Cingular To (Re)Launch UMTS November 1
RCR is citing unnamed documents (which, we have tracked down to Cingular’s corporate intranet) that Cingular will launch UMTS on November 1. This will be a re-launch of the AT&T Wireless UMTS service in the existing six cities, as well as in 10 new cities. Cingular will not be launching with any UMTS phones, opting […]
CTIA: Treo 650 Announced, EDGE Confirmed
PalmOne today officially announced on the eve of the kick off of CTIA the Treo 650. While it’s the worst-kept secret in the universe as of today, what was confirmed was that the quad-band GSM version of the PDA/Phone would ship with EDGE support. While many have reported the Treo 650 will have a 1.3 […]
Cingular Fully Releases Nokia 6682
Though available to business customers as much as a week ago, Cingular earlier today launched the Nokia 6682 in all sales channels. The Series 60 phone is the sucessor to the Nokia 6620, adding a 1.3 megapixel camera, updated operating system, smaller size, and Class 10 EDGE. In addition, Nokia is bundling Microsoft Office viewer […]
T-Mobile To Launch EDGE Next Month (Updated)
Update: T-Mobile is now reporting based on this high level of coverage to their announcement that they currently have a 90% network deployment of EDGE up-and-running. In a brief note on their about page, T-Mobile has stated they will launch their nationwide EDGE network next month. Since the start of the year readers have been […]
Cingular: Nokia Announces New UMTS Phones
Nokia yesterday announced their new Nseries line of extremely high-end Series 60 phones. The highest end of this class announced, the N91, will include a 4 GB hard drive, and will support UMTS (as well as EDGE, making Nseries the first U.S. phones to support both UMTS and EDGE). The announcement of the Nseries is […]
CTIA: Sony Ericsson GC89 Announced
Sony Ericsson today announced the GC89, the world’s first quad-band EDGE data card that integrates 802.11b and 802.11g connectivity. Essentially, the card is identical to the GC83 with the addition of the two flavors of WiFi networking. Sony Ericsson expects the GC89 to be for sale to customers some time in the first quarter of […]
Cingular: Cingular Discontinues Motorola V600
Earlier this month, Motorola contacted Cingular alerting them to a problem with the RF Performance of the Motorola V600, though they categorized it as minor in nature. Cingular responded by halting all V600 orders until Motorola presented them with a plan to have all V600s updated. Apparently, Motorola is unwilling to promote a product-wide recall, […]
AT&T: AT&T To (Finally) Go Unlimited Data For Cheap
It appears that AT&T will finally launch unlimited handset data at a reasonable price. The new mMode data plan will offer unlimited GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS data for $24.99 a month. The only catch with this plan is that they may caution people that using the data plan with any modem functionality (such as using […]