Half Of Consumers Don't Want LTE 4G

Half Of Consumers Don't Want LTE 4G
InformationWeek
Piper Jaffray discovered that 47% of consumers don't think they need LTE 4G at all. Only 15% of respondents said that LTE 4G is the best network technology to have, but 26% of respondents indicated that they think all 4G technologies are the same. 

Motorola Electrify 2 (US Cellular)
PC Magazine
The Motorola Electrify 2 is about two months too late. Back in June, it would've been a shoo-in for the top smartphone on U.S. Cellular, even though it lacks access to the carrier's new 4G LTEnetwork. It's still a very good phone—it has a powerful ...

Facebook 5.0 for iOS: Faster, Faster, Faster
ABC News
VIDEO: A look at the must-have smartphone apps for the election season. ... Johnson told ABC News that it took the team nine months to rewrite the entire code to make it feel like a native iOS app. PHOTO: ... The next app to tackle will be the Android app.

ABC News

Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE Review: A Nice Keyboard, but Middling Call Quality
PCWorld
... at the lack of phones with physical keyboards. Software keyboards are getting better every year (my favorite for Android is SwiftKey); but until I can accurately touch-type on them, I'll continue to prefer having physical buttons for typing long ...

AT&T: No iPhone FaceTime Without Paying Extra
InformationWeek
AT&T Wednesday confirmed that it will block any use of the iOS FaceTime app across its cellular networks, except for customers who pay for a premium subscription plan. Previously, the FaceTime videoconfencing app worked only over Wi-Fi networks. But ...

T-Mobile Unlimited Data; Nikon's Android-Powered Camera; HP's Big Loss
PC Magazine
In other news, Nikon is the first camera maker to bring an Android-powered shooter to market with the Coolpix S800c, a 16-megapixel CMOS device with a 10x (25-250mm equivalent) zoom lens and a 3.5-inch OLED touch panel with ain impressive 819k-dot ...

Android And BlackBerry Safer Than iOS For SMS
InformationWeek
... Than iOS For SMS. Other smartphone platforms offer more secure SMS than iPhone, says mobile security firm. ... AdaptiveMobile tested the exploit in the iPhone and compared it to Android, BlackBery, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. All the other ...

Nikon unveils Android-powered Coolpix camera
Examiner.com
According to Nikon, anyone familiar with an Android smartphone or tablet will feel at home right away with the new S800c as it is capable of the same things any otherAndroid-powered gadget is capable of doing, which includes browsing the Internet via...

Examiner.com

Consumer Watchdog Wants FCC to Police 4G Marketing
PCWorld
Technically, 4G was only supposed to apply to LTE-Advanced and WiMax 2, two emerging technologies that are not yet commercially available in the United States. But in December 2010, the International Telecommunication Union relaxed its definition to ...

Pandora Ships Its Biggest Android Update Yet With A Redesign ...
By Leena Rao
Today, Pandora is releasing a new version of its Android app, which is the biggest update in the app's 3 year history, with a complete redesign, addition of new discovery features and more. The company has long offered ... on any given day. Pandora currently supports 881 different Android smartphonedevices. ... Pandora has made the app's form more in line with its HTML5 app, giving the Android app and more consistent feel with iOS, and the web experiences. “We've embraced all ...
TechCrunch

Plusnet pushes its UK-fibre-optic broadband to 76Mb/s -- Engadget
By Daniel Cooper
Plusnet Boosts Broadband Proposition With New Fibre Speeds. SHEFFIELD, England, August 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Plusnet, the UK home phone and broadband supplier, has made a host of changes to its fibre broadband products ...
Engadget

ZTE's alleged 'Blade III' smartphone gets photographed ahead of ...
By Edgar Alvarez
Prices. Type Smartphone; Operating system Android (Eclair [2.0 / 2.1]); Screen size 3.5 inches; Internal memory 150 MB; Camera 3.15 megapixels; Dimensions 4.57 x 2.22 x 0.46 in; Weight 3.88 oz; Released 2010-11. see all specs → ...
Engadget Mobile

Chrome for iOS Now Lets You Share Pages on Facebook and Twitter
By Emily Price
Now you can share pages using Chrome for iOS directly on your favorite social network – including Facebook and Twitter. ... by dragging at the edges. It is card-like, similar to webOS and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Tab Switching. 5 ...
Mashable » Mobile

Mastering iOS development - O'Reilly Radar
By Rachel Roumeliotis
Matt Neuburg has suffered through the difficult bits of iOS development so you don't have to. by Rachel ... We sat down recently to talk about iOS development and how best to build solid apps … the secret is take the time to learn the basics.
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