Two phones...?

It's not obvious that the phone user will know, or even care, that their "android phone" actually runs BREW as well.

But it's probably worth downloading the White Paper and seeing if it interests you...
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Edited by author 05-20-2009 05:27 PM

Mast Debating: will Femtos become scary?

The word "radiation" scares un-scientific minds. Of course, the possibility remains that one day, we'll find that phones and wireless PC do have an effect on human tissue; but right now, the epidemic of irradiated patients in hospitals hasn't transpired.

But what will people make of the idea that the Femto Forum is promoting? Will there be an outcry?

I'll investigate! Nick Hampshire will definitely know...

What to make of Amazon buying Stanza? Is it a plot to destroy EPUB? Maybe the current Stanza approach will continue. I think it could be to do with the phone bill. Amazon pay for the download on Kindle so the format control makes some sense. Stanza on iPhone the reader is paying so maybe EPUB will be allowed. Any other clues out there?

Location based ignorance

You need to embrace the openness of OpenStreetMap
Clissold Park http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.56126...m=16&layers=B000FTF

Finsbury Park http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.56632...m=15&layers=B000FTF

Pogoplug and security...

Still waiting for an answer to our questions about Pogoplug.

Don't buy one till we get the reply, eh?

:-)

Edited by author 03-05-2009 04:06 AM

Is a "magic wand" technology...?

If I belonged to a community of self-denial, I don't think I'd give up TXTing.

But I'm happy to give up Coronation Street. And Desperate Housewives. And Larry King Live. And...

Edited by author 02-27-2009 01:55 PM

Mondegreen!
I've been looking for an excuse to mention this one: and this is, I'm afraid, really reaching.

You have to listen to the clip, and it's quite safe for office viewing...

"Not available for arrest right now..."

One of the stranger stories: build up a mobile company - sell it, and get arrested for refusing to pay extra taxes?

Hope he doesn't talk on his mobile driving around London...

Who am I this time?

It's Quantum Leap, for sure. Logitech may call it a game pad but are we fooled?

Edited by author 10-20-2008 11:05 AM

"Don't tell my boyfriend!" she said...

It is worth a moment's careful thought, isn't it? If you give your IM permission to tell people where you are, you might have trouble pretending you're ill in bed when it says "At Twickenham..."?

The new e-reader report is out, by the way; see announcement on www.afaics.co.uk for details...

Another story about the screen technology for an e-reader

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/technology/08ink.html

More to be announced as Consumer Electronics. I think this is all about early devices that will be replaced. Still i am happy with my sony Reader for the moment. Just a USB cable for once in a while transfer, so not yet really on topic for newswireless.

It's like satellite broadband, silly!

Broadband is a simple equation, involving the number of users you can service from a single node, the cost of providing the node, and the price the user is prepared to pay for "standard" data rates. Push the price per bit down far enough and people will rush to buy...

...until, of course, the traffic builds up to the point where they are getting dialup speeds.

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Thanks

It's like trying to get steam off the polar ice-cap, getting a response from Amazon...

:-(

If I can find something, I will!

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any idea on what is happening with the Kindle in the UK?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/...usrc=rss&feed=media

Jack Schofield has picked up on USA reports of larger sales. But I don't think there is any announcement on a UK Kindle release.

The Sony Reader is out on Sept 4 in Waterstones. Not a phone as in the Kindle as far as I know. You have to cable up to something else. Will this matter much?

No worries at all. I hope you find it useful.

Matt w: thanks very much for the link to your comparison site. Useful info. I wish there were more like you about here!

Elder Norm: thanks for the post.
Like you, I am a big fan of Bluetooth addons - in theory. In practice they aren't a serious mainstream product.

As a photographer remarked, when asked about which camera was best: "The best camera is the one you have with you. You can't use any other one to take pictures."

Same applies to devices you have to carry around with you. If you don't always have it with you, it has no useful features. Most people carry their phones at all times; few of us carry cameras or keyboards in a spare pocket, just in case.

Slide-out keyboards have a big advantage over the Blackberry style; I agree with you there. On-screen keyboards have many advantages, but the drawback is that they hide part of the screen. For many applications, that's a nuisance. It's a real nuisance, even on a full-screen Tablet PC; on a small-screen phone, it can be a showstopper. Some people won't want it; they will want a pullout keyboard like the one on Sony Ericsson's X1 phone. Others will be happy with the iPhone as it is.

What neither you nor I know, is how many of which there are; the only way to find out, frankly, is to launch the darned thing and see how many it sells. Which is why I've seen prototypes...

Hi Guy, I am an new poster and you may/may not want my type round here!

I read your article Sim-only deals: which is actually best? How do you find out? with interest.

I am trying to get my head around your anti comparison site mentality (yes I do run one).

I agree that for SIM only saving a few pennies doesn't really make sense and as a result we don't push this on our site at all. But for everything else I believe mobile comparison (note that I am not using the work 'price' here) sites can offer loads of value when buying a new phone.

So here is my 20 sec pitch for the reputation of mobile comparison! For me it's about filtering down a vast amount of information to exactly what people need or want. On Omio.com we let users filter mobile deals and phones by features, styles, networks, brands, offers and price. E.g you can see all the mobile deals with free GPS phones at £20 per month. You can't ask a friend or probably even a shopkeeper for that kind of info.

Actions speak louder than words so here is Omio. I am sticking my neck out for a bashing but I feel very strongly that we offer a genuinely useful service for most mobile buyers. You can play with our filters here http://www.omio.com/deals/ or http://www.omio.com/share/YSLHAV (with phones view selected).

Matt
(Proud member of Omio.com!)

I have used the full touch screen 3G smartphone A925 by Motorola since 2003, there are also A1000 an advance model.

Those smartphone works fine without the conventional keyboard, and no worry about any mechanical problem.

How about the future touch screen/pad notebook computer which also does not have a solid QWERTY keyboard, and it only provide a full flat panel with virtual keyboard for text input? Should this new design accept by customers?

Apple 3G iPhone design should be the leading in smartphone operating environment.

What a goof ball!
What a nerd!
What an ultra maroon!

OH wait, I get it. Its a joke. A pun (the lowest form of humor, right?)

A slide out keyboard for the iPhone. Ha Ha Ha. ..... I get it now. :-)

Actually a real keyboard is a great idea. As programs become available to use the power of the iPhone and its real OS, a keyboard will be a great idea. ...... Just not one of those puny tiny things that the BlackBerry uses. Sheeezzzzeee.

Take a look at the bluetooth keyboard that you can get with the Apple units. Its full sized, auto registers , is battery powered and is only slightly larger than the iPhone. If I need to type, I would hope someone (Apple anyone??) updates the OS to allow syncing an apple bluetooth keyboard to the iPhone. And since the iPhone can play movies on a tv, you could set up a small portable 9 inch screen lcd tv to be your screen. They already have those that sync to an iPhone.

Its a mostly done deal and much better than that stupid crackberry thing.

Just a thought.

en

Keyboard iPhone? Never!

There is a real, not imaginary, drawback to the iPhone's on-screen keyboard. Like it or not, the touch-screen is a real step forward in many ways (even if it pinches ideas from Picsel).

But you can't make omelettes without breaking eggs. And what you give up with a keyboard on screen is pretty simple: "Some of the screen is invisible."

If all you want to do is type your name into a dialog box, then who cares? You can see the box. But if you're trying to type something a little more complex, then some people will feel a need to see the screen while they type.

Well, are they right? And if they're wrong, does it matter? What matters is that people buy the iPhone, surely?

"I can't hear you!"

It's not a boat really. No sails. Noisy engine. Wave-piercing hulls (three or them). No wonder they need Sennheiser to provide noise-cancelling headsets for all the crew...

On the right track...

Traincomms... we thought it would all be about WiFi for passengers.

Apparently, that's very low on the list today - or so say delegates to traincomms 08...

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For a moment, you had me going there!

:-)

Make sure I get the full release. But of course, being a PR group, you guys won't do a proper press release for your own stuff, will you?

...I'll get my coat.

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Guy, My warmest greeting to you in the name of the Lord. I am writing this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously... oh wait, actually we HAVE!

Thanks for stumbling upon our Museum of Mobility History (MuMoH). We're telling the world about it formally on 4 June, but very happy that you have found it. We'll be putting up a legitimate wiki to allow people to post information about their own favorite mobility relics. People can see our blog at www.mumoh.com/blog and the wiki will be up at /wiki (and everything can be found through our home page at www.mumoh.com).

Thanks for giving us some early publicity!

Nice to see you commenting! Hope I didn't spoil the chance of a good dinner by mentioning the possibility in public...

:-)

Thanks Guy, honoured to be mentioned on your blog. Funnily enough I have had 2 invitations to lunch from Qualcomm and one invitation to a phone conversation. The phone conversation and one of the lunches were later cancelled. The other (excellent) lunch was eaten, but no reasonable answer to any of the usual criticisms of Qualcomm was put forward.
So maybe, as you suggest, San Diego is beginning to take some of the criticism to heart.
All the best,
David

Edited by author 04-14-2008 07:29 AM

How to spy on your kids...

You give them a "perfectly ordinary phone" and then...

I mean, is this a serious suggestion?

I wonder if they've taken the "fan club" off their list?

- thanks for that!

G

Hey, I just saw your post about Wadja and I created a new account over there (coz I really like the idea of sending free SMS) and I didn't see this guy popping up in my friends' list.
From the few things I saw the site seems cool, simple and fun.

Edited by author 03-14-2008 06:43 AM

Nearly Finnished?

I blame Richard Lander for this awful pun...

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Edited by author 03-10-2008 12:13 PM

Value for Money?

How good a service do you have to offer for WiFi on a train before people will want to pay money for it?

I think "always on" is definitely worth something! - but always on and "very slow" are not an acceptable compromise. What do you think?

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Comment by clicking here or post a new message on this board...

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Yo-ho-ho!

Collecting (by quite legal means) a bunch of Intellectual Properties and charging royalties: a legitimate business? It seems several mobile companies are not happy with the arrangement.

Comment by clicking here or post a new message on this board...

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I don't think so... doesn't seem to be. Why?

Is that forum against Iphones?



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Javatech
mobile marketing applications

These aren't the gPhones you're looking for...

But SOMEONE must recognise what the phones are? please
 check out the video and tell us what you think they are!

Edited by author 01-25-2008 09:59 AM

Me, you? go elsewhere...

I was going to say "I can't believe a million people sign up for Zlango" each month. But sadly, I can.

 

Edited by author 01-10-2008 01:16 PM

Everex Cloudbook

Note to the designers: Very nice - but where's the bleedin' Bluetooth?!?

Some of us live outside the US and want to use wireless broadband through our mobile phones, y'know.

Even within the US, I think you'll find Wi-Fi isn't quite ubiquitous yet...

Douglas Adams Boulevard?

I like the idea of a street named after him! but can't we call it something more exciting than his name?
 

Mike42*
" ANYONE! . . . who - er ! . . . " uses " . . . er ! um ! . . . You just said it ! ! ! . . . Tooth Fairy on the way !

Erwin,
If I understand what you're saying, your analysis is that Qualcomm isn't excluded by Intel's IP, but Intel would be excluded from the GSM IP? I certainly would go along with that.

Mike42: the term 4G is a quote from the ABI report. The story in NewsWireless is a report on the ABI report, so we quote it as they did. I wouldn't disagree with your analysis.

Blimfark: if you read that piece as in any way supporting a Nokia viewpoint, you didn't read what I wrote! And it's not just Nokia; it's anybody who is not a member of the GSM cartel.

Since when was WiMAX a 4G technology?

AFAIK, the ITU, IEEE etc haven't even yet agreed what a '4G' technology will look like.

WiMAX in its current form is no faster/more efficient/better range/cheaper for a given freq/BW/range/power/etc than HSDPA 7.2. And it doesn't have QoS or CS for voice prioritisation. Or just about any other feature that makes HSDPA/UMTS/GSM such a great system, warts & all. And the WiMAX hardware costs will be astronomical, should you decide to roll out a network of the stuff. If the requisite hardware (as the South Koreans have discovered) is the size/weight of a Coke machine, needs multiple 20W PA's, a 2KW aircon plant, LDF5-50 feeder, 21dB panel antennas...hmmm...sorry, why not just use HSDPA?

Anyone who uses the terms 'WiMAX' and '4G' in the same sentence is either in the pay of Intel, doesn't read technical literature, doesn't understand the laws of physics, believes in the tooth fairy, or all of the above.

Cheers,

Mike

Ummmmmmmmm......what?? Lighten up on the Kool-aid

Guy, just to avoid further embarrassment, I think you have got it quite wrong in terms of patents.
Qualcomm though a strong player in W-CDMA (UMTS), does not have many patents in that regime compare to folks like Nokia, NTT-Docomo and Ericsson. That's why they have created an independent 3G ecosystem called 3GPP2 with CDMA2000, EVDO, UMB alike to maintain monopoly control.
In terms of WiMAX though, Qualcomm has got by far the most complete patent portfolio in OFDMA, which is the core technology in WiMAX, through its acquisition of Flarion several years back. It will be a Intel and Qualcomm only game if WiMAX ever flies.

Edited by author 10-05-2007 08:16 AM
Which markets exactly is Qualcomm alienating? N. America? India? China? S.Korea? Japan? Or are you really referring to alienating entrenched handset manufacturers like Nokia who enjoyed a stranglehold on GSM wireless for years and are now seeing new entrants into the handset space which have been enabled by access to W-CDMA technology developed by Qualcomm. Before you buy into the world according to Nokia, be intellectually honest and and compare the uniform 5% or less licensing fee charged by Qualcomm to the GSM licensing fees (reported to be up to 28% for newcomers without IP to trade). Competition is a good thing, despite the opinions of Nokia and their EU lapdogs. Can you articulate one good reason for the UMTS specification in Europe other than protectionism?

My analysis wouldn't go that far, and even if I had more information, I'd still hold back...

What I do observe is that Qualcomm is an unusual company, which bases its revenue on a rigorous enforcement of intellectual property. What I also perceive, is that the market as a whole finds this rigour intolerable.

The morals and ethics of this are a matter for a different debate. What I'd focus on, is the issue of whether Qualcomm is correctly optimising its benefit from its asset base. If it alienates markets as completely as it is doing, could it be worth re-considering whether it's actually losing more business than it gains?

Edited by author 08-22-2007 12:17 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/technolo...hnology&oref=slogin

Qualcomm has been accused by various people of some pretty sharp practices, do you think that their GC played any role in such conduct?

Just Wondering

Sod this - I'm off!

Did "Lou" Lupin quit his job at Qualcomm? Or was he "let go"?

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Latest version of Bluetooth

RFID now plays its part in pairing of devices.

Edited by author 05-23-2007 06:24 AM
Re: Vista wireless woes.

I found the problem was a DHCP failure. For some reason Vista miunderstands the DNS server option values that come back from your wireless router, and assumes they are an IPV6 address. Result? "yes I have a wireless connection" but "no, I can't see microsoft.com".

Opening a command window and typing "ipconfig /renew" fixes it. I put a shortcut to this on the desktop, and the owner now clicks on this when he sees the problem.

Sheesh.

iPhone 4 U?

Thanks for that!
There's a lot more iPhone stuff at NewsWireless news

I have to agree, it's an interesting nice-looking niche phone with a few major issues - aimed at serious data users, but only really offering GPRS for most European users, and not available to most US users. I think Apple have proved that to the faithful, the pricepoint doesn't matter, but it is steep...

Personal Coffee Dispensor patent next?

It is yet another "reality distortion field" triumph for Steve Jobs: serious writers claiming that a combination of phone and music player can be patented...

PC as phone...

Steve Litchfield is a bit of a <a href="http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/3060" target="_blank">Nokia maniac<>, admittedly; but the idea of plugging a phone into a TV and using it as a computer...

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You too, huh...

Reader Adrian James has been trying to set up WiFi on the new Vista operating system...

He's one ahead of me. Even with the power plugged into my Centrino Tablet (no problem with the battery!) I can't get the WiFi LAN connection to work. Connect? yes, it will do that! - but while every other wireless PC in the house is working happily, the Vista machine gets an IP address, and then sulks about "the Internet cannot be found."

Good morning Guy,
I just wanted to comment on your wireless hex conversion nightmare that you wrote about. I also deal with converting ASCII to HEX on a regular basis- I am the go-to person for all of my friends and family when setting up their wireless security for all of their pc's.
After many tries, i found a little Palm program that I loaded on my PDA. It is a basic converter that works one character at a time- yes it would have been great to find a program that would convert a full string, but I can't be too choosy. Using the small program, it allows me to set up numerous routers and access points without referring to a table.
-Mike

Munich,
Thanks for passing that on. I've looked into the folding plug, and here is what I've found: it's not being made, and apparently, never was. More details when I find out more...

Folding plug...

Hi Guy,
    I was Googled to your page:
    http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/1322
    when I went looking for a folding mains plug which someone had mentioned to me. Unfortunately I can't find any reference to this product at the link on your page: http://www.teleadapt.com/
     
    Is there anything you can do to help me find this product? It seems like such a good idea!
    Regards,