Get a spoon ready, because I’m about to serve you a hot bowl of abbreviated industry jargon. We all want better mobile phone service. Doesn’t matter if you’re from America, Britain, Europe or Asia, you want to have signal everywhere you go and you want to be able to browse the web without having to…
Analyst: By 2014 there will be 230,000 cell towers powered by solar or wind power
The analysts over at In-Stat are predicting that by 2014 there will be roughly a quarter of a million cell towers powered by wind or solar energy. In the developed world, and by that I mean places where you can get McDonald’s and broadband, operators simply plug their towers into an electrical outlet, much like…
Nokia to add “Solutions Unit” to their corporate structure on October 1
To grossly simplify Nokia’s current corporate structure, there is a devices unit that make phones, a services unit that make everything related to Ovi, and a sales unit that spends an insane amount of money to market the hell out of everything Nokia does. On October 1st, a new unit is going to open up…
Nokia just became PayPal with the launch of Nokia Money; built on top of Obopay
Nokia just announced “Nokia Money” which will be shown off next week at Nokia World. We told you about the Nokia Money trademark a little over a month ago, and it looks like the service is going to launch some time early next year. Similar to how Nokia purchased Twango and rebranded it Ovi Share,…
Video: Popular Mechanics manages to kill a Sonim handset
A few months ago I showed you a video with my buddy Dan Lane abusing, sodomizing, and molesting a Sonim handset in an attempt to break it. He failed. Sonim handsets are known to be built like tanks and can withstand practically any type of accident, except for being dropped in an active volcano, which…
Real world LTE tests done in Austria with 20 cell towers: 4.4 megabytes/sec down, 21 ms ping
T-Mobile has been performing a few real world LTE tests in Vienna, Austria (not the city of Fucking, Austria) to get a better idea of what the technology is capable of. It’s one thing to setup a single LTE tower and then be the only one connected to it, giving you ungodly results of over…
Brief: Nokia Booklet 3G to come out in early 2010, ARM based version a bit later?
Digitimes, the site that either gets things remarkably right, or totally wrong, has a rumor from a couple of Taiwanese handset makers that the Finnish company is planning on making a smartbook (defined as a netbook, but with an ARM processor) and will release it in 2010. They also claim that the Booklet 3G will…
Video: New report about mobile phones causing brain tumors released; video shot on a mobile phone
A new study called “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone” (what the fuck is an Interphone?!) was published yesterday by the EM Radiation Research Trust. They prepared the video below to gather up support for their cause, which is apparently to scare the living hell out…
Video: New T-Mobile myTouch commercial taps America’s obsession with celebrities
I never fully understood why the American people love celebrities so much. They’re people just like me and you. They have problems, they eat food, they take their pants off in the morning and take a stinky dump. This didn’t stop T-Mobile USA from asking paying Whoopi Goldberg, Phil Jackson and Jessie James to do…
Brief: LG sells over 1 million Arena (LG-KM900) units in a little over 5 months
The LG Arena, which was announced at Mobile World Congress back in February of this year, then launched in Europe a month later, has sold over 1 million units. Just a mental refresher in case you forgot the specifications: 3 inch 800 x 480 pixel resolution display, 5 megapixel camera, 105.9 x 55.3 x 12…