Worst AT&T speeds I have ever seen

Worst AT&T speeds I have ever seen

Originally uploaded by gt2697

Granted I am on EDGE, but this is the middle of Chicago, and I have 4
bars of service.

This reminded me of my mobile intenet usage circa 1998.

Droid takes over the USA today

Droid takes over the USA today

Originally uploaded by gt2697

From the business section of today’s USA today. 4 ads on one page!

The Cell Phone Junkie Show #177

The Cell Phone Junkie Show #177 44:20

California’s cool cars, Verizon’s Droid Does and Sidekicks getting back online.

TCPJ Unlocked Show #033
iPhone/iPod Touch Application

News
California Cool Car law may screw up phones
Nokia posts $834 million quarterly loss
Sony summer quarter financial results
Router switches to 3G if broadband fails
Android faces danger of fragmentation
Mobile DTV standard approved
AT&T turns on 850 in Colorado
Verizon Droiddoes campaign
Verizon iPhone challenge confirmed
Sprint service comes to DC Metro
T-Mobile Sidekick credit
Walmart and Tracfone offering $30 unlimited plan

Thanks to our sponsor, Netflix

Devices
iPhone has 21% market share in Australia
Update on Bell Canada getting the iPhone
PWNage Tool for 3.1.2 on iPhone available
First GSM Pre now on sale
Pre now available on O2 UK
HD TD2 coming to T-Mobile?
Tilt2 now on sale on AT&T
Tour coming to US Cellular
Vodafone announcing Storm 2 this week
White Bold now on AT&T
Blackberry Storm 2 and other tibits about RIM
Official BB Storm 2 release
Where is the official Verizon announcement?
Vodafone puts BB Storm 2 on Preorder starting October 26th
Vodafone will only have exclusive for a few weeks
Blackberry 9700 Bold official on T-Mobile Germany in Nov.
Some Sprint HTC Hero devices shipping without EVDO Rev A
T-Mobile haults sales of Sidekicks
Microsoft says it recovered most if not all SK user data
Sprint gets Motorola Debut
Nokia Booklet 3G now $300 w/ AT&T contract
Albuquerque gets T-Mobile 3G

TCPJ Unlocked

Software
HTC 6.5 updates released
Apple opens up in-app purchasing of free iPhone apps

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iDon’t TV Commcercial – Android coming to Verizon

I think this will be a very powerful ad campaign for Verizon and Android.  While we all know these things about the iPhone vs. the Android OS, many people do not.

Windows Phone TV Commercial #3

What is HTC Sense

Thanks to Phil over at WMExperts for posting this video.

Mobile Tech Addicts reviews TCPJ app for iPhone

You can find the original post here. Thanks to Edward for doing the review!

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TCPJ stands for The Cellphone Junkie Podcast and it is the number one cellphone podcast in iTunes. Last week an app has been released with which you can experience this podcast through a separate app, instead of using iTunes and going to websites for show notes etc. Author of the podcast – Mickey – is getting 50% from sales of this app, so we decided to support him by buying and reviewing it here.

After installation the “TCPJ” app appears in the iPhone:

After starting, a splash screen with TCPJ logo appears and then the first screen is this one:

Podcasts are not downloaded but are opened with built-in media player for playback:

Note: there is an option to play in background, whereas podcast is being opened in Safari that can be “closed” (in fact it runs in background) and then you can listen (by streaming) the TCPJ podcast and do other stuff.

You can get list of episodes:

… and “Extras” button appears and it has different functions in various places of this app, for example you can open the website of the podcast:

… that opens in embedded form (but can be opened in Safari too):

… in other places “Extras” menu has these positions:

… including ability to call voice mail:

… and ability to see Twitter feed of the podcast (with use of embedded Safari control, not with use of Twitter API):

Yet in another place “Extras” menu has “view PDF” option:

… that shows in PDF form the show notes:

… you can also set TCPJ podcast logo as wallpaper:

… via a photo roll:

Conclusion: we wish there could be ability to download episodes for off-line listening, but if you have unlimited flat rate mobile data, then you will not notice the difference and this app brings some additional features that allow you for direct access to TCPJ podcast. Anyway: if you like this podcast, then feel free to buy this app, to support it!

Get it here (price: $1.99):

Windows Phone TV Commercial #2

TCPJ Unlocked Show #033

The Fall CTIA 2009 conference was full of great vendors showing off their products and services.  During the show, we got a chance to chat with many of them, and some were gracious enough to grant an interview.  This show showcases some great phones such as the HTC Hero, a unique service from Zer01, innovative software from TomTom, and 6 others.

Visit TCPJ Unlocked and click on “Subscribe to Premium Content” to sign up for the show.

Highlights from AT&T CTO John Donovan’s Keynote at CTIA

At the Day 2 Keynote of CTIA last week in San Diego, CTO John Donovan of AT&T went through a lot of what their new networks are going to look like.  Over the course of his presentation, he gave the audience a lot of very interesting facts that I was able to Tweet along the way.  If you missed it, here are the highlights:

• Voice has grown 2x over the past 2 years, where data has grown 18x on the AT&T network
• Wireless data growth has been 5000% in the last 12 months in the US
• 8.3 million iPhone subscribers activated in the last 12 months on AT&T
• AT&T invested more than any other company in the last 2 years to enhance its networks – $38 Billion
• AT&T putting a lot of capital into HSPA. “Still a lot of juice left in the HSPA network
• AT&T 850 MHZ upgrades nearly 90% complete
• When AT&T goes live with LTE, most cell sites will be served with fiber for backhaul
• AT&T launching 7.2 MBPS in 25 of top 30 major networks by mid-2010
• AT&T has 21% of world’s HSPA customers at 28 million customers
• There are 1605 HSPA devices available today, 1/3 support 7.2 mbps
• All AT&T notebooks will have 7.2 MBPS chips in them moving forward
• Wireless penetration nearing 100% in the US. Will be 107% by 2013
• Music consumption is changing. Sales are at the lowest level in nearly a decade. More people are listening online ie Pandora
• AT&T calls feature phones “QMD’s” – Quick messaging devices
• AT&T realizes the criticism of their network, and is working hard to change the perception.  They however do not plan their network based on blogs.
• AT&T will begin testing LTE in 2010, and deployment in 2011. The 700mhz spectrum will cover 100% of top 200 markets, 87% of US
• AT&T expects to have 0 devices on LTE out in 2010, and only 20 in 2011
• All new LTE devices will be HSPA backward compatible