Tag archive for ‘3g’
iPhone 3G proves it’s not the slowest 3G device, ask the BlackBerry Bold
When customers and then carriers complain about the hardware on the iPhone 3G, you’d expect the problems to drastically effect the device. Apparently even with the faulty hardware, a combination of excellent software (Safari Mobile) and solid resource management has kept the iPhone 3G away from the bottom of the barrel. To put the quality [...]
T-mobile launches 3G in Vegas baby
We can already hear the chants at the crap table, ‘winner, winner, chicken dinner’. T-mobile USA has officially launched 3G voice and data services in the Las Vegas area as part of its 20 market launch for 2008. With a few available cell phones that take advantage of the faster speed Internet, Las Vegas customers [...]
LG launches the KT520 3G slider cell phone in Taiwan
The Taiwan market has now added another slider phone from the world’s largest cell phone manufacturer, LG. Â The LG KT520 3G slider phone is targeted at Internet users with a new finger mouse, zoom in/out functions, dedicated Internet Hotkey and single 3G band HSDPA connectivity. Â The KT520 also includes a 3.0 megapixel camera with autofocus, [...]
South Africa adds HSUPA 3g thanks to Vodacom
While At&t is completing their HSUPA network upgrade which will bring their services up to full HSPA, South Africa’s Vodacom is joining in on the fun. Â Today, Vodacom announced that they would be launching South Africa’s first High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) service to compliment its HSDPA offerings. Â With the new upgrade, South African [...]
MTS Launches 3G in Russia
MOSCOW, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (NYSE:
MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announced
the commercial launch of its 3G network in Saint Petersburg and technical
readiness of 3G networks for commercial launch in Sochi, Yekaterinburg and
Kazan.
Saint Petersburg becomes the first Russian city where MTS launched its
next-generation network. The Company plans [...]
N95 8GB comes to Rogers Canada May 6th
AT&T had their chance, but it looks like Rogers Canada has taken the prize as the first North American carrier to offer the N95 8GB. Nokia’s flagship device bringing 8GB of internal storage rivals that of the iPhone, but brings a 5 mega-pixel camera and front-facing camera, GPS, TV-out capabilities that have just about [...]
Tmobile Voice-Only 3G Launch NYC
Being the last of the 4 major carriers to launch a 3G network is a ruff road, but spinning a 3G data launch into a 3G Voice-Only launch is terrible. According to the latest reports, T-Mobile USA will be launching their 3G network today, May 1 in New York City (sorry New Jersey, EDGE [...]
New York City T-Mobile 3G launch May 2008
Being the number 4 US Carrier is tough to swallow when your German roots dominate much of Europe with 3G glory. Thankfully T-Mobile USA has been able to cope with the disappointments dished out by FCC dilemmas on their 1700Mhz 3G network launch and the time has come for broadband mobile data here in the [...]
Walt Mossberg Says 3G iPhone in less than 60 days
If the dwindling iPhone supply in the US and T-Mobile Germany’s iPhone fire sale pricing were not enough, Walt Mossberg brings more fuel to the 3G iPhone Rumor pile. We now have an expected 3G iPhone launch date “in the next 60 days”, but what makes this rumor so much more concrete than the dozens [...]
T-Mobile Motorola Z10 for 3G Network Launch?
We are almost tired of hearing about T-Mobile USA and their 3G network scheduled to launch, soon to be launch, never going to be launched news. The only exception to our new rule is that a Motorola Z10 is in the works to sport T-Mobile USA’s 3G flavor in Q2 or Q3 of this year. [...]
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