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HTC EVO Shift 4G Unboxing and Hands-On

Dylan Bailey, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [3]

Sprint has just given us the highly publicized HTC EVO Shift 4G. The device is known to the internet as the cousin to the popular HTC EVO and will come in with a full keyboard, smaller screen and full 4G for Sprint’s WiMax network.

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Viliv X7 and X10 Android tablets, X70 Win7 tablet, get official

Chris Davies, Jan 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Viliv has outed its range of three new tablets at CES 2011 this week, as promised, the Viliv X7 Android Tablet, Viliv X10 Android Tablet, and the Viliv X70 Windows 7 Slate. Each Android tablet is powered by a 1GHz Samsung Cortex-A8 processor with Power VR SGX 540 GPU and 512MB of memory, the X7 having a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen while the X10 has a 10.2-inch 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen. Meanwhile, the X70 Windows 7 slate runs an unspecified "next-gen" Intel CPU with a 7-inch 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen. Read The Full Story

Sprint HTC EVO Shift 4G and Novatel 3G/4G MiFi get official

Chris Davies, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Sprint has officially announced the HTC EVO Shift 4G, as well as the carrier's MiFi 3G/4G mobile hotspot by Novatel Wireless. The HTC EVO Shift 4G will land on January 9 2011, priced at $149.99, while the 4G-capable MiFi hotspot will follow on February 27 for $49.99. Read The Full Story

Sprint’s HTC EVO Shift 4G gets premature Walmart listing

Chris Davies, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Walmart has prematurely listed the HTC EVO Shift 4G, ahead of what we're guessing will be an announcement for the QWERTY slider at CES 2011 later this week. Confirmed as headed to Sprint complete with 4G WiMAX support, according to the listing the EVO Shift 4G has a 3.7-inch touchscreen, runs Android 2.2 Froyo and comes with an 8GB microSD card. Read The Full Story

Sprint Branded 3G/4G MiFi 4082 Image Appears Online

Evan Selleck, Dec 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

It's not official, other than the fact that the device cleared the FCC a couple of weeks ago, but it looks like the very first press image of the 3G/4G MiFi from Novatel has managed to find its way onto the Internet. It's not an official release by any means, and the image comes from the SprintUser forums, from member r0fl. And if you look hard enough, you can indeed see that r0fl marked this little MiFi with his moniker, but that doesn't mean that this isn't the real deal. Read The Full Story

Sprint WiMAX 4G turns on in San Francisco

Chris Davies, Dec 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sprint has turned on its 4G WiMAX service in the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing high-speed wireless connectivity to four new markets there. San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto and Oakland join the existing 67 markets Sprint and Clearwire serves, just as promised back in late November. Read The Full Story

HTC EVO Shift 4G leaks ahead of 2011 Sprint launch

Chris Davies, Dec 22nd 2010 Discuss [2]

From one HTC "leak" to another; this time it's a mercifully full-fascia shot of the HTC EVO 4G Shift expected to frolic on Sprint's WiMAX network sometime in the near future. As we can see from PhoneArena's photo smaller-screen version of the original HTC EVO 4G, making up for that with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it's also the first time we've seen the phone without its protective cover . Read The Full Story

Novatel MiFi 4082 WiMAX mobile hotspot clears FCC

Chris Davies, Dec 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Novatel Wireless has been promising WiMAX-capable MiFi mobile hotspots since February this year, but it's taken until now for the 4G device to show up in any form. Fresh through the FCC is the Novatel MiFi 4082, complete with CDMA/EVDO and WiMAX connectivity that can be shared out over a WiFi connection. Read The Full Story

CLEAR iSpot and Spot 4G mobile hotspots price-slashed

Chris Davies, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

If you've a taste for WiMAX but a near-empty wallet, Clear reckons it can make do with the meager scrapings left at the bottom. The company is running a week of holiday deals, and so far you can pick up the CLEAR Spot 4G mobile hotspot for just $20 rather than the usual $99; the Apple-devoted should hold off, since as of Thursday you'll be able to grab a CLEAR iSpot - complete with a $25 month-to-month service plan - for just $20. Read The Full Story

Sprint 4G tablet plans confirmed: PlayBook, HTC EVO Shift 4G or something else?

Chris Davies, Dec 10th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sprint has confirmed that a 4G tablet is incoming, with Paget Alves, Sprint's President of Business Markets, telling Forbes that the WiMAX slate is expected to arrive sometime in 2011. Alves declined to confirm the manufacturer responsible for the device, nor indeed the OS that it might run; the carrier currently offers a single (non-4G) model, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but the exec said there are plans to sell slates based on other platforms than Android. Read The Full Story

Sprint 4G WiMAX roaming with Jamaica and Taiwan agreed

Chris Davies, Dec 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sprint has inked 4G roaming agreements with Jamaican carrier Digicel and Taiwanese carrier Global Mobile, meaning select Sprint devices will be able to take advantage of the high-speed WiMAX networks if travelling abroad. Only certain devices - those that use the Sprint SmartView Connection Manager - will support the roaming, which basically means USB modems but not, it seems, 4G-enabled smartphones like the HTC EVO 4G. Read The Full Story

Sprint Network Vision will combine 3G/4G base-stations, boost voice/data/PTT

Chris Davies, Dec 6th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sprint has announced Network Vision, the carrier's ambitious plans to combine the multiple spectrum bands it uses into single, multimode base stations, and in the process driving 4G expansion, increasing call quality and overall coverage, and reducing roll-out cost. Meanwhile Network Vision will also support next-gen PTT with broadband capabilities, plus the integration of multimode chipsets into smartphones, tablets and other broadband devices, including machine-to-machine (M2M) capabilities. Read The Full Story