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CES 2008: World’s fastest GPS phone on show

It wasn’t just the big 5 mobile phone makers who were showing off their wares at CES this year. Completely unheard of Much smaller companies were also showing off their technology. Companies such as dMedia, or as they’re better known: “who?!”

OK, so you may not have heard of them, but what they had to show was pretty nifty: not just the world’s fastest GPS phone, but the world’s fastest GPS phone with dual screens!

 

Samsung WiMax phone supports 20Mbps downloads

Samsung have been very busy this week, both at 3GSM and in general. At 3GSM, we saw them show their new Ultra II range of smartphones, while outside of 3GSM land, they’ve been showing off this, the new Samsung SPH-M8100. What’s special about the M8100 is its support for WiMax, which is, for those who don’t know, a kind of super-Wi-Fi technology, featuring greater range and much faster data transfer rates than traditional Wi-Fi.

How much faster? How does 20Mbps while travelling in a car running at 60km/h sound?! Yes, that’s right, very impressive indeed!

 

Nokia to add RFID and WiMAX by 2008

Nokia’s R&D have certainly been busy lately. Not content with developing the stunning Nokia Aeon concept phone, they’ve also completed their SmartPosters technology, which enables NFC-compatible mobile phones to read data from passive RFID-like NFC tags. Nokia intend to embed such tags in posters, which would send data to the mobile phone when the phone is waved over it like a wand.

 

Mobile data speeds surge as Internet and mobile technologies converge

Mobile data speeds will surge in 2006, as new generation wireless Internet and mobile technologies converge, according to Korea’s JoongAng Daily.  From the mobile arena comes HSDPA (High Speed Data Packet Access), capable of speeds to your mobile theoretically of 14.4 Mbps (though expect speeds to start at 500Kbps and ramp up to about 7.2 Mbps).  From the wireless Internet world comes WiMAX and its Korean competitor WiBro, the latter capable of 20 Mbps. Mix the two together, and you get a seriously fast broadband mobile network with the potential for some amazing new mobile services.
 
[Source: JoongAngDaily]
 
Read more on what HSDPA and wireless broadband will bring to the mobile world after the jump.