3g

The problem with Mobile Broadband is that it's a black box. Sure, an Internet connection in the Mbps shoots out one end, but the user has no idea about what happens in the middle.

For a certain market, that's fine. Home networking and home routers have always been somewhat mystifying. However, as the plug-in-and-go market becomes saturated, the mobile operators will need to provide new levels of flexibility on Mobile Broadband and open it up so the end user can control what's going ...

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 ...

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, ...