Fresh off the press .....

The App planet is a new comer to MWC 2010 but became the buzz of the show, highlighting the new focus on software and applications that we have been discussing in our previous posts from MWC 2010.

It brought a refreshing change to the “image” of mobile technology, which for several years now has been about communication networks and multimedia technology. App Planet brings in new creativity and the core idea of connecting people. In the App planet, “John”-s mobile device is much more than a phone!

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Posted by EK at 05:59 AM | Permalink

It is common industry knowledge by now that smart phones are typically causing an order of magnitude more data traffic on cellular networks, thus straining network capacity and the quality of user experience (QoE).

SNRLabs' focus on QoE based connectivity and mobility in multi-radio devices has this additional advantage from the point of view of operators, which is, "smartly" moving traffic from cellular to WiFi (or femto cells). At MWC 2010, it was interesting to see the same problem addressed via infrastructure based and operators driven solution by technology power house Qualcomm and FMC experts Kineto Wireless.

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Posted by CS at 02:28 AM | Permalink

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Posted by SSG at 06:07 AM | Permalink

“Convergence of mobile world and internet finally happening” is an interesting perspective that CS talks about. The last time I remember a similar buzz was 1996, as the internet was gaining ground. “The network is the computer” slogan saw the rise of SUN and the same year Oracle introduced the concept of the Network computer - a “under $500 computer” that end users could eventually use for communication, entertainment and surf the web. The question was “what is the killer App” for the internet. Fourteen years later the “Network computers” of today are the Mobile internet devices - from Apple’s iPhone, iPad to everybody and his dog’s Android device. Mobile devices are ready to get, and are getting ‘embedded’.

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Posted by BGS at 05:21 AM | Permalink

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Posted by SSG at 11:21 PM | Permalink

Today, I attended a panel discussion organized by FierceWireless that invited top telecom industry executives to discuss the latest developments in the embedded wireless ecosystem. In spite of the pre-defined topic on embedded wireless, the discussion and the follow-up Q&A of course veered in other directions regarding the challenges being faced today by service providers and the wireless industry at large. Which got me and our team here thinking – is this truly the beginning of a new era in wireless services deployment?

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Posted by SSG at 10:56 PM | Permalink

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Posted by SSG at 06:07 PM | Permalink

MWC has always been about the “traditional” wireless industry heavy weights – you saw them every where from the big posters in Barcelona airport to the bright pavilions of Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Ericsson, TI, Qualcomm (to name just a few) in Hall 8, to the event announcements and meeting room directions in the FIRA Palace hotel and Hotel Catalunya Plaza, and the banners seen from the Plaza Espanaya. But in 2010, it is the shadow of the two presences that are not so visually overt but nonetheless they are in every conversation and thought – Apple and Google. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a keynote speaker on Tuesday and Android devices announcements are everywhere at MWC 2010, though Apple of course is not a participant. Which made me (like many many other industry followers and experts) wonder – why? What is the secret? How did this phenomenon happen?

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Posted by CS at 06:01 PM | Permalink

I think I need to use three angles (user interface, wireless connectivity, actual volume of the device) to describe it.

Let’s talk about user interface. Today I noticed a YouTube video from Nokia research center and I think that is the idea user interface I’d like to have. Basically, the user interface includes input and out.

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Posted by PY at 11:10 PM | Permalink

Truphone is a mobile phone specific VOIP service provider (So far only supporting Nokia phones) that currently offers free fixed line calls across 40 countries until end of Feb 08. Being an avid VOIP user I was keen to find out how well Truphone performs on my Nokia E61 and plus it was free, so what’s to lose?

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Posted by IC at 01:52 PM | Permalink

In collaboration with SNRLabs, the wireless research team at University of Texas, Dallas (Prof. Saquib, Electrical Engineering & PhD student Tariq Ali) published a paper titled: “Performance Analysis Framework and Vertical Handover Triggering Algorithms for Voice over WLAN/Cellular Network”. The paper was presented at IEEE-WCNC co-located with CTIA Wireless at Las Vegas from 31st March to 3rd April 2008. Please contact us for a copy of the paper.

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