Martin's Mobile Technology Page

LTE is a great technology but it has one Achilles heel: No built in telephony solution that will work when network are first rolled out. I've blogged before about the different alternatives for voi...

Once a year, Nokia hosts a 2 day conference to demo to the world what's in store from Nokia for the next 12 months. This year, Nokia World takes/took place in Barcelona this Tuesday and Wednesday. ...

When you sit in a restaurant and see how non-geeks at the next table check their Facebook accounts on their smartphones before the food arrives; if your colleagues to whom you have preached for yea...

Just a few days ago, I've speculated about GSM 'virtually' surviving for quite some time in base stations which have radio and digital modules capable of handling several air interface technologies...

Today, I noticed a report on Teltarif that Vodafone Germany is looking into buying Kable Deutschland, one of the big German cable Internet (and TV) providers. It is speculated that the price would ...

These days I was wondering if in the mid-term, femtocells might replace public Wi-Fi hotspots!? With the rise of 3G USB keys and notebooks with built in 3G connectivity, the popularity of Wi-Fi hot...

Do you know Space Invaders and the artist that puts them on walls in many different cities? If not you might want to have a look here. So what does this have to do with mobile and wireless? Looks l...

It has been very quiet at the Bluetooth front for over a year now. The last time I heard of Bluetooth in the press was when version 2.1 of the standard was released in summer 2007 which promises si...

Before Wired Equivalent Pricacy (WEP) encryption of Wi-Fi was fully broken, the industry acted quickly and pushed out a new Wi-Fi encryption scheme to the market called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)...

Here's a thought experiment about whether and how operators should encourage users to upgrade their 3G dongles to a newer model:Most HSPA dongles currently 'in the wild' are are HSDPA category 6, i...