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 […]
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 […]
Cracking The Qualcomm Easter Egg: Part 1
How We Got to Where We Are This is a history lesson, it is not meant to break new information, but to give a quick crash course in acronyms that far too many readers do not understand. If you know what AMPS, CDMA, GSM, iDEN, TDMA, UMTS, HSDPA, and EV-DO are, feel free to skip […]