Visa Europe and Wireless Dynamics today announced that they have developed a mobile contactless payment solution that will bring Visa contactless payments to iPhone users across Europe. iPhone users simply attach the Wireless Dynamics iCarte accessory, available through their bank or mobile operator, to their iPhone and download the companion Visa Mobile application for iCarte App from the App Store. The iCarte accessory contains an antenna and an embedded Secure Element where the Visa mobile card is safely stored. This “card”, in turn, works with an app from the App Store to enable payments on the iPhone. Once the Visa mobile card is activated, consumers can start making purchases by simply launching the app and touching their iPhone on any contactless-enabled point of sale terminal across Europe, without the need to enter their PIN.
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Flinders University researchers have developed a mobile phone system that allows mobile phones to work in areas where there is no reception. They believe that this technology could save lives in a disaster.
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Posted by: Phat^Trance in Android, Blackberry, Maemo, Motorola, Nokia, Nokia / Symbian^3, Operator News, Samsung, Sony, Video, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7
Orange have launched a number of phones that go back to basics and improved the often maligned audio quality of today’s communications. HD Voice aims to sort this out, offering better voice reproduction and ambient noise cancellation. Martin Stanford experiments.
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This is the original cut from the Apple iPhone ad that was just released. Since AT&T’s network is so bad, Apple had to photoshop the iPhone to make it look like it was working 
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The HTC EVO Shift and Samsung Epic 4G are two 4G phones on the Sprint network. Since both have slide-out QWERTY keyboards, people reasonably wonder about the differences between the two. Wirefly decided to test the EVO Shift and the Epic 4G head-to-head using a new benchmarking application called Smartbench 2010. Take a look at the video to see the results.
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The cutting-edge download speed was demonstrated today by company representatives using a T-Mobile laptop stick developed by ZTE, capable of delivering peak download speeds of up to 42 Mbps and slated to launch in the first half of 2011.
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Cnet administers a quick speed test between the Verizon iPhone 4 and the AT&T iPhone 4. Check out the speed test video after the break.
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Clearwire’s 4G LTE technology trials testing multiple coexistence scenarios between LTE and WiMAX radio technologies. Check out the speed test results after the break.
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