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more about #cdma Unf'withable: omfg.. All BB's look the same! (except the Storm) Wtf do people see in them?? more » ceilingFANBOY: I don't think anyone in Maryland is going to buy a Blackberry named Essex. They are either too good to be associated with Essex or a mullet-having Ess... more » hacku: I love Blackberries (8330 owner myself), but they all look the same. more » aniteshj: IF this is the real deal, glad to see they are carrying over with the ever almighty Bold keyboard. Honestly every single company even doing a qwerty b... more » MegaZone: Re: Subject Question. Yes, yes I did. ;-) more » Mandatory_Field: Hmmm, kinda reminds me of when I invented and patented a system to help prevent being torpedoed too frequently by using bar hopping. more » SigmundTheSeaMonster: Looks like she got the idea and applied it to her marriages... more » SakhiKabobular: "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives" H. Lamar :) more » bigbill25: This comment is best read in an RSS reader more » djalice: Hedy is my heroine! I think she is probably more famous for this than her films! I found out about her as she was the inspiration behind Rachel Tyre... more » Hiphopopotamus: I remember Bob Wuhl talking about this on his Assume the Position comedy special... highly recommend that you check it out, funny and informative stuff. more » ludwigk: ""Any girl can be glamorous, all she has to do is stand still and look stupid." Yes I did! I have an old issue of "American Heritage: Invention &a... more » OMG! Ponies!: That's Hedley. more » Purple Dave: "This is why you can't forge a phone completely out of aluminum." Well, if you could set it up so the case was the antenna, you'd be set, right? more » strider_mt2k: Boil that down to ONE reason: Internal antennas. more » mrxcel: Why do you guys use a Blackberry as the picture? i bet if the article would have been AMERICAS HAS THE BEST RECEPTION IN THE WORLD you would have seen... more » Corwin Loreman: CNF ftw! more » zerofourtwo: Dropped calls are the only way i can get off the phone with the inlaws... more » rospaya: It should be noted that this is a problem mostly in the US. I had almost zero dropped calls on tens of phones in most of Europe. more » Gregg Symington: TLDR... more » -
#blackberry
First Look At Blackberry's Essex and Rumors About the Dakota
Forget the mockups of the Blackberry Essex, what may be a picture of the real thing has leaked along with news of Dakota, RIM's first phone with a "touchscreen in a conventional shape" and a "liquid lens." More » -
#retromodo
Retromodo: Did You Know Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent Frequency Hopping?
There's a longer story you can read elsewhere, but actress Hedy Lamarr invented and patented a system to help prevent torpedoes from being jammed by using frequency hopping. More » -
#4g
EVDO/LTE Hybrid Device Approved By FCC
Think the EVDO network is too slow? Relief could be in sight. The FCC recently approved the LG M13 which, according to the filing, is a "cellular/PCS CDMA/EVDO and 700MHz LTE Device". More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: Why Cellphone Reception Still Sucks
"Hi, I'd like a large barbecue chicken pizza with extra—*fzzt* oni *asjkhwakj* no *kssshh*" CALL FAILED. What just happened here? With all of today's modern wireless technology, why do cellphones still pull this crap? More » -
#shame
The Worst Proprietary Gadget Offenses
Like a predatory loan officer or an unstable partner, technology companies have an obsession with locking you down. Here are some of the worst examples of proprietary products that leave you trapped, broke and angry. -
#mwc09
Verizon LTE Wireless Clocking 60Mbps In US Tests, Confirmed to Launch in 2010
Verizon's rollout of its 4G Long Term Evolution network is in the trial phase in three metro areas, and lucky testers are seeing peak speeds of 60Mbps—wireless. Best of all, 2010 commercial launch is confirmed. More » -
#wimax
Sprint Dual U300 Modem Will Connect to Both EVDO and WiMax
Sprint's partnership with WiMax provider ClearWire looks to be bearing some hardware fruit, with the release of the first dongle to combine 3G cellular and 4G capabilities. More » -
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#napolean
Motorola's "Napolean" Q World Phone Gets Leaked: CDMA + GSM Included
Motorola's got another Q in the queue in the form of the new Napolean world phone. It's a CDMA smartphone for Verizon that does double duty with GSM, so you can use it pretty much anywhere. It also includes Wi-Fi if you're not feeling like using its EV-DO Revision A or EDGE data, runs Windows Mobile 6.1, and includes a fingerprint scanner and a 2-megapixel camera with flash. It sounds like a great phone for world travelers, but probably overkill for anyone else. [BGR] -
#cellphones
Coolpad Phone Has Dual SIMs, Dual CDMA/GSM
This Coolpad phone is the thing to have for the type of person (arms dealer, super spy) who has to go abroad often and doesn't know what kind of cellphone service they have out in who knows where. It's got two SIM slots, which can swap between your home US network and a foreign one, as well as the ability to swap over to a CDMA network as well—in case you have to do some dealings out in Korea. It's available now in China, Africa and Indonesia, so pick one up the next time you're illicitly selling M4s to rebel troops. [Crave Asia] -
#rumor
Rumor: T-Mobile Lusting To Buy Sprint
T-Mobile may be smallish in the US, but it's owned by German giant Deutsche Telekom, a company plenty powerful enough to buy up Sprint if it wanted to...and the rumor mill says it may want to. The Inquirer points out the obvious network issues that might arise. After all, what do you get when you cross a GSM network barely on HSDPA but harboring LTE aspirations with a CDMA/EV-DO franchise who's experimenting with WiMax while lugging a legacy iDEN network around for God-knows-what-reason? [Inquirer] More »
