Martin Cooper, while working for Motorola, invented the first portable (as in you could carry it with you) mobile phone. In the video below he spends a little over half an hour and talks about spectral efficiency, explains how mobile phone networks work, what causes congestion, how to solve congestion, and the FCC’s upcoming plan…
Videos: What’s it going to be like to develop games for Windows Phone Series 7?
The 2010 Games Developers Conference is in full swing right now, and at the event Microsoft decided to reveal a little bit more information about Windows Phone Series 7, due to hit later this year. As the picture above shows, Microsoft is going to tightly control what goes inside devices running their latest mobile operating…
Android: Opera Mini 5 Beta released [Verdict: It’s actually not that good]
Opera Mini 5 Beta, one of my favorite mobile applications of all time, has come out for Google’s Android operating system. Usually I’d be thrilled about this, but after installing it this morning and having a go with it, I’m really disappointed. The font rendering is terrible compared to the default browser on my Nexus…
Review: Thoughts on the Google Nexus One, and Android, from a long time Nokia owner and Symbian user
I’ve been using the Google Nexus One exclusively since February 10th, and after one month of getting to know most, if not all, of the capabilities of my shiny new toy, I figure it’s time to share some thoughts about the device itself, and the software it runs. Now before you dive into this review,…
Video: What makes Samsung’s “Super OLED” special?
When Samsung announced the Wave at Mobile World Congress a little over 3 weeks ago, one of the things, probably the only thing, that excited us about the new device was the “super OLED” display. I put “super OLED” in quotes because it’s quite a terrible marketing term, and it makes bloggers, journalists, and analysts…
Ultrabrief: Status Update: How is the world’s first commercial LTE network doing? [Sweden]
In December 2009, Swedish mobile operator TeliaSonera launched the world’s first commercial LTE network. We covered one of the first speed tests, 37 ms ping time, 42.78 Mbps (5.3375 megabytes per second) download and 5.3 Mbps (0.6625 megabytes per second) upload, but less than a month later there was a blog post published that said…
Irony: Mobile phone companies paying land line (cable TV) companies to use their pipes to ease traffic
Thanks to the iPhone, which was hardly the first mobile phone that could access the internet, but had a marketing budget the size of Kazakhstan’s GDP, Apple showed the world that browsing on your mobile phone can be a pleasurable experience. The result however is that millions of Americans, at any given time, are trying…
Nokia files for self charging mobile phone patent [Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester]
Patent application 20,100,045,241 may just be one of the most important documents of this century. Filed on August 20, 2008 by Jari Olavi, a Nokia employee, this patent is for a mobile phone that charges itself not by solar energy, but by simple movement. Piezoelectric Kinetic Energy Harvester In a device according to at least…
Mobile World Congress 2010: I came, I saw, I walked away underwhelmed
Three weeks ago today I, and about 50,000 other people, walked through the two towers that stand at the entrance of the Fira de Barcelona and attended the first day of Mobile World Congress 2010. This was my second time at the show, and for some of my colleagues it was their third visit, so…
WiMAX subscribers up 75%, but Cisco decides to stop making WiMAX base stations, focus on packet core
WiMAX, the wireless standard that no one really takes seriously, and the butt of almost every joke at Mobile World Congress 2010, has 75% more users in 2009 compared to 2008 says Infonetics Research. Now “75% increase in subscribers” may make awesome headline material, but does 6.8 million subscribers, world wide, really mean anything in…