mobile communications
Interesting T-Mobile News
Looks like T-Mobile is miving forward on their VoIP offering, adding the feature to their product mix with specialized phones.
It will be interesting to see how people add this service, or use this service in combination to thier mobile phone. No exact news on how they will be using the new spectrum they purchased.
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T-Mobile 3G Rollout - Media Buzz
Brighthand is reporting what I’ve talked about in the past. T-Mobile now has enough spectrum bandwidth nationwide to proceed with their 3G rollout.
What this means to consumers is cheaper 3G options compared to Cingular, Verizon, & Sprint. T-Mobile has always been priced more competitively than the competition, partially because of being the smallest nationwide operator, [...]
FCC Auction 66 ends, bringing in $13.7 Billion
So the latest FCC wireless auction ends after 28 days of intense bidding. T-Mobile did well, gaining significantly needed spectrum across the country.
T-Mobile USA Inc. was the big spender of the auction, winning 120 licenses with bids totaling nearly $4.2 billion. The fourth-largest U.S. carrier gained spectrum across the country, including licenses [...]
T-Mobile to roll out UMA in September?
I have a hard time believing this - they only went into beta a week or two ago.
Still, if its true, this would be the first commercial implementation of Unlicensed Mobile Access. This service allows subscribers to use either cellular service or WiFi service to place & receive phone calls.
With T-Mobile having such an [...]
EDGE comes into its own - RCRNews.com
Well, I could have told ya this! Of course it seems more “real” coming from a more authoritative source like RCRNews.
It seems people and critics are starting to realize that EDGE services, provided nationwide by T-Mobile and Cingular, are good enough to get most mobile broadband work done.
While the industry looks ahead to W-CDMA [...]
the::unwired - CONFIRMED: Palm Treo 700wx coming to Sprint
Wow, more mobile goodness! It usually happens in waves like this where several products will be announced or released within a few days of each other, and I of course figure it out days later.
Anyway, Sprint is getting in on the action this time with their (updated) version of the Palm Treo [...]
The i-Mate JAQ - Mobile Gadget News
The mobile news this week is fantastic! This time its about iMate and their new JAQ Pocket PC Phone that could be a Moto Q killer!
In a surprise move (at least to me), HTC is not building this device for iMate. It seems that iMate has contracted with another OEM to build a [...]
HTC Excalibur gets FCC nod - Engadget Mobile
Engadget has the good stuff today!
Check this out, the HTC Excalibur is being approved for distribution in the US. This QWERTY equipped Smartphone with landscape QVGA screen is built by HTC, the same company responsible for the HTC Wizard and other fantastic Pocket PC & Smartphone designs.
Rumored to be a Moto Q killer, the [...]
Verizon releasing 8700 with GSM support? - Engadget Mobile
Very interesting - if this article from Engadget Mobile (link below) is true, then Verizon customers will have no trouble roaming off-continent with this device.
I’ve known they were working on this type of solution for awhile, but frankly, I’m surprised that they have it ready to go in the timeframe mentioned in the article.
Verizon [...]
CoolSmartPhone.com - New version of Skype for Pocket PC released
So Skype seems to have released a new version of the Pocket PC interface to their service (though I believe its actually in beta yet). Though they have not worked on reducing the system requirements so all us HTC Wizard users can use the software, they have several new features.
Among the changes:
feature: Multi-chat support
feature: [...]
