If you've got a phone in the past few months, you probably are able to surf the web on an LTE network.  Current LTE is darn fast, but is getting slower as more and more people move to this network.  Another downside is the fact that LTE network are still pretty limited to large centers.  Samsung is already pushing forward to 5G where they expect speeds in the neighborhood of 1Gbps... 1000Mbps.  Yeah.  Wow.  They've already demonstrated the tech, but it's still a long way off.  By 2020 we should be rocking this new standard.

LTE might be all the rage right now, but next generation mobile technology is already in the works. According to Korea's Yonhap News Agency, Samsung has successfully tested its 5G platform, pulling down data at 1Gbps in recent tests. The company apparently needed 64 antenna elements to pull the trick off, but says the technology will be available to customers by 2020.

Source: Yonhapnews

Day one of CES 2013 in Las Vegas Nevada was madness and we kicked it off with a busy start! This morning BCCHardware was able to meet up with Steel Series to see what they had to show and what they’re working on for the future of tech and gaming enthusiasts. They had a couple of products to show and talk about at their suite such as the Apex and Apex [Raw] keyboards, as well as two new audio products. Steel Series is typically a gaming company that appeals to the gamers. The Apex and Apex [Raw] are gaming keyboards that can be customized to what you want and or how you want to play your game.

Just like the Sensei Mouse that is customizable in many ways, the keyboards are customizable to what you want.  The Apex can produce 16.7 Million different colors and the Apex [Raw] is simply white. All in all, you can tweak a mere 504 keys (thanks to four layers) that can be re-assigned and mapped. One of the keyboards has five zone lighting and the other has two zones for lighting keys. SteelSeries also talked a bit about two pairs of earphones they are working on. Both are tangle free design and are great sounding headphones that won’t feel cheap to your ears!

You would think that the CEO of Google (the maker of Android) would be using an Android phone, right? Well, apparently that is not the case as Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is still rocking his BlackBerry. When asked he said that it was because he loves the keyboard that BlackBerry offers, and as a former BlackBerry user, I will give him a pass on this one. You can head on over to Geek.com to check out more on this story (which isn't really a story but still pretty funny).

You’d probably expect those in the upper echelon of Google’s management to be staunch advocates of its own products like Chromebooks and Android phones. Turns out that’s not always the case. Executive chairman Eric Schmidt, for example, uses a BlackBerry instead. Despite its struggles to maintain market share around the globe, it’s got to make the men and women in Waterloo smile from ear to ear to know that Eric Schmidt of all people, hasn’t replaced his BlackBerry with an Android device.

FutureMark has had their finger in the benchmark pie for many years on the PC and now they are moving toward a unified platform to show how devices compare.  Their benchmark spans iOS, Android, Windows and Windows RT (iOS and RT pending) and will give consumers a good idea about how well each of these devices is for gaming.  It's quite surprising and alitle disappointing to see how low the Nexus 7 ranks.

As always, don't let a benchmark determine your happiness.  Easier said than done sometimes.

Source: FutureMark, Google Play