Ben's Talk3G Blog

At the moment there appears to be two major players for the future of wireless Internet access. It will come as no surprise that these are 3G/LTE and WiMAX.

3G is currently seeing rapid uptake in terms of truly mobile wireless Internet usage. The mobile networks have finally got the pricing right, and nifty USB modem hardware has fought back from the body-blow of Intel dropping 3G from the now-current Centrino platform. Thanks to HSPA, 3G broadband is now a reality and, in fact, latency ...

A while back now I watched a free movie called Zeitgeist that talked about some of the US's historical financial cockups. One of the examples of suggested corruption was how JP Morgan and the Federal Reserve had a lot to do with one another, and how by controlling the economy people like JP Morgan could push other banks to the brink and then buy them for peanuts.

I was somewhat alarmed, then, when Bear Stearns got into trouble last week and a finance deal was arranged between JP Morgan ...

Despite my love of all things over-featured and over-complicated, I actually don't stretch the imagination too much with my use of gadgetry. However, yesterday I had to do something on the N95 8GB that I hadn't done before and for a moment it actually stumped me.

And, before you ask, no I wasn't trying to make a VoIP call. Nor was I trying to use my phone as a wireless access point or set up a comms link to the International Space Station. Much simpler than that, yet not simple enough ...

It only seems right that I should kick off the new Talk3G Blogs area with nothing less than my very own blog. There's something that scares me a little about lumping all of my incoherent ramblings in to one easy-to-find place (I take comfort in knowing that my mutterings are distributed widely across the tubes).

Anyway, I appear to have overcome that fear because here I am. I could start by telling you about how wonderful the N95 8GB is, and how it's the best phone I've ever had, ...