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Highspeed Cows Hit Glastonbury With 4GEE – “It’s Udderly Fast”
One of the most globally recognised music festivals – Glastonbury – has this morning kicked off in the Somerset hills of South-West England and like any other music festival, staying current is a fundamental value that organisers have to take into account. Keeping Glastonbury current is not just about ensuring…
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Data Roaming Charges To Drop 55% In EU From July 1st
As a result of the recent European Commission ruling that is due to come into effect from July 1st data roaming charges will fall across the European Union. In the European Union all network carriers will not be allowed to raise prices higher than EU maximum rates. The most significant…
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EE to Offer Voice Calls, Text Messaging via Wi-Fi
UK wireless carrier EE is launching a program for subscribers to make voice calls and send text messages over Wi-Fi, promising sound quality better than what’s provided by Skype. The company has invested upwards of £275 million to try to eliminate white spots throughout the UK. Many customers living and…
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MediaTek 64-bit LTE-enabled Quad-Core MT6732 Announced
MediaTek has revealed one of two 64-bit LET chipsets at MWC for smartphones, it being the Quad-Core MT6732, Qualcomm’s 64-bit Snapdragon 410 competition on the mid-ranged market. The CPU features four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, a highly advanced 16-core Mali-T760 GPU, a multi-mode 4G LTE modem, and an imaging…
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Chrome Update To Reduce Data Consumption Up To 50% for iOS and Android Users
Google announced an upcoming update to Chrome for iOS and Chrome for Android will feature a way for you to save on your data usage by as much as 50%. According to a survey from Pew, 20% of U.S. adults do the majority of their surfing on a mobile browser.…
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Archos’ First LTE Smartphones To Debut At CES 2014
Archos has revealed some 4G LTE smartphones that the company is thinking of showing at the upcoming CES 2014. Namely, the Archos 45 Helium 4G and 50 Helium 4G are Archos’ first LTE smartphones which will be released on the market. Both devices will have Android 4.3 pre-installed, with a…
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Qualcomm QFE1100 Envelope Tracking Chip To Improve Nexus 5 Battery Life
According to latest news, Qualcomm has revealed that the new Google Nexus 5 not only features the company’s fastest mobile processor, the Snapdragon 800 SoC, but also features a certain Qualcomm QFE1100 envelope tracking chipset, which is a front-end for OEMs to design global 4G LTE compatible devices, like the…
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Nokia Tablet “RX-114” Approved by the FCC and Heading for AT&T and Verizon
Until now there were rumors circulating about a new Nokia tablet said to be running Windows 8.1 RT in the works. This rumor became official when the device was approved by the FCC and will become available, according to Nokia’s tweets, on the 22nd of October. The Nokia team did a…
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Amazon to Roll Out Kindle Fire HDX in November
Amazon have launched two new Kindle Fire tablets; the 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX and the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. Amazon has also upgraded the software so that the core is now based upon Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. In terms of performance, both HDX models are equipped with a staggering 2.2…
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Second-Gen Surface Tablets Have No 4G LTE Support – WiFi Only
ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s second generation series of Surface tablets will not have 4G LTE support. In fact the second generation Surface tablets will apparently have no cellular connectivity at all – they will be WiFi only. Clearly Microsoft hasn’t learnt its lessons from the failure of the previous generation…
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Raspberry Pi Sim Card Add-On Provides Mobile Connectivity
The Raspberry Pi has been one of the most versatile and popular little mini computers of recent times. The Raspberry Pi has spawned a whole generator of small form factor ARM System boards, many of which are actually better than the Raspberry Pi itself. That said the reputation of Raspberry…
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71% Of European Wireless Internet Traffic Is Done Via WiFi
Despite the coverage of 3G and 4G becoming more important and discussed in Europe apparently WiFi still dominates Wireless Internet Traffic quite significantly. Of all Wireless Internet traffic 71% goes via WiFi meaning only the other 29% goes via other wireless internet alternatives like 3G, 4G, HSPA, GPRS, Edge and…
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Google Study Shows Internet Is Getting Faster
We are always making huge leaps forward in technology yet is this ever actually reflected in changes for everyone or just for the technologically elitist among us? Well Google’s latest study would suggest we are all benefiting. Advances in desktop internet technologies, fiber optic and broadband, as well as in…
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Qualcomm Unveils World’s First Global LTE Baseband Chip
Qualcomm comes to the rescue of travelers and companies who have to deal with LTE fragmentation. The companies introduced a new chipset model; the RF360 which will enable the devices to use about 40 different frequencies and seven cellular modes used by mobile carriers around the world. The Qualcomm RF360…
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Mobile phone provider ‘Three’ will not charge extra to upgrade to 4G
Three is set to provide access to fast data network during this year. The company assured that any customer with a smartphone such as the iPhone 5, Lumia 920 or Xperia Z will qualify for the free upgrade. According to Ernest Doku of price comparison website uswitch.com, he said that…
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