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Huawei hotspot supports 110Mbps downstream on Softbank's 4G network
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Huawei's 102HW Ultra WiFi 4G router might not be bathing in the same irradiated limelight as Sharp's Pantone 5, but it's said to support the fastest mobile data service in Japan. Announced at SoftBank's summer product rollout, the 102HW sports download speeds of up to 110 Mbps down and...
Huawei Ascend P1 arriving in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia by May
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Looking to sail the smartphone seas on Huawei's dual-core flagship? Good news if you happen to reside in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Australia: the 4.3-inch 1.5GHz Ascend P1 will be arriving in your locale by next month. Oh, and Latin America, don't worry, Huawei hasn't forgotten about you. The...
Huawei partners with Intel to test TD-LTE interoperability in China
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In a classic case of east meets west, Huawei and Intel have joined forces to create an interoperability test lab that will focus on China's homegrown time-division LTE (TD-LTE) network. While the technology runs contrary to the more common frequency-division LTE (FD-LTE), the Chinese brand of 4G is situated...
Telus turning on LTE across Canada on Friday
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Telus will launch Canada’s third LTE network on Friday, rolling out the mobile broadband technology in 14 cities from Vancouver to Halifax. It plans to expand the network throughout 2012 to cover 25 million Canadians, 71 percent of the country’s population, by year end. Telus will launch with four devices...
Why China Matters To Apple, Others: This Year It Will Become The World’s Largest Smartphone Market
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China is already a significant market for companies like Apple, with CEO Tim Cook describing “staggering” and “off the charts” sales of the iPhone in China last quarter. But according to IDC the opportunity is just beginning for Apple and others working in the smartphone world: China is set to...
Huawei hardware won't be part of National Broadband Network, says Australia
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Huawei just can't catch a break -- first the US blocks it from being a part of its first responder wireless network, and now, Australia is following suit. According to the Australian Financial Review, the Shenzhen-based outfit has been barred from tendering contracts for the country's A$43 billion National...
RIM’s tailspin
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The number of BlackBerry phones sold fell 41% year-on-year in the last RIM fiscal quarter. Sequentially the fall was 30%. Though surprisingly poor, I note that Nokia’s smartphone business fell even more dramatically last quarter (down 50% y/y and 39% sequentially). LG also saw a 44% decline in unit shipments...
US wary of security threats as China Mobile waits on operator licensing decision
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China Mobile, the world’s largest operator with more than 665 million subscribers, is said to be causing concern to US authorities as it awaits on a decision on an application for a license to operate in America. The company’s international arm applied for the license last autumn — which would...
Report: Under-fire Chinese telecom firm Huawei sees “exceptional” growth
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Telecom firm Huawei may be subject to concerns over national security in Australia and investigation in the US, but that hasn’t stopped the Chinese firm continuing its impressive growth across the world. Huawei’s infrastructure business, which sees it supply equipment to allow mobile operators, fixed-line ISPs and others to provide...
Boot up: Facebook readies mobile ads, China eats Android, and more
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Plus US military to get secure Android phones, and Motorola wants 2.25% of Apple's sales in patent battleA quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamOver 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online >> Ars TechnicaWorth a full read. Facebook...
Daily Crunch: Cheap 3D
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Here are some recent Gadgets posts: Is The $300 3D Printer Finally Here? Makible Thinks So TC@MWC: The Huawei Ascend D Quad Is One Of The Nicest Phones You’ll Never Buy LTE-Packing Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Hits VZW Shelves On March 1 HBO GO Finally Lands On Xbox 360 On...
VMware isn’t going to let network virtualization pass it by
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VMware teamed up with Stanford and Berkley on Tuesday to create an industry consortium around software defined networks, called the Open Networking Research Center. The company, famous for hypervisors that virtualize servers isn’t about to watch while companies attempt to build the same disruption in networking. The consortium counts CableLabs,...
Huawei R&D department gets new home, sets up shop in Silicon Valley
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Chinese manufacturing giant Huawei has been calling Plano, Texas its North American home since 2010, but now it seems the company's ready to explore a different business territory. Huawei's just announced its Research and Development squad -- in which it invested about $3.6 million dollars last year -- is...
Gartner pegs Samsung as China's top smartphone maker, ranks Apple fifth overall
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Analysts at the research firm Gartner have come out and crowned Samsung as the most popular smartphone producer in China. The Korean manufacturer beat out others such as Nokia, Huawei, ZTE and Apple to score the title, and now boasts a rather impressive 24.3 percent market share in the...
Huawei Ascend G 300 hands-on at MWC 2012 (video)
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Huawei's all about the D Quad at this year's Mobile World Congress, but that's not everything in the manufacturer's arsenal. Having seen the first devices from its D (Diamond) and P (Platinum) series, we've been wondering how the third-tier G (Gold) handsets would turn out. Huawei's booth holds the...
T-Mobile Prism from Huawei lands at FCC
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Thanks to leaked inventory documents, we've already known that Huawei's Prism would grace its way onto T-Mobile's shores. Now that its certification papers have been put through the wringers at the FCC, we can plainly see that the handset will be marketed as the T-Mobile Prism. While little is...
Oppo teases 6.65mm-thick smartphone, about to steal 'world's thinnest' title from Huawei
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China-based Poop Oppo is back again with yet another smartphone, only this time there's no pretty girl teasing Mr. DiCaprio. Instead, what we have here is an exclusive leak that shows off a 6.65mm-thick device -- just 0.03mm thinner than the Ascend P1 S from local rival Huawei. In...
Zippy! NSN shows off 1 Gbps wireless speeds
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Nokia Siemens Networks plans to show off gigabit wireless speeds using the variant of LTE networking that Clearwire plans to deploy. NSN said it had already managed to deliver gigabit speeds in a test environment last month, and had the following video to prove it, but it’s going to recreate...
The Engadget Show returns Friday, April 20th -- get tickets to the taping!
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That's right, we're back and Webby nominated, ready to bring you an extra exciting episode of The Engadget Show. We traveled far to bring you this one, taking our crew to Asia to check out the markets of Taipei, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. We'll also be speaking with top...
Huawei Ascend Q Now Available at Cricket Wireless
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If you’re not a fan of slider designs on smartphones but want a physical keyboard and touchscreen, Cricket Wireless has a phone for you. Available now, the Huawei Ascend Q packs a full keyboard and 3.2-inch touchscreen in a bar design, so you have easy access to both at all...
Canalys Q2: 68% Of All Smartphones Shipped Were Android; China's The Biggest Market By A Wide Margin
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One more analyst house, Canalys, has released its numbers on global smartphone sales in Q2, and unlike Strategy Analytics and IDC, it has focused on sales by platforms rather than OEMs. In that light, Google’s Android was the clear, all-out winner: in a market that saw 158 million smartphone shipments...
Canalys Q2: 68% Of All Smartphones Shipped Were Android; China's The Biggest Market By A Wide Margin
Engadget Mobile Podcast 135 - 04.26.2012
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We live in exciting mobile times, and it's up to you, the enthusiastic consumer of phones, voice and data, to make sure you're getting the most for your time and cash. It's up to us, the Engadget Mobile Podcasters, to keep you in the loop. This week we enlist...
Cricket ships Huawei Ascend Q, offers Android chatting for $140 prepaid
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Huawei had said it would deliver the Ascend Q in August, and it didn't waste a moment -- Cricket is selling the Android 2.3 messager as of today for $140 on its prepaid smartphone plans. While the OS, 800MHz processor, 3.2-inch display and fixed-focus 3.2-megapixel camera won't knock any...
The Engadget Show 32: ASUS, Huawei and a trip to Asia's gadget markets
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Yep, we went way out for April's Engadget Show, taking our film crew to Asia this time out, to check out the markets of Taipei, Hong Kong and Shenzhen with our very own Richard Lai. We also scored interviews with Huawei's Chief of Design, Hagen Fendler and Michelle Hsiao...
Huawei's alleged 10-inch slate shows up at photoshoot ahead of MWC
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Shortly after Huawei's Ascend D1 made a trip to the studio for some glamour shots, an incognito slate is following suit. A set of photos from Russian site hi-tech@mail reveals what could be in store from the Chinese outfit at MWC 2012 (you know we'll be there), though the...
'Fastest ever' 110Mbps SoftBank 4G mobile router out in Japan this fall
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SoftBank's recently-launched AXGP 4G network is capable of speeds up to 110Mbps, but so far we've only seen the release of a 76Mbps mobile router. That's set to change at some point after September courtesy of the Ultra Wi-Fi 102HW, a Huawei-made router that SoftBank is calling the "fastest...
Huawei brings out Ascend P1 2600 mAh XL for battery junkies, throws in E5151 hotspot
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Huawei's presence at Mobile Asia Expo this year has a distinct flavor of RAZR Maxx about it. The Ascend P1 is getting a fresh 2600 mAh XL variant that does exactly what it says on the tin: throw almost 56 percent more battery power at the previously skinny Android...
Huawei Ascend D1 hits the FCC with pentaband HSPA+
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Of the trio of Huawei's Diamond-class smartphones announced at Mobile World Congress in February, the dual-core Ascend D1 got the least amount of buzz. Today, however, the handset gets its opportunity to bask in the spotlight, since it's the first of the group to obtain the FCC's nod of...
UBS: For now, mobile still comes down to Samsung v. Apple
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It’s no secret Apple is really skilled at sucking huge profits out of its product lineup, particularly with the iPhone. But Samsung is getting a lot better at this too, according to the analysts at UBS. And the two are currently dominating the handset industry when it comes to profits,...
T-Mobile Prism leaked: entry-level Huawei smartphone to launch in May
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While the design (and even the briefing slides) scream affordable, we're sure there must be some Big Magenta customers aching for a keenly-priced smartphone fix. So here's the Prism. Huawei's behind that T-Mobile face, cooking up a Android Gingerbread phone with a pretty weedy 600MHz processor and a 3.5-inch...
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