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Nokia sues Apple, says iPhone infringes ten patents {Engadget}
Oct 22nd 2009 8:05PM How about this oldie patent from 1987 and its derivatives that Apple is about to infringe upon? HTC has been known to be extremely stingy about enabling this on devices (licensing maybe?) and Nokia has had it on pretty much every device they've ever made.
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=lbYzAAAAEBAJ
BTW, Nokia pretty much owns the tech and all of its siblings. The Zune HD doesn't count because it isn't a phone.
Samsung Moment slider coming to Sprint, packing Android (update: official, $179) {Engadget}
Oct 7th 2009 1:24PM What's the screen resolution? Capacitive or resistive?
800 MHz, OMAP or Tegra?
This could blow my Touch Pro 2 out of the water and free me from WM prison.
Wonder if it has a digital compass as well....
Palm Pre data tethering is a go, Sprint be damned {Engadget}
Jun 15th 2009 3:05PM You should be able to clone your NAI to the data profile's NAI settings using QPST...if you have the MSL of the phone Sprint.
Sony's long awaited touchscreen Walkman finally revealed? {Engadget}
Dec 12th 2008 1:04PM Looks like a LG Prada with the branding removed and then badly photoshopped into a hand.
Vertu's Signature S Design is real, hits FCC {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 13th 2008 4:00PM When I went to the Nokia Flagship store in Kamppi last year, the Vertu phone had a thicker piece of glass protecting it than there was protecting the Constitution. They couldn't stop me from drooling on it though!
Hot or Not? 2011 Chevy Volt {Autoblog}
Sep 8th 2008 9:32PM WHAT. HAPPENED.
Seriously. Is this even the same car? Or did they just pull the lights off the concept, slap them onto this POS and think people would not notice the difference?
And wouldn't this be bait-and-switch tactics considering they promoted the concept as the Volt during the Olympics?
San Francisco to test wireless parking sensors, cause rat races to momentarily open spaces {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 15th 2008 11:27PM I can just see one pissed off person with a hammer taking care of this problem.
SK Telecom still interested in scooping up Sprint? {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 15th 2008 9:41PM A joint venture only makes sense with a South Korean Provider. With Verizon going the LTE way instead of WiMax, Sprint is going to need some allies. South Korea is pretty much adopting the WiMax model Sprint is. What I like about Sprint, other than them being my hometown company that does a ton for KC, is that I think their decision to go WiMax is the protrayal of a company who is planning for the long-term, not for the short-term. They know NexTel and iDEN is dead, they are squeezing CDMA's technology for all it's worth to compete and doing successfully in the face of Qualcomm's stronghold on IP and the rest of the world trying to figure out how to progress forward on GSM.
They are looking to not make the same mistake by going with a technology controlled by a tyrannical company like Qualcomm; they are going with an IETF standard that was designed from the ground-up to be able to be enhanced greatly for speed and mobility; even some day be the successor to WiFi or at least be bundled with it in chipsets. The other advantage is, while they are required to have less distance between towers, they can essentially have an infrastructure that is consumer-run with future wireless routers being built with dual WiFi/WiMax chipsets and serving as range extenders to dead areas.
On top of it all, their first device to use the technology will be the Nokia N810 WiMax edition, which runs a debian-derivative OSS platform called Maemo which is soon to be complimented by the open-sourcing of Symbian OS. The provisioning of devices will be handled via SSL OTA.
No ESN numbers, no SIM cards, only MACs. Switching devices will be as easy as logging into your Sprint account.
Deutsche Telekom looking to pick up Sprint? {Engadget Mobile}
May 5th 2008 8:43PM While I would love to see my two favorite carriers merge, the technical hurdles just are too large. It would be like a cable company buying a phone company and trying to convert to one or the other's technology. Sprint has decided to go the WiMax route for future communications, T-Mobile will go the other route, which is LTE. The two technologies are nothing alike and making one company migrate to one technology or the other would be a huge waste of technology, money, and technical resources. While CDMA is the superior technology, as is WiMax over LTE, the rest of the world uses GSM and HSPA and LTE, with the exception of Japan, Korea, and a few North American countries.
It just doesn't make sense, unless the WiMax network were to be co-developed and maintained with the existing GSM architecture and Sprint phased-out CDMA completely. But then Where does LTE come into play? I don't know. Possibly a dual-technology network where they both compliment each other in places where one technology has been deployed. This would be a good thing for T-Mobile because the WiMax network has been rolled out, it just needs to have the ground infrastructure that supports the mandwidth it demands put into place. Sprint could turn on WiMax today, but there are currently no phones who use it and the bandwidth backing the wireless network would choke. I suspect this is the case with other carriers as well, but they just aren't saying it. Sprint is actually light years ahead of other carriers in terms of a 4G rollout, being that they already have the network in place, but they're just waiting on carriers to roll-out handsets that support it.
Sprint's April WiMAX soft-launch on track, full-scale deployment at risk {Engadget}
Feb 14th 2008 9:25AM I'd love to see this launched. If Sprint can launch this nation-wide this year, they will have a heavy advantage in the business user market. While LTE is great and all, people forget that every big player is developing for WiMax, it has already launched in the Asian market, and Intel will be offering this integrated with their upcoming mobile platform.
On the other hand, I'd love to see a word-mode capable Wimax/LTE/HSPA/CDMA capable product come from Sprint or any other carrier. After Verizon goes LTE, Sprint will have a much harder time trying to convince carriers to develop phones strictly for WiMax. I know most Qualcomm chipsets already support both technologies for wither technology and I see Sprint wavering in their strict no-SIM policy. Remember CDMA was developed by Qualcomm with SIM card capability, but Sprint said no and no handset is subsequently developed without that built in. I'm assuming this technology is still useable even with EVDO today and I'm assuming LTE uses it, since it is based off of GSM.
It would only make logical sense for Sprint to switch to a trule world-capble carrier model, as they are a little more business-oriented carrier. It would also enable them to carry a lot of different handsets if chipsets emerge that can handle multiple mobile technologies, like the Qualcomm MSM7200 and MSM7500 chipsets, which can handle either CDMA or GSM radios.
