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With more and more households ditching landlines, the concept of a phone number attached to an address is also being abandoned. Swedish operator “3” is trying to preserve the past by giving up to 9 people the option to be contacted in one of three ways with their new service dubbed “3Hemnummer Familj”. The first…
Verizon has launched what’s probably the world’s first dual mode portable hotspot. They’re calling it the Fivespot because it gives up to 5 devices a WiFi connection. If you’re not familiar with portable hotspots, they’re a remarkably simple concept. Instead of device manufacturers having to shove SIM card slots in anything and everything they want…
Sharp has just announced the IS03, an Android smartphone for the Japanese market that we’re desperately hoping to see on European and American shores. It’s got the same 3.5 inch 640 x 960 pixel resolution display that’s found in the iPhone 4, and also features a 9.6 megapixel camera. Sure, it’s only running Android 2.1,…
Everything Everywhere, the name of the merged entity that’s one part T-Mobile UK and another part Orange UK, has announced that they’re going to let go around 1,200 people or roughly 7.5% of the company. Many of the people getting the boot had consumer facing roles, so you can imagine it’s all the redundant dead…
Japan’s UQ Communications is showing off a demo of Samsung’s WiMAX 2 technology at a local trade show and is achieving download speeds of roughly 330 Mbps. That’s bananas, but it also seems like a waste, much like Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), the standard that Qualcomm was developing as a competitor to LTE until they…
According to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology the sentence “Where are you?” is the most commonly sent text message. I’ve got no problems believing that. They thought to themselves then, what’s the easiest way to get people to share their location? There are services like Gowalla or Foursquare that turn your location into a…
Verizon Wireless, America’s largest operator with the best network, but also an operator known for nickel and dime-ing their customers and tweaking the software on their smartphones to make them worse than how they left the factory, is going to be issuing 15 million customers a refund over the next two months. Each subscriber will…
MetroPCS, one of America’s smaller operators, and one who until now has been using CDMA technology, has launched LTE in the Dallas Forth Worth Texas area. It becomes the second market in the United States to get the next generation of mobile broadband, the first being Las Vegas. Now while LTE sounds cool, and trust…
Finland, Finland, Finland, country where I want to be! Wait a minute … I’ve been here for 3 years now! I’ve also only used Nokia devices until this February when I switched to Android after buying a Nexus One. The only reason I own an Android device and not an iPhone, and I’m serious when…
The iPhone 4 that we all know and love (or hate) is actually called iPhone 3.1 when referenced in firmware files. Don’t ask me why, I’m not an Apple Engineer. That being said, the latest firmware for Apple’s TV product shows support for three additional Apple products that we’ve yet to see: iPhone 3.2, 3.3,…