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  Global System for Mobile communications or fondly called as GSM has completed two decades of its service today. The GSM standard first came into existence in 1991 where the very first call was made between Finland’s former prime minister, Harri Holkeri, and the mayor of Tampere, Kaarina Suonio over a network jointly developed by [...]

  HTC has finally given the green signal to the Android 2.1 update for the chinned Hero. The OTA update v3.31.751.1 will bump the current Android 1.5 to Android 2.1 making it at par with the current fleet of HTC Android devices. This update is limited to Taiwan for now but releasing it in one [...]

  A German encryption expert, Karsten Nohl has cracked and published the GSM code that is widely used to encrypt calls to prevent eavesdropping. Anything in the tech world is often given the vintage status after a decade or so but in the case of 21-year old GSM encryption technology, it is still in use [...]

  CDMA-based Motorola Droid got official yesterday but Motorola is already preparing its GSM counterpart. The folks at Vietnamese site, Tinhte managed to get their hands on the device and shot a preview video exposing its GSM SIM slot along with a brief walkthrough of the phone. The specs are mostly unchanged but the software [...]

  As expected, the first Palm Pre carrying GSM bands have hit the retail shelves in Germany. Germans can buy the device right now SIM-free for 481 euros or chalk out just a euro to enter into an agreement with O2 for two years with 20 euros as the monthly fee. Palm also announced the [...]

  Just like its elder brother, GSM variant of Palm’s Pixi too revealed itself in Vietnam. There’s not much to tell here except the fact it boasts a SIM card slot and surprisingly 4GB of internal memory as compared to CDMA’s 8GB. [Via Tinhte]

  The wait for Europeans to get their hands on Palm’s webOS device will soon be over. O2 who is the exclusive carrier of GSM-band equipped Palm Pre in Europe has announced the availability dates. Germans will be able to pick up their Pres from October 13 while UK and Irish consumers will get from [...]

  Palm and its European network affiliate had assured a holiday release but a Pre fansite is claiming to have the exact date of the Pre launch in UK. According to the PalmWebOSBlog, the launch date will be October 30, which if true, goes well with the ‘October release’ banner that was sighted on O2 [...]

  Palm has announced their GSM band equipped Pre is Europe bound. UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain will be the first European countries to get the device and will hit retail shelves just in time to make the most from the upcoming holiday season. The phone will arrive on O2 and Movistar networks. Pre is [...]

  Palm Pre’s GSM iteration was first captured at MWC sporting a Vodafone SIM. And after a lull for all these months, the GSM Pre is back and reporting from Vietnam, where apparently, these are being manufactured. You can check the video which actually is a lengthy one and also shows the SIM proof to [...]