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 […]

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. […]