Apple, Gemalto working on integrated SIM for next iPhone?
Moving from regular SIMs to micro SIMs for the iPad and iPhone 4 was a fairly user-hostile move on Apple's part, seeing how it made moving between an iPhone and virtually any other GSM device quite a bit more difficult; the official explanation (for the iPhone 4, anyway) was that there simply wasn't room for a regular SIM, but that seems unlikely considering that you're only saving 10mm of length, 3mm of width, and 0mm of thickness. A more plausible scenario is that Apple viewed micro SIMs as a way to get ahead of the industry curve a bit and make it unpleasant for users to try to share an iPhone line with other devices, a concept that gets at the core of Apple's mantra of owning the entire ecosystem from end to end. But could they be trying to take that concept another step further?
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T-Mobile lighting up tons of fiber-powered backhaul ‘within the next few weeks’
Realistically, most Americans won't have a chance to enjoy the full spoils of T-Mobile's shiny new 21Mbps HSPA+ network any time soon, but hey, at least they appear to be making solid progress. In a recent chat with GigaOM , T-Mobile's VP of engineering Dave Mayo has said that the requisite software for HSPA+ service is already rolled out to cell sites along the California coast and in major cities between Washington, DC and Boston, but like AT&T , it's not the software that's the concern -- it's the width of the backhaul pipe. The company says that it's got 20Mbps fiber connections to just 7 percent of its cells presently but plans to rapidly expand that to around 25 percent "within the next few weeks." Ultimately, that's going to be the key for every carrier around the world that's deploying 3.75 to 4G networks -- the cells themselves might be easy, but getting enough data piped to them is another story altogether.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: backhaul, california, cities, engadget-mobile, Fiber, gigaom, realistically, spoils
HTC's You Ads Pwn Yahoo's You… (GigaOm) ยป TechNews.AM
HTC , the white label phone maker, lest it upset its carrier customers, has...
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A VC's Take on Mobile's Future, the Economy and More… (GigaOm …
As companies weigh the cost of developing device-specific applications, the word on the street is that the Mobile Web is the way to move forward, that it's too costly for even large companies to do custom applications for multiple ...
Categories: Android, Mobile Street, nintendo, Other Tags: entertainment, facebook, gadget, gigaom, jobs, management, nintendo, nokia, ps3, senior-planner, server, social-media, twitter, visit-gigaom, web-development
Android This Week: Sprint to Offer the Hero as T-Mobile Offers Pre …
As companies weigh the cost of developing device-specific applications, the word on the street is that the Mobile Web is the way to move forward, that it's too costly for even large companies to do custom applications for multiple ...
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Street, nintendo, Other Tags: entertainment, facebook, gadgets, gigaom, iphone, jobs, microsoft, mobile, search-engine, social, social-media
Casio, Hitachi and NEC In Talks to Merge Phone Businesses …
Phone Scoop Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Casio, Hitachi and NEC have entered into talks with the goal of merging their respective cellphone businesses.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Other, Phone Street Tags: gigaom, india, khali-henderson, merger, microsoft, phone-scoop, search, seeking-alpha, skype, telephony-unfiltered, telepocalypse, usa, voip
Android This Week: Motorola Portfolio Coming, ASUS Netbook Delayed …
The Android community got some big news this week, with Motorola announcing...
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Is Google's Android Killing Windows Mobile?
Back in February 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Motorola was going to cut its ties with Windows Mobile . At that time, the handset maker denied any such moves.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Street, Other Tags: enterprise, facebook, gigaom, gigaom-pro, htc, microsoft, mobile, network, staff-writer, windows-mobile, writer
Android This Week: Flash Coming to the Browser… (GigaOm …
The biggest news in the Android world this week came from embedded systems developer...
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Do Lower Phone Bills Justify Ads on Your Mobile Phone?
Orange, a UK ISP and mobile phone company, is reportedly close to signing a deal with an ad-supported mobile virtual ...
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