Apple this week announced during their earnings conference call that the iPhone 5 would be gaining 4G LTE service on an additional 36 carriers starting next week. As it stands now, LTE for the iPhone 5 is only available on carriers in a few countries – the US, Canada, Britain, Japan, Australia, Korea and Germany […]
Continue reading...Monday, September 10, 2012
Comments Off on iPhone 5 will support global LTE networks around the world
The iPhone 5 unveiling is just two days away and to that end the WSJ recently reported that Apple’s next-gen smartphone will, as anticipated, be coming with 4G LTE support and will work globally. Apple’s next iPhone will work on the fastest wireless networks around the world—including in the U.S., Europe and Asia—though it is […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Comments Off on Australia not happy about Apple’s iPad 4G claims
Apple’s newest iPad is 4G compatible, that is of course, as long as you reside in North America. 4G functionality isn’t yet available on iPads sold in other parts of the world, and though Apple says as much in their fine print, Australian regulators don’t think that that’s enough. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission […]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 22, 2012
More evidence that the iPhone 5 will support 4G LTE was found buried deep within iOS 5.1. via iDownloadblog
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Despite seemingly credible reports that T-Mobile would get the iPhone 4S, T-Mobile today remains the only major US carrier without Apple’s heralded smartphone. And T-Mobile will be the first to admit that it has had an effect on their bottom line. Just a few weeks ago, T-Mobile released their earnings report for Q4 2012 and […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Comments Off on iPad 3 announcement scheduled for March 7
iMore reported yesterday that the official iPad 3 unveiling is set to take place on March 7, with a launch date expected about a week later. This corroborates a previous report from All Things D which claimed Apple would announce the iPad 3 during the first week of March. Meanwhile, the WSJ – which Apple […]
Continue reading...Monday, February 6, 2012
Comments Off on HTC confirms the astuteness of Apple’s 4G strategy
With everyone clamoring for 4G, Apple has been happy to ride the 3G train and record breaking iPhone sales confirm that people prefer a solid user experience on 3G than a subpar one on 4G. Tim Cook famously said that Apple was hesitant to jump into the 4G pool due to battery concerns and bulky […]
Continue reading...Monday, January 16, 2012
Comments Off on iPad 3 to include quad-core A6 and 4G LTE support
Much like CES 2011, CES this year was replete with a large selection of tablet devices keen on stealing away marketshare from the iPad. But not one to rest on their laurels, Apple is already gearing up to release its next-gen iPad, with the latest rumors pointing to a release sometime in early April. Feature […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Comments Off on Analyst sees iPhone 5 with larger screen and 4G connectivity as huge growth driver for Apple in 2012
According to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, Apple’s biggest growth driver in 2012 will be the iPhone 5, a product that doesn’t officially exist yet, but one that Wu claims will feature 4G LTE technology along with “a sleeker, thinner form factor, and a slightly larger screen.” Now 4G smartphones are already plentiful in the […]
Continue reading...Monday, January 9, 2012
Comments Off on AT&T rolls out 4G coverage to 11 new cities; Still lags behind Verizon
Walter Isaacson recounts in Steve Jobs’ biography how Jobs, on the same day he tendered his resignation to Apple’s board, “peppered” Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller about upcoming Apple products, “especially about what capacities the fourth-generation cellular networks might have and what needed to be in future phones.” It’s widely believed that one of the […]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 9, 2011
Comments Off on AT&T and Apple working to put ‘4G’ icon in iPhone 4S status bar
This is my Next has some interesting news for us. It turns out that AT&T confirmed to them that they’re working with Apple to put an 4G indicator icon on the iPhone 4S status bar. Even though AT&T’s current HSPA+ network isn’t technically 4G, the company has been branding it as such – and with […]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 9, 2010
Everywhere you go, advertisements for 4G networks are sprouting up all over the place. From Verizon to Spring, one would think that 4G supersonic speeds are not only right around the corner, but are already available in select US cities. Not so fast. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ruled a few weeks ago that 4G […]
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Comments Off on iPhone 5 LTE functionality to go live on 36 additional carriers next week