Archive for September, 2010

Apple Brings IPhone4 To China Faster

Posted by bbwa on September 27th, 2010

When Apple released the Iphone originally, they were careful to roll it out slowly into each market. As a result, there was plenty of grey market imported phones all over the world, as people who really wanted the phone and were not willing to wait would go out of market to get the phone. One [...]

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FCC Approves White Space Wi-Fi

Posted by bbwa on September 25th, 2010

Some are refering to it as “Wi-Fi on steroids”, others are calling it a significant breakthrough in computer communications. The FCC this week announced that they have approved “white space” wireless, which uses the spaces between TV channels to provide wireless network. The advantages are all over, including that the frequencies have reasonably good building [...]

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Motorola Readies Dual SIM Phones for Europe

Posted by bbwa on September 13th, 2010

Dual SIM phones have long been popular in places like China. These phones allow the user to have more than a single system available to them. In some cases, this is used to seperate out work and personal lines, or to have access to a better daytime or long distance plan on a different network. [...]

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Android Usage Heading Past Blackberry

Posted by bbwa on September 11th, 2010

Interesting story from ARS Technica here that suggests that usage of Android OS will sail past Blackberry and iOS by the end of the year. They are still behind Nokia, because of the wider distribution of the Nokia products worldwide. It is interesting to see how quickly Andoid is taking a big chink of the [...]

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