The BlackBerry Storm’s rose to the top of the smartphone charts despite being burdened by an awkward press-to-click touchscreen mechanism. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion calls this technology “SurePress.” All I’m sure about is that it was a half-baked band-aid feature aimed at convincing the consuming public that BlackBerry smartphones could innovate on the touchscreen…
AT&T ups the ante with 3G network upgrades
In the mobile world, if you’re standing still, you’re dead in the water. With their main rival Verizon Wireless already making moves to deploy its 4G LTE network in a couple years, AT&T has announced that it is finally getting ready to upgrade their 3G network for faster speeds. As expected, AT&T says that it…
Ericsson and TeliaSonera deliver commercial LTE!
3G.co.uk is reporting that Ericsson and TeliaSonera have announced an apparent world first of a commercial LTE deployment, in Stockholm, Sweden. As you probably know, LTE is being touted as THE 4G wireless tech, allowing such kerrazy things as TV and video consumption on the move! The go-live should be in 2010, and bring…
How much wireless crossover do you have at home?
Walls, bricks, mobile devices, and WiFi networks – a good mixture of stuff, not all of which plays nice together…. I’ve recently been re-architecting my home network, so that all of my mobile devices (and in those include laptop and netbook, since they are portable) can access a network easily, no matter where I am…
Virgin America Now Offers Fleetwide In-Flight Wi-Fi
As promised, all 100 of their daily U.S. flights now have full Wi-Fi service courtesy of Gogo. If you’re doing any travelling from San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., Seattle, Las Vegas, San Diego, Boston or Orange County, hit up Virgin America to experience the sheer awesomeness of in-flight Wi-Fi on whatever mobile…
Skype Begins Closed Beta for BlackBerry
As expected, Skype is working on getting their voice-over-IP app onto BlackBerry after having a successful (if bumpy) run on the iPhone. The closed beta is all full for now, but it likely won’t take long for it to open up to the general public. We can only hope that the same issues with carriers…
Clearwire posts $71M Q1 2009 loss despite growth
Clearwire’s push to become the first nationwide mobile WiMAX carrier in the US has apparently put a dent in the company’s finances. Despite adding 25,000 new customers in Q1 2009, bringing Clearwire’s subscriber-base to a cool half-million (500,000) customers, Clearwire has posted a $71 million loss for the first quarter of 2009. Still, the fiscal…
3UK pushes free Skype-to-Skype calls
I reported recently on the news that 3 were to offer free Skype-to-Skype calls – well now they are promo-ing it heavily, with the help of Skype! The email I received (see pic above) carries quite a bold claim – but then again, free Skype calls on Pre-pay handsets, without needing to top up ever, …
Clearwire taps Cisco as WiMAX network infrastructure partner
Clearwire is working to get their 4G WiMAX network up to nationwide status before year’s end. We’re all still waiting to see if a coast-to-coast WiMAX network has what it takes to compete with HSPA+ and LTE data networks planned by the likes of AT&T and Verizon Wireless for the near future. To that end,…
Verizon Wireless pushing hard for LTE
Verizon Wireless isn’t going to stand idly by while AT&T flips the switch on its 20+ Mbps HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) wireless network. Verizon, unlike AT&T, doesn’t enjoy the convenience of upgrading its 3G HSPA network to the faster 3.5G HSPA+ standard. As such, the company is making a big push to get its 4G LTE…