The new app “Incoming!” makes it possible to use Skype over 3G and Edge networks by turning all of your outgoing calls into incoming calls with the help of a partner desktop app.
We showed you this NSA-approved Windows Mobile secure beast-phone already, but this video shows more information about the Sectera Edge. It features one-touch high-level security and— wait for it— customisable ringtones!
In the last day, Apple has started approving quite a few “new” browsers in the app store, seeming to contradict their long-standing “duplication of functionality” prohibition. The catch? They’re all Safari at heart.
Timothy Butler over at OFB did some sleuthing and found that AT&T is downgrading its EDGE/2G service to the weaker 1900 MHz band. Their response to those with newly-lousy service? Buy a new phone.
AT&T users can now snap up the AT&T USBConnect Quicksilver, one of the smallest 3G HSPA-capable devices out there. The tiny little hub weighs 34 grams and uses the new Icera Livanto chipset, which handles GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G data. That’ll give you 70 to 135kpbs downloads on an EDGE network, and 700kbps to 1.7 Mbps downloads on HSPA. Best of all, it’s free (if you get it with a two year contract and mail in the $US100 rebate). [CrunchGear]
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AT&T was calling me to set up an interview with their CTO, but all I could hear was garbled noise on my AT&T iPhone. “I can’t really hear you!” I shouted, as if volume would clear the channel. It’s always been like this, in my home in San Francisco.
While the howls of iPhone 3G reception issues get louder and louder, I’ve always wondered if it was the network’s fault, as some Swedish scientists and journalists have recently suggested. Maybe it’s just new AT&T customers making the bulk of the noise. From my experience, the phone isn’t blameless, but the network is a major part of the issue.
Just in time for the new iPhone’s imminent release, AT&T said today that it will upgrade its 3G network to run at speeds over 20 megabits per second in 2009. That’s more than five times the current limit of 3.6Mbps, which is already fast, at least compared to EDGE. The company is currently testing its HSDPA 3G network for the upgrade, and says it now runs at 7.2Mbps in the lab. The speed boost will be achieved through a software upgrade and won’t require major hardware changes across the network, so we may actually see this happen on time. The question is, when everyone and their mum has the 3G iPhone, will the speed peaks still be that good? [AppleInsider]
This is the IdeaPad U8 from Lenovo. With Intel’s Atom chip inside it, the Mobile Internet Device has an optical mouse to let you fiddle one-handed, supports 3G and EDGE, has GPS, a 4.8-inch touchscreen, a Paul Smith-esque striped back (hope that stays) and an annoying ambient bongo player (either that goes or I do.) Video after the jump.
Nokia Siemens Networks announced today that they have successfully doubled the speed of EDGE (to 592 kbps) using a software-based solution that is feasible for existing networks. Expected in the third quarter of 2008, Nokia will follow up with EGPRS 2, offering 1.2 Mbps and uploads reaching 473 kbps.
