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 [...]

When Airplane Mode Isn’t

"… Casey, the iPhone user, told Consumerist that he tried several times to explain to the flight attendant that the iPhone was in "airplane mode," with all the radios disabled. But the flight attendants did not accept that explanation, and continued to insist that FAA regulations prohibit talking on cell phones [...]

Free Wifi at Starbucks?

When Starbucks introduced for-pay Wi-Fi in 2002, it seemed like a great deal (especially for business customers who could expense it). But five years later, the model appears old and stale and ready for a complete overhaul.Prediction: Starbucks will start rolling out free Wi-Fi access within one year.

Doubt it. I’m not [...]

Nokia Maps A Strategy Against Apple

Nokia acquiring Navteq is huge, I’m surprised there wasn’t more of a discussion about it. With this move Nokia is going all in with location-based services as a competitive differentiator and if my experiences are any indicator this is a good move.

If you are a handset manufacturer you can’t compete on platform anymore but fashion, [...]

Jeff Gets An iPhone

Having missed out on the Office 2.0 conference goody last week, I picked up an iPhone this weekend, the price drop did it for me. A couple of observations:

My concerns about the touch screen sensitivity and lack of tactile feedback were unfounded. I still like a keyboard but this is very [...]

The iPhone Kerfuffle

Fred is right:

Cutting the price on the iPhone by $100200 a couple months after launch and pissing off everyone who was an early adopter.

First of all, they should have come out and admitted that the iPhone was priced too high from the get go. The idea that in 2 months the [...]

San Francisco’s Free Wifi Network, Sigh

The proposed Google/Earthlink citywide wifi network in San Francisco has been debated for almost 2 years and not a single access point has made it through the guantlet that is the Board of Supervisors. It appear that Earthlink has now decided that citywide wifi is not the good business it once promised…

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The Most Valuable Spectrum on Earth

The 700mhz spectrum freed up by television broadcasters will partially be auctioned off next year and Google wants it. There is some great analysis of the rules and consequences elseware so I’ll spare my .02 cents. My primary thought on the matter is that if the CTIA is so strenuously opposed to Google’s rule proposal, well [...]

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