- ZTE squeezes 7-inch V66 tablet with Verizon LTE through the FCC’s halls
We just learned that ZTE has its eyes set on bringing LTE smartphones to the US market next year, but where does the Chinese company stand on tablets? The company announced at this spring’s CTIA that a 10-inch slate with the high-speed connectivity was in the works and would land sometime in the second half of 2011. Despite unveiling tablets for non-US markets such as the Froyo-packed Light Tab 2 and Tegra 3-powered T98, the manufacturer’s been awfully quiet about this March’s announcement. That all changed today, however, as this 7-inch LTE tablet waltzed through the FCC approval process. The V66, as it’s currently known, not only sports LTE band 13 — Verizon’s flavor of “4G” — but it even shows Big Red’s LTE logo on the back. ZTE actually outed the V66 at a Beijing tech expo in September, proclaiming that it would come with a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, Android 3.2, a 1,280 x 800 display, 1GB of RAM and a 4,000mAh battery. Of course, FCC approval doesn’t guarantee availability, and we’re thinking that the chances of arriving before the end of the year are pretty slim. Check out the extra pic after the break.Continue reading ZTE squeezes 7-inch V66 tablet with Verizon LTE through the FCC’s halls
ZTE squeezes 7-inch V66 tablet with Verizon LTE through the FCC’s halls originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |
FCC | Email this | Comments - Toshiba’s Excite Honeycomb tablet confirmed for Canadian launch in January
We’ve already heard a fair bit about Toshiba’s forthcoming 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet, but the company has only now finally confirmed a name — Excite, previously seen in a trademark filing — and a launch date (or month, anyway) for the tablet outside of Europe. You can look for it to roll out for an as yet unspecified price sometime in January — in Canada, at least (though we’d presume a US launch will be around the same time). It will come in both 16GB and 32GB versions, each of which pack a 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP 4430 processor, a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, a 5 megapixel cam ’round back, and a microSD card slot and a micro HDMI port. Toshiba also boasts that it’s the “world’s thinnest, lightest tablet,” with it measuring just 7.7 mm thick and weighing in at 558 grams (or 1.23 pounds).
Toshiba’s Excite Honeycomb tablet confirmed for Canadian launch in January originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink
SlashGear | Toshiba Canada | Email this | Comments - ZTE expects to launch high-end LTE smartphones in the US by mid-2012
ZTE’s no small company by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s still largely an unknown in the US. The phone manufacturer has been focused on selling lower-end devices in the prepaid market — often with carrier-specific branding — but is now hoping to steer the ship in a different direction. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, North American president Lixin Cheng mentioned the company intends to bring LTE-capable high-end smartphones to the US at some point in the middle of next year. While he didn’t cough up details on availability, he said that the vendor is in talks with all four of the country’s national carriers and would likely be based on either Android or Windows Phone. Cheng also stated that he expects the US to be ZTE’s “largest market for handsets” by 2015. Lofty goals, of course, but definitely reachable.
ZTE expects to launch high-end LTE smartphones in the US by mid-2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Unlimited Mobile Cell Phone News and Reviews
Comments are closed.
Other News
Meizu M9 Note lands in mid-February with 48 MP main camera, 4,000 mAh battery
Meizu has just announced the Zero, a phone with no buttons or ports, but the Chinese company is also working on less revolutionary devices. A handset that is expected to become official in mid-February is the Meizu M9 Note. It will come with a dual rear camera system, with the main sensor being the 48 MP Samsung GM1. It's a big 1/2" sensor, with 0.8µm pixels (but you can count that as being 1.6µm because 4-in-1 pixel binning will be present, resulting in 12 MP default images). Meizu founder Huang Zhang has confirmed this info, also adding that the M9 Note will be powered by the...
Deal: Save £150 when you buy a 256GB iPhone XS in the UK
Have you been meaning to buy an iPhone XS but haven't gotten round to doing that just yet? Are you in the UK or able to order from Amazon UK? Was the 256GB version the one you had in mind? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then you're in luck. Amazon has decided to shave a cool £150 off of the usual price of the 256GB iPhone XS. Hence, you can now get one for just £999, compared to the £1,149 price you'd normally have to pay. The retailer doesn't explicitly mention it, but we strongly suspect this is a limited time offer, especially as Apple's UK website still shows the...
Huawei P10 and Honor 9 receive EMUI 9.0.1 update with January security patches
Today Huawei has started sending out a new software update to the P10, its flagship smartphone from the first half of 2017. Additionally, the Honor 9 is getting the same software, namely EMUI 9.0.1. Currently the rollout is happening only in China, but it's clearly only a matter of time before the new release hits other markets. EMUI 9.0.1 comes with the January 2019 security patches, and it's based on Android 9 Pie like EMUI 9 was before it. EMUI 9 with Android Pie was released in Asia for the P10 and Honor 9 back in December of last year, and it's nice to see Huawei and its sub-brand...
Honor View 20 review
Honor's View lineup is back and significantly better than before. For starters, it's got a much more attractive glass back and metal frame while the front no longer has a notch of any kind. The back of the phone is ultra-shiny and easily one of the best-looking smartphones around. Honor has innovated on pushing the glass back cover into something more and we love what it has come up with.
Huawei will reveal its 5G plans tomorrow
Huawei increased its R&D spending in preparation for the launch of 5G. Now the company wants to talk about what it has been working on with a "pre-MWC" briefing to be held on January 24 in Beijing (that's tomorrow). The event will be livestreamed and it will kick off Huawei's 5G efforts. The company wants to deliver a double-hitter by unveiling a foldable 5G phone - either at the MWC or in the second half of 2019. Sub-brand Honor will release a 5G phone too. Huawei teases a 5G Wi-Fi 6 router for tomorrow We don't actually expect to see a phone tomorrow, certainly not a full...
