Mobile provider Verizon picks Motorola and Google, The head of the second-largest U.S. mobile service, Ivan Seidenberg, presented in his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show clearly in Las Vegas, the importance of early introduction of multimedia computers and smart phones that work in the new broadband standard, LTE. Along with Google and Motorola announced Seidenberg to a very ambitious timetable for the launch of tablet computers with the Android-3 version of Honeycomb.
Although the largest CDMA provider sells for quite some time iPad Apple with appropriate data use agreement can not choose iPhone customers in the U.S. is still their provider. AT & T is the only mobile service for the iPhone, so Apple has been her only GSM phones with radio, but no equipment for the competing CDMA standard.
The main menu of the optimized for the tablet format Android 3.0 provides a desktop much more similar than a smartphone. Even the pre-installed browser is strongly reminiscent of surfing on the PC, with a tab bar at the top and full Flash support. Redesigned for Youtube and Google Talk clients to use the video screen size and resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels from optimal. The new client for Google Talk on Android 3.0 has a 3D menu for video chat. Enlarge Only in February will be a 3G version of Motorola Xoom at Verizon are available, which can be upgraded from the second quarter to 4G. Verizon CEO Seidenberg pointed to the rapid development of the LTE network. Currently, the fast wireless broadband is already a third of reach of all U.S. households, in a year, it should be twice as many.
Verizon also has a venture fund created for companies that develop LTE applications. A separate Apps Innovation Center in San Francisco will soon be available on the job. The development center is to develop LTE-specific APIs and support external software engineers. Jeff Bewkes, the head of the media company Time Warner, announced a wide range of TV services that can be received through Verizon’s Fios fiber-optic network and the LTE network to devices of all kinds.
