Tag: 3g
Use your iPhone as a 3G modem… but maybe Stateside-only
It’s functionality that’s already available for a range of popular phones, including the N95, the Skypephone S2, and the forthcoming INQ Facebook phone, but it’s something that a lot of iPhone users would kill for – the ability to use the iPhone as a 3G modem.
The iPhone’s carrier in the USA, AT&T, announced last night that it would release some software to enable this functionality on the device. There has previously been two options for using your iPhone as a 3G modem, but one was removed from the App store and the other only works on jailbroken iPhones.
It’ll almost certainly cost users more money, and the connection won’t be fast enough to do much more than load a few websites, but it’s a nice feature addition to the device, for US users. I wonder if O2 has anything similar in the works over here.
AT&T (via Technologizer)
Related posts: Skypephone S2 offers this functionality out of the box | So will the INQ Facebook phone
Orange to offer Eee 901 with 3G for £25 a month
Cautiously speaking, this looks like a good deal. If you’ve been thinking about getting a netbook then you’re probably familiar with the Eee 901, which is one of the best on the market. Well, Orange are poised to start selling the Eee for £25 a month on a two year contract with a 3GB-a-month data cap.
It’ll only be available in black and pink, but you also get the ability to send 100 texts from the device, too. The only problem? The device will probably be looking very long in the tooth in two year’s time, given that it’s nearly a year old already, and data will be considerably cheaper by then, too. Plus £25 a month over 24 months is £600. That’s a lot of cash for a machine that Asus are phasing out.
Orange (via Electric Pig)
Intrepid Ibex – new version of Linux due out tomorrow
The Linux development team follow a much shorter release cycle than Microsoft or Apple do for their operating systems. Whereas the big players pump out a new OS every few years, there’s a new Linux release every six months or so. That means that the features are almost always cutting, but it also means that the releases lack polish somewhat…
3 launches D100 wireless router for dongles
Mobile operator underdogs 3 have just launched an addition to their family of wireless dongles – a wireless router. It’s quite a smart idea – it allows you to plug a 3 wireless dongle in, and it’ll act like an access point, when there isn’t one normally available. Given usual 3G speeds, however, how fast this would actually run when split between “up to 32” people is open to debate…
Sixteen technology giants rally behind LTE
LTE, or “The Long Term Evolution of 3G” is a technology that transmits data over cellular networks, and competes with Wi-Fi and WiMax for the future of wireless data transfer. LTE, however, has been given a big boost today, as 16 huge technology companies have all agreed to embed the technology in future devices…
Apple and AT&T sued for selling too many iPhones
A lawsuit in San Diego, filed last week, is accusing Apple and AT&T of overselling iPhones. It’s being alleged that the companies promised fast 3G speeds, knowing that the thousands of customers would slow down the network to a crawl. The lawsuit also accuses the two companies of misleading customers over the speed of EDGE on the first iPhone…
UPDATE: Apple fixes 3G woes with 2.0.2 software update
Rejoice, iPhone users, for salvation is at hand. Last week we brought you the story that carriers were blaming Apple for poor 3G performance and connectivity issues, pinpointing “an immature chipset and radio protocol stack” as the source of the problem.
Apple responded on Thursday, saying “oops”, and pledging to fix the problem, and here we are on Tuesday with a software update, that simply claims “bug fixes”. Luckily, it seems to have made things considerably zippier, and iPhoneBuzz have run some video tests comparing 2.0.2 with the previous 2.0.1 software…
Apple facing the blame for iPhone 3G connection issues
Many users across the world have been having issues with their iPhone 3Gs – suffering connection problems as well as low speeds once they are connected. They’ve been blaming the carriers, but the carriers are now holding their hands up, claiming “not me, guv”.
Turns out that it might be Apple at fault. Swedish technical publication “Ny Teknik” are claiming that the iPhone doesn’t meet the International Telecommunication Union’s standards, and an analyst at Nomura Securities claims that it’s “…an immature chipset and radio protocol stack” causing the issues, whatever that means…
iPhone 3G deals: UK gets a better deal than the US
Now that the details of the contract you need to sign in blood with O2 (UK) or AT&T (US) have been announced, it looks like UK consumers may actually have the better end of the deal! Here’s why:
Sony Ericsson MD400 & MD400g: 3G USB modems, GPS and data storage
Sony Ericsson has unveiled two USB broadband modems that combine 3G internet access with GPS and memory stick functions as well…
