Over the past few months, Boygeniusreport has conducted a user submitted speed test of various cell phone networks (3G). The results are in, and are quite surprising:
Average Download Speed
Sprint: 1361kbs
AT&T: 933kbps
T-Mobile: 786kbps
Verizon: 701kbps
Average Upload Speed
Verizon: 322kbps
Sprint: 267kbps
AT&T: 180kbps
T-Mobile: 177kbps
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Rumors in the form of pictures from Microsoft have revealed a new handheld device that posed a threat to the iPod Touch. The Zune HD is rumored to be a full competitor to the iPod Touch, which coincidently has been on the market for almost a year and a half. Microsoft’s entrance to the market is typical when considering it’s late entrance with the iPod challenger — the original Zune. While the Zune had wifi features, and a larger screen than the iPods at the time, the wifi feature was never truly exploited to allow internet browsing. The Zune HD is rumored to allow full internet browsing using a dedicated internet explorer. Hopefully it will also allow for applications so the faster opera browser can be installed.
It appears like more and more people are ditching landline phones and simply going wireless. While this makes sense in a recession especially, the signal quality is less than perfect in many areas, so many people refuse to go completely wireless and only have cell phones.
Another trend in cell phones is VOIP, or Voice over internet protocol. While this is nothing new, as skype has been around for several years now, but now skype is available on the iphone as an application. Of course you can only use it on a wifi connection, however there have already been law suits and action requested by the FCC to force the skype iphone application to run on a 3G connection.
The Blackberry Storm 2 will be available in September of 2009 at Verizon exclusively. The new speces of the Blackberry Storm 2 feature an upgraded camera (5 mp from 3.2 mp), a better touch screen, and most importantly wifi! Also rumered for the Blackberry Storm 2 is a new Blackberry operating system
Current mobile browsers include the iPhone’s mobile safari, opera mini, opera mobile, windows mobile internet explorer, firefox fennec, blackberry browser, nokia s60 browser, and skyfire. Which of these is the best mobile browser?
Since there is a lack of mobile browser benchmarks we open up the floor to the reader to offer opinions in the comments. Which is the best mobile browser?
While the HTC G2 Magic won’t be coming to America anytime soon, Vodaphone will have it soon in Europe. Here’s how it stacks up against the iphone 3G and Blackberry Storm:
http://www.clashem.com/phones.php?id1=2&id2=717&id3=1147
It wins in almost every category but the resolution is yet unknown. The battery life of the G2 is amazing!
Motorol’a CEO Sanjay Jha has confirmed that windows mobile 7.0 will come out in 2010! Windows lovers will have to wait a year for the newest release said to have many added features including a new GUI and internet explorer. We’ll have to see whether apple puts out a new iPhone when june rolls around, and what android decides to do in the meantime.
Apple is teaming up with Adobe to bring flash on the iPhone. The interesting thing is that the reason that flash was not already present was because it is very computer intensive. Despite the iPhone’s powerful graphics card, it simply doesn’t cut it. Thus adobe and Apple are developing a midrange version of flash which will be optimized for the iPhone and possibly the iPod Touch.
Here’s an incredibly useful comparison of the iPhone vs blackberry storm vs the new palm pre.
http://www.clashem.com/phones.php?id1=2&id2=717&id3=1148
The Pre isn’t out yet, but should be in a few months. Interestingly, it loses in many categories to the iphone and blackberry storm.