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May 08 2008

Nokia E71 all up in AT&T’s labs

Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, ATT, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

While we twiddle our thumbs and wait for some sort of official confirmation that this thing even exists, Boy Genius Report has heard some rumblings that AT&T is putting the Nokia E71 through its paces with the intention of launching it — in your choice of black or white, no less. Multiple Eseries colors certainly aren’t without precedent, so we can purchase that much — and AT&T has previously launched the E62, so we have the ability to totally picture this going down. What’s more, we’ve now heard from an independent source that the AT&T-branded E71 does in fact exist and is currently being crafted in Nokia’s San Diego facilities (production models won’t be born in the same place, we presume). Just a warning, guys: if this ends up happening as an EDGE-only device, we’re going to lose it.

May 08 2008

Nokia E71 all up in AT&T’s labs

Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, ATT, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

While we twiddle our thumbs and wait for some sort of official confirmation that this thing even exists, Boy Genius Report has heard some rumblings that AT&T is putting the Nokia E71 through its paces with the intention of launching it — in your choice of black or white, no less. Multiple Eseries colors certainly aren’t without precedent, so we have the ability to buy that much — and AT&T has previously launched the E62, so we have the ability to completely picture this going down. What’s more, we’ve now heard from an independent source that the AT&T-branded E71 does in fact exist and is currently being crafted in Nokia’s San Diego facilities (production models won’t be born in the same place, we presume). Just a warning, guys: if this ends up happening as an EDGE-only device, we’re going to lose it.

May 08 2008

Microsoft increases focus on Fone+ cellphone project for the poor

Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech

Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, Misc

Microsoft has been touting its Fone+ project for a tiny while now, but it looks like the company is starting to step up its efforts a bit further, with the new head of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group, Craig Mundie, reportedly leading the charge to increase the focus on the project aimed at bringing cellphones to the poor. This isn’t a case of simply handing out as many barebones handsets as possible, however. Instead, Microsoft wants to use the cellphones (which are described as a “low-to-mid-end smartphone”) as an substitute to personal like the OLPC, an idea the company has been tossing around since before the Fone+ project even had a name. To make things a bit more practical, the cellphones would be paired with a dock that hooks up to TV, resulting in a system that Mundie states is “a lot cheaper than having to purchase a whole separate computer.” Unfortunately, while it is upping its efforts, Microsoft apparently still isn’t ready to provide any sort of timeline about when we have the ability to anticipate to see an actual product, and Mundie adds that the company continues to “explore and look at both phone-up models and PC-down models” to make computing more accessible to the poor.

[Via Phone Scoop

May 08 2008

Mobilkom I-HSPA tests provide 10.1Mbps speeds, another acronym to remember

Posted by: admin in Mobile Tech

Filed under: Handsets, Messaging, HSDPA, Studies, HSUPA

Nokia Siemens Networks and Mobilkom Austria are likely celebrating some I-HSPA (Internet High Speed Packet Access) test results that rang in at a respectable 10.1Mbps during a data call. I-HSPA is essentially Nokia Siemens Networks’ version of HSPA+, with both touted as bringing a flat architecture to the HSPA network by connecting the base station directly to the web. Bottom line is when we see this on our doorstep, we’re just one step closer to LTE, and its speed in comparison will rekindle warm thoughts of the first time we used HSDPA after struggling with GPRS.