Posts Tagged ‘3G’

Nokia kills Nokia Sports Tracker

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

The best thing to come out of Nokia in the last few years was the Nokia Sports Tracker (Beta). An old Nokia N95 with a free download could then map your walking, cycling, running, etc using the phone’s A-GPS and display a moving map trail. In addition there were graphs for distance and speed against time and stats about pace and lap timings.

This could all be uploaded to the Nokia Sports Tracker website and display your routes, or those of others on a Google Maps view. Much the same as WalkJogRun.net but the beauty was that it worked on a 3 year old phone and hence delaying the Android or iPhone move.

Nokia have killed the Beta and bizarrely then launched a Sports Tracker site which didn’t take all those beta users with it. The new app is now in the Ovi store as a free download.

Long Term Evolution rolls out in Norway

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Long Term Evolution

Long Term Evolution

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the future of mobile telecomunications that will replace 3rd Generation (3G) networks.  Also know as 4th Generation (4G) it was competing with the Intel backed WiMAX standard which has stagnated and lost ground over the last couple of years.

Although WiMAX can manage 6Mb/sec the LTE rollout reported at The Register by TeliaSonera in Oslo, Norway is promising 20 – 80Mb/sec.  It’s not likely to reach the UK until the next round of spectrum auctions which in turn won’t be until after the next election at the earliest.

Share 3G as Wi-Fi Hotspot

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

JoikuSpot is an application for a Symbian S60 Nokia mobile phone that allows the 3G connection to be shared over the phone’s built-in Wi-Fi.  This was an obvious ommission from Nokia phones when they first added Wi-Fi.  Now a hotspot can be set up where 3G reception is possible.

The Lite version allows HTTP only and is free but the premium version allows other protocols such as Skype and YouTube and VPN access.  This sells for about $15.