Sigh, it is tough being a geek in the United States sometimes. Big business is really into making money here and it is preventing me from getting my super geekiness on at times. Tech Central published an article today about 3.5G network upgrades in Malaysia. For those of you who don’t know about […]

Texas Instruments has been involved with 3G phone manufacturers, building custom 3G chipsets, since the early days of 3G. TI has just jumped into the 3G market with both feet, announcing their OMAPV2230 design which contains TI’s own baseband chip, developed in-house, for the 3G phone market. In the past, Texas Instruments built […]

Panasonic announced the release of their new Prosolid II 3G phone for the NTT FOMA marketplace. It makes the RAZR look like your mom’s phone if you ask me. There are a bunch of cool pictures of the Prosolid II on the Panasonic Japan website and you can use google to translate the […]

Looking for a cool clamshell phone that can take advantage of some serious EV-DO wireless data power? Then you should check out the latest clamshell offering from Motorola. The E815 is a compact clamshell that has been updated to take advantage of today’s EV-DO data networks from companies like Sprint Nextel and Verizon […]

Alltel, the nation’s largest wireless network operator, and MobiTV, mobile television and digital radio service provider, announced today that they have joined forces. MobiTV will offer live portable television broadcasts and special “made for mobile” content to wireless customers starting Monday. Initially, the service will be rolled out to customers with the new […]

The world’s third largest mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung, held on to its second place position in North American mobile phone sales according to Chosunibo. Samsung was flanked by Motorola to the top and LG to the south. It will be interesting to see how Samsung’s current offerings, like the awesesome i730, and its […]

Building on the success of the Sony K800 mobile phone, Sony/Ericsson is releasing a more cost-effective 3G phone, the K600i. Packing a VGA-quality camera mounted on the front of the unit for video calling. Yes, video calling. It is only a matter of time now before we here in the states are able to […]

SF Gate reports today that the city of San Francisco will be issuing a request for proposals from network builders to create one of the largest citywide wifi networks in the United States. Mayor Gavin Newsome has made citywide internet access a priority in his tenure in San Francisco.

tags: broadband, san+francisco, wifi, wireless

In an article on Wireless Design Asia, I read the findings of a recent Motorola HSDPA trial conducted in Europe. Motorola concluded three items that are crucial to a successful rollout of HSDPA to provide “mobile broadband”.
First, sufficient processing power is needed. Latency can become a big problem when switching users from a […]

In more 3G HSDPA news this week, Ericsson successfully upgraded Tokyo’s Vodafone commercial network to support HSDPA. The software and hardware upgrades that were implemented support downstream rates of up to 3.6Mbps and 384Kbps up. Unfortunately, for the Vodafone customers in central Tokyo, the HSDPA upgrade has not been activated for commercial use. […]