Wireless Data News Blog - February 9th, 2007

Feb. 9th, 2007

Quite a torrent of pre-announcements for 3GSM - and I have selected only real important ones so probably makes sense to read this issue fully. Meanwhile you can keep yourself fully educated during next week - thanks to free service from Telecoms.com in conjunction with Picsel. To register at the event when you are in Spain text PICSEL to 7780 or +44 7797 801696 if you are using international roaming services.
VimpelCom is targeting an Ogo-based push service in Russia at the segment that is normally targeted by Blackberry.
Ericsson uses fuel-powered basestations in India.
Femto cells are here now - including nice one from Ericsson.
And quite a lot of exciting location-related news, especially for developers. SiRF announces low-power cheap indoors-capable chipset. Benefon sells an amount of gps-enabled phones that is big enough to start to target it as a development platform. Nokia provides fruits of its' Gate5 acquisition - for free. And that wordwide-capable mapping/navigation software supports on-device development APIs.
Soon a combined mobile phone/rollup eInk reader will be available - but only in Italy.