Not everyone’s smartphone has NFC, and of those that do, an even smaller subset have official Google Wallet support. It would seem Mountain View’s complacency is Moneto’s gain, as the outfit’s recently put up for sale its $30 NFC-enabled microSD card — enabling plebes everywhere sans contactless circuitry to sashay their way into mobile payment [...]
Posts Tagged ‘4g’
Moneto’s $30 Android mobile payment kit goes on sale, brings contactless payments to four Samsungs
Posted: 21st February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Android, Caveat, Circuitry, Compatibility Info, Complacency, Engadget, Exploits, Google, Hamiltons, Mobile Payment, Mountain View, Nfc, Peep, Permutations, Samsungs, Smartphone, Subset, Variants, Wallet
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Android 4.0.4 ROM leaks for Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus
Posted: 8th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Bleeding Edge, Boot Time, Bootloader, Cdma, Engadget, Galaxy, Impressions, Leaks, Little Gem, Nbsp, New Radio, Nexus, Seamless Transitions, Source Link, Speed Gains, Sprint, Verizon, Web Browser, Xda Developers Forum
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A little gem known as Android 4.0.4 wriggled its way onto the interweb last week, and while it was geared specifically for Sprint’s Nexus S 4G, a similar version has just cropped up for the CDMA / LTE Galaxy Nexus from Verizon. While it’s only available for tenacious users who’ve unlocked their bootloader, it seems [...]
Mobile Miscellany: week of January 30th, 2012
Posted: 4th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Best Of The Rest, Droid, Front Page, Miscellany, Mobile News, Nbsp, Nexus, Release Date, Sat
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Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’ve spotted a leaked Android 4.0.4 ROM for the Nexus S 4G, and we’ve also come across a price and release date for [...]
Mobile Miscellany: week of January 30th, 2012
Posted: 4th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Best Of The Rest, Droid, Engadget, Fri, Front Page, Miscellany, Mobile News, Nbsp, Nexus, Release Date
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Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’ve spotted a leaked Android 4.0.4 ROM for the Nexus S 4G, and we’ve also come across a price and release date for [...]
US Cellular announces its first LTE devices: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy S Aviator
Posted: 1st February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Aviator, Carrier, Celebration, Cellular Network, Engadget, Galaxy, Mystery Question, Nbsp, Quite Some Time, Samsung, Us Cellular
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US Cellular’s had its LTE network in the oven for quite some time, and we knew it was going to be showing up sometime next month. The missing part of the equation, however, was which devices would ring in the celebration. The carrier finally answered the mystery question: the first tablet will be the Samsung [...]
Sprint grants LightSquared six-week extension for FCC approval
Posted: 31st January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Carl Icahn, Distressed Debt, Engadget, Fate, Fcc, Fcc Approval, Grants, Hesse, Lifeline, Nbsp, Regulatory Approval, Six Weeks, Spectrum, Sprint, Stab, Wheel, Wholesale
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As Carl Icahn prepares to take the wheel, buttressed by a cushion of distressed LightSquared debt, Sprint appears close to ending its ill-fated dance with the upstart LTE provider. After granting the Falcone-backed company a 30-day extension earlier this January, the Hesse-led co is taking one last stab at making that 15-year resource sharing agreement [...]
Sprint grants LightSquared six-week extension for FCC approval
Posted: 31st January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Carl Icahn, Distressed Debt, Engadget, Fate, Fcc, Fcc Approval, Grants, Hesse, Lifeline, Nbsp, Regulatory Approval, Six Weeks, Spectrum, Sprint, Stab, Wheel, Wholesale
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As Carl Icahn prepares to take the wheel, buttressed by a cushion of distressed LightSquared debt, Sprint appears close to ending its ill-fated dance with the upstart LTE provider. After granting the Falcone-backed company a 30-day extension earlier this January, the Hesse-led co is taking one last stab at making that 15-year resource sharing agreement [...]
Lumia 900 hits Carphone Warehouse, possibly coming to the UK in June
Posted: 24th January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Bet, Carphone Warehouse, Compatible Networks, Dual Camera, Email, Engadget, Excitement, First Dibs, Launch, Lte, Lumia, Matrix Screen, Nbsp, Nokia, Payback, Reason, Rgb Matrix, Verge, Wee Bit
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We bet some of you over in the UK were just a wee bit little jealous when it was revealed that we here in the good ol’ U-S-of-A would be getting first dibs on the Lumia 900 (a little payback for keeping the 800 all to yourselves). Well, lucky for you, we’re not so greedy [...]
HTC Velocity runs impressive speed test on Australia’s new 4G network
Posted: 24th January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Australia, Download Speeds, Engadget, Handset, Impressive Speed, Speed Test, Telstra, Velocity
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How fast is Telstra’s new 4G network? Pretty darned fast, according to a recent speed test that Ausdroid ran on an HTC Velocity — Australia’s first 4G handset. As the above image clearly demonstrates, the device impressively managed to reach download speeds of 32.82Mbps, with upload rates of 11.26Mbps. Ausdroid was quick to point out [...]