Engadget Mobile Podcast 060 – 10.30.2010
These days, there's always something new going on, especially if you're a mobile phone. Check out the latest gossip with Chris and Myriam - before it stops being fresh. Host: Chris Ziegler, Myriam Joire ( tnkgrl ) Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Daestro - Light Powered ( Ghostly International ) 02:30 - HTC Desire HD review 13:00 - T-Mobile myTouch redubbed 'myTouch 4G,' landing on November 3rd 17:45 - Dell Venue Pro 21:07 - Sprint opens M2M Collaboration Center, we check it out 21:22 - BlackBerry Style officially launches October 31st for $99 on Sprint 29:20 - Sprint's Hesse commits to phasing out iDEN 36:26 - Nexus Two does (or doesn't) exist, is (or isn't) being released this year 44:10 - The PlayStation Phone: new photos, more details! 50:10 - Symbian Foundation winding down operations
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 31st, BlackBerry, collaboration, engadget, engadget mobile podcast, engadget-mobile, engadgetmobile, engadgetmobilepodcast, hesse, light, mobile, sprint
Sprint’s Hesse commits to phasing out iDEN
Echoing sentiments of Sprint's senior VP of networks from last month, CEO Dan Hesse has said that the company will be saying goodnight to its aging push-to-talk network -- iDEN -- that it inherited from its Nextel acquisition several years ago, "just like 1G was shut down." Of course, the difference between 1G cellular and iDEN is that iDEN still holds a very unique position in the wireless marketplace: even though it sucks for data, it's really the only popular, successful way to route push-to-talk over a cell network of any kind. To that end, the company is actively soliciting bids to build out CDMA 1X Advanced right now, which may allow the company to have another go at moving its PTT services over to a CDMA-based technology (the first attempt, QChat , already failed).
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: acquisition, already-failed, ceo, efforts, engadget, entry, hesse, marketplace, ptt, result, sentiments, services
ZTE Peel for Sprint outed by FCC, another 3G-equipped iPod touch case
What is it about the word peel that screams "throw on the back of an iPod touch and grant it the power of mobile internet?" We spotted Yosion's Apple Peel 520 just this morning bound for Chinese markets, and now the FCC has unveiled ZTE's own Peel 3G router. Although the user manual and external photos don't explicitly state it, one look at the (slightly enhanced) image above removes all doubt that this is made to fit snugly around a certain finger-friendly iDevice with a headset jack on the bottom right . Additionally, the user manual's setup screens are all sketched out in what appears to be a more mobile Safari-friendly size.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: appleipodtouch, entry, external-photos, fcc, headset, hesse, mobile, peel, proper-release, setup, sprint, user, wimax, zte 3200, zte3200
Sprint’s Hesse: there’s ‘logic’ to a T-Mobile merger — if they both move to LTE
Sprint's riffed about the possibility of migrating to LTE in the past -- as has its 4G partner, Clearwire -- so it's no big surprise to hear CEO Dan Hesse tell the Financial Times today that he's still open to the idea down the road, possibly side-by-side with the company's existing WiMAX deployment thanks to its deep spectrum holdings. What's far more interesting, though, is his concession that there's "logic" to exploring a merger with T-Mobile USA in the event that they both move to LTE for their next-gen networks
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 2008-on-grounds, acquisition, ceo, dan, dan hesse, danhesse, entry, financial, hesse, past, surprise, telekom, usa
CTIA Wireless 2010 draws to a close
Ah, Las Vegas... we hardly knew ye! Okay, that's categorically untrue -- CTIA Wireless 2010 actually marks our third official visit to Sin City in as many months, which means it's nothing short of a miracle that we're not lying in a ditch somewhere in the sun-scorched outskirts of town, penniless and near death.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: archives, entertainment, entry, hesse, las, outskirts, result, sprint, surface, usa, vega, wireless
Live from CTIA 2010′s day two keynote with Dan Hesse
Hot off the killer HTC EVO 4G announcement yesterday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is helping to lead up CTIA's day two keynote session today alongside Clearwire boss William Morrow, Deutsche Telekom chief Ren
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: ceo, clearwire, ctia, ctia 2010, danhesse, deutsche, entry, hesse, result, sprint, william, william-morrow
Sprint's Dan Hesse talks Android, Pre, iPhone, 4G on Charlie Rose
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Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, nintendo, Other Tags: 11th-2009, BlackBerry, cellphones, charlie-rose, engadget, hesse, htc, iphone, nintendo, sprint