Last year I ran a series of speedtests on both AT&T and Verizon Wireless LTE during CES, the results of which were pretty interesting. My friends continue to poke fun at how obsessive I am with running speed tests, and this year I decided to do the same experiment during CES 2013 by carrying around an iPhone 5 on AT&T LTE and HTC Droid DNA on Verizon Wireless LTE and running speedtests at the same time and place periodically on the two handsets side by side. The places I tested are pretty much indicative of your average tech journalist's in Las Vegas for CES — I ran a few in my hotel (LVH), inside and throughout the LVCC North and South halls' show floors...
Samsung and AT&T Announce Galaxy Tab 8.9, Six new LTE Markets
Not to be outdone by Verizon with its LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab 10.1 (which we reviewed), Samsung and AT&T today announced that it's introducing an LTE enabled Galaxy Tab 8.9...
9 by Brian Klug on 11/14/2011
Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and HTC Vivid: AT&T's First LTE Phones Launch Nov. 6
As if we didn't have enough phones to review, AT&T, HTC and Samsung announced today the first LTE phones to launch on AT&T's newly rolled out network. The five...
16 by Jason Inofuentes on 10/31/2011
The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G
A while after the iPhone 4S announcement, I posted a piece on the iPhone 4S' cellular architecture and talked about the new inclusion of HSPA+ alongside CDMA2000 1x/EVDO and...
54 by Brian Klug on 10/9/2011
AT&T Tweets SGSII Availability: October 2nd For $199
We knew it'd come after Sprint's variant was released, but we didn't know how long we'd have to wait. AT&T saw fit to let us know, in a tweet...
12 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/21/2011
Acer Iconia Tab A501 Coming To AT&T's HSPA+ Network
Acer made a value play with their Acer Iconia A500, and the results left something to be desired. How much of that was Honeycomb growing pains is hard to...
1 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
HTC Titan Stretches Mango To 4.7" On AT&T
And hot on the heels of Samsung's Mango news, HTC has announced they're bringing their surprisingly thin HTC Titan to AT&T with Windows Phone 7.5 in tow. We first...
15 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
Samsung Brings Mango To AT&T This Fall
Not content to flood the market in Android variants, Samsung is starting their roll out of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) devices. The release we received this morning was scant...
6 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/12/2011
Department of Justice Files to Block AT&T-T-Mobile Merger
The United States Justice Department has filed to block AT&T's proposed buyout of T-Mobile today, saying that the merger would "remove a significant competitive force from the market." The potential...
16 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/31/2011
Initial AT&T LTE Devices Launching August 21
We've known for some time now that AT&T's 4G LTE network is slated to start turning on this summer, and now we have some dates for when the first...
7 by Brian Klug on 8/16/2011
RIM Announces BlackBerry Torch 9810, Bold 9900, Torch 9860 - 2011 Lineup
Almost exactly a year ago, AT&T and RIM announced the BlackBerry Torch 9800, which we reviewed and found brought a much-needed new WebKit based browser and OS update, but...
11 by Brian Klug on 8/3/2011
AT&T Officially Confirms Throttling Plans for Heaviest Users
There has been considerable talk and rumor in the last week about AT&T considering throttling the heaviest users on its 3G networks. Turns out those rumors were true, as...
24 by Brian Klug on 7/29/2011
Leaks Suggest Droid Bionic Will Give Birth To Atrix LTE for AT&T
The last several days have seen lots of speculation about an AT&T branded Motorola phone whose model number (MB865) mirrors that of the long awaited Droid Bionic (XT865). So...
8 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/28/2011
HP Veer 4G Review - Getting Us Excited for Pre 3
We touched on the Veer when it first hit our doorstep with a this just in post, and since then I’ve been using the device daily and trying to...
26 by Brian Klug on 6/7/2011
AT&T Update Enables HSUPA on Motorola Atrix, HTC Inspire - Our Analysis
With just a day left in April, AT&T made good on its promise to enable HSUPA for its two newest HSPA+ enabled smartphones, the Motorola Atrix and HTC Inspire...
21 by Brian Klug on 5/1/2011
Motorola's ATRIX 4G: Tegra 2 Smartphone & Netbook in One
Motorola just announced its flagship Tegra 2 based smartphone: the ATRIX 4G. Running Android 2.2, the ATRIX 4G has a pair of Cortex A9s running at 1GHz inside NVIDIA's...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011
AT&T Announces 4G LTE Plans
Anand and I rushed from the LG press conference over to AT&T's, where CEO Ralph de la Vega has just announced the carrier's LTE plans for the future. Some...
13 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011
AT&T 3G MicroCell: A Comprehensive Exploration
Over the past two years the carrier debate has really heated up. AT&T has been dangling its waning iPhone exclusivity while Verizon has poked fun at the former's 3G...
61 by Brian Klug on 4/1/2010