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Survey shows one third of Chinese 3G buyers prefer iPhone

Published on: 8th April, 2011

According to a recent AlphaWise/Morgan Stanley survey, Apple is managing quite well in the phone industry in China. Among the 2,029 Chinese users of cellphones interviewed in February and March, 88 percent claimed they would buy a smartphone as their next phone. Thirty percent of the group intending to acquire a 3G phone declared they [...]

FCC official says AT&T and T-Mobile merger has to significantly change

Published on: 28th March, 2011

As an anonymous official from FCC recently declared, the proposed AT&T buyout of T-Mobile should be drastically changed in order to be eventually approved. He mentioned that the deal had not yet been formally investigated but he was sure that FCC’s president Julius Genachowski would require some conditions or would simply ban the deal. The [...]

UK’s biggest spectrum auction to expand 4G services

Published on: 24th March, 2011

The UK is apparently preparing the largest spectrum auction ever this will include bands spreading across 250MHz of spectrum, no longer used by television broadcasters. Ofcom, the wireless regulation authority, seems to currently be working to finalize a strategy which will guarantee the spectrum is distributed among a minimum of four competing networks. In order [...]

Study reveals changes in brain activity in proximity of cellphone antennas

Published on: 27th February, 2011

A recent study is said to have found that signals from cellphone antennas produce a measurable alteration in brain activity when the antenna is situated in proximity of the user’s head. The study, conducted by the National Institutes of Health and Brookhaven National Laboratory, did not aim to estimate potential negative effects due to electromagnetic [...]

Bug Labs and AT&T in partnership on ready-to-run modules

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

AT&T and Bug Labs just announced to be partners in a project that is meant to allow developers to buy network ready BUGmodules with AT&T certification. They are supposed to work out of the box on the network of AT&T once developers will put the devices together. The first Connection Kit of AT&T, named BUG [...]

Microsoft would not have CDMA Windows Phone 7 ready until 2011

Published on: 22nd September, 2010

As Microsoft explained, its decision to drop Verizon at launch for its Windows Phone 7 was only a matter of concentration of resources. Greg Sullivan, senior product lead, said that the company had to focus on GSM only until the first part of 2011 in order to make sure the launch would go smoothly. Like [...]

Motorola Milestone 2 confirmed by accident through promotional video

Published on: 2nd September, 2010

Essentially a GSM version of the Droid 2, the Motorola Milestone 2 phone has appeared accidentally in a promotional video material which has been posted on YouTube, but since then has been made private. The Milestone 2 handset will reach the German market, as well as other markets, but there is no information regarding the [...]

New technology from Nokia Siemens could provide more 3G data bandwidth

Published on: 9th August, 2010

Nokia Siemens Networks has recently presented a technology that would probably lessen data crunch at certain carriers. DFCA (Dynamic Frequency and Channel Allocation) operates a reduction of the needed amount of bandwidth a GSM call requires in order to work. This approach results either in doubling the space for the conventional type of voice calls [...]

Samsung’s new Bada Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Taking advantage of the CommunicAsia event, Samsung has announced the addition of two new Bada based handsets – Wave 2 and Wave 2 Pro (S5250 and S5330). The two devices are lower-cost alternatives to the company’s Wave flagship; they benefit from smaller 3.2-inch LCDs (instead of the 4-inch Super AMOLED) and from three-megapixel cameras, but [...]

GSM SIM unlock for the Palm Pre

Published on: 24th April, 2010

The Palm Pre gets an unofficial SIM unlock developed by a member of the PreCentral forum. The unlock is now on sale and is priced at the equivalent of $38, but other purchasing options are also available. It is permanent and is not affected by webOS software updates. It consists in the removal of network [...]

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