Category Archives: Devices and Gadgets

Is the “Sharing Economy” already dead?

It seems that the idea of sharing a household item that you do not need that often, say a power drill, a power washer or a ladder with your neighbor is something that everyone intuitively understands and want’s, but unlike … Continue reading

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D2D communications: an effective means for beyond frequency reuse >>1

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications has been gaining more popularity among researchers in both academia and industry. It has the potential to offload traffic from cellular networks, improve energy efficiency, and extend coverage, etc. D2D enables mobile devices in proximity to establish local links for data communications. D2D enables novel wireless … Continue reading

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Samsung smartphone profits plummet

It’s not only smartphones that get thinner, also the profits in Android phones. Samsung recently revealed drops in smartphone sales in their 3rd Quarter report. Compared to 3Q2013 the Samsung sales where down 8% whereas the market in total grew by … Continue reading

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Buy your 2G wireless infrastructure in the webshop

Some years ago the OpenBTS initiative caught large attention; it was suddenly possible to establish a private local network on your own. Some events in remote places etc have utlized the service to add mobile telephony connection over SIP trunks in parallell … Continue reading

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5 Disruptive Ideas on 5G

Reading the latest edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine, my eyes fell on an interesting article entitled “Five Disruptive Technology Directions for 5G” where the authors (Boccardi, Heath, Lozano, Marzetta and Popovski) probe five “hot” technologies that they consider have … Continue reading

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Is there a (commercial) future for Software Defined Radios?

Listening to the talks at the SDR Europe today in Brussels on developments of Software Defined Radios makes me somewhat skeptical. Reprogramming the radios to be able to quickly change the radio access waveforms and protocol sounded like a great … Continue reading

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The rise of mobiles… and the irrelevance of Microsoft?

Business Insider reports that Apple analyst Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis will be giving a presentation May 29 at the BookExpo America convention in New York. It’s has the provocative title “Mobile is eating the world” and is on the rise … Continue reading

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The End of the Phone is Near

Yes, we hardly do voice calls any more, and yes, voice-over-IP services like Skype, Google Voice etc. are available and poised to pick up whats left of the voice market. This is not a matter of “if” but rather a … Continue reading

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Korean industry looking ahead to 5G

Yours truly made an interesting study trip to Korea and the Seoul area last week.  A busy program contained talks at Yonsei University as well as industry visits at Samsung Electronics, LG and HFR.   At Yonsei, our host Seong-Lyun Kim … Continue reading

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Nokia – brave or desperate (or both)?

In a recent piece by Telecom TV under the headline “Delusional Nokia claims youth are fed-up of the iPhone and irritated by Android“, the relevant question is asked whether Nokia now is really brave or just desperate. Taking their own … Continue reading

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