TS2R Wireless News: HTC Holiday LTEs, Thinner iPad 3, More Mobile Search & Sprint Sues

TS2R Wireless News.jpgTS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:

Full news stories today include the release of the BlackBerry Torch 9850 on Verizon Wireless, certification of the Droid/Nexus Prime, Droid Bionic Twitter give-away and Verizon Unleased unlimited data/calls/texts for America.

Here's the news that is too short to report:

  • The HTC Holiday from AT&T is expected to have LTE speeds of upto 29Mbps down.
  • Apple's will use  Simplo Technology Co. and Dynapack International Technology Corp. to supply battery packs for the iPad 3 suggesting that the iPad 3 will have faster and thinner batteries making the iPad 3 thinner than the iPad2.
  • Google expectes that mobile search for holiday shopping will surge this year, "with  44 percent of total searches for last minute gifts and store locator terms from mobile devices."
  • Sprint has filed a lawsuti in the District of Columbia to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Sprint contends  that the merger would make it more difficult for itself and other smaller carriers to access spectrum and backhaul.
  • Responsible-wireless-use is the theme for CTIA-The Wireless Association September Edition of "Wonder of Wireless.