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Cy Starkman
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Poor iPhone reception graduates to SNL 'Weekend Update' joke status

Dec 21st 2009 2:19AM on Engadget

I was using mine literally in the middle of the scrub last night, 130k w of Mt Isa to check rain with full bars.

And I was sitting in my friends house the day before with no bars and they did. Both phones o Telstra.

It's the network and how it interacts with the environment

Verizon to FCC: hey, you said ETFs were okay!

Dec 18th 2009 7:39PM on Engadget

Nah

the biggest scam in the USA has been the banks little charade to take all your houses and land and to force te government into effective bankruptcy to take control

iPhone nabs 46 percent of Japanese smartphone market, the tiny Japanese smartphone market

Dec 18th 2009 3:23PM on Engadget

+ infinite

for the best thread ever on engadget

Ericsson demos 42Mbps HSPA Evolution for the laypeople

Dec 17th 2009 10:48PM on Engadget

@kenny goo

Ohhh. And Australia, nearly as big as the USA with less than a tenth the possible subscribers paying for the network to be rolled out.

Economies of scale eh, nah. It's slackness. The problem in the USA isn't land mass or people. It's that you mob didn't start rolling out a UMTS/HSPA network until 2007. Australia started in 2002. You mob are 5 years behind In roll out plain and simple.

Ericsson demos 42Mbps HSPA Evolution for the laypeople

Dec 17th 2009 10:21PM on Engadget

@jafoman

It's really a software upgrade, not a hardware upgrade so it's not so much an issue of how big the target country is.

Then again. Supposing you are in a country that still lacks a national UMTS/HSPA network and what network that exists is behind a few generations... Well in that case it will be a long time for rollout.

Thankfully this isn't an issue unless you are American

/end cheeky dig at the suffering Americans

Ericsson demos 42Mbps HSPA Evolution for the laypeople

Dec 17th 2009 10:11PM on Engadget

Ahhh. Some of you mob seem more locked into marketing terms vs actual network.

4G is a marketing term, let it go, Telstra calls their network "Next G" and often inferred it was somehow better than UMTS/HSPA. HSPA+ which is an actual thing is already scheduled for +80mbit.

As for yer Sprint/Verzion CDMA/EVDO networks... Ahh sigh, I think I might leave you with yer marketed fantasies.

Ericsson demos 42Mbps HSPA Evolution for the laypeople

Dec 17th 2009 11:27AM on Engadget

Here is the link

http://mobile.itwire.com/content/view/30127/127

Ericsson demos 42Mbps HSPA Evolution for the laypeople

Dec 17th 2009 11:25AM on Engadget

Yup Telstra is already running trials of 42mbit in Sydney and is in the process of preparing to upgrade the network software. Early 2010 seems likely but they will wait for modems that support it.

ITwire has a good article on it.

Iraqi insurgents using $26 software to monitor Predator video feeds

Dec 17th 2009 11:21AM on Engadget

The freedom fighters?

Apple applies for head tracking patent, Johnny Chung Lee says 'you're welcome'

Dec 17th 2009 11:16AM on Engadget

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Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

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