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Truphone launches shared international mobile plans for business
Truphone proudly announced its industry first shared international mobile service plans for data, text and voice. The new plans allow businesses with employees based abroad and with employees traveling internationally to share local minutes, messages and megabytes from a single bundle when in the so called “Truphone Zone.” The mentioned “Zone” includes the US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong and the Netherlands; with Germany, Poland and Spain “joining” later this year. In addition, Truphone promises business better call quality, a single voice and SMS mailbox, all combined with a “superior mobile … Read more
Dusan Belic
Verizon 4G LTE Now Available in Over 497 Markets, 95% of 3G Network
Verizon’s CTIA event was dominated by J Lo and the big announcement of the new, Latino focused Viva Movil Network. But they did drop an interesting tidbit early on. COO Marni Walden announced that Verizon’s 4G LTE network now covers 497 markets, which is 95% of its 3G network. Verizon’s stated goal is to cover 100% of its 3G network with 4G by the end of 2013, but the company’s on track to finish well before that. Full disclosure: I have Verizon and I’m (finally!) getting a 4G phone, so I’m … Read more
Wade Keye
China Mobile starting LTE trials next month
China Mobile is getting ready to trial its 4G service next month in Shanghai. Starting from June 1st, the world’s largest mobile operator will be inviting around 5,000 users to start testing the TD-LTE based service. As part of its preparations, China Mobile has built 1,000 base stations, 700 outdoors and 300 indoors, to cover the Inner Ring region. The whole city will get the coverage by the end of this year. Initially, the carrier will be offering handsets and modems from Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell and Datang Mobile, with … Read more
Dusan Belic
CTIA 2013: NVIDIA Tegra 4i Shows Off 150Mbps of Cat 4 LTE Goodness in Latest Demo
While it may take until next year until we see the first devices in North America with NVIDIA’s Tegra 4i processor, the company is showing great progress getting its latest SoC up and running with Category 4 LTE, hitting 150Mbps of data. Currently, Cat 4 LTE isn’t deployed on any carrier in the US, so the demo was essentially just a proof of concept. Through software optimizations only, NVIDIA has certainly been hard at work to ensure tha the Tegra 4i will be ready for Cat 4 LTE to entice … Read more
Blake Stimac
BT hits 5 million Wi-Fi hotspot
British Telecom announced that its Wi-Fi service is now available in more than 5 million hotspots across the UK and Ireland. The company has been adding over 20,000 new hotspots each week over the past year and is now offering unparalleled service to its Broadband customers who can access these hotspots for free while not at home. Users of other networks, on the other hand, have to pay a fee for access. UK’s leading landline provider saw more than 400 million connections across its Wi-Fi network in 2012/13 with latest … Read more
Dusan Belic
Bluetooth Smart Ready support coming to Android later in the year
Google announced that in the coming months Android will include native support for Bluetooth Smart Ready and Bluetooth Smart devices. Devices that come with a dual-mode Bluetooth chip will qualify as Bluetooth Smart Ready, allowing users to connect their phones to ultra power-efficient Bluetooth Smart accessories, like the FitBit Flex or the Pebble watch. Up until this point, handset makers had to develop their own Bluetooth stacks to make this possible, but now virtually all companies (not just the big players like Samsung, HTC and Motorola) making Android-based smartphones and … Read more
Dusan Belic
BT launching 4G LTE service next year
British Telecom is getting ready to return to the mobile game, almost 13 years after it sold off what is now O2. At the time BT was forced to consolidate its assets, opting to sell the company due to its heavy debts following the bursting of the telecoms bubble. Since then, the UK’s dominant landline network attempted a number of modest reseller agreements but never pushed hard to be a mobile service provider again. BT has recently paid $290 million to buy a block of 4G radio spectrum, with plans … Read more
Dusan Belic
There are now 100 million LTE connections around the world
According to latest data from Wireless Intelligence, there are now 100 million LTE connections around the world. All these connections are spread across 163 networks in 70 countries, and the forecast is that there will be more than 400 live networks across 120 countries by December 2017. Industry growth has been primarily driven by operators in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea and the US — which are the five countries that represent 90% of the global LTE connections market. The US is especially interesting market as there are some operators … Read more
Dusan Belic
Here’s what moms want for Mother’s Day
VoIP service provider Rebtel conducted a study to show what moms want for Mother’s Day and what their sons and daughters plan to do about it. Unsurprisingly, more than 90% of respondents who plan to get in touch with mom said they will use voice, with over a third expecting to talk for an hour or more. Here are the highlights: 60.7% of moms said they are expecting a call from their son or daughter this Mother’s Day.- 92.6% of U.S. adults who plan to get in touch with mom … Read more
Dusan Belic
Pelican Imaging gets fresh money from Nokia and Qualcomm; Nokia super-camera-phone coming soon?
Pelican Imaging, the company that makes unique array camera technology, has recently raised $20 million in additional funding from a number of investors including Qualcomm and Nokia. Moreover, the company has also confirmed that it is in talks with an unnamed handset manufacturer to deploy its lens-array. All said, we’re not surprised that folks all around the Interwebs are speculating that the “unnamed handset maker” could be Nokia. The Finns are already known for their camera technology having partnered with Carl Zeiss for quite a few phones in the past. … Read more
Dusan Belic
InvenSense unveils world’s smallest dual-axis gyroscopes for optical image stabilization, promises better camera performance in smartphones
InvenSense, which is the leading provider of MotionTracking devices, announced the IDG-2030 and IXZ-2030 dual-axis Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) gyroscopes. These components are made to eliminate the effects of hand jitter to achieve blur free images and jitter free HD video, especially in low light conditions. At 2.3×2.3×0.65mm, the IDG-2030 is the world’s smallest dual-axis gyroscopes for optical image stabilization, providing 41% footprint reduction, 28% lower profile and 50% lower power than the nearest competitor… That all sounds cool, but you may be wondering when we’ll see the first devices … Read more