HTC Desire HD surfaces on Amazon UK, gets pulled in record time
And this, folks, pretty much seals the deal. If HTC bothers to not ship the Desire HD, it'll come as quite the surprise.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: come-as-quite, desire, detail-gleaned, entry, handset, highly-doubt, htc desire hd, intention, on sale, onsale
Motorola wants a 2GHz Android by year’s end, so do we
Looks like we didn't get the full dish from Sanjay Jha's bout of loquaciousness this morning. It turns out Moto's chief of handsets has also expressed his company's intention to bring the world its first 2GHz smartphone and to do so on an aggressively accelerated roadmap. By the end of the year, Sanjay
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bring-the-world, dish, forecast, gyro, gyroscope, intention, motorolaceo, plans, promised-specs, prowess, turns-out-moto, video
FCC launches Spectrum Task Force, unused frequencies become wanted criminals
It's no secret that Julius Genachowski and his posse up in Washington are taking spectrum reallocation very, very seriously in an effort to nip any danger of a wireless broadband crunch in the bud, and the FCC's taken another small step in that process today with the creation of the "Spectrum Task Force." It sounds like the Task Force's main job is to get the entire agency on the same page with regards to its long-term spectrum planning, ultimately playing "a critical role in the execution of the spectrum recommendations in the National Broadband Plan ." In other words, the critical topic of spectrum reallocation isn't going away -- and while Genachowski continues to emphasize his intention to make license sales by TV broadcasters fully voluntary, we could see things starting to get hostile if the broadcast industry's mood doesn't change. Unfortunately, we're not aware of any plans for these guys to actually dress up in SWAT uniforms and ride around on Segways should the need arise. Follow the break for the FCC's full statement.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: broadcast, bud, criminals, crunch, execution, force, intention, like-the-task, spectrum-task, spectrumtaskforce, swat
Verizon’s 2010 LTE launch: ‘it’s looking better each day, not worse’
By and large, Verizon hasn't flinched once in its march to LTE -- the proof is obviously going to be in the pudding, but leading up to the first commercial launches, they're talking as confidently as they ever have. Take last weeks Network World interview with the company's CTO Tony Melone, for example, where he's once again reiterated the carrier's intention to bring 25-30 markets live commercially this year and achieve roughly a complete overlay of its 3G network in 2013 . That's nothing new or particularly interesting, but Melone's choice of language is encouraging, saying that they're "ahead of where [they] thought [they'd] be as far as site readiness goes," going on to report that the 25-30 market goal for 2010 is "looking better each day, not worse each day." That's bold, but he got a little less bold when talking about LTE voice: "The question for us will be whether our footprint will be sufficient at that point to provide customers with a good experience for voice over LTE, or whether we'll be better off offering 3G coverage for voice and 4G for data." The hesitation has us believing that an initial round of dual-mode handsets is basically a forgone conclusion, but at least we'll have the modems up and running in the meantime.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: commercial, experience, footprint, intention, interview, launches, mobile, mode, modems, result, verizon, verizon-wireless, vzw, world
First Else hands-on: ‘still alive and kicking’
We caught up with Else at CES to check on how they're doing with the First Else since we last saw them back in November. According to CTO Eldad Eilam, the basic functions of the ALP -based phone are finally done and dusted, so now Else will mainly focus on fine-tuning its snazzy visual effects until beta around the end of March
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: ces 2010, check-on-how, content, effects, eldad-eilam, entry, features, firstelse, intention, visual