Rahul, cool down man! That was totally uncalled for! Did you even try Googling Najmi Jarwala? You should. I believe this is a photo of him http://assets.bizjournals.com/story_image/208203-0-0-1.jpg

I'm an Indian and even I didn't think the guy pictured in the article was "Asian".

No flash or lamp for the 3.2 megapixel camera when the entire styling of this phone is ideal as an evening accessory.

No SD memory expansion slot for me to move data fast between the phone and the laptop.

You came so close to getting this one right HTC.

The real-estate on most roof-tops of multi-storey metropolitan buildings is used by air-conditioning compressors and shelters which contain cellphone network equipment. Hail-damage can also be a major issue for solar panels, but I guess that would apply to solar lillies too!

... that's 'cheap' not 'chip'

PingMeister,

Apple products are usually the more expensive in their respective product classes. People don't pay the premium for Apple products because they want something chip - they pay the premium because they like what they see.

And that's were the problem is. What people see is usually a very well packaged and designed Apple product - on the outside. On the inside they don't know what they're getting. Any Systems Engineer who can put together an iPod, MacBook Air, or Airport knows the difference between 5 cent capacitor and 50 cent capacitor, for example. Its Apple who decides to maximise profits by using cheaper electronic components. The Chinese manufacturers will install exactly what you ask them to and what you pay them to.

Apple just needs to choose to match product quality with the price they seek for their products.

HAM operators were the the first to alert the Indian administration of the massive tsunami of December 2004 that swept through Southeast Asia, when the Indian islands of Andaman and Nicobar were also affected. Every other modern form of communication to the islands had been lost. The operators had arrived on the islands just two weeks before the tsunami.

As a gesture of gratitude towards the HAM community, India financed the construction and launch of HAMSAT (AMSAT - VO52), which is still in operation.

Simply put, this piece of news is of interest to those cellular network operators in the world who currently operate WCDMA networks or those who are thinking of installing one, not those who are interested in other technologies.

evengrift, there's an engadget article from yesterday announcing EDGE Evolution from Nokia Siemens Networks : http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/03/27/nokia-siemens-rolling-out-edge-evolution-for-double-the-speed-in/
You won't find me on that post denouncing the technology because the rest of the world has moved on. I'm sure the incremental improvement being offered will be of value to some operators.

Coming back to this story, higher order modulation like 64QAM, when combined with 2x2 MIMO, helps reduce the gap between the spectral efficiency of HSDPA and LTE systems. It is an incremental improvement which is of significant importance to those network operators who do not yet want to invest the financial resources required to roll out a new LTE network right now, or those who simply cannot afford to swap out their WCDMA network for LTE for many years to come.

If you see this announcement from Ericsson in the right light, it actually makes a lot of sense.

All you need is a better path loss to the serving antenna and a 64QAM user device is no different to a 16 QAM device further away from the serving antenna. I actually work in the industry and have a PhD in WCDMA radio resource scheduling too. I didn't see the need to mention it earlier, but I actually have done my schooling.

At least bother to read up about a technology (3GPP HSDPA Evolution) before releasing snide comments.

Ericsson isn't the only company eagerly waiting to release HSDPA Evolution - so is the whole 3GPP bandwagon and every vendor from Tokyo to San Francisco, including Qualcomm, that plays the CDMA group against the GSM group but makes money from both.

So unless you think you're right and every one one of these companies is wrong because you HAVE done some research, chill out.

Reduced power consumption for twice the brightness with one LED? I think that's a great reason to make such a thing.