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  • Carriers could be forced by EU to support VoIP services

    Carriers could be forced by EU to support VoIP services

    Posted on April 13, 2009 | No Comments

    We've seen it time and time again -- carriers using their power to strong-arm consumers into paying services that could very well be free. Over in Europe, the almighty EU is considering "binding guidelines" that could force wireless operators to allow VoIP services such as Skype to run over their cellular networks. It should be noted that all of this is still very preliminary at the moment, but if the Union can somehow force carriers to support these so-called "innovative services," we could see a very favorable (for consumers, anyway) domino effect. As it stands, each EU country has the ability to decide individually on how they deal with blocked internet services, but obviously an EU-wide mandate would seriously shake things up. Or cause unstoppable riots, one.

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    Carriers could be forced by EU to support VoIP services originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • CradlePoint bringing WiMAX to existing fleet of portable routers

    CradlePoint bringing WiMAX to existing fleet of portable routers

    Posted on April 1, 2009 | No Comments

    While Clearwire's Clear Spot (which is really just a refashioned PHS-300) will handle WiMAX right out of the box, those who own one of CradlePoint's existing portable routers are flat out of luck... or are they? Said company has just announced that starting today, shipments of its business-class routers -- including the MBR800, MBR1000, and MBR1100 line of mobile broadband routers, CTR500 mobile broadband travel router, and CBA250 cellular broadband adapter -- will have WiMAX compatibility built in. Furthermore, a forthcoming (April 6th) firmware update will enable existing CradlePoint products to accept select WiMAX devices, and yes, it'll be made available for no charge at all. Talk about throwing a bone to your loyal customers.

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    CradlePoint bringing WiMAX to existing fleet of portable routers originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • CTIA09: Motorola Evoke QA4 likely to launch on US Cellular, as well

    CTIA09: Motorola Evoke QA4 likely to launch on US Cellular, as well

    Posted on April 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Yesterday, Cricket announced their plans to carry Motorola's just disclosed Evoke QA4. What wasn't announced, however, was whether US Cellular would also be carrying the device, as previous rumors had indicated. If the demo phones on the floor at CTIA are any indication, it just might.

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  • Samsung Papyrus e-book reader on track for Korean launch this summer

    Samsung Papyrus e-book reader on track for Korean launch this summer

    Posted on March 24, 2009 | No Comments

    Samsung had an early version of its Papyrus e-book reader on hand at CES, but it looks like a spruced up version of the device is now making the rounds in Europe, and the company has taken advantage of the opportunity to dish out a few new details. The biggest of those is word that the device will launch in Korea this June, after which Samsung will reportedly "aim" to see it released "eventually" in the US and the UK. As for the handheld itself, it's an A5-sized device, and packs a touchscreen that makes use of an included aluminum stylus, along with 512MB of internal memory (with no memory card option) and, of course, a stylish leatherette case. You won't get any Kindle-style cellular connectivity though, or apparently any WiFi either for that matter. On the upside, Samsung is apparently looking to keep this one under the $300 mark, although it's not quite ready to get official with a price just yet. Of course, all of that assumes it doesn't get into a tangle with Sharp over the name, which seems like a distinct possibility.

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    Samsung Papyrus e-book reader on track for Korean launch this summer originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Sprint looking to wholesale bandwidth to connected gadget makers

    Sprint looking to wholesale bandwidth to connected gadget makers

    Posted on March 24, 2009 | No Comments

    So, what's a flagging cellular operator to do once it has succumbed to the grim realization that no one wants to sign up for your service and you've already collected the dough from selling off nearly all of your towers? Go wholesale, of course! Unbeknownst to most, all of the Kindle downloads on Amazon's white-hot e-reader go through Sprint's network, and given just how successful that little venture has been, the carrier is hoping to expand its revenues from wholesaling bandwidth (which currently sits at just 3 percent of its total) by inking similar deals with connected gadget makers. From internet-connected vehicles to GPS systems to cameras, the options are darn near limitless, and with so much free capacity on Sprint's network, it might as well find companies to use it. 'Course, it's not like Sprint's the only one out there trying to carve these kinds of deals into stone, but it's definitely the one that needs to do it most immediately.

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    Sprint looking to wholesale bandwidth to connected gadget makers originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Samsung ready to roll out Papyrus touchscreen ebook reader

    Samsung ready to roll out Papyrus touchscreen ebook reader

    Posted on March 24, 2009 | No Comments
    eBook readers are here to stay, and if you're a CE company you'd better have one if you want to stay in the game. Samsung Electronics will soon be rolling out their Papyrus ebook reader in the US and UK. Will the touchscreen make this a Kindle killer?

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  • Dell’s first cellphone prototypes said to “lack differentiation”

    Dell’s first cellphone prototypes said to “lack differentiation”

    Posted on March 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember when AT&T's Ralph de la Vega got caught up in the middle of mixed words over a supposed Dell smartphone at MWC? Turns out, maybe that cat has seen a cellular prototype from the labs of Round Rock, but given his displeasure with it, he brushed it off as no huge deal. A fresh report from Barron's asserts that Dell actually has shown off both WinMo and Android-powered handsets to an undisclosed amount of mobile carriers, but essentially, everyone met them with a gigantic "meh" and simply stated that the attempts "lacked differentiation." That said, it seems that Dell's not being deterred by the naysayers, and it has even led some analysts to guess that the company may pick up one of those other struggling cellphone makers in order to get some of that "differentiating" juice. It strikes us sort of funny, though -- since when did differentiation really matter to carriers?

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    Dell's first cellphone prototypes said to "lack differentiation" originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Video: Kindle 2 sees the wrong end of a laser, recommends you don’t panic

    Video: Kindle 2 sees the wrong end of a laser, recommends you don’t panic

    Posted on March 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Kindle 2 sees the wrong end of a laser, recommends you don't panic
    If there were anything a frequent traveler needs more than a towel (and money, and identification, and maybe a cellphone...) it's a Kindle 2. To celebrate its ability to provide free access to the world's great information repository from absolutely anywhere (within in the United States that has cellular access), Adafruit Industries has turned the K2 into something of an ode to Douglas Adams's great epic: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After a little burning action courtesy of its Epliog 35 watt laser (which we've seen in action before), the e-book reader now sports the most valuable advice ever given to a man (or alien). Sadly it still won't give you directions to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, but it will at least let you download and start reading it in under a minute. Ford Prefect would be proud.

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    Video: Kindle 2 sees the wrong end of a laser, recommends you don't panic originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Review: Nokia N85

    Review: Nokia N85

    Posted on February 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Somewhere out there there is someone lusting after the N85. For some reason the rest of the world loves these lumpen little phones. Perhaps the Nokia N-series calls up memories of the old phones that we once clung to in the dark ages of cellular communication. The Nokia is the ur-phone, the manufacturer of dreams, the Campbellian original Hero With a Thousand Faces. It can do anything, given enough care and attention. We at CG love Nokia, we support them, but that love is scarcely returned when they release phones like the N85 onto an unsuspecting populace.

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  • LG announces the world’s first transparent design phone

    LG announces the world’s first transparent design phone

    Posted on February 20, 2009 | No Comments
    LG announced today the LG-GD900 cell phone, which has a very distinguishing feature - a translucent sliding keypad. The phone was designed to make a new fashion statement, and is scheduled to release during the second quarter of 2009. No word on the features yet, but who cares about the features? It’s beautiful!

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  • 2012: Year of the Universal Mobile Charger?!

    2012: Year of the Universal Mobile Charger?!

    Posted on February 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Earlier today, the GSMA announced that it has successfully brokered a deal with leading handset manufacturers and network operators to standardize mobile chargers by 2012 (for most, but not all cellular phones). The primary goal of this new agreement is to cut down on the environmental impact created by trashing old chargers.

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  • 2009: Year of the Snapdragon?!

    2009: Year of the Snapdragon?!

    Posted on February 5, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems like only yesterday (although technically, it was 48+ hours ago) when Qualcomm's Snapdragon remained a mythical (mobile technology) beast, yet to be discovered by the modern (handset manufacturing) world. However, all that changed after Toshiba shocked the cellular industry by unleashing Snapdragon from its proverbial cave with its TG01 announcement.

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  • News flash: mobile phone sales slump

    News flash: mobile phone sales slump

    Posted on February 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Big surprise: people aren't buying mobile phones the way they used to. Vodaphone saw an 18% drop in handset sales. According to Vittorio Colao, Vodaphone head honcho, "people, instead of staying on the same package and getting a better phone, are deciding to go for a cheaper package and not changing their phone." The horror!

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  • Bluetooth file transfer for iPhone coming?

    Bluetooth file transfer for iPhone coming?

    Posted on January 25, 2009 | No Comments
    You’ll need a jailbroken iPhone for this but it appears that a developer called MeDevil is hot on the trail of facilitating Bluetooth file transfers between the iPhone and other compatible devices.

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  • Quantum of Solace: Japan gets a cool 007 cell phone

    Quantum of Solace: Japan gets a cool 007 cell phone

    Posted on January 20, 2009 | No Comments
    James Bond is a huge brand name in Japan. In cooperation with regional telcom Okinawa Cellular [JP], KDDI au (the nation's No. 2 telecommunications company) will start selling a special edition of its W63S (CDMA 1X WIN) cell phone tomorrow.

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