Category Archives: wireless

Rumors Trickle About Verizon’s 1xEV-DO Plans

I recently reviewed Verizon’s 1xEV-DO service, and walked away impressed. In fact, I signed up for the unlimited service, even though I live in an area that gets marginal 1xRTT coverage at best. 1xEV-DO offers speeds that are competitive with … Continue reading

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Wireless Data Uptake in the USA

Om Malik: “US consumers are finally embracing the concept of wireless data, according to research by InStat/MDR. The technology research firm says that nearly 54 percent of those it polled use some sort of wireless data service. High time, for … Continue reading

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The Wireless Recent

The wireless posting has been pretty light here lately. I’ve moved a good amount of that party over to MobileWhack. Here are some of my recent posts: Sony Ericsson GC82 and Mac OS X Cell Phone Nation AT&T’s EDGE Network … Continue reading

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Epic Smart Phone Platform Wars

Wireless Watch on the dominance of the Series 60 platform, Symbian turf wars, and Microsoft’s progress on Windows Mobile. (via The Tao of Mac)

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Nokia’s PhotoBlog

I was at CTIA this week, and got a sneak peek at Nokia’s upcoming PhotoBlog application. Read more at MobileWhack.

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JIWire’s Cellular Data Plan HOWTO

Paul Boutin has written a great buyer’s guide to cellular data plans.

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No Power FM

Doc Searls: “…Naturally, the big broadcasters opposed it, saying it would cause more interference. They appealed to Congress, which severely restricted deployment of LPFM until an interference study could be done. Now that study has been submitted…”

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Kismet on the Linksys WRT54G Access Point

Rasmus Lerdorf: “The little Linksys WRT54G box is a terrific generic Linux platform to run just about any networking code on…”

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Series 60 Sales Numbers

Russell Beattie: “great news for Series 60.”

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Time to Make the Unlimited Data Jump?

I think the experiments are over. I’ve been reading in alt.cellular.verizon that the EN-MOU honeymoon is over. I’ve got three data plans that I use to experiment with cellular data: $20/month on my stepson’s phone for 8MB of EDGE data … Continue reading

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