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iPhone OS 2.2.1 Doesn't Affect Jailbreak, Cancels 3G Unlock

It has been revealed that iPhone software update version 2.2.1 does not break the iPhone Dev Team's methods of jailbreak. However, 2.2.1 does break the 3G software unlock, users have reported.As every iPhone user should know, Apple released iPhone 2.2.1 firmware two days ago, addressing issues with photos saved ...

29 January 2009
03:23 GMT

LG Releases the KS660, Its First Dual SIM Mobile

LG is expanding its line of mobile releases with the new KS660, which represents a pretty major announcement for the South Korean mobile manufacturer, due to its dual SIM capability. As you've probably already realized, this is the first such dual SIM enhanced device the company has ever developed. The tri-band...

28 December 2008
02:56 GMT

StarHub Releasing Home Zone, the First Commercial 3G Femtocell Service

Since it is the first such service ever launched, Home Zone is surely going to be quickly tried out by all users who are given the opportunity to do so. Naturally, good or bad, we might as well brace ourselves to hear plenty more about it in the first days or weeks of release. Well, this can only mean the best of new...

2 December 2008
09:01 GMT

iPhone 2.2 Slows 3G, Drains More Juice, Users Say

iPhone 2.2 firmware update has spawned long Apple Discussions threads with complaints of slow 3G speeds (or no 3G at all), while battery issues also seem to be caused by the new software update. Thread starter socalrider asked if anyone else noticed “that 3G is at a slug speed” in socal Orange county are...

25 November 2008
03:57 GMT

Telstra to Provide Downlink Speeds of 21Mbps by the End of 2008

Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier, has just announced that its planned eHSPA (enhanced HSPA) network is on track for commercial deployment before the end of 2008. The new network, based on Telstra's already established Next G network, is said to bring data transfer speeds of up to 21Mbps in downli...

7 October 2008
07:01 GMT

Unlocked iPhone on Sale in Hong Kong

iPhone fans from Hong Kong will be able to purchase the handheld directly from Apple, without having to worry about the device being locked in any network. This is happening despite the fact that no announcements were made beforehand – yet the listings confirm it to be true.The price for an 8GB phone is 692 US ...

26 September 2008
05:47 GMT

October Brings 3G to ASUS' Eee PC 901

ASUS is planning to sweeten the offer for its 8.9-inch Eee PC 901 model by adding a 3G card. The improvement is going to allow Eee PC users to download and upload stuff on the Internet at speeds of up to 7.2 and 2 Mbps, respectively. Eee PC users will only need to subscribe to a mobile broadband service, which t...

25 September 2008
05:50 GMT

Panasonic Updates Toughbooks with Three New Models

It appears that Panasonic has finally decided to refresh its lineup of rugged portable computer systems, and has announced today three new models that will become part of the company's Toughbook series. The three new models include the thin-and-light F8, the ultraportable W8 and the T8. At the same time, Panason...

25 September 2008
03:13 GMT

Vodafone Spain and Qualcomm Use 3G to Improve the Elderly's Independence

Through HSPA broadband technology, Vodafone Espana Foundation, the Spanish Red Cross and Qualcomm hope to connect the elderly to their families and caregivers since they plan to unify voice and videoconferencing through a familiar device for the elderly, like the television in the '3G connecting generations'...

23 September 2008
10:06 GMT

T-Mobile Announced the Next US Markets to Benefit from Its 3G Network

T-Mobile USA, North America's fourth largest mobile carrier, has just announced the next 14 US markets to get 3G services by the end of 2008. A group of 8 markets will be able to enjoy T-Mo's new and fast network by mid-October. These are: Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Orlando, San Franc...

18 September 2008
08:42 GMT

Etisalat Egypt Expands Its Network with Huawei

Huawei, the giant Chinese telecommunications company based in Shenzhen, announced that it was selected by Etisalat Misr, one of Egypt's three mobile carriers, to expand and enhance its GSM / 3.75G network. Following the new agreement between the two companies, Huawei will deploy an end-to-end network soluti...

11 September 2008
08:47 GMT

Sony Ericsson TM506 Out Now in the US

Sony Ericsson TM506 has hit the shelves of T-Mobile USA, coming as T-Mo's first 3G Swedish-Japanese handset. Although on the mobile operator's official website the phone is still "coming soon," users can find it in the carrier's stores from across the US as of now. According to Tmonews, the TM506 costs...

6 September 2008
05:28 GMT

Acer to Ship 2 Million Netbooks in Q3 2008

Acer, one of ASUSTek's main competitors in the dynamic market of netbooks, is expected to sell in September over 1 million units worldwide of its only netbook product so far, the Aspire One. The company, which holds a strong position in major markets such as the US and Europe, has also set up channels in emergin...

5 September 2008
04:13 GMT

Mobile Network Operators Bundle Eee PCs with 3G Contracts

According to a recent article on Digitimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer ASUSTeK will be collaborating with network operator Orange to release a free netbook bundle in the UK. The pack will include one of the company's vast range of Eee PCs and a two-year online service contract with Orange.It looks like ASUS will...

18 August 2008
10:37 GMT

T-Mobile Goes 3G in Las Vegas

T-Mobile USA has announced today the availability of its 3G services in the "entertainment capital of world" - which is, of course, Las Vegas. Thus, T-Mobile subscribers from the city of lights and casinos can now enjoy 3G speeds on their compatible phones. T-Mo said that it had invested slightly over $37.5 million i...

6 August 2008
12:07 GMT

LG KF390 Gets an Australian Release

Telstra, the largest Australian mobile operator, has announced the release of a new LG handset to work on its fast Next G network: LG KF390. The phone will be offered in Australia only by Telstra and it was added to the carrier's Blue Tick family of devices. This means that it can be used in rural and remote are...

31 July 2008
03:42 GMT

Ericsson and 3 Can Provide 5.8 Mbps HSPA Upload Speeds in Italy

Ericsson and 3 Italia (Italy's 3) recently announced they have established a cutting-edge 3.5G HSPA commercial network that allows data transfer speeds of up to 5.8 Mbps in uplink. This achievement is an important step towards the deployment of an HSPA Evolution network. With uplink transfer speeds of 5.8 Mbps, ...

17 July 2008
12:05 GMT

Nokia Siemens Enhances Taiwan's Largest 3G Network

Nokia Siemens Networks and Chunghwa Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Taiwan, have signed a new deal in order to enhance the Taiwanese carrier's 3G network. Following the new agreement, which is valued at 72 million Euros ($113.5 million), the new 3G network will allow Chunghwa Telecom's subscribers t...

14 July 2008
10:19 GMT

Telcel Launched Its 3G Network and Announced iPhone 3G Prices

Telcel, the largest mobile carrier in Mexico, has announced the commercial launching of its 3G network in several Mexican cities, along with the unveiling of the prices for Apple's new iPhone 3G. Telcel is the only carrier to offer the iPhone 3G in Mexico and it will release it on Friday, July 11 - at the same...

8 July 2008
10:35 GMT

3G and WiMAX Will Work Together on 2.6 GHz Spectrum

The European Commission announced its Radio Spectrum Committee decision to allow both TDD and FDD on the 2.6 GHz (2500-2690MHz) frequency band, which means that GSM and LTE cellular technologies using FDD will also be able to use the 2.3, 2.6 and 3.5 GHz frequencies, categorized by the WiMAX Forum as the key bands fo...

8 July 2008
04:12 GMT

ASUS Eee PC to Feature 3G

Since the ASUS Eee PC has become the choice of many users since it was launched, its roadmap is always in the center of attention, especially since information on it comes from almost everywhere. For now, we can say that one of the "company's representatives" announced the release of a 3G version of the Eee PC s...

4 July 2008
05:41 GMT

iPhone 3G to Say "Hello China" in August

One of the few big mobile markets where Apple's iPhone is not officially released yet, and we mean China, seems to be finally getting the touchscreen handset, starting August. Moreover, it's not the old iPhone that will make its way to China, but the new 3G one, which was unveiled on June 9. Although App...

18 June 2008
04:43 GMT

iPhone 3G Announced for a CDMA Network

The new, fancy, 3G and GPS-enabled iPhone, unveiled no earlier than last week, was announced by Apple to be released in Jamaica, via MiPhone, the third largest mobile operator in the Caribbean country. This is not really a surprise, since Apple said from the beginning that the iPhone 3G would be available in a lot of...

17 June 2008
10:59 GMT

1 iPhone 3G = 1 Euro at T-Mobile

One of the great news for today is that T-Mobile will be offering Apple's new iPhone 3G for only 1 Euro. And no, we're not talking about T-Mobile USA, which will most probably never see any iPhone in its line-up of products, as Apple seems to be deeply in love with AT&T and chose only them to be iPhone carr...

16 June 2008
05:39 GMT

iPhone 3G Will Actually Be Expensive in Europe

Apple's new and much-talked-about iPhone 3G was announced on June 9 with the now famous line "Twice as fast, half the price". Steve Jobs, Apple's big boss, first said that the new iPhone would cost as low as $199, revealing no further details about exactly how and where that was going to happen. Despite th...

12 June 2008
07:50 GMT

Huawei H11HW Brings Music and 3G at a Reasonable Price

Huawei, a leading telecommunications company from China, recently released its latest mobile phone, the H11HW. This new handset comes with some cool features (for an affordable device) as well as a pretty nice overall look. Huawei H11HW has a clamshell form factor and, when closed, it shows a small internal displ...

12 June 2008
05:38 GMT

HTC Not Afraid of the iPhone 3G

Both HTC and Apple have recently announced new full touchscreen high-end mobile devices, and it seems that the Taiwanese company and the Cupertino-based American one will be, from now on, in a competition fiercer than ever. HTC has just rolled out its Touch Diamond Pocket PC, while Apple has announced the upcoming a...

11 June 2008
13:13 GMT

Telstra Enhances Its Next G Network

Telstra, Australia's leading mobile carrier, together with Ericsson, have announced a new feature for the Next G Australian network, namely the so-called 3G Direct Tunnel. This 3G Direct Tunnel will allow Telstra's network to function at an increased capacity and, therefore, to support the continuously grow...

11 June 2008
11:02 GMT

iPhone 3G Officially Hits 23 Countries on July 11

After yesterday's official presentation of the second-generation iPhone, named "iPhone 3G", Apple also announced that its new handset would be available starting July 11, in no less than 23 markets around the world. Also, iPhone 3G will be released by the end of 2008 in other 50 countries, allowing about all the...

10 June 2008
05:37 GMT

Japan Doesn't Know What the iPhone Is

Softbank, the third largest mobile carrier in Japan, has announced a few days ago that it would begin to sell Apple's iPhone (the 3G one) to its customers, later this year. This seems to be great news for Japanese users, as they'll finally get the chance to buy the handset that became hugely popular since i...

6 June 2008
10:42 GMT

Meteor Expands Its 3G Network

While in India Ericsson is helping disadvantaged people, back in Europe, the Swedish telecommunications giant is taking care of more technical things. The company has announced a new deal with the Irish mobile operator Meteor, according to which it will be the exclusive supplier of the carrier's future nationwid...

5 June 2008
13:17 GMT

Nokia Siemens Enhances Celcom's Malaysian Network

Celcom, a leading Malaysian mobile operator, has contracted Nokia Siemens Networks in order to expand and modernize its current 3G nationwide network. Incorporating the high-end HSPA technology of Nokia Siemens, the future 3G network of Celcom will allow users to benefit from new services, while the already existing ...

4 June 2008
06:44 GMT

Vodacom Rolls out HSUPA Services in South Africa

Vodacom, the largest mobile operator in South Africa, has announced the availability of the country's first HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) 3G service, accessible all over its nationwide network as of yesterday. Coming to improve the "HSDPA 3.6" service that Vodacom is currently offering, the new HSUP...

29 May 2008
11:49 GMT

Russia Going 3G Thanks to MTS

MTS, the number one Russian mobile operator in terms of subscriber numbers (55 million), has just announced that its first 3G network is now functional, covering the area of Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia (more than 4.6 million people). MTS also readied 3G networks for Yekaterinburg, Kazan and ...

28 May 2008
10:46 GMT

3G Enabled Hisense T68 Released

Hisense recently launched its latest mobile phone, the T68, which comes to work on China's new and not yet fully developed 3G / TD-SCDMA network. The device was showcased at the Chinese HI-TECH 2008 fair and it's the second handset to come with support for TD-SCDMA frequencies, after Samsung's SGH-L288...

22 May 2008
04:55 GMT

3G iPhone Coming on June 9 to Smash HTC's Touch Diamond

In the breaking-but-not-really category of news we have this: the much-talked-about and impatiently awaited 3G iPhone will be officially presented and released on the 9th of June, during the Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 (WWDC), which will take place in San Francisco. This precious piece of info comes not from...

21 May 2008
03:56 GMT

HTC Diamond and the 3G iPhone to Be Camera Palls

HTC Touch Diamond, the latest high-end smartphone unveiled by HTC, will apparently have lens cameras similar to Apple's second generation iPhone, which should be released sometime in June or July (if all the rumors appeared until now are not too far from the truth). Quoting the Chinese Economic Daily News websit...

16 May 2008
10:42 GMT

Ericsson Brings Faster 3G Speeds to Singapore

Ericsson signed today an agreement with SingTel, Singapore's largest mobile operator, according to which, the Swedish company will enhance the carrier's GSM, WCDMA and HSPA networks. After Ericsson upgrades SingTel's network, the carrier will be able to provide higher data transfer speeds as well as an...

16 May 2008
06:56 GMT

Billion's Bipac 7402GX Router Goes 3G When Your ISP Lags

Here's a network device that's really worth billions, although it sells for a dramatically lower price. Billion Electrics has unveiled its Bipac 7402GX wireless router that promises not to let you down when your ISP does. The wireless device comes with a 3G back-up plan when there are service outages with t...

7 May 2008
10:52 GMT

Samsung SGH-L288 Brings 3G to China

Samsung SGH-L288 (or simply Samsung L288) is the first mobile phone to be launched in China and to feature 3G connectivity, working on TD-SCDMA frequencies. The TD-SCDMA technology is developed by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technology, especially for China and for its 3G needs. Part of the AnyCal...

7 May 2008
05:45 GMT

T-Mobile USA Officially Offers 3G Services

Gone are the days when T-Mobile was the only major North American mobile operator without a 3G network, because the "magenta carrier" went live and official with its very first UMTS/HSDPA network in New York (the city, not the state). After several delays and rumors regarding T-Mo's 3G network deployment, the...

6 May 2008
05:13 GMT

3G iPhone To Cost Only $199 at AT&T

The second generation iPhone, you know, the one that will soon come with 3G connectivity, might be cheaper than the first version, the EDGE-only one. This will be possible thanks to AT&T, the sole carrier who can currently sell the iPhone in the US (apparently, it will be the only one selling the 3G version too).Acc...

30 April 2008
02:59 GMT

Nokia Siemens Goes Green in Slovenia

Nokia Siemens announced it has closed a deal with Tusmobil, a leading Slovenian mobile operator, in order to deploy no less than 400 environmentally-friendly base stations which will allow Tusmobil to expand and upgrade its network from 2G to 3G. Following Nokia Siemen's deployments, Tusmobil will be ab...

25 April 2008
10:39 GMT

Sony Ericsson Introduces Z780 and G502

Sony Ericsson confirmed today the existence of Z780 and G502, and it also released official images and details about the two handsets. Both phones are 3G-enabled (for a good mobile Web experience) and are set to hit the market in a few months. Sony Ericsson Z780 is a new clamshell that follows the line of Z770, bu...

23 April 2008
06:22 GMT

The First 3G Levi's Mobile Phone

The very first Levi Strauss branded mobile phone to feature 3G connectivity (and the second ever Levi's handset) is now offered by Orange France, under the name of Levi's The Original 3G. Like the other existent Levi Strauss phone, simply named Levi's The Original, the new one doesn't pack adva...

21 April 2008
02:36 GMT

Ericsson Brings 3G Speeds to TIM Brasil's Network

Ericsson and TIM Brasil announced they have reached an agreement according to which the Swedish company will provide a new WCDMA / HSPA network for the South American mobile operator, in order to allow the deploying of high-speed broadband across eight Brazilian states. The states that will benefit from the agreemen...

17 April 2008
08:39 GMT

The First 3G MTV Phone Comes From France

MTV3.3 is the name of the first 3G-enabled MTV mobile phone, and the third ever MTV phone (as far as we know). The handset comes exclusively from SFR, the second largest mobile operator in France, after Orange, and it's created in collaboration with ModeLabs, the company behind other exclusive devices (the Levi&...

16 April 2008
03:09 GMT

Nike + iPhone, iPod Touch

Sources on the Internet have revealed that Nike is planning on introducing yet another version of its Nike+ equipment, this time for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The extended compatibility with Apple's devices is most likely going to make use of Wi-Fi and even 3G, as far as the iPhone is concerned, so fol...

14 April 2008
04:04 GMT

3G iPhone To Hit Australia in June

Apple's iPhone is impatiently awaited by Australia and, although there have been various rumors about its launch, there were no official details to sustain it, not from Apple and nor from any of the Australian carriers. The wait will apparently be ended in June, when not only that the iPhone hits the Australi...

10 April 2008
17:06 GMT

Ericsson's New LTE Mobile Platform: 50Mbps Upload Speeds

Ericsson recently unveiled a glimpse of what the future of mobile Internet will bring, announcing its new M700 mobile platform, capable of LTE (Long Term Evolution) data transfer speeds. Ericsson says this is "the world's first commercially available LTE-capable platform", and we have no choice than to believe i...

7 April 2008
17:06 GMT


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