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Motorola's A910 for UMA gets FCC nod
Sure, Motorola, go ahead and take your time pushing your A910 through the FCC, see if we care. Even as we had to sit back and watch BT Fusion announce the WiFi-enabled UMA clamshell nearly a year ago, we've kept patient here in the States, twiddling our thumbs in the hopes that T-Mobile would get its act together for a national launch. Bah, who are we kidding? You can almost cut the bitterness with a knife here at Engadget HQ that we aren't all burning voice minutes through our wireless routers by now. FCC approval of the A910 (finally) means that we might be one small step closer to seeing some commercial services launch here -- though with a 1.3 megapixel cam and that stodgy pre-RAZR styling, we might be better off waiting for Moto's next effort at this point.
Orange launches "Unique" dual-mode service
UMA appears to be picking up a nice head of steam both domestically and internationally; Orange is the latest to join the fray with their newly-minted service dubbed simply "Unique." As expected, the service uses Orange's wireless broadband router (the Livebox, pictured) to provide the VoIP connection at home, while GSM takes over out on the mean streets Orange's launch locales: the UK, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland. Up to six handsets will be supported per Livebox, which can all be routed onto a single bill -- a bill that should hopefully stay reasonably low thanks to unlimited landline and Orange mobile calling via VoIP. Launch handsets will be the Motorola A910, Nokia 6136, and Samsung P200 (a cousin of the Americanized T709), which (pardon our jaded humor) is three more handsets than we have in our hands right now for T-Mobile's stalled UMA launch.[Via Shiny Shiny]
