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Wait, wait. Something the was promised for upcoming year is arriving… the year? Be continuing to our hearts! Chrysler should reportedly provide up its in-car EV-DO secret (dubbed Uconnect Web) initiating on August 25th, and title&wshyp;holders of 2009 Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles (along amidst a few “earlier models”) is planning to be able to hold the $499 box retrofitted to the rides. Apparently the Automatic maker certainly isn’t planning to install the places directly at the factory, so persons who wish it is able to be required to to pay an larger amount of $35 to $50 installation charge, a $35 activation fee and a $29 monthly subscription fee. The tool is declared to find download speeds between 400Kbps and 800Kbps in on uploads hovering approximately 400Kbps, and provider Autonet Mobile has promised who you will “never waste the connection.” That’s a relatively bold argue — thankfully we will be able to test it out in simply a few weeks.

Samsung presently loosed a 3-channel Bluetooth speaker previously such year, but apparently, one clearly certainly isn’t enough. The establishment has now introduced its YA-SBR510 for the duration of in South Korea, that streams audio out of BT-enabled players and includes a 3.5-millimeter auxiliary jack for hooking up easily virtually anything and everything else. A tad expensive at €150 ($222), but it is a whole understanding serves to it appear bundled in on the current oh-so-furry rug. Sammy, service to comment?

Look out, Bluetooth — Ozmo Devices has its eyes set squarely on you. Okay, so perhaps such gargantuan truth sucker as adversarial as advertised, but there is no denying the current the aforesaid company’s fresh legislation is planning to goal the precise same devices the present BT is embedded over now. Ozmo has announced a partnership investing in Intel at Computex the are able to provide the latter company’s Cliffside WiFi Personal Area Network (PAN) technology to “low-power devices.” Essentially, WiFi radios who completely stink a reduced amount of juice nowadays will take on double roles — accessing WLAN networks and working at the duties for the most part reserved for Bluetooth — that might enable devices to hold one a reduced number of element stuffed through bulking conditions up. As of now, there is continued no takers on the design, but word on the street has Belkin currently testing the process out for kicks and giggles (or perhaps somewhat way a larger number of serious).

Times haven’t been so great at Helio, but it looks like the troubled MVNO could be snapped up by Virgin Mobile. mocoNews did a little digging after Virgin’s recent Q1 conference call, and says that the two companies are currently in merger talks. Since both companies use Sprint’s network, the tech would be compatible, and the deal would give SK Telecom a way to keep Helio going as it tries to gain a foothold in the US market. Nothing’s set in stone yet and the two companies aren’t talking, but we’ll definitely keep an eye on this one.

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We’re not exactly sure what was going on with that whole on-again / off-again love affair with iPhones having gratis access to AT&T WiFi hotspots, but we’re content with letting bygones be bygones. On the slightly tweaked iPhone “Plans” page, the carrier now lists “Access to AT&T WiFi hotspots” as an included feature along with call forwarding, 3-way calling and Caller ID. Sure, it’s not a bona fide press release, but same difference, right?

[Via MacRumors]

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We’re calling this right now: ASUS’ Eee PC is the new MP3 player. But only in the context of giveaways. Anywho, just days after RBC announced that it would dish out free subnotes if prospective customers joined in, PowerUp Mobile is now offering a similar deal for UKers who sign up for T-Mobile’s Web n Walk mobile broadband package. In short, folks comfortable with inking their name on a two-year contract at £35 per month will net a free USB modem and a Eee PC 2GB Surf. Better hurry — the deal expires on June 15th.

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We’re not exactly sure what was going on with that whole on-again / off-again love affair with iPhones having gratis access to AT&T WiFi hotspots, but we’re content with letting bygones be bygones. On the slightly tweaked iPhone “Plans” page, the carrier now lists “Access to AT&T WiFi hotspots” as an included feature along with call forwarding, 3-way calling and Caller ID. Sure, it’s not a bona fide press release, but same difference, right?

[Via MacRumors]

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Well, what do you know? Sometimes even the the most repetitive of rumors finally comes true. Barely 12 hours after the Wall Street Journal reported that a deal between Sprint, Clearwire and just about everyone else was dangerously close to going down, it seems as if the bottom lines have indeed been signed. Details are pretty light at the moment, but we definitively know that Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. will be merging their “next-generation wireless broadband businesses to form a new wireless communications company.” Quite simply, the new outfit will be called Clearwire, even though Sprint will hold around 51-percent of the firm, while existing Clearwire shareholders will own 27-percent and the new investors will hold 22-percent. New investors? Ah yes, Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks will collectively invest $3.2 billion in the new company, but that figure is “based on a target price of $20 a share of Clearwire’s common stock, and is subject to a post-closing adjustment.”

[Via CNN]

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We’ve definitely heard this one before, but the buzz around a proposed $12B WiMAX partnership between Sprint, Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel, and Google is deafening right now, all based on a report in the Wall Street Journal. The plan is for Sprint to merge its XOHM wireless broadband division with Clearwire, and then take a total of $3.2B in investments from a host of other players: $1.05B from Comcast, $1B from Intel, $550M from Time Warner Cable, $500M from Google, and $100M from Bright House. The resulting company will be worth some $12B, and the WSJ says investors have given their final approval for the deal — a rumor we’ve already heard with no meaningful result, so take it with a grain of salt. Or a whole salt lick, actually. We’re not certain why Big Cable is so eager to dump money on Sprint after two previous ventures both folded recently, but if this goes down, it’s a pretty big boost for WiMAX, which was looking pretty sickly lately. Still, asking consumers to have faith in Sprint and Comcast and Time Warner Cable is pretty ballsy — between the three of them, they’ve probably burned everyone in America. We’ll see where this goes — we should have something official pretty soon, according to the Journal.

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It looks like Verizon isn’t taking those 700MHz spectrum open access rules very seriously, and a certain competing bidder isn’t real happy. In a petition filed with the FCC by Google, the company alleges that Verizon is willfully ignoring the “plain meaning of the [open access] rule” by suggesting it will allow one type of access for users who use Verizon-approved devices, and another for those using third-party units. According to the document, “Verizon’s position would completely reverse the meaning of the rule such that the open access condition would apply to none of Verizon’s customers, and thereby render the condition a nullity.” The search giant is calling for the FCC to block Verizon’s $4.7 billion bid on the spectrum unless the company agrees to comply with the previously-decided open access rules. Since this isn’t the first inkling we’ve had that Verizon wasn’t down with open access, we’re not surprised, but it looks like Google has a little more fight left in them — and that could make all the difference. [Warning: PDF read link]

[Via IP Democracy; Thanks, Bram]

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