verizon: What to Expect
International Business Times
The very thin device is expected to be one of the most powerful 4G LTE QWERTY smartphones available. The phone is surprisingly slim - it is just 0.5 inches thick - but packs a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor with 1GB of RAM. ...

International Business Times

Sprint Announces LTE-Powered Samsung Galaxy Nexus
PC Magazine
By Jamie Lendino LAS Vegas - At this year's CES, Samsung has announced a Sprint version of its flagship Galaxy Nexus smartphone—complete with support for Sprint's upcoming 4G LTE network, which is launching in 10 US cities by the middle of this year. ...

Panasonic Selects Sierra Wireless 4G LTE Modules for Toughpad(TM) A1 Tablet in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
With integrated 4G LTE connectivity, Panasonic customers will be able to access stored online information and file reports from the field, share photos, stream video, and perform other high-bandwidth applications. For example, a technician addressing a ...

Wi-Fi-enabled scale lets you post your weight online
Los Angeles Times
This week Fitbit debuted the Wi-Fi-enabled Aria Smart Scale -- a scale that lets users weigh themselves and then digitally send that information to a website where it can be made public for their friends and family and strangers to see. ...

BabyPing Wi-Fi Baby Monitor for iOS Debuts at CES - the Next Generation of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, January 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BabyPing will unveil a new high security Wi-Fi baby monitor at the world's biggest technology trade show - CES - this week. The new BabyPing high security Wi-Fi baby monitor allows parents to hear, ...

Qualcomm Atheros Introduces First Generation of Wi-Fi Display-enabled ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Wi-Fi Display is an industry standard devised by members of the Wi-Fi Alliance that enables sharing of the screen image or audio content of one device simultaneously on another nearby device, including simple and secure device discovery and pairing. ...

Mentor Graphics and Ecrio Collaborate to Ready Powerful Nucleus-Based LTE IMS ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The collaboration leads to the availability of the first IMS-based 4G SMS over LTE (IR.92 VoLTE-compliant) on-device networking stack for the Nucleus product. This technology makes it possible to run both SMS and VoIP services entirely on the baseband ...

Announcing Exede(SM) by ViaSat 12 Mbps High-Speed Broadband Service for $50
MarketWatch (press release)
10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- For millions of consumers with a need for high-speed Internet, the broadband choices just got a lot better. ViaSat Inc. /quotes/zigman/61904/quotes/nls/vsat VSAT +1.96% will launch Exede by ViaSat high-speed Internet ...

FCC Extends 'Lifeline` Program to Include Broadband Services
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: The FCC's Universal Service Fund can now be used to bring broadband Internet service to poor and rural communities as a way to narrow the persistent “digital divide” that makes it difficult for poor people to acquire computers and ...

BlackBerry phones finally become Wi-Fi hotspots
ZDNet UK
BlackBerry 7.1 allows customers to turn their BlackBerry phones into Wi-Fi hotspots and makes increased use of near-field communication (NFC) functionality. "The range of software updates announced today build upon the strengths of [BlackBerry 7] to ...

ZDNet UK

DSP Group Receives Wi-Fi Alliance Certification for XpandR-III 802.11b/g/n ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Optimizing real-time communications with enhanced video telephony, XpandR powered the world's first Android-based wireless multimedia home phone, and is the only SoC solution supporting bothWi-Fi and DECT. Featuring a highly integrated, ...

Diebold Innovates With World's First 4G LTE-Enabled ATM Concept
PR Newswire (press release)
The company's 4G LTE-enabled ATM – the first ATM concept in the world to utilize 4G technology – will be demonstrated during the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 10-13 in Las Vegas in the Verizon booth. "The 4G concept is yet ...

London to become Europe's largest Wi-Fi hotspot
Expert Reviews
London is to become the official home of the largest free Wi-Fi hotspot in Europe, following a landmark deal between Westminster City Council, the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and mobile giant O2. The deal, which O2 claims will run at no cost ...
 
Expert Reviews

Explosive 3G and 4G Expansion Drives Shares of InterDigital and Powerwave ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, Jan 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Communications equipment companies are benefitting from the explosive growth of high speed 3G and 4G handset adoption. A report issued from ABI Research earlier this month argues that 3G and 4G ...

Samsung releases Wi-Fi travel zooms for 2012
USA TODAY
By Liam McCabe, Reviewed.com/USA TODAY Samsung announced two new Wi-Fi-equipped compact travel zoom cameras at CES today, one of which has a record-breaking 21x zoom range. The WB850F tops the Samsung compact lineup for 2012. ...

USA TODAY

Samsung's WiFi-enabled cameras hands-on -- Engadget
By Sean Cooper
While scouring Samsung's booth at CES's Digital Experience for that glorious 55-inch OLED set this evening, we came across a table full of new Wi.
Engadget

Fitbit's New WiFi Scale Looks Awesomely Familiar
By Mat Honan
Fitbit is showing off a new WiFi scale that tracks your weight and sends it to a database. Oh, hey, Withings much? Sure. But it's a concept whose time has come, and this looks like a well-done version.
Gizmodo

Titan II is HTC's First LTE Windows Phone
By Stan Schroeder
HTC has announced HTC Titan II, the company's first LTE Windows Phone.
Mashable!

Sprint Unveils First LTE Phones: The Galaxy Nexus And The LG ...
By Chris Velazco
Chris Velazco is a mobile enthusiast and writer who studied English and Marketing at Rutgers University. Once upon a time, he was the news intern for MobileCrunch, and in between posts, he worked in wireless sales at Best Buy. ...
TechCrunch

Samsung announces Wi-Fi capabilities of 'SMART Camera' range ...
Pre-CES: Samsung has given more details about the capabilities of its 'SMART Camera' range of Wi-Fi enabled compacts and camcorders. The range includes the WB850F, WB150F and ST200F compacts announced today, as well as the ...
News: Digital Photography Review...
Windows Phone beats iPhone to 4G LTE
By Joe Wilcox
Currently there are 11 4G LTE phones -- two from AT&T and 9 from Verizon -- available from major US Carriers, and they're all Androids. Even more are coming, some this month, and again they're all Androids. There is no LTE iPhone and ...
BetaNews

Nokia Lumia 900 official for AT&T: 4G LTE, 4.3-inch display
By Dan Graziano
Nokia took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show and announced the company's first 4G LTEsmartphone, the Nokia Lumia 900. The device features a 4.3.
BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech

Gadgetbox - New Sony Bloggie Live has Wi-Fi, live streams
By Athima Chansanchai
All the commotion coming out of CES includes video, and if those there got their hands on a Wi-Fipocket camera like the new Sony Bloggie Live, they might have even live streamed the goings on around them. Of course, if they had cellphone ...
Newsvine - Technolog - Articles

Nokia Lumia 900 Announced: 4G Nokia Windows Phone Will Be ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
LAS VEGAS -- Apple has its iPhone, Android has its Galaxy Nexus, and now, Windows Phone has the Nokia Lumia 900. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show here Monday and unveiled the Lumia 900, ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

Pantech Element AT&T LTE tablet hands-on | Android Community
By Cory Gunther
This week we've been running around like zombies at CES but today we took a minute to sit down with Pantech and their new AT&T 4G LTE tablet and smartphone. The.
Android Community

AT&T loads up on Android LTE devices at CES — Mobile ...
By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T used the first day of CES as a launch point for a bevy of devices for its LTE network. The new Android devices now number six, including Samsung's wide-bodied stylus-driven Galaxy Note, an ultra-cheap Pantech tablet and a pair of HD ...
GigaOM

LG Spectrum phone has 4G speeds, HD display - latimes.com
LG just introduced the Spectrum, a new high-end smartphone coming this month to Verizon, at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new handset checks nearly all (but not all) the boxes a consumer might want from a ...
Technology

Fast Windows Phones for AT&T's 4G Network - NYTimes.com
By By BRIAN X. CHEN
Three chief executives appeared at an AT&T press conference to announce the first Windows Phone devices that will be compatible with AT&T's new 4G cellular network.
Gadgetwise

London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network - Slashdot
aesoteric writes "London's Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea districts will be delivered the largest free wi-fi zone in Europe. The plan is to provide the ...
news.slashdot.org/.../london-installing-largest-free-wifi-networ...

Wi-Fi for White Spaces: Will Microsoft's WiFi-NC set new network ...
Microsoft Research has found a way to tap white spaces in the spectrum that were previously used by analogue TV broadcasts. WiFi-NC would bundle together ...
digg.com/.../wi_fi_for_white_spaces_will_microsoft_s_wifi_n...

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