Say what you will about how innovative the mobile telecommunications industry is, but these past two to three years have been so boring and uneventful that I may as well have asked my doctor for some Ambien and a few barbiturates, you know, for the weekend. The Nokia N95, when it came out in the…
Rumor: AT&T will lose iPhone exclusivity on Wednesday [iTablet/iSlate/iPad day]
An “inside source”, which we all know is about as trustworthy as a 30 year old woman living on the streets with an addiction to crystal meth, has told Hot Hardware that on Wednesday, the day Apple is going hold an event and finally bring to orgasm all the Apple Tablet fanbois after one of…
Brief: Motorola complaining to the U.S. International Trade Commission about 5 patents RIM violated
Today Motorola filed a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission against Research in Motion. Motorola is accusing RIM of violating 5 patents that have to do with Wi-Fi, user interfaces, application management, and power management, among other things. They’re trying to get a U.S. ban on RIM products. Good luck with that. Full press…
PotD: Percentage of U.S. children, across various age ranges, who own mobile phones
While not really a picture of the day, more like a chart of day, here is what mobile phone ownership looks like for American children between the ages of 6 and 11 and how that figure has changed between 2005 and 2009. The sample size is 5,000. Note how the largest jump in mobile phone…
Ericsson equipment powers the new 84 Mbps network offered by 3 in Denmark and Sweden
TeliaSonera was the first operator in the world to launch an LTE network, albeit with coverage limited to the cities of Stockholm and Oslo. They did it to offer their customers more speed, lower latency, and because it makes them look good, from a marketing perspective, to be “the first”. Hutchison Whampoa, better known as…
Analyst: AT&T needs to blow about $5 billion on their wireless network to make it not suck
“Spend or suffer” is what AT&T needs to do in order to survive the the damage that Apple has done to their network says Gerard Hallaren, Director of Research at TownHall Investment. He estimates that the company needs to spend around $5 billion on their wireless network to catch up to where Verizon is today.…
Ultrabrief: Palm to be at the Game Developers Conference, getting serious about gaming
News via Derek Kessler at Pre|Central that Palm will be at the Game Developers Conference which takes place in March. They’ll be holding a 60 minute presentation titled “An Overview to Creating Games with Palm’s Plug-in Development Kit (PDK)” that has the following description: Come learn how to take full advantage of the advanced hardware…
Video: Micello, because American shopping malls are so big, you need a map to find the Cinnabon
In 2009 Nokia offered an application for people in Finland who visited the Kamppi shopping center. The app let them see where they were inside the building, and helped them navigate to the stores that had the stuff they wanted. The experiment was declared a “success” because over 15,000 people ended up trying it, a…
Nokia looking for American methamphetamine users to bring out the full potential of the N900
One would think that a press release, written by a multinational multibillion dollar company, would have been screened for spelling mistakes before being published. That wasn’t the case this morning: Nokia competition challenges US tweekers and modders to imagine new possibilities for Nokia N900 “Nokia PUSH N900 MOD IN THE USA” Call for Entries –…
Video: Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus has some extra horsepower compared to Sprint’s Pre
The Verizon Palm Pre Plus has twice the RAM as Sprint’s Pre, double the storage space, and it lacks a home key. What sort of performance improvement can Verizon customers expect with all that RAM? In this video, done by Dieter Bohn from Pre|Central, he demonstrates how on Sprint’s Pre he can only run 13…