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Sprint is America’s third largest operator and one of the few who still uses CDMA technology for voice and data. Several years ago, when it came time to think up a 4G strategy, instead of waiting for the LTE standard to become finalized they decided to back WiMAX. Hindsight is 20/20 and we know now…
Irish internet service provider Imagine is suing Motorola for roughly 90 million Euros for failing their contractual obligations. Motorola was supposed to erect 234 WiMAX base stations by the end of 2010, yet today there are only 125 up and running. Motorola is saying that after they got bought out by Nokia Siemens Networks it…
Hyper inflated bonuses are something you usually hear about when you see guys on Wall Street cashing in their checks, but these days it’s pretty much anyone with a high enough profile job. Take Sprint CEO Dan Hesse for instance. His bonus has been raised this year by $720,000 or nearly 18%, assuming he hits…
Our Norwegian friends at Opera Software have just announced that their Opera Mini web browser is coming to INQ’s lineup of mobile phones beginning this month. Some background for our readers in parts of the world other than the UK: INQ is a brand of mobile phones created by Hutchison Whampoa, better known as 3.…
There’s little doubt in anyone’s mind that one of the most popular category of applications amongst today’s smartphone toting populace are games. They’re useful for when you want to kill 5 minutes and they make your morning commute all the more enjoyable compared to say staring out the window while you listen to the same…
Smartphones are powerful and they let people do things today that seemed like science fiction just a decade ago, but all those capabilities come at a cost. The emerging markets, filled with people who are just now getting their first phone or people who can’t afford to spend more than say $100 on a device,…
If you work for a large company then chances are you use iPass. It’s like Boingo, but for professionals. Recently iPass surveyed over 3,500 of their users, working in 1,100 companies world wide, and found that 27% of them are already using a tablet device, the most common of which being an iPad. For a…
Forget about the iPhone ruining an operator’s billion dollar network thanks to hipsters overusing Instagram to share with the world what type of beer they’re drinking with their sushi lunches, this past Sunday all it took were a couple of crooked thieves breaking into one of Vodafone’s UK data facilities to knock out service to…
Sony has just announced their latest creation in the field of camera sensors for mobile phones and this puppy is single handedly redefining what advanced technology is capable of achieving. When it comes to snapping stills, it’ll do 17.7 megapixels worth, which doesn’t really mean much these days since we all know more pixels don’t…
There are, sadly, still parts of the world where operators think they somehow own the consumer and know what’s best for them in terms of which handsets to offer and which set of software and services to back. China Unicom is one such operator, and while they’re relatively small compared to the massive China Mobile,…