All Posts Tagged With: "3G"
Not exactly a mobile story, but falling more into that camp that not – Orange gets shiny new ASUS EeePC with an embedded 3G SIM.
Joining many many other fine carriers, Orange has now announced another computer with internet access, provided by them.
The netbook comes along at the princely sum of £25 per month, with a [...]
Another day, another USB dongle arrives only this time it’s from Vodafone and has an integrated 4GB in the form of a removable microSD card.
Running on from the theory of ‘why take two bottles into the shower’, they built in a slot for the accompanying memory card. Saving in the [...]
Continue ReadingSince we published the 3G video calling demonstration segment back in the Week 39 show, we’ve had a ton of positive feedback.
So much so that we’ve put the segment into it’s own mini-show. It shows Dan Lane (using 3) video-calling James Whatley (using Vodafone) calling each other.
We were rather surprised at the positive [...]
I parted company with £69.99 today to purchase Three’s 3G / WiFi router, the Huawei D100. I wish I hadn’t.
I’ve used it for an hour and decided it’s going back to the shop. I may just throw it through the door and hurl abuse, but I hope to have calmed down enough to go in [...]
Continue ReadingContinuing with its game of Cat and Mouse, Apple has seeded a beta build of the firmware version 2.2 for the iPhone to its developers recently. However, unlike the previously seeded builds, this one was seeded with only “compatibility testing” in the release notes.
Even though Apple cleverly avoided any mention of bug fixes or new [...]
I had a note in from Jody Sanders of iPhoneUnlockUK. They’ve been pretty successful unlocking previous versions of the iPhone and they’re rather excited to be able to offer a full unlock for the 3G version. it does involve a ‘piggyback sim’ and a bit of desktop software.
You can find out more at [...]
Almost as if the product pages were pushed out together, the official product page on HTC’s site for the upcoming HTC Touch 3G has been noticed by some keen readers right after the HTC Touch HD made its way into the public view.
According to the specifications listed on the site, the phone carries a 2.8″ [...]
Today, if you have connected your iPhone to the computer, you might have noticed that Apple has made the iPhone firmware version 2.1 available via iTunes. And if you haven’t already done that, well, now would be a good time. As promised by Steve Jobs at the company’s ‘Let’s Rock’ event recently, the 2.1 version [...]
Continue ReadingFinnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, which has a good 42% market share in China selling over 70 million handsets in 2007, plans to support all the three 3G standards that are being planned to be employed in the country.
Three different operators in the country, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom (Yeah, keep up with [...]
Yes, we’re reporting news about the iPhone 3G again. If you’re not the iPhone type, we’d still suggest that you be all ears for this. Apparently, even after having its fair share of problems and different lawsuits being filed against it, the Apple iPhone 3G is doing fairly well in the UK, reports MobileToday.
The device, [...]
We’ve a huge, huge piece on WiMax coming from Mr Operator. Suffice to say, he is not impressed.
Some highlights I plucked from his piece this morning:
“Over at Intel, someone else (possibly at the same long lunch) piped up and said “Great idea guys, here’s several Billion dollars, hop to it”. And lo, the WiMax [...]
Continue ReadingIt’s all a bit gloomy for Apple really. Julia reported last week about Apple being sued, and today the Advertising Standards Authority have rapped them for some dodgy advertising.
Apparently the claim that the iPhone can access “all the parts of the internet” is giving a misleading impression to consumers, according to ASA. This has led [...]
Reader Adam Dempsey is having a bit of an arse with his move from his Nokia N95 to the iPhone 3G. Nothing traumatic. He’s just come across a lot of things that are (mildly?) annoying him. I found myself nodding along in agreement as I read. I asked Adam for permission [...]
Continue ReadingIt looks like the similarities between the BlackBerry Bold and Apple’s iPhone are stronger than we thought: according to one analyst who’s been tinkering with RIM’s latest, the device has been experiencing the same sort of 3G problems as its Apple rival.
Jim Suva of Citigroup wrote in a research note quoted by Barrons that:
We had [...]
It had to happen, really. After all the to-ing and fro-ing with the iPhone’s 3G problems
Continue ReadingOver the past few days, a series of reports have been turning up of 3G iPhone users complaining that the signal on their device is a bit, well, crap - dropped calls particularly during handoff between two networks and poor 3G coverage.
The Infineon chipsets seems to be tipped as the problem by a number of [...]
More interesting stats - according to EJL Wireless Research, the number of TD-SCDMA subscribers is set to hit 12 million by 2012 with roughly the same number of terminals expected to be sold in the same year, at 11.5 million.
Given that TD-SCDMA is the Chinese government’s baby and it’s been pushing it heavily for years [...]
Get out the black arm bands - it looks like rumours of the death of 2G really haven’t been exaggerated. Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo has announced its preparing to kill off its second generation network and will now officially stop taking subscriptions for its 2G mova service from this November.
And, as a sweetener for anyone [...]
If your iPhone 3G is behaving like a 1998 Compaq Laptop — i.e. it works for 20 minutes before you need to plug it in — then you might want to get yourself one of these battery-sleeves from Mophie.
Roughly 50 pounds or $99 — it offers to make your iPhone 3G work like it should, [...]
Continue ReadingI drove back to my London place on Thursday evening leaving my main handset — the +44 7769 658 104 number — sat somewhere, slowly draining its battery.
I don’t know what I was thinking. I thought I had it with me. I discovered it was missing on Friday morning.
And I’ve — perhaps rather [...]
Got this in from the Hictu team. Check out the service!
We are happy to announce that we are giving away a cool Apple iPhone 3G (unlocked) to a lucky Hictu user.
You just need to subscribe to Hictu and to record your video with your vacation greetings for your friends and family, from today July [...]
My iPhone 3G is boxed up. Boxed up and packaged and ready to go back to o2’s PR.
Thank you for the loan, gents.
Now, I need to get one myself.
So I’m heading off to normob-central (Basildon town centre, Essix) to see if I can obtain one.
o2 shop first. Then Carphone Warehouse as a back-up.
Electric Pig is reporting that o2’s exclusive contract with the iPhone in the UK is due to end soon.
They’re quoting some users on comparison site, Omio who’ve:
…had “word from a very, very credible source on the inside that the iPhone 3G will be available on Orange in the UK, possibly as soon as October.”
Hmm.
We shall [...]
If, like me, you’ve been sat staring at the wall waiting for more iPhone 3G stock to arrive, I’ve got good news.
I just heard from Carphone Warehouse that they’ll have new stock in tomorrow across 800 stores. Here’s the quote from the horse’s mouth:
The Carphone Warehouse has today confirmed delivery of a large quantity [...]
The boys at Blendtec came up with one of the best viral marketing ideas of all time a few years back and are always quick off the mark. Now the company has the iPhone 3G headlining its site.
This one is proving popular on the site. So popular in fact that the site crashed [...]
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