Apple vs Microsoft, Oracle vs SQL Server, VHS vs Beta… the tech world has been subject to more religious wars than you can poke a stick at. And the mobile phone business hasn’t been immune for the battles between competing standards. In Australia that battle was fought between GSM, the Global System for Mobile Communications, and CDMA, Code division Multiple Access systems for mobile phone networks.
This isn’t confirmed, but with RIM rumoured to be exploring sliding-QWERTY devices for a pretty long time, one of our BlackBerry connects dropped some info on us and we wanted it to share it. Here’s what we know:
My first thought when I saw Telstra’s new Elite mobile broadband card: “Wow, Expresscard isn’t dead yet?” My second thought: “Really? It isn’t dead yet?” My third thought: “Come on, surely it’s dead and this is a joke.” My fourth thought: “Okay, this joke was kinda lame to begin with, but now it’s just plain embarrassing.”
The A5/1 privacy algorithm, a code which is used to protect the privacy of about 80 per cent of all mobile calls worldwide, has been deciphered and made public. It remains to be seen whether it’s time to panic just yet.
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“.
