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We don’t generally find surprises from Apple in the daily stream of FCC documents and test reports, but a new filing published today seems to suggest that a new Apple TV model of some sort could be on the way. While the diagram pictured above doesn’t suggest any major changes to the device’s appearance, it does list some slightly smaller measurements: 93.78mm square compared to the 98mm of the current model. That’s certainly not the biggest of differences, but the measurements in previous Apple FCC filings have been spot on. The model number, A1469, is also one that we haven’t seen before, but the documents unfortunately don’t offer much else in the way of details (only confirmation of the same WiFi capabilities as the current-gen Apple TV).

As MacRumors noted yesterday, a look at the download options for the latest Apple TV software update also revealed a new “AppleTV3,2” model, which it speculated could be an international version of the device — although it of course remains to be seen if it and this model are one and the same. For now, you can get a closer look at the filing yourself at the source link.

Update: Anandtech has peeked through the filings and the source code, finding a new single antenna setup that follows the design of other iDevices, and reference to an updated A5X SoC at its heart.

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Source: FCC, Anandtech

Huawei’s MediaPad 10 Link clearly didn’t know what it was getting itself into when it traveled to the FCC. The Android tablet, which made a brief appearance at CES a few weeks back, took quite a few hits to its 10.1-inch display, now that Wolverine is apparently handling electronics for the commission. According to notes from CES, the tablet’s running Ice Cream Sandwich on a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM. No word yet on how soon the newest member of the MediaPad family will be riding FCC approval onto our shores — or if the name signals some new Hyrulian tie-in for the company.

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Source: FCC

When it comes to Alcatel’s new tablet line up, the One Touch Evo 7 HD is arguably the more exciting one. Today, however, its standard resolution sibling is making an appearance at the FCC, with all kinds of information about the tablet on display in the filing. Most of this is stuff that we already knew, but if you’ve been waiting for the One Touch Evo 7, this FCC filing means that it’s one step closer to release.

In the One Touch Evo 7, we’re working with a 7-inch display that touts 1024 x 600 resolution. Under the hood, you’ll have a single-core CPU clocked at 1GHz working in tandem with 1GB of RAM. The tablet’s 4GB of internal storage can be expanded on thanks to the microSD slot the Evo 7 ships with, and users can expect it to be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box.

In other words, there’s next to nothing for technophiles to get excited about with the One Touch Evo 7. Even though Alcatel hasn’t announced a price yet, we’re expecting this tablet to be pretty cheap, and that’s where the main draw will be. The HD variant will have a price tag of $179, so we can probably expect a price point around $150 for the standard Evo 7.

That definitely isn’t bad for someone who’s looking to enter the realm of tablets for the first time, but for everyone else, we imagine they’ll ultimately look someplace else. In any case, if you’re interested, you can take a look at some of the internal and external shots Alcatel has included in its FCC filing. There isn’t any release date for the standard Evo 7 yet, but for what it’s worth, the HD model should begin shipping in May.

[via Engadget]

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As long as there’s been the Internet, cable companies have always teased its customers with data caps, which we’re sure you recall is exactly how Internet access was given back in the 90s. Nowadays, the only industry that has issued data caps on Internet-related data is the mobile industry as the majority of wireless carriers have implemented data caps.

For years, we’ve been told the purpose of data caps has been to help deal with congestion as cable companies apparently are always suffering from all of their customers watching Netflix at the same time. It turns out there really is no congestion that require cable companies to charge you more for going over a limit they attempt to enforce, instead, it’s all about increasing revenue for broadband providers.

Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell was speaking with a Minority Media and Telecommunications Association audience recently, saying, “cable’s interest in usage-based pricing was not principally about network congestion, but instead about pricing fairness.” When asked to weigh in on data caps, Powell said labeling the cable industry’s interest as an issue about congestion management to be “wrong.” “Our principal purpose is how to fairly monetize a high fixed cost.”

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Well, what do we have here? It was sometime in the late summer of 2012 when AT&T revealed that they brought out the LG Escape late last summer as a low-cost Android powered smartphone, sporting a better battery than usual and performance that you would not complain at a price which you paid for. Well, the FCC has just tested another device, which could very well be a Verizon version of the LG VS870. The LG Escape from AT&T is known as the P870, and the Verizon-bound version will offer support for the CDMA and LTE networks of Verizon.

It seems that this very handset has also made its way to the Wireless Power Consortium, which drops additional hints that Qi wireless charging capability will also be thrown into the mix. Having said that, we do wonder just what other goodies that the Verizon version will carry over the LG Escape from AT&T, and I guess we will just have to play the waiting game.

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