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Verizon Wireless will push Android 2.2, or Froyo over the air to Motorola Droid X smartphones on Wednesday, though customers can now start updating to the new OS now on their own, the carrier said Tuesday. Droid X users can start their own update by going to Menu>Settings>About Phone>System Updates, where Verizon has posted step-by-step [...]

Windows Phone 7 devices coming this fall will initially work with GSM carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile, but will not include carriers of CDMA technology, which include Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel. “Microsoft chose to focus on delivering a great GSM version to the world first, and then a great CDMA version in the [...]

T-Mobile USA topped other top U.S. wireless carriers in providing overall customer care during the first half of this year, according to a J.D. Power and Associates report released Thursday. The eighth annual U.S. Wireless Customer Care Performance Study is based on a survey of 9,690 wireless customers who had contacted their carrier’s customer service [...]

Say all you want about whether Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will succeed, but AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it — and Microsoft ‘s mobile efforts — repeatedly over the last year. “We’ll be the premier carrier for Windows Phone 7,” a spokeswoman said Monday. “We haven’t given guidance on timing.” The [...]

Say all you want about whether Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will succeed, but AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it — and Microsoft ‘s mobile efforts — repeatedly over the last year. “We’ll be the premier carrier for Windows Phone 7,” a spokeswoman said Monday. “We haven’t given guidance on timing.” The [...]

WiMax service provider Clearwire on Thursday introduced its first WiMax/3G modem that works with Mac laptops, as well as its first Wi-Fi hot spots with integrated WiMax or WiMax/3G radios. (Clearwire and majority owner Sprint Nextel both refer to WiMax as 4G, though that label usually refers to the competing LTE technology other carriers plan [...]

WiMax service provider Clearwire on Thursday introduced its first 4G/3G modem that works with Mac laptops, as well as its first Wi-Fi hotspots with integrated 4G or 4G/3G radios. The announcement of the Clear 4G+ Mobile USB (Series S) brings Mac users fully into the Clearwire fold at last. Last July, the company introduced a [...]

The WiMax Forum has closed one office in the past several months and lost as many as 100 members, but it is not concerned about the 4G technology losing its footing as many mobile operators commit to using LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks instead. The nonprofit industry group runs a certification and interoperability testing program similar [...]

LAS VEGAS — As the nation’s wireless carriers rush to compete with faster 4G speeds on either WiMax or LTE technology , their workers are toiling in the trenches to make it happen. One senior manager of handset marketing at Sprint Nextel, Trevor Van Norman, estimates he has helped launch 150 different phones over six [...]

LAS VEGAS — Sprint Nextel launched its first WiMax-capable phone, the HTC Evo 4G, at the CTIA trade show Tuesday, and said its faster WiMax network will reach 120 million Americans by year’s end. Several analysts described the new Android-based phone, with its 1GHz Snapdragon processor and HD video-capable camera, as a device that Sprint [...]