Archive | February, 2011

Nokia and Microsoft team up to fight Apple and Android

Nokia announced today that it will use the Windows Mobile operating system for its smartphones. Nokia has been struggling in the past two years because it has failed to make a smartphone that competes with the iPhone; worse, other cell phone manufacturers have adopted Google’s Android operating system for their smartphones. In the market for [...]

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LTE News Wrap: MetroPCS Ships LTE Smartphone, Verizon Talks VoLTE

We are in the middle of working on one of our famed in-depth Sidecut Reports so pardon the lack of posts… for your reading pleasure some links to mobile headlines in the news and our instant analysis of same, starting with MetroPCS making good on its pledge to ship the “first” LTE smartphone in the U.S. [...]

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What sank the Clear brand: Sprint 4G smartphone success and the hybrid hotspot

From several reports leaking out Wednesday night it is becoming apparent that Clearwire’s days of having its own retail brand are at the very least numbered, if not quite yet at zero. While we are guessing there will be more real details (and perhaps some more executive departures) discussed at both the upcoming Sprint earnings call on [...]

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Seamless offloading from 3G to WiFi? Nokia Siemens has the answer

Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) starts next week in Barcelona and one of the hottest topics is offloading data traffic from 3G networks to Wi-Fi. In the past, mobile operators have looked down on Wi-Fi networks (they used to call 2.4 GHz a “junk” band) and wanted to have nothing to do with Wi-Fi. That [...]

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Taking the temperature of the Smart Grid

If you ever want to get the most out of a industry convention summit, be a moderator, speaker and audience participant.  I had the opportunity of doing this at the Smart Grid Summit in the Miami Beach Convention Center.  With stranded visitors from the north enjoying highs of 81F in Miami Beach, the summit proved [...]

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Verizon throttling statement: there are no real unlimited plans

We’re still trying to find a live link to the statement that the Boy Genius Report first reported, namely a statement from Verizon Wireless that basically says if you use “too much” data under one of their so-called “unlimited” data plans, Verizon reserves the right to “reduce your data throughput speeds.” While we actually think this is [...]

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AT&T announces first 4G phone, does not tell you where it will work

The tweets were direct and to the point — “HTC Inspire 4G will be available on Feb. 13 for $99.99 with contract!,” said the corporate feed from AT&T. While that seems like an aggressive price for such a full-featured smartphone (humongous screen, Android 2.2, all the assorted bells and whistles), you really have to dig [...]

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