The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has just announced that Bluetooth 4.0 is “ready to roll” (odd considering they say the standard will not be finalized until the end of Q2) and that devices using the new specification will be on the market by the end of this year. What’s new in Bluetooth 4.0? It’s basically…
Denmark to get LTE in a few months via TDC, customers told to expect 15 Mbps downloads
Northern Europe is where all the advanced evolution of telecommunications takes place. I have a theory on this, and it isn’t because Ericsson is Swedish, but it’s because the weather is absolutely terrible for half the year so therefore one must invest in having the best download speeds possible, to pirate all those movies you’d…
54% of American teens text everyday; 33% use over 100 texts per day
Here’s a shocker: teenagers love to text each other. Thanks to every operator in the nation offering unlimited text message packages for a nominal monthly fee, text message use has sky rocketed among teenagers. In a recent study done by the Pew Research Center that involved a sample of 800 teens between 12 and 18…
Is Apple doing the mobile industry yet another favor by making the next iPhone require a microSIM?
Ask a large crowd of people what they think about the Apple iPhone, and you’ll get answers that stretch the entire width of human emotion. Your mother loves it because it’s the first phone she can actually use without having to call you every other day and ask for help. Your geeky friend who runs…
An iPhone prototype has gone missing, and one of the world’s most read tech blogs found it
From one technology blog writer to another, I salut you Gizmodo on what’s probably going to be labeled the biggest scoop our industry (glorifying unhealthy levels of obsession over gadgets) will see this year. They’ve somehow managed to get a hold of an iPhone prototype that was found in a bar in Redwood City, California.…
Sony Ericsson Q1 2010: $28.4 million profit, 10.5 million phones shipped, average price: $180
Sony Ericsson’s Q1 2010 financial results are out, the first of many large mobile telecommunications companies we’re going to hear about over the next 2 weeks, and they’re packed with good news. While analysts were predicting the company would be losing $173 million, they actually made some cheese, $28.4 million. That’s the first profit Sony…
MeeGo 1.0 shown off in Beijing, China [Your mobile phone will not look like this, neither will Maemo]
Earlier this year, at Mobile World Congress in February, Intel and Nokia announced that they were going to merge their Mobiln and Maemo projects together and form MeeGo. This hodge podge of operating systems, one meant for x86 based netbooks, the other for ARM based mobile phones, would be managed by the Linux Foundation and…
Opera Mini for iPhone downloaded over 1 million times in 24 hours, top app in 22 countries
Opera Mini for the iPhone, regardless of whether you sit on the side of the fence that likes it or not, is proving to be quite popular. The application only came out a few days ago, yet it was downloaded by 1,023,380 users in 24 hours. In 22 countries, including the USA, USA, France, Germany…
Judge splits Nokia vs. Apple case into three separate trials, each to take place in 2012
Nokia vs. Apple, here’s what you need to know: big companies have big teams of lawyers who get together every Friday night to play poker. Those lawyers use patents as bargaining chips. The more patents you have, the more leverage you have in screwing the other guy and staying in the game longer. Simple as…
Interview: Talking mobile broadband with Dean Bubley [LTE, HSPA+, and the real iPhone 4G]
Mobile broadband is something you’re hearing a lot about today, partially due to the iPhone and Facebook, but mainly due to the fact that operators are finally starting to offer devices and tariffs at the right price point that are conducive to increased service adoption. Many operators have also recently starting upgrading their networks, or…