Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service
That slide above is no joke -- it comes from a marketing webinar put on by two companies that count Verizon, AT&T and Vodafone as clients, and it describes a system that identifies customer internet activity and charges a different rate for using Facebook than watching YouTube, while allowing access to Vodafone services for free. Yes, that's basically the nightmare scenario for net neutrality advocates.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: allot communications, facebook, fcc, internet, joke, marketing, net neutrality, netneutrality, operator, techniques, the-application, two-companies, verizon, webinar
HTC’s Peter Chou says LTE handsets are coming next year, and the world keeps on spinning
Stop us if you've heard this one before, but a very popular handset maker will be introducing smartphones that incorporate the latest wireless technology at some point in the upcoming year.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adopters, factors, handset-maker, holographic, htc, interview, lte, money, operator, peter, peter-chou, pushing-the-lte, seeing-the-rest, working-on-lte
Sprint fails to impress Wall Street with Q3 2010 earnings, still notches 644k net adds
Sprint certainly isn't out of the woods yet, but at least it's picking up customers from somewhere. The company's Q3 2010 earnings were ushered out today, and while its stock fell around ten percent on the news, a few silver linings were present. The carrier saw postpaid subscriber losses of 107,000, but that's an 87 percent improvement compared to Q3 2009.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 2010, 2010-earnings, cdma, earning, earnings, linings, network, news, operator, q32010, quickly-fade, specifics, still-notches
Sprint Epic 4G update delayed by ‘administrative issues,’ consumer rage released on schedule
And this, folks, is a lesson of what not to do if you're a major carrier with a majorly perturbed user base. In a way, this sort of feels like the Instinct update debacle all over again, with users claiming that a promised software update was being held beyond the 30 day return window in order to keep contracts alive.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, cdma, consumer-rage, delayed, engadget, fri, galaxys, keep-contracts, major-carrier, operator, sprint, theory, Throttle, time, update
Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 actually doesn’t support tethering
We're not exactly sure how this message got so confused, but Microsoft's come out today to let us know that Windows Phone 7 officially doesn't support tethering at all, despite earlier comments by Brandon Watson that it'd be a network operator call on whether to enable it .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: brandon-watson, engadget, make-the-cut, message, microsoft, Modem, network, operator
Motorola’s Milestone XT720 makes US debut… on Cincinnati Bell
We aren't quite sure what kind of deal Cincinnati Bell has going on, but darn if this regional carrier doesn't score some fairly fantastic handsets. Also known for landing Nokia's white E71 and its XpressMusic 5800 first in the US, the operator is now the first American home to Motorola's Milestone XT720 .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: fully-featured, moto, motorolaxt720, operator, price, proximity, smartphone, southwestern, usa
Purported myTouch HD leaks out alongside promise of T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ smartphone
Someone should really tell T-Mobile USA it's got a rather large hole that needs plugged. Hot on the heels of the (presumably) T-Mob-bound G1 Blaze leak comes this duo, which includes a purported leak of the myTouch HD (or 3G HD) as well as a web portal that quite clearly prepares us for the launch of the carrier's first HSPA+ smartphone
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: america, blaze, entry, heels, hole, hspa, hspa plus, leaks, mytouch, operator, portal, Vanguard, vision
NTT DoCoMo looks to sell handheld game manufacturers on 3G
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo is apparently in talks with heretofore unnamed manufacturers to get its 3G modules embedded in handheld game consoles. "We are discussing this with various players," said company president Ryuji Yamada. The Wall Street Journal makes an educated guess that Nintendo might be one of the "players" (or "ballers," if you will), which sounds pretty good to us: we know that the upcoming Nintendo 3DS handheld is still being tweaked, and including 3G would be a pretty big deal
Categories: Mobile Phone, nintendo Tags: ballers, educated, educated-guess, entry, gameconsole, mexico, nintendo, operator, president, ryuji, various-players
WIND Mobile: there can be only one (and we’re it)
It seems unlikely that Canada -- a country with a population a little over one-tenth of the US' -- could realistically support six national carriers over the long term, and WIND Mobile's parent company agrees. Speaking with an Ottawa newspaper, Globalive's chairman didn't pull any punches, saying that "there is room for only one more national operator in [his] opinion" and that he intends to be that operator, acquiring others along the way if need be. WIND is going up against fellow newcomers Mobilicity and Public Mobile in a bid to compete against the big trio of Rogers, Bell, and Telus, and it stands to reason that a merger or joint venture would probably help the little guys in their quest
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: against-the-big, along-the-way, engadget, engadget-mobile, globalive, guys, joint, merger, mobile, national, newcomers, operator, telus, windowsmobile
Android and Arduino-packin’ Cellbot features voice recognition, autonomy, and charm to spare
The Cellbots gang has been furiously productive as of late. Not even a month after their wooden "boxbot" was first spotted on You Tube the project has moved on from its humble beginnings of lumber and windshield wiper motors to a full-on a neon green acrylic Truckbot that uses a G1 and Arduino board combination for control. Sure, we've seen Android-powered robots before, but these guys have done some pretty cool things, and have no intention of stopping now
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: control, diy, engadget, entry, lumber, operator, past-the-break, project, rear-as-well, robot, robots, Windshield, wiper