MSFN is reporting that MS confirmed the online storage service at a blogger’s breakfast in Sydney, Australia.
Speaking at a blogger’s breakfast prior to the opening of Tech.Ed in Sydney, Microsoft Australia technical specialist John Hodgson said that the basic Live Drive was likely to include around 2G of storage for free. Additional storage capacity would be available for purchase, though pricing schemes and final release dates haven’t been announced.
It’d be nice if this were true, guess we’ll wait this one out to see.
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 and HSDPA technologies, EDGE handsets will quietly deliver “near-acceptable†mobile broadband experiences across a wide geographic area, according to ABI Research. The firm projects that vendors will ship as many as 148 million EDGE handsets this year—totaling about 14 percent of the global handset market—and suggested that the industry pay closer attention to the technology.
Although EDGE often is viewed as merely an evolutionary step in GSM technology, it has an important role in delivering services for carriers without 3G licenses or for those waiting for 4G, ABI said.
Well, sure – if you look at the majority of the handsets from T-Mobile and Cingular, you’ll see that the support EDGE. Most often in a quad-band configuration (850/900/1800/1900) to cover most of the world’s GSM implementations.
“When the prospects for EDGE are viewed in the context of next generation networks, its true value comes to light,†said Stuart Carlaw, ABI’s principal analyst. “The technology still represents the only viable choice for supporting seamless service delivery on a very wide area basis. Neither WiMAX nor LTE nor HSUPA will be rolled out with enough geographic coverage to guarantee minimum service requirements on a wide scale.”
Considering that EDGE service has a larger footprint than Verizon/Sprint EVDO networks, I’ll choose EDGE any day. Also, with Cingular’s current HSDPA rollout and T-Mobile’s current winnings in the latest FCC spectrum auction for UMTS/HSDPA, we’re in for some awesome mobile data solutions in 2007! Cool news, all the same.
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 700 line. The 700wx has more memory, 64MB RAM instead of Verizon’s 700w’s 32MB RAM. This should help make the Windows Mobile based Treo perform a bit better.
When the 700w was released, I was surprised that the unit came with 32MB, seems Palm was too accustomed to the Palm OS memory requirements.
Note to mobile OEMs: you can never have enough RAM. 🙂
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 QVGA device with QWERTY keyboard, though instead of Microsoft Smartphone, it will run the Pocket PC variant of Windows Mobile.
The design is defiantly different from HTC designs (and Motorola’s Q), though it seems fairly well laid out. Oh, it does have a touch-screen by the way – in case you were interested.
Ok, I’m in for quad-core chips as well! My only question is one of software licensing though. If I remember Microsoft’s OS licensing correctly, XP will recognize up to 2 processors, Server Standard supports 4, Enterprise supports up to 16, and on and on.
Am I remembering correctly or will the shipping version of XP (and presumably Vista) only support 2 processors and not the full 4 in the core?
Hope I’m wrong, anyway read CrunchGear’s post on Intel’s chip plans.
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