November 10, 2004
Vadofone launches 3G
Voda launches its 3G Live! service today, focusing on music, games, video clips and video telephony. Some of the use cases on its site are pretty flimsy (still not convinced consumers will want passive, attention-demanding content like video clips while on the move), and download times have been exaggerated (I've used a major MNO's 3G trial service in central London and data rates were near-GPRS.) Some of the games look nice though. Coverage is quite patchy unless you live in a major conurbation (I don't), and I can't find tarrif details either.
November 08, 2004
WiMAX iPod
This is an interesting rumour...
“...Apple prepares its tiny wireless iPod with no hard-drive but enhanced Wi-Max (metropolitan-wide high-bandwidth wireless) connectivity; it won't destroy downloading over night, but it will take a whack at its market share, and slowly but surely shift the market away from distribution/downloading and towards delivery/streaming.”
It could well be hype though, as could WiMAX itself.