Car Internet

I can see something like this being a big draw for families, just like in vehicle entertainment systems (DVDs and games) have proven to be. However, for $600 plus another $30 a month it is pretty spendy, for a computer based EVDO card you would pay less than $100 plus $60 a month for Verizon’s […]

Bust a Deal, Face the Wheel

Sprint lost a pretty significant case involving the early termination fees (ETFs) here in California. A contract is a contract and I’m not inclined to cheer the court action nullifying a valid contract between two parties, however it’s also clear that cell phone companies have profitably abused ETFs (e.g. attaching an ETF to a renewal […]

Clearwire promises a fully-open, “third pipe” WiMAX network

I remain a fan of WiMax despite it never quite achieving the promise held out in the early phases. While fully expecting to be a Clearwire customer by now, if it takes a few more years to ramp this to the mass market, I won’t complain.

A lengthy document filed this week with the […]

Mobile Web Dead?

Former Yahoo! Mobile evangelist turned startup entrepreneur Russell Beattie announced today that he’s calling it quits for his company Mowser because the market for mobile browsing is taking a fast turn for the worse. “The mobile traffic just isn’t there,” Beattie says, “It’s not there now, and it won’t be.”

[From Is […]

Apple’s 45 Million iPhones in 2008

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.[From FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones […]

Predicted Shift to SmartPhones

One problem I have with this survey is the small sample size and the apparent disconnect between their projections and what handset manufacturers are capable of delivering. There are over 2 billion handsets sold every year, which means a sample size of 4,182 is hardly a proxy for the broader market.

Plus, despite the projections year […]

Myopia

Let’s say Apple ships 7 million iPhones for the full year and that is 20% of the total market… iSuppli is forecasting that global handset shipments will be 1.3 billion units for 2008, so as a component of the overall market smartphones are pretty damn small.

It clearly shows a steady increase in iPhone […]

EVDO

I finally bought an EVDO card for my Mac. So far it’s been a great experience, the expresscard driver software is already in Leopard so I didn’t have to load anything, basically it was as simple as taking the card out of the box, inserting it in the slot, and clicking on the “connect” menu […]

100 Million Handsets

Wow, Sony Ericsson’s announcement that they sold 100 million handsets in 2007 is impressive… that is 3 handsets every second for those of you interested in trivial math. Kind of puts Apple’s announcement yesterday about selling 4 million iPhones in perspective… even if Apple sells 15-20 million iPhones over a couple of years they will […]

T-Mobile to Customers : FU

T-Mobile blocks outgoing Twitter messages, according to TechCrunch. The company’s spokesperson doesn’t dispute it and then tells customers to basically fuck off if they don’t like it.

…Twitter is not an authorized third-party service provider, and therefore you are not able to utilize service from this provide any longer…. T-Mobile is not in violation […]

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