Verizon Wireless won the 700 MHz wireless auction a little over 2 years ago, and since then they’ve been working their tails off trying to get ready to launch LTE by the end of this year. They promise to cover 100 million Americans by Christmas. In order to do that, common sense says they’re going…
iPhone HD (aka iPhone 4, aka the next iPhone) confirmed to have Apple A4 chip inside
Earlier today we caught a glimpse of an iPhone HD that ended up in Vietnam. How that happened is anyone’s guess, we’re just amused that Steve Jobs is having a hard time keeping his precious little toys a secret. Compared to the iPhone 4G that Gizmodo picked up for $5 thousand, this model looks more…
Video: Verizon shows off LTE in Boston at a pizza shop, hits 8.55 Mbps down, 2.80 Mbps up
The world’s first commercial LTE network went up simultaneously in Stockholm and Oslo, courtesy of TeliaSonera, and while we’ve been salivating over their 30 megabit per second download and 5 megabit per upload connections for a while now, we’ve been waiting to hear what sorts of speeds are going to show up on American shores.…
Orange and T-Mobile joint venture to be called “Everything Everywhere”, yet the old brands live on
Orange UK and T-Mobile UK merged last September, and in the 8 months that have since passed, with countless numbers of logistical problems and technical issues hopefully resolved, the best name they’ve managed to pull out of a hat for their combined massive network is “Everything Everywhere”. The logo isn’t very inspiring, and the name…
Nokia has yet another corporate reorganization, this time they’ve put Anssi Vanjoki back in charge
Ask any Nokia employee about their main frustrations with the company, and you’re not going to hear some sob story about the iPhone, or job cuts, but instead you’ll get an ear full about the yearly game of musical chairs. Some people are lucky enough to do the same job they’ve been doing all along,…
Video: Flash 10.1 demoed on a Google Nexus One running Android 2.2 aka FroYo
FroYo, the codename for the 2.2 release of Android, promises to have built in support for Adobe’s Flash, so we’re happy when we see videos like this one hit the net that show Google delivering on their word. What you’re watching above is Adobe Evangelist Ryan Stewart showing us a few of the sites he…
Finnish Statistics: 89% of the population uses a Nokia, 1 in 50 people have the N95
A report [PDF file] has surfaced from the “oh really, you had to pay someone to figure this out?” department at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology that gives a good amount of detail as to the make up of the Finnish mobile handset space. Unsurprisingly, Antti Riikonen, one of the researchers on…
Nokia sues Apple in the state of Wisconsin over 5 patents that the iPhone and iPad 3G infringe
Breaking News: Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of Nokia patents Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging that Apple iPhone and iPad 3G products infringe five important Nokia patents. The patents in question relate…
Intel announces new chips that fit into smartphones, but it’s doubtful that’ll happen any time soon
Intel has just announced the “Z6xx Series” family of Atom chips. It’s a 45 nm system on chip that combines a vanilla x86 core, accelerated graphics, video decoding and encoding, as well as memory and display controllers. You combine it with another chip called the MP20, and a dedicated Mixed Signal IC, and you can…
TD-LTE interoperability between Nokia Siemens gear and Samsung USB dongle tested; it works
TD-LTE is a form of LTE technology you’re not going to be hearing much of in the USA or Europe, or even most parts of Asia. It’s meant for China, a country that has more than 776 million mobile subscribers, or more than 2 mobile phones for every man woman and child in the United…