Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

With every new generation of smartphone, LTE connections get faster. That’s because the devices have faster modems that can transfer data at unprecedented download speeds. The top modem providers are ...

Ahead of Mobile World Congress next week, Qualcomm and Intel have separately announced the latest LTE modems for smartphones with theoretical download speeds exceeding so-called "Gigabit LTE," aka 1 ...

If you are in the market for an affordable, portable, high quality 4G LTE modem you may be interested in the nectModem which was launched by Indiegogo this month. The small compact modem requires no ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. As we approach Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in less than ...

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Qualcomm’s next LTE modem can reach gigabit speeds, but that might not be the most important thing about it. The Snapdragon X16 LTE Modem, coming to devices in the second half of this year, is also ...

In their monthly announcement, among all the cool things Pine64, they talked about the open firmware for PinePhone’s LTE modem. The firmware isn’t fully open – a few parts remain closed. And Pine ...

It was right around this time a year ago when Qualcomm introduced the X16 LTE, its first LTE Advanced Pro modem supporting up to 1Gbps downloads. Fast forward to today and Qualcomm says it's begun ...

If you are in the market for an affordable, portable, high quality 4G LTE modem you may be interested in the nectModem which is now available at a discount during its Indiegogo InDemand funding stage.

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