Sprint Rolling Out 4G LTE in Over 100 More U.S. Cities

Only days before the iPhone 5’s release, Sprint has announced that it’s expanding its 4G LTE to more than 100 cities throughout 2012.

Sprint Rolling Out 4G LTE in Over 100 More U.S. Cities

Sprint Rolling Out 4G LTE in Over 100 More U.S. Cities

Sprint started rolling out its 4G LTE service on July 15. Currently, Sprint offers 4G LTE connectivity in 19 cities in the United States,

including Houston; Atlanta; Baltimore; Dallas; Athens, Georgia; Calhoun, Georgia; Carrollton, Georgia; Newnan, Georgia; Rome, Georgia; Fort Worth, Texas; Gainesville, Georgia; Granbury-Hood County, Texas; Huntsville, Texas; Kansas City, Montana/Kansas City, Kansas; Manhattan/Junction City, Kansas; San Antonio, Texas; Sedalia, Montana; Waco, Texas and St. Joseph, Montana.

The new 4G LTE offerings will now spread further across the U.S., entering cities like Boston, Chicago and New Orleans.

“We are committed to delivering a cutting-edge network as quickly as possible, one that provides a greater level of reliability and speed to our 3G and 4G customers,” said Bob Azzi, senior vice president of Network for Sprint. “We know our customers depend on their mobile devices as their primary source of communication, business, connectivity and entertainment. We want to deliver a network that delivers mobile access, productivity and entertainment at a highly competitive price point.”

Sprint’s complete list of cities to receive the 4G LTE network in the coming months can be found here.

Sprint, which obtained the iPhone for the first time last fall when the iPhone 4S was released, could likely be preparing for the iPhone 5’s release in two days. The iPhone 5 is the first Apple smartphone to have 4G LTE connectivity.

 

NASA Used Tons of Macs & iPads for Mars Curiosity Landing

Any Mac fan watching the Mars Curiosity landing last night probably noticed the abundance of glowing Apple logos on the desks of NASA engineers and scientists. Exactly how all the Macs participated in managing Curiosity from millions of miles away is unknown, but the overwhelming presence of MacBook Pro’s should tell you they played an important enough role to make any Apple fan proud.

The table at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory warroom is nothing but MacBook Pro:

The table at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory warroom is nothing but MacBook Pro:

The table at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory warroom is nothing but MacBook Pro:

It wasn’t just MacBook Pro’s though, if you looked closely enough you’d have seen an iPad or two thrown in there as well. Here’s a NASA employee typing on one during the media event:

It wasn’t just MacBook Pro’s though, if you looked closely enough you’d have seen an iPad or two thrown in there as well. Here’s a NASA employee typing on one during the media event:

Sure, there were PC’s in there too, but who cares? Watching the awe-inspiring event was like a live Mac Setups post on steroids. Every once in a while you’d get a glimpse of a MacBook Pro screen and you could see an array of familiar icons in the Dock including Xcode, Preview, Chrome, Firefox, Aperture, Parallels, and more.

MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro

Pictures From NASA

Mountain Lion: Beautiful New Wallpapers from OS X Mountain Lion

OS X Mountain Lion is due to be released next month but if you’re like us you don’t want to wait that long to get your hands on the new beautiful wallpapers. These come to us from the latest Mountain Lion developer preview, and each of the 15 images is at a gigantic 3200×2000 resolution, making them ready for whatever retina Mac or iOS device you want to dress up.

Click any picture below to open the full sized image.