Opinion

The last big mobile technology change in recent history (2003, just 9 years ago almost to the day) was a relatively simple one. One primary band, 2100MHz, was auctioned off by the government. A whopping five mobile operators were awarded spectrum, and then had to deploy WCDMA technology in it. The same thing miraculously happened across much of the world, especially Europe, and '3G' handsets worked within this band pretty much without exception.

Since then the rapidly changing pace ...

It's no secret, or at least a badly kept one, that I'm intrigued by Windows Phone, especially the tie-up with Nokia. Once upon a time I'd have simply bought one and had it as my main phone for a few months at least, but in the days of the iPhone there quite simply isn't anything else I could or would want to switch to.

Now I need a 'second phone' as an emergency contact number. The Nokia Lumia 800 is not, perhaps, an obvious choice for this purpose, but the battery life improvements ...

It happened.

Friday 28th October was the eventual glorious day when the etherflow was provisioned by my ISP Spitfire, following a 'fit and test' by Openreach on the 26th. The gear they've installed is rather nice; just a single fibre is used these days for transmit and receive, with 3 spares, and the fibre modem, or "BT NTE", has dual power supplies for redundancy and 21CN (21st Century Network) branding. It supports redundant fibre inputs, but the spare isn't being used ...

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 ...

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 ...