• Samsung 4G LTE Smartphone, featuring Android 2.2; Google Mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps and Gmail; YouTube; 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus touch screen display (with “Plus” adding better color, sharpness and improved outdoor visibility); 1GHz application processor; HTML5 Web browser; rear-facing 8-megapixel camera with LED flash; front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera; Samsung Social Hub and Media Hub.Two tablets were unveiled:

• The just-announced Motorola XOOM 10.1-inch , upgradeable to LTE, with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), 1080p HD video, Adobe Flash Player, front-facing 2-megapixel camera, and 5-megapixel camera to capture video in 720p. Allows up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to connect and share the LTE service.

• A slightly-upgraded, LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy Tab with 7-inch enhanced TFT display, 1024 x 600 WSVGA resolution, Android 2.2, Adobe Flash 10.1, 1.2-GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird application processor (the original Tab had 1-GHz), rear-facing 5-megapixel camera (up from 3 mp) and front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder.Two portable hotspots will be available, both of which let up to five Wi-Fi-connected devices share either the Verizon Wireless LTE or 3G data services: the Novatel MiFi 4510L Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, and the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot.

Larger-sized devices are the HP Compaq CQ10 netbook, with a 10.1-inch display, Intel Atom N455 processor, up to 8.5 hours of battery life; and the HP Pavilion notebook, with 11.6iinch screen, HD 1080p, VISION Technology from AMD, up to 10.75 hours of battery life, 320 Gbytes of storage.

Even on a loaded LTE network, users of these devices will see speeds of 5-12 Mbps, according to Tony Melone, Verizon’s chief technology officer, who spoke at the CES event. Currently customers are often getting links at the high end of that range, he said. Many have reported 4G speeds that are 10-20 times that of 3G, according to Melone. One reported that his in-home LTE speed was faster than his wired broadband connection.