We heard some info on the HTC Edge back in November. Apparently, they’ll be some changes HTC is planning to make on the device. First of all, the HTC Edge codename will be swap with the HTC Endeavor.
However, the device will be known as the “Supreme” on store shelves. According to rumors, the device will be launch packed with a 4.7-inch 720p display and quad-core Tegra 3 processor. We’ll probably get to see the device on Mobile World Congress show.
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Looking more into Apple and its iPhone success has to make you wonder a little more about mass production, iPhone sales have rocketed with over 37 million handsets being sold within the last 3 months. So being a little more insightful what happens when the iPhone 5 release lands, the growth of the iPhone and…
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The U.S. Delegation to the World Radiocommunication Conference held a press conference in Geneva, yesterday, reviewing the goals of the US delegation.
WRC-12 starts today in Geneva and runs through 17 February 2012. Every 3-5 years, the nations of the world meet at WRC to coordinate telecommunications frequencies, standards and policies.
At yesterday’s press conference, Ambassador Decker Anstrom, Head of the U.S. Delegation, Ambassador Philip Verveer, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, FCC Commissioner Rob McDowell, and Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard Baird of International Communications and Information Policy, overviewed the U.S. goals.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski noted:
At the last World Radio Conference the iPhone had just been introduced. Smart Phones were a new idea. The tablet, the iPad and other tablets had not yet been introduced.
Today as we sit here in 2012, last year alone there were about 500 million Smart Phone subscription devices sold around the world. There are now about one billion Smart Phone subscribers globally.
When the World Radio Conference reconvenes in 2015 after this, that number will be at least double. There are projections that by then we will have hit five billion global mobile broadband subscribers.
We already know the extraordinary opportunities that this technology represents for driving economic growth, for advancing education, health care, public safety, and more. And it makes the agenda item for WRC-15 that my colleagues have discussed, extremely important. Extremely important to the United States, I believe extremely important to all members of WRC in the ITU, and very important that countries work together to seize the opportunities of mobile broadband.
It’s worth focusing for a minute on what the challenge is. Smart Phones, mobile broadband devices place a demand on spectrum, on radio frequency that is a lot more than the devices that preceded it. Not 10 percent more, 20 percent more, not even 50 percent more or double. An averagely used SmartPhone places a demand on spectrum that’s 24 times more than the feature phones that preceded it. Tablets place a demand on spectrum that’s about 120 times more.
So the efforts to improve the efficient use of spectrum and to free up more spectrum for mobile broadband and to look at a new generation of innovative policies including spectrum sharing are incredibly important, or in both the United States and around the world, we risk losing out on enormous economic and social opportunities.
So again, this agenda item for WRC-15 is very important, I believe, for all countries involved. I’m glad to see, as we all are, that countries in Europe and Asia Pacific and elsewhere have made similar proposals. I was pleased that last week the ITU Radio Communication Assembly approved the IMT Advanced Standard. We will all benefit from global harmonization of standards when it comes to mobile broadband.
One aspect of these proposals is of concern to the Amateur Radio Relay League; the inclusion to allocate 5250-5450 kHz to the Radio location service on a primary basis (pdf). It’s right in the middle of the 5 GHz Wi-Fi band. Would the United States knowingly cause degradation to the WiFi band? It seems very unlikely. Codar’s radar sensors, for example, measure ocean wave conditions at 5 GHz. There aren’t many WiFi hotspots 20 miles from shore.
Anything using the unlicensed 5GHz band may get a free ride on the volume enabled by world-wide WiFi. But any new proposal to use international WiFi bands would likely be viewed with alarm by consumers and vendors. Think Lightsquared.
The United Arab Emirates, represented by Tarek Al Awadhi, Head of the Spectrum and International Affairs Section at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRI), was selected as a chair of WRC-12 which opened in Geneva yesterday.
“The aim is to ensure reliable radio services are available everywhere and at any time enabling people to live and travel safely while enjoying high performance radiocommunications,” said ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré.
Over 3,000 participants, representing more than 150 out of the ITU’s 193 member states are expected to attend the conference, with about 100 observers from among ITU’s 700 private sector members also attending. The last WRC meeting to hash out planetary telecommunications agreements was in 2007 with WRC-07.
Here are the ITU-R Preparatory Studies for WRC-12. The NTIA is responsible for coordinating the Federal government’s participation in the ITU’s WRC meeting and has prepared a variety of Documents and Proposals with FCC preparing additional recommendations for WRC-12. Amateur Radio has their own agenda for WRC-12.
Global smartphone shipments will reach 1.03 billion units in 2015, resulting in a global smartphone share of 54.4 percent, reports iSuppli Mobile Handset Market Tracker. Smartphones accounted for only 15.8 percent of the total cellphone market in 2009.
Some 478 million smartphones were expected to ship world-wide in 2011, making the world-wide share about 32.5 percent.
Related Dailywireless articles include; 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference, IMT-Advanced: Now Official ITU Standard, LTE Situation Report, Smartphones: 1 Billion by 2015, World Radio Conference Wrap (2007), WRC Wraps Up (2003), EU: Global LTE Roaming at 1.8 GHz , WiMAX: No Satellite Interference says WARC, WiMAX Now ITU Standard, Mobile Satellite on the Move
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At CES 2012, Verizon has officially announced the Motorola DROID RAZR in purple color. However, there’s not much info that provide by Verizon. We only know the device would cost $199.99 with contract.
Verizon only stated the DROID RAZR would be available in the coming weeks.
But now we have a concrete date of launch. The DROID RAZR will be available on January 23rd. It comes in 3 different colors: purple, white, and black. The device only have 16GB.
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Motorola triple-play technologies will enable ABN to offer 200 TV channels, broadband and interactivity to six million households
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This close cousin of the Conquer 4G swaps WiMAX for LTE, but is otherwise similar. Key features of this affordable 4G phone include a 1 GHz processor, front camera for video chat, memory card slot, and Wi-Fi.
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In 13 days, the New York Giants will take on the New England Patriots for Super Bowl XLVI (Super Bowl 46). It will be played in Indianapolis, on Feb 5, 2012.
The Super Bowl is the most watched event on U.S. television. Fox’s broadcast of the 2011 Super Bowl was the most-watched U.S. broadcast of all time, with than 111 million U.S. viewers. The 2010 Superbowl drew almost that much.
In the United States, the game will be televised nationally by NBC and be streamed online, both to computers (via NBC.com) and to mobile devices, via Verizon Wireless’s NFL Mobile app), the first legal online streaming of a Super Bowl telecast in the USA.
The network has live streamed the last two Olympics, and will stream the 2012 Summer Olympics from London as well. NBC said it has learned that online viewers generally don’t cannibalize the live broadcast audience for major sporting events. The Associated Press reported that NBC typically gets about 200,000-300,000 online viewers, compared to more than 20 million that tune in for the telecast.
The live stream will use the same Microsoft Silverlight player that NBC uses for its Sunday Night Football streams. The online stream of the Super Bowl will have its own set of ads, which will differ from those shown on broadcast television.
NBC says a 30 second spot can command as much as $3.5 million, a new record for broadcast tv. Big live events like the Super Bowl are one of the few ways to prevent television viewers from skipping commercials with their DVRs.
Last year, by comparison, brought in between $2.8 and $3 million for a 30. Revenue from last year’s commercials totaled $210 million.
This is the first 4G LTE Super Bowl. Josh Smith of GottaBeMobile goes behind the scenes at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana.
Verizon sent a team down to the Dallas Cowboy’s stadium during Super Bowl 45 to understand all the logistics involved in supporting this many users. Based on these findings, and the team’s experience with the Indy 500 and Kentucky Derby, Verizon put a plan in place, beginning work in February of 2011.
The average Colts game draws 70,000 people, but the Super Bowl is expected to bring in 85,000. Much of this increase will be in the form of high demand users such as press and team staff. The Super Bowl is expected to attract 150,000 people to Indiapolis.
Verizon says they have spent some $69 million deploying a mixture of solutions throughout the Lucas Oil Stadium.
- 3 Cell on Wheels (COWs). Stand alone generator powered cell towers to handle the extremely high demand areas.
- 9 Antennas that are part of a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) outside the stadium to handle increased downtown traffic.
- 400 Antenna Internal DAS to handle 3G and 4G LTE voice and data inside the stadium.
- 600 Antenna WiFi system capable of handling 28,000 simultaneous connected users. Free for Super Bowl 46.
In addition to the 3 COWs (Cell on Wheels) and COLTs (Cell on Light Truck), the equipment includes 400 mobile antennas inside the stadium to carry voice and data, along with 600 WiFi stations to support a total of 28,000 simultaneous connections.
Atop poles all around the stadium, are 8 DAS antennas. Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) connect by fiber to a communications hub so multiple operators may use the antennas. The technique is often used in sports stadiums and malls to break up a sector into multiple sub-sections.
AT&T installed ADC microcells for the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV in Miami using ADC’s InterReach Fusion and FlexWave Prism. The DAS company is now owned by Tyco Electronics.
ADC’s DAS networks have been integral in Verizon Wireless’ LTE network rollouts in more than 100 locations, including major stadiums, urban core areas, and other locations such as Denver International Airport. Another DAS provider, MobileAccess, specializes in interiors.
ExteNet Systems designed a distributed telecommunications network at the Omni Severin Hotel in Downtown Indianapolis for use by multiple carriers.
AT&T has launched an AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Zone, the company’s seventh major-market hotzone, serving parts of downtown Indianapolis. The new hotzone will provide Wi-Fi access near many popular locations along Capitol Avenue, Meridian and Pennsylvania Streets as well as East and West Georgia streets near the center of town. AT&T has also launched an expanded Distributed Antenna System at Lucas Oil Stadium, which is among the largest of its kind in the U.S., enabling 4G LTE coverage within the stadium and carrying more traffic than 10 cell sites. they are employing nine Cells on Wheels (COWs) to support Lucas Oil Stadium, the downtown area, practice facilities and other places where large crowds are expected.
Sprint Nextel will also drive in two COWs for the stadium, two at the Super Bowl village and one more at the University of Indianapolis (the NFC practice facility). Sprint says it has “added capacity to 21 CDMA sites and seven iDEN [push to talk] sites around downtown and surrounding area hotels, including a major capacity upgrade inside the stadium.”
Additionally, Sprint says it has implemented 52 network capacity upgrades throughout the Indianapolis market in the past 90 days, with 46 additional enhancements planned before the big game.
Perhaps app stores and rich media e-books will change the game next year.
Imagine a live sports app designed for rich-media tablets. Buy your ticket and get your app – complete with embedded HDTV feed, live stats, social networking and a narrative with sidebars and profiles. You could customize the social interaction and archive the document. Let’s see — $10 times 20 million…
Can we launch by the 2012 Olympics?
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If you are intriguer with the idea of having a smartphone features a 5.3-inch display and do not wish to wait for along time for it to come or even don’t want to be tied with AT&T and it’s ridiculous priced, then we have a perfect solution for you now. The BLU Studio smartphone packed with a 5.3-inch display and 2.3 Android OS. Also, there’s a huge 2,500 mAh battery to sport the heavy duty device.
The BLU Studio features a single-core 800 MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB internal storage, Micro-SD slot, a VGA front-facing camera, and a 5 megapixel camera on the rear. You can purchase the device via online retailer Expansys-USA for $259 with free shipping.
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