5G: We are in the midpoint of the planned 10-year release cycle for 5G. In 2024 there was operators’ monetization struggles and sluggish 5G network investments. Expect a significant uptick in 5G activity in 2025. There are several reasons why telcos and industry observers are so optimistic. First, less than 10% of operators have launched →
Ghost touches on a touchscreen occur on smart phones and tablets when the screen registers touches or taps without any actual input from the user. This issue can be frustrating, but there are several potential reasons and solutions for it: Screen Calibration: Check if your device has a screen calibration option in the settings. Calibrate →
Almost all modern versions of bluetooth are hackable via BLUFFS attacks. CVE-2023-24023 Detail https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24023 Bluetooth BR/EDR devices with Secure Simple Pairing and Secure Connections pairing in Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through 5.4 allow certain man-in-the-middle attacks that force a short key length, and might lead to discovery of the encryption key and live injection, aka →
Here is one interesting article on Android smart phone history: The first Android is 15 years old, and it is the opposite of everything we want in a smartphone today https://www.techradar.com/phones/the-first-android-is-15-years-old-and-it-is-the-opposite-of-everything-we-want-in-a-smartphone-today The HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 is fifteen years old as of September 23. This first Android phone was launched in 2008 as the →
Can terrestrial networks can meet the communications needs of future space missions? Maybe. Nokia is planning to launch 4G internet on the moon later this year, an executive for the company said. It will be used within Nasa’s Artemis 1 mission, which aims to establish a human presence on the moon again (last time was →
There has been 50 years for many significant technical innovations at the moment or just passed. For example there mobile phones and bar codes are now 50 years old. Also there is 50 years from the time people visited moon. Here are some news links related to them. The Matrix phone to the iPhone – →
‘Merry Christmas’: 30 years of the text message https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63825894 The text message is celebrating its 30th birthday – the first “Merry Christmas” SMS was sent to a mobile phone by a Vodafone engineer in Berkshire in the UK on 3 December 1992. Originally, an SMS could only be text, up to 160 characters long. The →
The European Parliament and the Council of Europe have announced the introduction of a universal charger for mobile devices is to be taken to use. The preliminary agreement on the reform of the Radio Equipment Directive means that certain electronic devices will in future be charged with the same charger. By autumn 2024, USB Type-C →
Telecommunication and networking has been and will be one of the core technologies in helping the evolution of mankind and technology. Here is a quick view to the history of the modern electronics based communications technologies with help of few history articles. “10th March, 1876 – The day when Alexander Graham Bell made the first →
ARM is the world’s most popular RISC processor architecture, widely used in embedded systems in addition to mobile phones and small computers. The latest is 64-bit ARM v9. At the same time, competitors are tuning in their own competing versions. The first ARM v9 based smart phone chips have just been released: MediaTek Dimensity 9000 →