Tag: 4g
Apple Announces iPad 3rd Gen and Apple TV with 1080P
March 7th Apple introduced the new Apple iPad 3rd Generation model with a super high-resolution Retina Display, 4G wireless and a mobile hotspot feature on carriers that support it. They began to take pre-orders immediately after the announcement event finished, bringing the Apple Store servers to a crawl as customers slammed the site wanting the [...]
Verizon’s First LTE Notebook Launches; No Reason To Buy
Starting today, the first LTE-enabled laptop goes on sale on the Verizon Wireless website. The lucky machine is the HP Pavilion dm1, the darling of the low-cost, AMD Fusion ultraportable set. Customers can order a dm1 from Verizon for $599 with or without contract. But my question upon seeing this news was: why would they? Seriously, [...]
Weekly Wrapup: Notebook, Tablet and Smartphone News & Reviews (May 27th)
This week we have another collection of great smartphone and notebook reviews to keep you in tune with the latest and greatest technology. We also have come features that will help you get your work done in a coffee shop or stay active while you work in your office. If you missed out on our reader [...]
Weekly Wrapup: Notebook, Tablet and Smartphone News (May 13th)
This was a busy week for smartphones and tablets with Google I/O 2011 and a collection of other announcements. In case you missed the news and reviews, we have rounded up the most popular items for you to digest quickly. We also have our top picks for notebook reviews and news to give you some afternoon reading. [...]
USB Modems Preferred 3 to 1 over Personal Hotspots. Why?
Notebook owners are hesitant to embrace personal hotspots, like the MiFi, and built in modems as their mobile broadband connection for notebooks. Instead, ABI Research found that the old fashioned USB modem is the preferred mobile connectivity option, outselling hotspots and embedded modems 3 to 1. ABI Research expects that this will be the trend [...]
4G Hotspot and USB Modem Roundup: Notebook & Laptop 4G Connections
If you want to connect your notebook to the 4G networks of Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile you have a collection of new options to get your laptop, notebook or MacBook connected on the go. Many of these solutions will also allow you to connect your WiFi devices like the iPad 2 or a Nintendo DS [...]
Verizon Adds 4G LTE Hotspot and Mac Compatible 4G USB Modem
Verizon is upping their offerings in the 4G LTE mobile broadband game with the addition of two new modems that will connect users in 39 cities and 59 more cities to the speedy Verizon 4G network. The new Samsung Mobile Hotspot has arrived at Verizon and will soon be joined by a smaller USB 4G [...]
Notebooks.com’s Best of CTIA 2011 Awards
Notebooks.com and GottaBeMobile have been on the ground at CTIA 2011, scouring the booths and announcements to find the best smartphones and tablets that will be arriving on carriers near you. This year was a big year or AT&T which bought T-Mobile, but it was also a big year for Android with a collection of new phones [...]
Why Mac Users Should Wait Before Joining Verizon’s 4G LTE Fray
While I’ve been enamored by Verizon’s aggressive roll-out and expansion of its nascent 4G LTE network in the U.S., which delivers mobile broadband speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G speeds, I would highly urge users on Apple’s Mac OS X platform to wait before adopting either of Verizon’s 4G LTE USB modems. For [...]
Do You Need a 3G or 4G Tablet? Or is WiFi Enough?
Over at JKOnTheRun Kevin Tofel raises a good question about the connectivity of upcoming tablets, many of which are launching with 3G or 4G versions before a WiFi only version is released. Tofel asks readers if the 3G connectivity is a must have and unsurprisingly the early results are staggeringly on the side of WiFi over 3G. Why would users want [...]
