U.S. Cellular hopes to cover 87% of its customers under LTE coverage by this year. To make its LTE network lucrative to users, U.S. Cellular has start shipping Samsung’s 4G LTE Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE with different data plans. U.S. Cellular also has a line-up of 4G LTE devices that includes Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy Note II and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Mobile phones have undergone tremendous changes over the past few years. While the young folks have tried to keep up with all these trends, many seniors don’t care to know much about the latest innovations in the smartphone or tablet arena. Now, Fujitsu is offering the Stylistic S01 Android smartphone, made for seniors.
Dual-screen smartphones are nothing new – other vendors have at least tested them out in the past. However, neither of them has gained any traction so far. Apparently, that hasn’t stopped NEC from dishing out yet another dual-screen Android smartphone, the Medias W N-05E.
After a long reign of iOS and Android based mobile devices, it seems that other contenders are finally entering the arena. Among these is Canonical’s Ubuntu Phone and Tablet OS as well as the Mozilla team’s Firefox OS meant for mobile devices. Now, Sony has expressed interest in Mozilla team’s offering and intends to launch a Firefox OS mobile device by 2014.
Dell has geared up the features on its Latitude 10 tablet, apparently in a bid to appease the government institutions. The major enhancement are primarily linked to security, such as the inclusion of a fingerprint reader. Moreover, the enhanced tablet now offers a whopping 20-hour battery life.
Taiwanese multinational company Asus has unveiled its latest phablet, PadFone Infinity, at MWC 2013. The PadFone Infinity is an Android smartphone that docks into a large display to become a tablet.
Search giant Google first introduced its Music service in 2011, offering to store a user’s music collection in the cloud and stream it to their devices, and later merged that service into Google Play, the digital marketplace for the company’s Android devices. Now it seems like, Google has more plans to expand its music service. Financial Times has reported that Google is in negotiations with major music publishers to develop a Spotify-esque subscription-based streaming music service for its Android operating system.
Last week, Canonical announced that it would release the much-anticipated touch-enabled Linux operating system, Ubuntu Touch Preview, for four Android-based Nexus devices on Thursday, February 21. Canonical has kept its word and released the Ubuntu Touch Preview. Now it is available for download.