A behind the scene look: 4G WiMAX Networks
There’s been a lot of debate in the local Internet scene on 4G. Many are saying that WIMAX is not really 4G and that its wrong for some operators to claim that their WiMAX network is a 4G network…bla bla bla.
The thing is, it doesn’t matter, all the “Gs” are not ratified standards anyway – they are all marketing terms, used by the telcos to make the networks easier to understand. No layman is going to understand or remember IEEE 802.16, GSM, CDMA, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, EVDO, WCDMA and all the other multitude of standards out there, the numbers are just mind blogling.
To us 3G…4G…5G…or whatever telcos want to call their network is not important, its just marketing. What’s important is how the network delivers in term of performance, relibility and coverage and right now both the 3G and 4G networks in this country still have some work to do.
But what is the difference between a 3G and 4G network? Here’s a video of an interesting news report by CNN giving us a behind the scene look at the differences between the two networks.
Watch the video after the jump.
For those of you who are still holding your breaths, hoping for that faithful day when Apple will announce that the iPhone finally has Flash support, we strongly suggest you start breathing now because we have news for you…its not going to happen. Never. So stop waiting.
Jobs has already said “no” to Flash on the iPhone and now Adobe has announced that it will stop working on the Flash-to-iPhone converter, affectively ending Flash-based apps coming to the iPhone.
On top of that, Mike Chambers, the principal product manager for developer relations for the Flash platform at Adobe is telling app developers to focus on developing Flash-based app for mobile phone running Android instead.
And that’s the end of that.
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Why you should throw away your Blackberry come June 22nd
My, my, how the tides have turned. Here’s an interesting blog post written by a Blackberry fanboy who has been known to trash iPhone talking about why he’ll be ditching his Bold for an iPhone HD/4G come June 22nd.
Here’s and excerpt of his post:
“Since the announcement of the next generation iPhone OS, iPhone 4.0, I have thought about it a lot and realized that assuming the hardware was on par, there were no longer any reasons not to replace my BlackBerry with a next gen iPhone.”
And here’s a link to that post.
Coming from a hardcore Blackberry user, that is something really heavy.
Happy reading Blackberry fanboys.
Lucky hospital staffers get 100 iPads
Yeap, you read it right. California’s Kaweah Delta Health Care District will be ordering 100 of Apple’s latest sensational gadget – the iPad – to replace laptops for its medical workers to use in their day-to-day activities.
The hospital had already purchased three iPads for testing purposes and were impressed with the practical applications of the device, where in addition to usual office applications such as e-mail, the hospital’s medical staff will use the iPads to view X-ray images, EKG results and various other patient monitoring programs, as well as remote access to their workstations.
Already, 20 doctors have purchased the iPad on thier own accord to use at the office.
Nexus One battery hot swapable
Did you know that the battery on the Nexus One is hot swapable?
Well we didn’t…and here’s video proof that it is indeed possible.
What real use does this have? We’re not too sure yet, but it’s definitely something interesthing to note.
We tried doing the same thing with our HTC Legend and it shutdown once we removed the battery. Even the battery cover had to be removed first before plugging the HTC to an external power source.
Now we’re wondering if the new iPhone will have replaceable battery.
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