China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G networks haven’t seen much in the way of adoption, but with the Ministry of Industry of Information opening up licenses and some $41 billion-worth of equipment purchacing in technologies, local carriers have a shot at really pushing wireless data services. China Mobile is already hooked into TD-SCDMA, but China Unicom will…
Samsung Working with WiMAX and LTE Chips
HTC was the first manufacturer to make the WiMAX dive, but Samsung isn’t far behind by the sounds of it. Supposedly in an effort to slip out of paying Qualcomm royalties, Samsung is working on including WiMAX and LTE chips from Broadcom and Infineon in upcoming handsets. Korea already saw a few WiBro devices from…
UK Railways Adopt a Single Format for Mobile Ticket Barcodes
The various UK railway operators have settled on a single standard for mobile-based barcode tickets. The agreement means that a single, common, secure barcode system will be implemented, and also that a single mobile ticket will be able to be used across operators – a major step forward. The new standard, RSPS3001, means that there…
Ericsson and Intel collaborate to create anti-theft mobile broadband modules in Laptops
Ericsson announced today that it is collaborating with Intel to ensure that Ericsson’s Mobile Broadband Modules are interoperable with Intel® Anti-Theft PC Protection Technology for notebooks to offer a secure and reliable anti-theft solution for mobile broadband users. The collaboration addresses solutions to minimize the negative consequences when notebooks are lost or stolen, and in…
WiBro voice calls coming to South Korea, WiMAX networks in 2009
Sprint may have spearheaded the use of WiMAX-based mobile broadband services in the US, but the tech-heads in South Korea have been using WiMAX networks, known on that side of the Pacific as “WiBro” (Wireless Broadband), for years now. WiMAX networks promise high-speed wireless data transfers but have traditionally fallen short of providing voice call…
Latest Nokia patent suggests we may see a four-way folding Communicator
Nokia may be onto something or at least their latest patent filling suggests so. What we have here is a weird looking phone, which sports kinda bizarre four-way folding mechanism, as you can see from the image above. Scrap that, the patent says there are “at least four device parts,” hinting us we could see…
New Technology Promises to Extend Bettery Life 12 Times
Emerging battery technologies have been slipping out here and there, but this is the biggest leap we’ve heard in awhile. The study comes out of Carleton University’s Atif Shamim, who has proposed to cut all the wires from the antenna, potentially increasing power efficient twelve times over. “This has not been tried before — that…
NFC Could Hit Primetime Following Regulation
The GSM Association has recently settled on a common format (single wire protocol) for near-field communications, opening the gates for many manufacturers to start incorporating NFC chips into their mobiles as early as the second half of 2009. Credit cards are already testing the waters for wireless transactions, but cell phones have yet to make…
Sprint Shows Off CDMA/WiMAX Dual-Mode Modem
Sprint and Clearwire have been cleared to go forth with their plans to build-out a national WiMAX wireless network, and it’s only a matter of time before WiMAX modems start to flood the market. The first such device is a dual-mode CDMA/WiMAX modem. Sprint, a 51 percent majority owner in Clearwire, has announced their new…
DoCoMo Readies MIMO LSI Chip to Meet LTE Standards
Put on your engineering caps, it’s time for acronyms. Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has announced that they’re entering trial stages for a new large-scale integration chip which will meet next generation Long Term Evolution standards using Multiple Input/Multiple Output technologies to achieve target speeds. “What the hell did he just say?” “I don’t know.” “Well…