Pantech UML290

2011 is going to be a year dominated by fourth generation network everything—handsets, portable hotspots, datacards, and news of networks lighting up in each regional market. There’s a veritable soup of wireless network tech being billed as 4G, but far and away the most interesting suite of new network access technology is LTE—Long Term Evolution. We got the chance to play around with a number of Verizon’s upcoming LTE enabled phones and preview the carrier’s two launch LTE datacards at CES. Since then, we’ve spent a considerable amount of time with Verizon’s 4G LTE out in the wild. We’ve split the reviews down the middle—our HTC Thunderbolt review is one piece, everything else LTE is in here, including the Pantech UML290, Verizon USB551L...