The first phone with OpenMoko support, FIC Neo 1973, can now be bought by anyone with a credit card. It’s $300 US for the basic kit which is pretty well stocked. It includes the stylus, headset, carrying pouch, a half gig memory card, lanyard and the data cable. The $450 developer kit stuffs all that [...]
Wow. Looks like we’ll have a duopoly on cellular networks if this merger goes through, but hey, it’s all Canadian! All hail our CDMA overlord Belus! The Star has the story. Telus is wary of the merger not being allowed. … Vancouver-based Telus, the country’s second-biggest phone company, confirmed Thursday it has entered into a [...]
This morning I saw a full page ad for www.wirelessfuture.ca in 24. I’ve never seen this one before. It looks like the site was recently created by a group that’s made up of Videotron, Quebecor, mipps and MTS AllStream. I’ve included a snapshot of the ad from a PDF available on the 24 website, which [...]
I learned a small lesson in humility today. I was load testing a telecom application and something went wrong. Part of the test was simulating a few dozen calls per second passed through a MSC. All of a sudden my call rate drops to zero. Well, I’ll dump all the logs I possibly can, restart [...]
Ars Technica has an article on how Data plans are the barrier to mobile Internet adoption. I believe it. The announcement of the iPhone generated a metric ton of buzz, not just around around Apple’s highly-anticipated entry into the cellphone market but also other smartphone devices such as the Samsung Blackjack and the Motorola Q. [...]
Update: I didn’t post the link to the source yet because there is a small delay. The new deadline will be the end of the fifteenth according to the announcement. Update 2: The source is out! Announcement here, subversion #1, subversion #2. I’m not sure what’s in subversion #2 as I can’t connect right now [...]
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