Even as overall sales for mobile phones remained flat for the third quarter, smartphone sales continue to show double digit growth—as they have ever since the market was redefined by Apple’s iPhone. Apple’s share of the market continues to climb and is edging close to rival RIM, while market leader Nokia continues its slow decline [...]

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Today is droid day, the day that the Motorola Droid hits the marketplace, available through Verizon Wireless. This phone marks Motorola’s plunge into using Google’s Android operating system on a phone, a trend that seems to be getting stronger all the time. In fact, the hubbub over the Droid phone is putting the [...]

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X10 introduces an open and integrated world of social media, communication and entertainment
* XPERIA™ X10 is the flagship phone in a family of phones coming to market during the first half of 2010. The XPERIA™ X10 will be available in Q1 2010
* New UX [...]

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US : Novatel Wireless unveiled MiFi, an unprecedented line of Intelligent Mobile Hotspots. Together with a rich applications environment for enterprises and consumers, MiFi drives a new ecosystem of broadband connectivity. Unlike existing router solutions that require an external broadband modem and serve only to provide connectivity, the MiFi line creates a personal cloud of [...]

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Canada’s biggest cell phone operator, Rogers Wireless, has launched what will likely be the first in a new class of products: web-ready netbooks with built-in 3.5G (HSPA) mobile broadband chips.
Read more of this story at teleclick.ca

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The good news for Canadians who have been waiting for the Iphone is that it is finally just about here.  Rogers has struck a deal with Apple, and now you will be able to actually get the phone in Canada without hitting the greay market or getting a modded phone.
The downside? Well, Rogers isn’t exactly [...]

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While they aren’t exactly explains all of the reasons, it would appear that high costs and the high number of installations required has put the brakes on 802.11 style wi-fi wireless setups for cities, at least as far as Earthlink is concerned.
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Interesting story on CNN about Wi-Fi in the city.   The issue is that the density of equipment to provide truly seamless wifi over a large area is just way too pricey.  At this point, once city is running one access point every 500 feet, which means that many users just can’t get a signal indoors [...]

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After a layoff to sort out political infighting and potential issues of bias by members, the IEEE has restarted the group to bring a solid standard to broadband wireless, specifically called 802.20.
802.20 is very similar to the “WiMAX” standard 802.16e, but differs on some methods.  The goal of 802.20 is to provide 1mps service even [...]

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Bellsouth continues on thier roll out of WiMAX service, adding in the areas of Albany, Ga. and Paducah, Ky.  This brings to 10 the areas served by their WiMAX product base:
North Charleston, S.C.; Melbourne, Fla.; Greenville, Miss.; and Chattanooga, Tenn. The RBOC also offers wireless broadband service in Athens, Ga.; Palatka, Fla.; DeLand, Fla. BellSouth [...]

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