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China Mobile, the largest operator in the world based on number on subscribers, something to the tune of 584 million people as of December of last year, has said that they’re planning to test TD-LTE in the cities of Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen and Beijing over the course of this year. They hope…
The iPhone 4 ships in 2 sizes: 16 GB and 32 GB. It’s also supposed to ship in two colors, but let’s forget about that for now. For most of us the 16 GB version is just fine since we don’t carry around that music with us while we’re on the go. Thanks to streaming…
When it comes to mobile it’s typically been the case that Western Europe has acted as a bellwether for trends that the rest of the world would soon adopt. The iPhone challenged that notion slightly, giving the United States an outward appearance as being technically advanced, but the robust networks and cheaper phone bills over…
Remember the last time you sat a desk with a pen in your hand, an empty sheet of paper in front of you, and a head full of thoughts you’ve been struggling to express to a friend or loved one? Writing, in the traditional sense, may be dying, but that doesn’t mean the technology behind…
Qualcomm’s Chief Financial Officer, Bill Keitel, told an audience at the Morgan Stanley Tech, Media & Telecom Conference that during the first fiscal quarter of 2011 they achieved operating margins of roughly 30% on chipsets. That figure is going to dive down to somewhere between 22% and 24% by the end of this year and…
While operators in many developed markets are starting to kill off their unlimited data plans in an effort to stop people from bringing down the multi billion dollar networks that they’re built without a full appreciation of what smartphones are capable of, UK operator 3 is opting to walk down a different path. Last December…
Today Nokia has announced the X1-00, a device that’s aimed at the ultra low end of the market. It’s going to cost roughly $50 when it comes out in Q2 of this year and what makes it special is the gargantuan speaker on the back. It’s rated at 106 phon, which doesn’t mean anything to…
Of all of Nokia’s problems, and there are many, the one that stands out the most is their lack of presence in the United States. For years we’ve been hearing the Finnish firm proclaim that North America is important and that they’re working hard to bring their devices across the pond, and yet the only…
Building a wireless network isn’t easy. You need to purchase spectrum from the government, get a sizable loan from the bank, go to an infrastructure provider like Ericsson or Nokia Siemens networks and sign some contracts, and then you need to start all sorts of advertising campaigns and may even have to open up a…
South Korean handset vendor LG has recently said that they’re working on making their own smartphone chips. Instead of buying a Tegra 2 from NVIDIA, OMAP 4 from Texas Instruments, or Snapdragon from Qualcomm, they’re going to go at it alone and will most likely slap together a few cores from ARM and a GPU…