I’ll be spending next week in Las Vegas covering the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Since I cover mobile technology on a daily basis, I figured you might want to know what’s going in my gear bag. As it turns out, this year’s kit looks an awful lot like last year’s. I’m still using the same camera, laptop, phone, and modem….

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Sprint announced plans way back in January to carry a version of the BlackBerry PlayBook with built-in support for Sprint’s 4G WiMAX mobile broadband network. If you’ve been holding your breath for the last 8 months you might as well exhale, because it turns out it’s not going to happen. Sprint has canceled plans for offer a WiMAX version of…

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The Motorola XOOM tablet is currently available in two versions: A 3G model that’s sold by Verizon and which will soon get a 4G LTE mobile broadband upgrade, and a WiFi-only model. Now the folks at BGR have received a tip suggesting that a third option may be available soon. Sprint is expected to sell a Xoom tablet with 4G…

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The Motorola XOOM tablet is currently available in the US from Verizon Wireless, and a WiFi-only model is due out next week. But it looks like you may be able to pick up a XOOM with support for Sprint’s mobile broadband network soon as well. SprintUsers forum member r0fl has posted an image of a XOOM tablet with Sprint branding….

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I’m on my way to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. While the show doesn’t officially kick off until Thursday, the first pre-show press conferences start on Tuesday and I’ll be there to cover news from Asus, Toshiba, NVIDIA, and others. Since I’ll be spending a week reporting from the road, I thought I’d share the mobile tech I’m…

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Acer has introduced three updated laptop models in Japan with built-in support for 4G WiMAX mobile broadband.That includes versions of thr 13.3 inch Acer Aspire AS3820, the 11.6 inch Aspire AS1830, and the 10.1 inch Acer Aspire ONe AOD255. As far as I can tell, that makes the Acer Aspire One AOD-255-A01B the first netbook from the company to include…

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Ever wonder what where notebooks go when they die are discontinued? Sure, it’s possible that manufacturers could actually sell out of some units, but there’s usually some stock leftover. Sometimes they get sold off at retail. Other times they’re repackaged and sold as if they were new thanks to a new feature or two — like the addition of 3G…

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Clearwire has been testing its new 4G network in three of the countries largest and most tech-savvy cities for a few months, and now the company has announced the official launch dates for WiMAX service in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. New York will get WiMAX coverage first, on November 1st, with LA and San Francisco following in…

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If you thought that WiMAX and LTE technologies which allow wireless carriers to offer mobile data rates of up to 60Mbps were fast, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Samsung is showing off a new WiMAX 2 demo at CEATEC in Japan, with speeds up to 330Mbps. The demo shows 16 HD vidoes streaming to 4 different displays at the same…

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CLEAR offers 4G WiMAX internet service in a growing number of locations around the country. While most people probably think of WiMAX as a mobile broadband service akin to 3G, CLEAR also offers in-home service. Just pick up a CLEAR home modem, place it near a window where it can pick up a good signal, and you’ve got in-home internet…

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While we wait for Verizon to roll out its LTE service, CLEAR is currently the only 4G service provider in the US (CLEAR also offers the backbone of WiMAX services provided by Sprint, Best Buy, and possibly some others). The only problem is that CLEAR is only available in a limited number of cities… for now. That’s not a huge…

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US WiMAX provider Clearwire has added a new pay-as-you-go service to its offerings. The new Rover service offers unlimited 4G WiMAX service. You can pay $5 per day, $20 for a week, or $50 per month, without signing up for a long term contract. At launch there are two WiMAX modems, a $99.99 Rover Stick, and a $149.99 Rover Puck…

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