Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has just launched their “High-Performance Site Solution”. It’s basically a cell tower on steroids. In the photo above, what looks like a triangle on a stick, that’s a cell tower. Each tip of that triangle blasts cellular waves into the air and gives customers the ability to call their mother or…
Nokia, plus almost every major international operator, agree on a standard for voice + SMS over LTE
LTE, Long Term Evolution, 4G, whatever you want to call it, was designed to be a complete IP based system. Many of you may be surprised to hear this, but when LTE became a standard, it only supported data. That’s right, 4th generation networks didn’t have an interoperable standard for voice and SMS. Several solutions…
Nokia launches the 1280, 1616, 1800, 2200 Slide, and 2690: Prices range from $30 to $80
While Apple’s iPhone, Nokia’s N97 and HTC’s various Windows Mobile and Android powered devices win the hearts and minds of the technofiend journalists covering the mobile space, there are a class of devices, ultra low end devices, that are responsible for bringing progress to nations and an optimism toward the future that today’s smartphones simply…
Analyst: Over half of Europeans want their next mobile phone to have a touch screen
Analysts at Canalys (does that rhyme?) conducted a survey with over 3,000 people spread out over France, Germany and the United Kingdom to find out how large of an impact touch screen devices are having on Western Europe. The results speak for themselves: 38% want their next mobile phone to be finger touch enabled and…
Android powered Dell Mini 3iX: Like the Chinese version, but with WiFi, 3G and a fistfull of mushrooms
The Dell Mini 3i, which launched this summer in China, has gone all Marvel Comics on us and joined the X-Men. The Dell Mini 3iX is the exact same device aesthetically, but instead of running oPhone, the Chinese version of Google Android, this puppy runs good old fashioned Android, albeit with a crazy skin. Not…
Polish operator Sferia first to launch HSPA+ on the 900 MHz band
Poland, a country that has been battling with Russia for years now over who invented the delicious beverage known as Vodka, achieved a world first today. Sferia, a local operator, in conjunction with Chinese infrastructure equipment supplier Huawei launched the first HSPA+ network to operate on the 900 MHz band. While Europe has been known…
Breaking: Nokia Siemens Networks: We’re looking to fire about 5,000 people pretty soon
Nokia Siemens Networks, who was the number one reason Nokia posted their first loss in a decade in Q3 2009, is going to be cutting costs and reorganizing starting January 1, 2010. The goal is to cut operating costs for 2011 by half a billion Euros compared to 2009. Currently NSN has 5 business units,…
Rumour: Photo of the 4th generation iPhone’s midboard
China Ontrade, the company that supplied photos of the SIM card tray from the 4th generation iPhone last week, is now bringing out the real meat and potatoes: a photo of the midboard. What is a midboard? It’s literally the board that lays in the middle between the screen of the iPhone and the motherboard,…
Video: Opera Mobile 10 Beta being demoed on a Nokia N97
Waking up and receiving good news doesn’t happen often enough, so when I opened my crusty teared eyes at 10 in the morning (Helsinki time) and got this press release in the mail, I hit the roof. Opera, the Norwegian company we all love, makers of the Opera desktop browser, Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile,…
Video: Mozilla Firefox for Maemo Beta 4 running on a Nokia N900
Jay Sullivan, Vice President of Mobile at Mozilla, runs through Firefox for Maemo on the Nokia N900 in the video below and shows off how tabs work, the “awesome bar”, and extensions. You may be asking yourself what’s the point of Mozilla building Firefox for Mobile? WebKit has the largest share of the mobile browser…