Well it looks like Nokia’s trying to get in on the smartphone party. Which is odd, to some degree, seeing as how by almost any measure Nokia or at least Symbian is the smartphone party. But it seems that there’s some writing on the wall and Nokia has read it. To that end it is [...]

Categories: apple · google · gphone · telephony

So you know I’m an Android skeptic. I’d love to see it, I just have doubts that a huge coalition, including the carriers, could pull it off if they wanted to and suspect that the carriers are less interested in most in having this succeed. But who knows… stranger things have happened.
There was a video [...]

Categories: gphone · telephony

Celebrate good times. Come on! I thought that my WiMax dreams were dead. Dead, dead, dead. Happily, it seems that Clearwire and Sprint have gotten back together thanks to some timely matchmaking by Intel (oh and by matchmaking I mean, $2 billion). It seems like this is potentially a win for everyone, since it let’s [...]

Categories: breakfast links · telephony

I’ve said it before - the iPhone was a revolution. The device itself was revolutionary but even more importantly was Apple’s ability to bend the telecoms to it’s will. It made them do things they’ve never done before and most impressive of the bunch was the revenue sharing model.
Prior to the iPhone the telco’s [...]

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Sprint… Sprint… Sprint. I love you but you’re killing me with this WiMax thing. Now a little more analysis of the situation paints a bleaker future for WiMax, our most reasonable hope for mobile broadband in the near future. All sorts of thoughts in that piece but I think it really kinda boils down to [...]

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Wow. I wasn’t expecting to see this rolling up in my Google Reader, but here’s some dude saying that he’s hearing some words about Google mulling over a Sprint Nextel takeover. It doesn’t seem overly likely to me.
The funny thing, though? I kinda think it’s an interesting idea. Google wants to get onto handsets and [...]

Categories: google · m&a · telephony

UPDATE: Whoops, just read a little more and discovered that Android is a linux based OS. Interesting.
So as I thought, there’s no gPhone. It never made sense, y’know? Instead they’ve announced the Open Handset Alliance and the Android platform for mobile devices, basically a mobile OS.
There aren’t many details on why Android is the bomb, [...]

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Thanks to Howard for pointing this one out.
One of the great annoyances in life are those voicemail directories that pretty much every customer service call center runs you through. Some are way more obnoxious than others. They have you listening to long lists of options and sometimes speaking the exact same command loudly and [...]

Categories: review · telephony

You know for a fact that I am chomping at the bit to get my grubby little digits on WiMax. Wide ranging, all over the place, wireless broadband with relatively low latency? Depending on that last one, it’d definitely have me switching off Time Warner’s RoadRunner (oh company of the worst customer service ever).
But wait, [...]

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Exterminate! Exteeeeerminate! Well the Manchesterians went for the gusto, trying to break the world record of largest number of people dressed up as Daleks in one location! Apparently there’s still no official decision on whether this actually broke the record, but I’m holding my breath. Someone has uploaded several videos from the event - they’re [...]

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