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Valicore

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Flash Player 10.1 goes final for Nexus One handsets, available to download now (Engadget)

Aug 16th 2010 8:56PM Damn, what is with the every increasing iPhone vs. Android-phones-in-general pissing contest? I for one am glad there is an iPhone and that there are Android phones and Symbian phones etc etc. The only thing absolute dominance of one standard does is decrease pressure to innovate.

WiMAX 2 standard, and its theoretical 1Gbps downloads, to be finalized soon (Engadget)

Aug 15th 2010 7:15PM @MikeSL The U.S., Libya, Russia, the UK, Denmark, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the Phillipines, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Mauritania, Kenya, South Africa, Angola, India, Mongolia, Taiwan. - That is a list of countries WiMAX deployments currently in service and using the same frequency band as Sprint. There are a bunch more in deployment or planned. I don't know why everyone is so down on WiMax.

WiMAX 2 standard, and its theoretical 1Gbps downloads, to be finalized soon (Engadget)

Aug 15th 2010 7:06PM @thunder18 CDMA actually WILL be in the future, regardless of what some others may tell you. It is being launched all over the world right now (mostly in Eastern Europe and Africa) as a cheap way of providing telephone and broadband internet to areas with no wired infrastructure. China Telecom has 72 million subscribers as of May, and just announced it will upgrade it's network to CDMA EV-DO Rev. B - which will support simultaneous voice and data. Don't count CDMA out yet.

WiMAX 2 standard, and its theoretical 1Gbps downloads, to be finalized soon (Engadget)

Aug 15th 2010 6:45PM @Xcharles718 That is pretty much their plan. They said that if they do decide to launch LTE it will be alongside WiMax, not replacing it.

WiMAX 2 standard, and its theoretical 1Gbps downloads, to be finalized soon (Engadget)

Aug 15th 2010 5:35PM @Chenz "TeliaSonera is the first operator in the world to offer a commercial LTE network. It has launched services in parts of Stockholm and Oslo, Norway using the 2.6GHz band. Using a Samsung Electronics modem and a broadband-measuring site to conduct the test, Northstream said the service never exceeded 12 Mbps on the downlink. However the networks upload speeds came in at 5 Mbps, which was impressive to the firm." That's been the general experience with LTE, it shines in the lab but in real life it's very close to WiMax. Half of Sweden's population lives in the 5 largest metro areas, so I don't think coverage is too much of a challenge.

Lumigon T1 gets Froyo and a major facelift, makes glamorous appearance on Facebook (Engadget)

Aug 15th 2010 3:18AM I don't like it, bezel is too thin... seriously though, is this an all weather phone or something? That huge space at the bottom of the phone just for the logo is kinda dated.

San Francisco in Verizon's initial 30-market LTE rollout? (Engadget)

Aug 14th 2010 3:14PM Sprint, move your ass and make with the 4G in the Bay Area already.

San Francisco in Verizon's initial 30-market LTE rollout? (Engadget)

Aug 14th 2010 3:12PM @theaussiepunk Erm is that a fact, where exactly would that be? I've been all over the South Bay and the only 4G I've gotten was in Mountain View for like, a minute.

San Francisco in Verizon's initial 30-market LTE rollout? (Engadget)

Aug 14th 2010 3:09PM @Evileclipse Yeah, the widespread adoption thing is the biggest positive point. Number one it would allow international roaming more easily, which is a huge money maker for carriers, it would also give Sprint access to the plethora of devices that will come out for LTE, because almost every country in the world that has chosen a 4G upgrade path has chosen LTE.

Editorial: Waiter, there's a Nazi theme in my Android Market (updated) (Engadget)

Aug 13th 2010 6:42PM @bufbarnaby Very true, and it's extremely important in some Native American religions, along with in Tibet and some other Asian countries.