Brian White over at Engadget Mobile tries to stir the pot about T-Mobile closing ports for users with mobile data subscriptions added to their phones. This is nothing new to anyone who has been using T-Mobile data services for any length of time. They have always had some loopholes that needed tightening [...]

Today Sprint announced it was expanding system support for EVDO to the Apple Macintosh.  Utilizing the Sierra Aircard 595, Macs will now be able to leverage the EVDO (including Rev. A) networks on Sprint.  Good news!
Via: Phone Scoop - Sprint Adds Mac Support for EV-DO

Technorati tags: EVDO, EVDO Rev. A, Sierra Aircard 595

jkOnTheRun is reporting that Verizon Wireless is also working to deploy EVDO Rev. A in their coverage areas.  Sprint is the other US carrier that is actively deploying EVDO Rev. A to provide higher speed wireless broadband access.
Expect to see some new PC Cards to be made available in 2007 to take advantage of [...]

Well, this is an interesting turn for anyone who uses mobile phones.
Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.

“I am very encouraged by the fact that the Copyright Office is willing to recognize exemptions for archivists, cell phone [...]

SBSH Mobile Software has released version 1.2 of their Papyrus “today screen” software designed for Symbian smartphones. The latest release now supports Symbian 3rd edition devices. Their press release:
SBSH Mobile Software updates Papyrus for Symbian to version 1.2

October 9, 2006 - SBSH Mobile Software announced today the update of SBSH Papyrus for Symbian [...]

Looks like our friends to the north will be able to get the Motorola Q now on the Bell Canada network.  Since Bell Canada is a CDMA carrier, they were able to pick up the currently shipping CDMA version of the Q right away.
The Moto Q is a Windows Mobile Smartphone with a QVGA landscape display and QWERTY keyboard [...]

Looking for a good review of the Moto Q?
Check out Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine’s review that was posted to their website yesterday. The Q is one heck of a phone if you happen to be on the Verizon network, though a GSM version should show up for Cingular and T-Mobile by the end [...]

Looking for a USB based EV-DO adapter for your laptop?  Well you can start planning to pick one up soon; Franklin Wireless has a USB modem based off CDMA2000 1x EV-DO technology already certified for the Sprint network.
This device will allow simple, fast wireless connectivity in the Sprint EV-DO network that covers the major metro [...]

The news of a 4G working group made me think a bit about high-speed wireless and what we actually see in deployed services. Here in the US, we have available to consumers, 1xRTT, EVDO, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, and HSDPA. None of these come anywhere close to their hyped speeds, though some areas do [...]