Posts Tagged ‘Cellphones’

Latest Telco Tech: Team Logo on Modem

March 14, 2010  |  News  |  1 Comment

This is the latest innovation in the field of Mobile Internet telecommunications: print your team flag on it! That’s what STC and Mobily think is a good idea.

Here’s the STC “Quicknet“, sounds a lot like Quakenet.

And Mobily’s “Connect AL-Zaeeem” for Hilal, that’s too many eees.

My advice to the 2 companies: Mobily, just make sure you have enough iPhone 3GS in stock and STC, improve your DSL lines and allow me to use BeejiveIM, open these ports!

STC/Mobily/Zain 3G Band

January 1, 2010  |  General  |  2 Comments

I am about to purchase a Novatel MiFi 2352 or 2372. The MiFi shares a 3G data connection as a wireless access point and it’s battery powered. The difference between the 2 models is this:

MiFi 2352 uses the following bands: Tri-band HSUPA/HSDPA 900/1900/2100 MHz and Quad-band GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz. The MiFi 2372 however is: Tri-band HSUPA/HSDPA 850/1900/2100 MHz and Quad-band GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz.

According to this page: STC, Mobily and Zain all use the 2100MHz band for 3G.

STC to launch HTC Magic in Saudi Arabia

October 9, 2009  |  Uncategorized  |  4 Comments

The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is now taking pre-booking requests for their upcoming HTC Magic, a Google Android based phone.

The phone will be sold for 2,399SR ($631) and includes a free subscription to a 12-month data plan with a limit of 1 Gigabyte each (notice that STC‘s site called it Gega).

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STC will hopefully open an Android app store and add Arabic language support when the HTC Magic is released. You can read more about the HTC Magic at HTC’s website. Via Maxer.

American Palm Pre CDMA launch date announced

May 19, 2009  |  Uncategorized  |  No Comments

Sprint has announced the release date of the Sprint Palm Pre is a CDMA/EV-DO smartphone and will only work with the Sprint network in the United States. It will be released on June 6th for $299 (before a $100 mail-rebate) and a two year commitment with the Sprint network.

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The release date is 2 days before Apple’s 2009 WWDC keynote, where Apple is expected to announce the third generation of the iPhone (which is a GSM phone). No news about the international 3G UMTS/GSM Palm Pre until now though. Via engadget.