Rogers has expanded their HSPA+ coverage to Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, following up on their announcement last summer. Since then, 21 Mbps mobile broadband has been made available in most of the major cities across Canada, including Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, Halifax, Edmonton, Quebec City, and lots more. The expansion competes with Bell and…
TD-LTE interoperability between Nokia Siemens gear and Samsung USB dongle tested; it works
TD-LTE is a form of LTE technology you’re not going to be hearing much of in the USA or Europe, or even most parts of Asia. It’s meant for China, a country that has more than 776 million mobile subscribers, or more than 2 mobile phones for every man woman and child in the United…
TeliaSonera LTE Status Update: People love speed and 43% of our customers use an iPhone
TeliaSonera’s LTE network in Sweden and Norway is being looked at by many of the world’s operators simply due to the fact that they were the first to market. All this talk of LTE being something that’ll come by the end of this year, or 2011, or even further away, means nothing to people living…
Push to Talk Free on Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 Until July 30
Late last month, Verizon tried selling Push to Talk for $5/month, but today they’ve decided they’d rather give it away, for some reason. The offer is good until June 30th., and lasts the whole length of the contract. Although lots of customers who have the phone already might as well pick up the free service,…
ABI Research: 487 million people will get HD-quality mobile voice in 2015
According to the latest report from ABI Research, about 487 million mobile subscribers will use HD-enabled handsets in 2015. That may sound somewhat strange considering this market is virtually nonexistent today. ABI argues that growth is expected to ramp up quickly in 2013, and then skyrocket starting in 2014. Initially, it will be mobile phone…
Android SDK for Zeemote Game Controller Announced
Zeemote makes this really cool Wii nunchuk-like gaming peripheral for mobile, that until now only worked with BlackBerry, Symbian and lower-end J2ME phones. Well, they’ve moved on to a platform slightly more capable of handling gaming apps: Android. There were worries that Zeemote would be going out of business until they got acquired, and honestly,…
Near Field Communication to hit Android phones
Apple’s new patent for Near Field Communication (iTravel) will enable users to purchase e-tickets for certain events right from their device. While Apple is busy polishing up the capability for the iPhone, it looks like Android may have it out and ready before anyone else. Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range high-frequency wireless communication…
RIM’s Mobile Voice System 5 brings calling over WiFi
If you haven’t heard about Mobile Voice System 5, don’t feel too bad because it’s a calling service aimed at big businesses. What’s important for us desk jockeys is that the latest version will enable full desktop phone features on your BlackBerry, including making calls over WiFi. The service integrates with your company’s PBX calling…
INSIDE Contactless fully opens the Open NFC protocol stack via SourceForge.net
In a move that should spur the adoption of NFC contactless technologies, INSIDE Contactless is making the Open NFC protocol stack more widely available, placing the full source code and full API documentation on SourceForge.net for free download! The source code for the core Open NFC version 3.5 software — including Android, Windows Mobile, Linux…
Google Nexus One gets 802.11n!
If you watch the video above, you’ll see that some enterprising tinkerers have been able to utilize 802.11n WiFi on the Nexus One. The Broadcom wireless chip inside Google’s “superphone” has always been capable of 802.11n but updated drivers released by Google and the chip maker have enabled some to utilize this quicker connection. How?…