Ben's Talk3G Blog

Reviews are now widespread of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, now available to buy. This is the tablet that Samsung famously took back to the drawing board after Apple's iPad 2 announcement left the original concept for the 10.1 looking ridiculously bloated.

'Favourable' is how I'd describe what I've read. Trusted Reviews have gone as far as giving it a Recommended award, suggesting that, if you're after a tablet, this is the one to get...

So kudos to Samsung for making a nice ...

I hate WiFi.

Teeny tiny little hotspots that all too often suffer from overcomplicated access restrictions, jitter, or downright abysmal WAPs holding it all together.

Yet even in the summer of 2011, WiFi connections still rule the mobile connectivity waves. Every handset, for example, favours WiFi over a 3G connection; a crushing but brutally honest testimony to the failure of UMTS/WCDMA to deliver high speed mobility at 2100MHz.

Anecdotal evidence suggests ...

I've never travelled to a foreign city before purely to explore it. My schedule has never really allowed for such endeavours, the rare moments of holiday reserved for lying in the sun doing absolutely nothing.

Data was a concern. When you're primarily going to be in one place it's easy to ensure WiFi, but there would be no way out of using cellular roaming data on this excursion. Fully prepared to have to keep my usage of iPad and iPhone to an absolute minimum, and still pay a hefty ...

I know a thing or two about text messages.

There are two core 'types' of text. Person to person, and bulk.

In p2p I'm putting all those texts we send each other. Bulk is everything else for the purpose of this post - marketing, alerts, etc.

Apple just lobbed a whopping great stone at p2p text messaging, and that stone is called iMessage.

No biggie, you might think; mobile operators give generous SMS allowances with their iPhone tariffs, ...

Eleven long months have passed by since Steve Jobs announced iPhone 4 at WWDC. In past years we would now be feverishly awaiting Apple's next incarnation of the popularly-dubbed "Jesus phone", and yet curiously, despite far-intensified competition, all appears quiet from Cupertino, California at this familiar time of rumour and speculation.

To find out why, we have to remind ourselves what, exactly, Apple unleashed upon the world last year.

iPhone 4 was a ...