The EVO 3D prototype we tested at the CTIA Wireless conference this week shot blurry video.
Two important things happened on the wireless Internet front last week, both of which will, in time make wireless Internet use far more common than it already is.
When the top executives of the world's wireless industry gather next week in Barcelona for their annual trade show, cellphones will take a back seat to talk of cars, electric meters and insulin monitors.
In this week's letter, his sapling of the week is wireless phone company Sprint PCS (nyse: PCS - news - people ), which is showing five consecutive quarters of positive and growing operating cash flow.
They announced a deal this week to offer wireless services to BMW. Garmin is going to launch a new tracking device for people, pets or products.
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Last week, THQ Wireless --the mobile subsidiary of software vendor THQ (nasdaq: THQI - news - people ) announced a deal with Lucasfilm to create phone content based on the Star Wars films.
Rules meant to preserve competition will prevent Telus from buying any newcomers' spectrum until early 2014, and Mobilicity left the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association just this week while accusing the industry group of being a puppet for bigger networks like Telus.
Like I said, it was not a good week to be a wireless customer.
No surprise then that Apple posted want ads last week looking for a few wireless jedi.
Wireless carriers have released little data this week to allow broader conclusions to be drawn of how the networks are holding up in various locations.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is pressing all parties to wrap up discussions in time for the wireless industry's trade show next week in Las Vegas, so Sprint can have something to present to investors.
And until last week, Nextel was the only wireless service provider in the U.S. offering the service.
Given these two separate developments in just this last week, one can only conclude that wireless carriers see their customer base as captive and theirs to do what they will.
At CTIA Wireless, a major industry conference held earlier this week in Las Vegas, operators highlighted the importance of bringing broadband Internet speeds to mobile devices and improving the mobile Internet experience.
The second largest U.S. wireless carrier made a series of launches late last week that helped it reach its targeted year-end LTE coverage of 150 million Americans more than a month ahead of schedule.
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Investors concurred, marking down the shares of the third-biggest U.S. wireless carrier by 13% to a new 52-week low.
Apple last week began selling its iPhone 4 through Verizon Wireless, a move that could add seven to 13 million units in sales this year, according to analysts.
This week, for example, No. 3 wireless carrier Sprint Nextel unveiled a new smart phone called the Sprint Mogul, which sports features similar to the iPhone: a large touchscreen display, wireless e-mail, a digital camera, wi-fi hotspot access and music and video playback functions.
That said, as fixed-line voice telephony becomes a low-growth commodity, it is Sprint's mobile-phone arm and its 4m subscribers that must seem irresistible to Mr Ebbers, especially in the wake of last week's deal to unite the American wireless assets of Vodafone AirTouch with Bell Atlantic's mobile business.
Last week Benzinga published a piece about the future of wireless charging.
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The Nasdaq composite index rose to a seven-week high late Wednesday afternoon after promising forecasts in the wireless and software sectors gave investors reason to bet that profits at technology companies will rebound next year.
In the past week, the race to roll out networks that support 4G wireless broadband got even faster.
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Several wireless-phone makers announced new models aimed at the younger set at this week's Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Trade Show in New Orleans.
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What was most striking about the set of net neut "principles" Google produced this week with former antagonist Verizon was that they didn't apply to wireless.
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Sure enough, the software giant came through this week with an announcement of a joint venture with Socket Communications to offer wireless modems for its Palm wannabe Windows CE, sometime this fall.
The Justice Department sued to prevent the deal in August, citing the potential for substantially less competition in the wireless market, and the Federal Communications Commission looked prepared to block the deal last week, Bloomberg said.
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Sagem Orga was on the floor of MWC this week, a company that really doesn't typically draw a lot of attention outside wireless industry suits who fly out to Barcelona to broker deals -- at least, not until they do something totally insane like stuff a WiFi radio into a SIM card.
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And while Steve Jobs has proved he can build a hot handset, with iPhone sales hitting the one-million mark this week, less than three months after its introduction on June 29--spending billions on a wireless network would leave Apple without an exit strategy if the iPhone stalls.
With the imminent arrival of tablet computers like the iPad, which come with wireless modems, the appetite for downloadable data could hit a gigabyte a month (see the lead story in this week's Business section).
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