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Hugh Jarvis would like mobile broadband that works both in Leeds and the Lake District. That’s a tall order when coverage is still patchy even in the UK’s major connurbatinons

Which would be the best mobile broadband option to go for for decent coverage in both Leeds and the Lake District? So far I’ve not been able to find one that’s good for both, but I may have missed something.
Hugh Jarvis

Your guess is probably better than mine, but if there’s a proper mobile broadband coverage map that combines all the main services — 3, Orange, Vodafone etc — on a single map, I can’t find it. Ofcom published a PDF of 3G coverage last year, but this still uses separate maps.

Since there’s a consumer need and it’s an obvious candidate for a Google Maps mash-up, either people can’t get good enough data or there’s a legal barrier to using it. (Well, the operators own their coverage data.)

That means you’ll need to check each map separately, and often the best approach is to enter a post code. There are sites for checking 3,
Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2 etc.

(In fact, I’ve now found that Bestmobilebroadband.co.uk has a page with links which is more likely to be updated than my answer.)

Unfortunately, coverage-checkers have their own problems. There’s no guarantee that each supplier is showing the same thing (GPRS, 3G, HSPDA etc), and it’s a safe bet that the coverage maps are not equally up to date.

Also, coverage maps are based on computer models, so there is no guarantee that users will get any reception at all in a specific area. Even if there is mobile broadband reception, the real-life speed will vary according to whether you are indoors or outside, and if indoors, on things like wall thickness.

In the end, the best way to find the answer is to try it yourself or, failing that, ask other people in the area which service offers the best coverage.

Based on my own recent experience in Greater London, plus the odd excursion to the wilds near Milton Keynes, mobile broadband is still very patchy inside the M25. I wouldn’t expect reliable coverage in rural areas — unless you can afford something like BGAN, Inmarsat’s satellite-based Broadband Global Area Network.

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Google has been forced into an uncharacteristic U-turn, announcing plans to halt direct sales of its Nexus One mobile phone through its website as it admits that consumers prefer getting their hands on a device and trying it out before they part with their cash.

When Google unveiled its first ever own-brand mobile phone, the Nexus One, it hoped to revolutionise the way that phones are sold. Its head of mobile Andy Rubin said in February, a month after the phone went on sale in the US, that there would be a series of Google phones but “the real innovation here is the distribution of cellphones on a web store”.

He said the company had been able to use the launch to create logistics technology which meant that “when Nexus Two comes out we will just put it on the website and it will instantly go worldwide to all the operators that are hooked into our system”.

But while early adopters seem to have been happy to use a website to buy an unlocked mobile phone, Rubin admitted in a blog post late last week that “it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from”.

While Google’s mobile phone software platform Android is proving a hit with consumers and mobile phone networks, Rubin admitted “the web store has not”.

As a result, as the Nexus One rolls out in more countries, Google will follow the model it has adopted in Europe, where its network partner Vodafone has made the device available in its own shops and it is free on certain long-term contracts.

“We’ll shift to a similar model globally,” said Rubin. “Once we have increased the availability of Nexus One devices in stores, we’ll stop selling handsets via the web store, and will instead use it as an online store window to showcase a variety of Android phones available globally.”

Despite a shaky start when the first device, the G1, went on sale more than a year after Apple’s iPhone launched, Google’s Android platform has gone from strength to strength with a slew of new handsets appearing from HTC, which also makes the Nexus One, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola.

In the first quarter of the year, phones with Android outsold Apple’s iPhone in the US for the first time ever, according to market research by the NPD Group. The market for phones that can send emails, access the web and download applications is still dominated by the BlackBerry, made by Canada’s Research In Motion and a brand which last year celebrated its 10th birthday, but Android is closing the gap.

In the UK, almost one in every five smartphones now sold uses Android, according to retail experts GfK.

The HTC Desire, which is ranged by four of the five UK networks, has been particularly successful and favourably compared with the iPhone.

But sales of the Nexus One have been sluggish, partly because of the way in which it was being sold and partly because the HTC Desire is essentially the same device but better. Web analytics firm Flurry estimates just 135,000 Nexus One handsets were sold in the first two months in the US.

To add insult to injury, Google’s intended American partner Verizon Wireless recently turned its back on the Nexus One in favour of promoting another Android powered smartphone the Droid Incredible by HTC.

T-Mobile, Google’s original launch partner for the G1 in the US, is the only American network offering a price plan specifically aimed at the Nexus One. The device, which normally costs $529, is $179 for T-Mobile customers willing to sign a two year contract.

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Strong operator subsidies and competition fuel the 54 million units shipped globally

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The global smartphone market grew by 67 per cent in 2009, with Nokia and RIM
making the strongest gains, according to new figures from Canalys.

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We’ve been typing out a series of ‘Google (NSDQ: GOOG) acquires’ stories of late, as chief executive Eric Schmidt makes good on his promise to pick up at least one company a month. But Google investment strategy stretches beyond buying or acq-hiring. Google Ventures was founded last year with a small team to focus on early-stage investments and some $100m to invest. Fifteen months in, it had a but of a coming-out party Monday, showing off its expansion to 16 members – and still growing – and its portfolio. Well, some of its portfolio; 10 companies have been announced, “a handful of others” haven’t yet, according to GV’s FAQ.

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The mission, explained by managing partner Bill Maris in a blog post: “Rather than looking for investments that would simply be strategically useful to Google, we aim to invest in best-of-breed ventures in a wide variety of fields. Our fund’s calling is to generate a financial return while supporting entrepreneurs who are creating transformative ventures. In doing so, we try to bring to bear Google’s resources to support them in that mission.”

So far, they’ve invested in a wide range – each with, they claim, “the potential to make a global impact” – although there is a distinct mobile interest, followng Schmidt’s “mobile first” philosophy. The companies include payment startup Corduro, announced today; English Central, which uses video to teach English; publishing monetization tool VigLink; mobile geo-gaming platform SCVNGR; and Recorded Future, which claims to extract time and event information to make sense of the web. Investments are limited to North American companies for now.

Unlike some corporate venture funds, which often serve as incubators for potential acquisitions, Schmidt told the NYT: “This is not a stalking horse for acquiring these companies.” The investments usually are made in concert with other investors.

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Google and Apple will face new competition from a group of mobile networks based in London

London is to become the centre of a fightback by the world’s biggest mobile phone networks, which together serve more than four billion customers, against the growing power of Apple and Google.

The capital will be the location for the headquarters of a new business that will create a single global market for downloadable mobile phone applications, allowing the mobile phone companies to cash in on the growing craze for “apps”.

By the end of the year, the mobile phone companies could be in a position to present application developers with a single standard that will operate across everything from BlackBerry devices to mass market Samsung and LG handsets.

Mobile phone apps have proved a huge hit with consumers, with more than 3bn downloaded by iPhone users in just 18 months. But while they are creating a dramatic increase in traffic for mobile phone networks, they are not bringing any significant increase in revenues.

Apple splits revenues from paid-for apps with the programme’s developer, not the network. The situation is likely to get worse as Apple updates the iPhone in the summer so that more than one app can run at a time, further increasing its appetite for network capacity.

While the iPhone is likely to remain an expensive gadget aimed at high-end users, making it a niche product – albeit a very lucrative one for Apple – there is the potentially much larger threat from the growing adoption of Google’s Android platform. Later this year handsets from the likes of HTC and ZTE, which use the Google software and are aimed at the mass market, will start appearing. Already in the UK, according to recent research, almost one in every five smartphones now sold uses Android and some carriers reckon there will be more Android devices than iPhones within a year.

Google has made it plain it wants to co-operate with the networks on Android but while it is understood to be sharing a portion of mobile advertising revenues generated through the phones with mobile operators, Google does not share revenue generated by apps.

The mobile phone companies were galvanised into action by the appearance of Google’s own-branded mobile phone, the Nexus One, at the start of the year. It is the first in what the search engine giant hopes will be a portfolio of mobile phones over which it has complete control.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February a group of more than a dozen mobile phone companies including O2, Vodafone and Orange announced their intention to form the Wholesale Applications Community, which would work on a single platform for downloadable apps that would work across all their networks and across a wide range of phones.

Since then, WAC has attracted 40 members and this week the operators will announce that it is to be based in London, where it will merge with another industry body called the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP). Backed by nine operators including AT&T, Orange and Telecom Italia, Nokia and Ericsson, OMTP developed the nascent Bondi open apps standard, which is used in the recently announced Samsung Wave handset.A chairman is currently being sought for WAC, whose interim chief executive is head of the OMTP Tim Raby, and the first board meeting of the new organisation is expected in July.

Its first task will be to pick a technology platform from the numerous competing open standards, including Bondi. It is understood to have chosen to use the open platform currently under construction by the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) partnership between Vodafone, Verizon Wireless of the US, Softbank in Japan and China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone network.

It is also supported by LG, Samsung, Sharp and most crucially Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry email device and bitter rival of both Apple and Android. Also involved in the process is the LiMo Foundation, which has been creating an open source mobile phone operating system based on Linux with the backing of partners including Motorola, NEC and NTT DoCoMo. Its software is inside Samsung’s H1 and M1 handsets which Vodafone has used as the flagship devices for its 360 suite of social networking services. There is speculation that Vodafone 360 could be rolled into the wider WAC effort.

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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Blackberry maker Research in Motion broke into the top five cellphone makers in January-March for the first time, helped by 50 percent growth in the global smartphone market.

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After a short period on the block, the smartphone maker is sold

Hewlett-Packard is buying Palm for nearly $1bn in cash, ending a brief period when it had looked as though the troubled smartphone maker might be bought by rival phone makers HTC or the Chinese computer maker Lenovo.

The $5.70 per share price represents a 23% premium over the price yesterday. Accounting for debt, which HP is also taking on, the transaction has a value of $1.2bn. It is expected to close by the end of July. Last year Palm stock traded at up to $18 – though that is a far cry from its 2000 high of $552.

The deal means that HP can move aggressively into the mobile phone market using Palm’s WebOS operating system, and also attack the market for “slate” computers like Apple’s iPad, a niche for which sales are expected to grow rapidly this year.

The transaction also means that the uncertainty that has been hanging over Palm – which attempted to break the three-way stranglehold on the smartphone market by Nokia, BlackBerry maker RIM and Apple – is over.

In the official statement, HP says the deal has been agreed by both boards.

“Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobility strategy and create a unique HP experience spanning multiple mobile connected devices,” said Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP. “And, Palm possesses significant IP assets and has a highly skilled team. The smartphone market is large, profitable and rapidly growing, and companies that can provide an integrated device and experience command a higher share. Advances in mobility are offering significant opportunities, and HP intends to be a leader in this market.”

The statement notes that Jon Rubenstein, the former Apple executive who was brought in as chief executive at Palm after joining it in October 2007, is expected to remain with the company.

HP has not previously been seen as a player in the mobile phone market. But it has the heft to be able to cut deals with the big phone networks: Palm struggled to get good prices for its Palm Pre and Pixi products, despite enthusiastic reviews. It is reckoned that about 500,000 Pre handsets were sold in the US after its release in 2009.

A key feature that Palm will bring to HP is the WebOS operating system for mobile phones, putting HP into contention with Nokia’s Symbian, Google’s Android, RIM’s BlackBerry, Apple’s OSX and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and upcoming Windows Phone.

Palm has been losing share in the smartphone market to Apple and, now, Android.

Elevation Partners, the company which provided repeated investments that in effect kept Palm from going bust, should realise a small profit on the deal. Dan Primack of PEHub, which follows private equity transactions, noted: “Back of envelope math shows Elevation would get $485m from HP/Palm deal. Compared to $460m in. “

Engadget has details of a phone call with HP executives: the suggestion is that HP adds the global reach, while Palm brings the intellectual property.

In a related post, Engadget says that

[the] word is that Palm’s existing hardware roadmap is basically untouched at this point by this acquisition, but the good news on the HP end of things is that the company sees WebOS as a “prized asset,” and they intend to “scale it across multiple connected devices.” That sounds like tablets to us, and HP didn’t beat back that assumption. On the Palm hardware end, Jon [Rubenstein] is very fond of saying “scale,” referring to the money and manufacturing resources at HP’s disposal, but he also says that he sees Palm working hand in hand with HP on devices.

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Cisco is aiming to help partners win more business with multinational
customers with the launch of a worldwide channel collaboration scheme.

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RIM has announced the BlackBerry Pearl 3G, the “sports car of BlackBerry smartphones” and the first of the company’s smartphones to include Wireless N support

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After an antivirus update caused global network problems and reboots, the company has refined its official response to the number affected

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Despite pressure on networks to drop roaming rates, MVNO Truphone is convinced of its business model, and the potential of a 125m global market

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Verizon Business has signed a new strategic agreement worth almost $100 million with Mitsui to help Mitsui build a new, fully-managed global communications and IT platform.

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Ascent Media Group and BT have entered into a strategic alliance to form a global broadcast switching platform offering connectivity between Ascent’s Waterfront Switch in New York and the BT Tower Switch in London.

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Apple has traditionally previewed its latest iPhone operating software in the spring, followed by a new generation handset in the summer, and there’s no reason to believe this year will be any different.

Software for the iPhone 4.0 will be revealed on Thursday, and will update the estimated 40m iPhones, 20m iPod Touch and, in all likelihood, the 300,000 iPads running the iPhone operating system. (Note: Thursday’s announcement is just that – an announcement. The new OS will probably reach the masses in around three months’ time.)

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Likely improvements include support for higher resolution screens, a front-facing camera, muilti-tasking between apps and better voice-to-text features.

• Multitasking is certainly the most in-demand feature. Users can currently email while listening to music, but the inability to use multiple apps at once – despite the implications for battery time – is a frequent gripe. That becomes even more important for iPad users, who will expect improved functionality for their more expensive apps and their altogether more expensive device.

• Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber, who has a reputation for predicting such things, also mentioned the new double resultion display of 960 x 640 pixels for the iPhone and a second camera on the phone front for apps like video chat.

• AppleInsider expects a global inbox that integrates mail accounts, plus ‘speed links’ to favourite contacts that can be added to the home screen as an icon.

• Kevin Tofel on GigaOM as well as some kind of cloud-based music service, though that might just be wishful thinking:

“if Apple doesn’t offer iTunes streaming over the web, others like Amazon could easily jump in the game. Consumers don’t mind carrying their music around, but storing content in the cloud offers nearly limitless capacity to hold media. And if Apple decides this isn’t a feature for the iPhone OS, I’ll just keep doing what I do today – store and stream my music with a cloud storage service like SugarSync or another provider.”

• A better voice-to-text solution might also improve the options for voice-guided GPS navigation, but improvements to the native Maps app are likely following Apple’s acquisition of the Placebase company and recruitment of a dedicated  engineer last year, according to PC World.

• And other probably-won’t-be-solved problems include the lack of email attachments, contact groups and rotation lock that is a feature on the iPad.

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Huawei’s 2009 annual report shows
the company shrugged off the global slowdown in equipment sales thanks to strong
domestic demand and third party contracts in Europe.

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Huawei’s 2009 annual report shows
the company shrugged off the global slowdown in equipment sales thanks to strong
domestic demand and third party contracts in Europe.

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Anyone with a mobile phone can now report on horrific events as they unfold, but respect for the victims can often be lacking

Graphic pictures of the Russian metro bombings are widely available on the internet, clearly showing the dead, the injured and the horrific aftermath of a terrorist attack.

This marks another stage in the advent of user-generated content. Never before has the world been so full of aspiring journalists, nearly all of us have the capability of capturing videos, taking photographs and uploading content to websites – all via a mobile phone. This offers more coverage than a news organisation could ever dream to possess, but poses a serious ethical dilemma.

While the mainstream media around the world have, for the most part, chosen not to show the pictures of corpses and body parts and instead have opted to only show the injured and the survivors, other outlets have not. Since the early 20th century there has been a widespread media convention not to show graphic pictures of dead people. The press tested this boundary with the photograph of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair. On 12 January 1928, a photographer for the New York Daily News captured the murderess’s death with a camera strapped to his leg. The picture was splashed across the newspaper’s front page and caused widespread revulsion across America, and teaching the media the limits of acceptable coverage.

Was this limit taken too far in the coverage of the London bombings of July 2007? Despite photos being taken from inside the tunnels, and even of the forensics team scouring the destroyed tube carriage, the images show no blood to signal the injuries that were sustained. Macabre though that may sound, the clean-cut images distort the effects of what happened, and shield us from seeing the harm done to our fellow compatriots. A similar example is the coverage of the Madrid train bombings of 2004, when the Telegraph, the Times, the Sun and the Daily Mail all airbrushed a severed limb from a photo of the scene. The Guardian changed the colour of the limb to grey, and the Independent and the Daily Mirror printed the photograph in black and white, all of which made the limb indistinguishable. Editors defended their decisions saying the doctoring had not changed the context of the picture, and that to print it in full would have been bad taste. But the Spanish newspaper El País printed that picture and others in which the severely injured were clearly identifiable.

Are these invasions of privacy warranted by the public interest clause, or are they simply serving the public’s morbid need-to-know? I would argue that photographs and videos allow readers to relate to the subjects of the written article – and the growing use of live blogging brings together all of these mediums. Live blogs unfolded the aftermath Russian bombings minute by minute, with updates from around the world via Twitter, YouTube and other social media tools. They highlighted the need for fast information, and portray the sense of panic and confusion better than any printed article could ever do, because they are able to report the news as it breaks. This new style of reporting offers a deeper insight into this type of tragedy than has been available in the past and so diminishes the argument of the need to use photos of the dead and injured in order to fully portray the scene.

Undeniably, it is important that people understand the impact that a terrorist attack such as this can have. But the advent of user-generated content does not mean all ethical judgement should be thrown out the window. To use only sterile images of this type of attack distorts the devastation it causes, but to identify the dead and the dying of such a tragedy in photographs is disrespectful and morally dubious. I still believe the lesson learned in the 1920s holds true.

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The consumption of mobile data surpassed that of voice for the first time
last year, according to new research into global mobile networks by telecoms
service provider Ericsson.

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Report for app store GetJar forecasts number of downloads will rise from 7bn in 2009 to almost 50bn in 2012

Mobile app downloads are expected to increase from more than 7bn downloads in 2009 to almost 50bn in 2012, according to a report.

The independent study, carried out by Chetan Sharma Consulting for Getjar, the world’s second biggest app store, forecasts that the global mobile application economy will be worth $17.5bn in 2012, more than CD sales, which it predicts will be $13.83bn.

It says that market will continue to grow exponentially as mobile devices become as powerful as computers, and wireless networks deliver consistently higher bandwidths. “With the consumer appetite for mobile apps rocketing, the opportunities for developers are huge,” says the CEO and founder of GetJar, Ilja Laurs.

The study says that initially the focus of making revenue from apps was based entirely on paid downloads or subscription-based models, but this is going to change. Today, advertising-based revenue accounts for about 12% of app revenue, but by 2012 this figure is expected to rise to 28%. For some platforms such as Google’s Android, advertising revenue is predicted to be even bigger than revenues from paid downloads.

The price of mobile applications ranges from $0.99 to $999 but the average selling price in 2009 was about $1.90, the study says. Over the next three years this is predicted to decrease by 29% and apps will get cheaper; however, advertising revenue derived from apps is likely to stay relatively flat.

By 2012, so-called “offdeck” apps that are offered independently from a carrier will be the biggest revenue generator, accounting for almost 50% of all app revenue. By comparison, in 2009, apps available from mobile operators still accounted for more than 60% of all app revenue, but this will fall to just under 23% by 2012.

As the WSJ Digits blogger Jennifer Valentino-DeVries points out, the study will by no means be the last word on the subject, but it provides at least a look at why so many companies are excited about mobile.

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