Great iPhone 4 Review

Apple said Monday that it sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s in three days after its launch last week, calling it its most successful product launch ever.

The iPhone 4 is still sold out at many stores. Online purchasers are told orders will ship in three weeks. "We apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.

Last year, the 3GS iPhone sold 1 million units in its first three days.

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Motorcyclist's body found by cellphone GPS

Nova Scotia police found the body of a missing motorcyclist Wednesday by tracking the GPS on his cellphone.

RCMP said the 48-year-old man left Hammonds Plains at about 8:30 a.m. to shop in Bridgewater. When he didn't return home, worried relatives called police.

Cpl. Joe Taplin said investigators contacted the man's cellphone service provider, and that led them to a ditch in Hubley, southwest of Halifax.

RCMP found the motorcyclist and his Yamaha at 11:30 p.m.

"The cellphone had a GPS on it and by using that we were able to locate the man near Joshua Slocum Drive," Taplin said.

GPS-equipped cellphones can allow police to track missing people and criminals.

But conventional cellphones without GPS can also be tracked, says Jesse Hirsh, CBC Radio's technology columnist.

"When cellphones connect, just making themselves available to accept calls, they are leaving a data trail of all the cellphone towers that they connect to, and that allows carriers to literally map out where a customer is," he said.

But that provider has to record and then recover the information, he added.

"From that data you're able to get a rough estimate of where people are. I mean, the accuracy is very general, it doesn't show you, for example, a specific intersection. It would show you a general area of say several hundred metres."

An RCMP traffic collision analyst is trying to determine the cause of Wednesday's crash. An autopsy is planned for Thursday.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/17/ns-fatal-motorcycle-crash.html#ixzz0r8MwAq9M

Video Conferencing On Your Cell Phone!

Speaking at a conference, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said that the company plans to introduce "two to four" handsets later this year with front-facing cameras, which could be used for video calling. Jha said he never felt mobile video conferencing was a compelling feature, but Motorola's phones will support it. Just a few weeks ago, Jha said that Motorola plans to introduce two new Android handsets with Verizon Wireless this summer. It is possible that one or both of these handsets will have the video feature in question. Jha also indicated that the Motorola Droid is still selling very well at Verizon Wireless. "(Droid) sales are going extremely well. If I could build more I'd sell more," Jha said. Jha noted that Motorola is a victim of supply chain constraints that are reducing the number of handsets it can produce.

NEW 68 dB Amp and Kit

Product Overview:
The Cellphone-Mate 68dB Dual Band Cellular Repeater Kit includes the CM2020 68dB Amplifier. This kit is suitable to cover every major network provider (with the exception of Nextel), over an area up to 10,000 square feet.

The kit includes a Dual Band Yagi Directional donor antenna, one 50' LMR400 cable length with N-Male connectors, the Cellphone-Mate CM2020-68 bi-directional cellular amplifier, one 30' LMR400 cable length with N-Male connectors, and one internal dome antenna.

The kit is designed to cover medium to large areas where both frequencies are used by a single carrier or when multiple carriers need to be amplified.

Electrical Parameters

Frequency range Uplink: 824-849 and 1850-1910 MHz Downlink: 869-894 and 1930-1990 MHz Standard supported CDMA, WCDMA, GSM, EDGE, TDMA and AMPS etc. Gains Reconfigurable gain, maximum 68dB Maximum output power 3 Watts EIRP Impedance 50 ohms Noise figure Maximum 5 dB VSWR Less than 2:1 AC power transformer Input: AC110V, 60Hz; Output: DC 9V Cable LMR400 or CM400 recommended RF connectors N female connectors on both ends Power consumption <9w>

Operating temperature -15° to +55°C Dimension 7.25x7.375x2.00 inch /18.4x18.7x5.1 cm Weight 4.72 lb

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Cell phones killing Bees!?!

Are Cell Phones Killing Off Bees?

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Could cell phones be the cause of a massive decline in bee populations across Europe and North America?

Researchers in India think that radiation from mobile telephones is a key factor and is probably interfering with the navigational senses in bees, reports The Daily Telegraph .

Authors of the report, which appears in the journal Current Science , write: " Increase in the usage of electronic gadgets has led to electro-pollution of the environment. Honeybee behavior and biology has been affected by electro-smog since these insects have magnetite in their bodies which helps them in navigation."

The authors, Ved Prakash Sharma and Neelima Kumar from Chandigarh's Punjab University, wrote that both colony strength and the egg-laying rate of the queen declined significantly.

The study involved the comparison of bees in two hives in Punjab. They fitted one fitted with two mobile telephones that were powered on for two 15-minute sessions per day for three months, and placed dummy models in the second hive, reports The Telegraph.

At the end of the period the researchers say there was a dramatic decline in the size of the hive fitted with the mobile phone. Honey production also stopped and the queen bee in the hive with the phones produced only half the eggs as the one in the other hive, researchers found.

The decline has been blamed on various causes, including agricultural pesticides, climate change and genetically modified crops, reports Australian Broadcast Company .

"Previous work in this area has indicated this (mobile phone use) is not a real factor," Tim Lovett, of the British Beekeepers Association, tells The Telegraph. "If new data comes along we will look at it. At the moment we think is more likely to be a combination of factors including disease, pesticides and habitat loss."

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Partnership Program

Cellular Solutions’ Referral Partnership (CRP) program, which will complement the Cellular Solutions Industry Partnership (CIP) program, offers additional income potential to existing communications providers while offering an additional communication solution to their arsenal. The end user can find comfort in the implementation of this new cellular technology, that a leader in the industry with many years of cellular RF experience will be teaming with their personal IT professional to provide a flawless implementation. These newly deployed programs will offer a value added resource to all companies currently offering in-building communication solutions.



Cellular Solutions Referral Partnership

The Cellular Solutions Referral Partnership (CRP) program is designed for solution companies that target, but not limited to, the Banking, Hospitality, Medical, Manufacturing, Education, Office Building and Transportation industries and wish to increase their revenue by helping their customers find a dependable provider of cellular DAS solutions — without needing the knowledge of how to sell, implement, or support the products. If Cellular Solutions completes a sale as a result of a partner referral, the partner will receive a referral fee as a thank you for introducing Cellular Solutions to the opportunity. Under the CRP program, partners work with Cellular Solutions to determine the best integration method between their product(s) and Cellular Solutions’ products.

As a partner in Cellular Solutions Referral Partnership Program, a referral fee of 10% of the product portion of the project will be paid to the partner. Cellular Solutions will provide a turnkey solution for the end user, from the initial site evaluation and engineering phase through the installation, system configuration and start up. The partner will not need to invest any time or labor to ensure the end user’s needs are taken care of. To participate in the CRP program, no contract is required. The voluntary participation of the partner will be continued on a job by job basis.



Cellular Solutions Industry Partnership

The Cellular Solutions Industry Partnership (CIP) program provides vertical market communication companies the ability to offer Cellular Solutions engineered and guaranteed systems and seamlessly integrate them with their solutions through a service oriented design
process. This provides a partner with the ability to quickly and easily expand their product offering, increase revenue, and offer their customers a single vendor solution without having to develop it themselves. As a partner in Cellular Solutions Industry Partnership Program, complementary engineering will be provided upon the receipt of pertinent structural information provided by the partner, a 10% discount will be offered on the products necessary to deploy cellular repeater infrastructure, and complementary technical support will be provided via telephone if partner chooses to self install solution. In order to extend the Cellular Solutions guarantee of full coverage throughout the requested client areas, Cellular Solutions must conduct the installation. In the event partner would prefer Cellular Solutions to conduct the installation to ensure guaranteed coverage, an additional 10% discount will be offered on the installation rate.

To participate in the CIP program, the partner must agree to work exclusively with Cellular Solutions for a period of one year, all products purchased for the use of rebroadcasting cellular signal for their clients will be purchased from Cellular Solutions during the time of the one year contract. At the conclusion of the one year contract the two parties, may choose to engage in an additional year long partnership or to split ways.



“Our partnership programs are a great way for companies to increase revenue by receiving a referral fee or to increase their product offering by adding a cellular DAS system to their portfolio quickly and without a lot of the expenses associated with developing and launching a robust suite of solutions.” – A King, CEO

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Spotlight on 801212 Vehicle Amplifier System

• Allows multiple phones and data cards to be used simultaneously • Supports CDMA, TDMA, GSM and AMPS, in addition to 1x and 3x data protocols such as HSDPA, EVDO and EDGE • Up to 3 watts maximum output power • Power control logic ensures maximum output power is within cellular standards • Requires no physical connection to cell phone or data card • Provides high signal-to-noise ratio • protects cell sites from harmful interference • Includes our high efficiency 12” exterior magnet mount antenna • Dual band - Cellular and PCS • FCC and IC type accepted

Specifications

Part Number 801212 Frequency 824-894 MHz / 1850-1990 MHz Gain 40 dB / 45 dB Max Output Power 3 watts Max RF +35 dBm / +10 dBm Noise Figure 3 dB nominal Flatness ± 3 dB / ± 4 dB Isolation > 90 dB Power Requirements 6 V, 3 A max Connectors FME-Male 50 ohms Dimensions 4.5 x 3.5 x 1.25 (inches) / 11.43 x 8.9 x 3.2 (cm) Weight 1.5 lbs / 0.7 kg

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New York Times - Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls By JENNA WORTHAM

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Highlights

• Almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cellphone.
• The number of text messages sent per user increased by nearly 50 percent nationwide last year, according to the CTIA, the wireless industry association.
• For the first time in the United States, the amount of data in text, e-mail messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices in 2009 surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls, industry executives and analysts say.
• When people do talk on their phones, their conversations are shorter; the average length of a local call was 1.81 minutes in 2009, compared with 2.27 minutes in 2008, according to CTIA.
• American teenagers have been ahead of the curve for a while, turning their cellphones into texting machines; more than half of them send about 1,500 text messages each month, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project.

Thoughts

1. Cell phone companies are going to have to keep expanding phones to be capable of doing everything. People want to have the option to update facebook, twitter, email all on their phone. Only a matter of time before everyone phone will have full personal computer functionality.
   
2. Texting while driving has become such a dangerous habit, with the increase of texting it will only be a matter of time before voice and text are integrated, allowing users to speak and hear their text messages.
3. The price markup on texting for the carriers is so huge, they will continue to promote and encourage texting.
   

Cellular Solutions Commercial

A clever advertisement our marketing team came up with. Not their normal high comedy piece but leaves the viewer to inquiry more....

Did you know?

State law prohibits drivers in California and Minnesota from using suction mounts on their windshields while operating motor vehicles.

Something to keep in mind when looking for an in-vehicle cellular system as some mounts utilized window suctions!

Testimonial!

"I Just wanted to thank everyone for the great work Cellular Solutions did on selecting the right product for our dorm cellular situation. We got the product installed yesterday and the comments, praise, and words 'freakin amazin' are flying around like you wouldn't believe. Anyway, I think it's safe to say we'll be ordering a few more of them....."

-Greg Maples
Freed-Hardeman University
Information Technology Department

Great NY Times article about why our services are so important

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Dead Zone Doldrums Test Skills of iPhone Customers
By PAUL BOUTIN
Published: April 28, 2010

Owners of iPhones know that their love for Steve Jobs’s touch-screen marvel comes at a price. The iPhone’s cellular coverage, provided exclusively by AT&T Wireless, is notoriously spotty. In some parts of New York and San Francisco, it’s impossible to connect.
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

Options for better iPhone call reception include standing near a window.
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AT&T via Associated Press

A 3G base station.

Skype’s iPhone app.

If you go for a dim sum lunch at Yank Sing restaurant on the edge of the financial district in San Francisco, you are likely to miss calls from the office. Some owners can’t use their iPhones in their own homes. Even AT&T Park, the city’s waterfront stadium, can be a dead zone.

The iPhone service is affected by several factors. First, AT&T’s 3G network doesn’t cover as much ground as Verizon, America’s largest carrier. Second, urban areas packed with tall buildings are bad for wireless signals. Skyscrapers can block radio waves, or they can bounce them around to create what’s called multipath interference, where signals from different directions collide and cancel each other out.

But the iPhone’s worst enemy is the iPhone itself. So many Americans use them in the same places and at the same time that they are competing with one another for use of the network. “A hundred cellphones demanding bandwidth per cell site may not be out of the question in congested downtown areas,” said Tim Pozar, a wireless engineer who installs custom repeater systems to improve cellphone coverage at offices in the San Francisco area. IPhone owners have proved to be heavy consumers of network capacity.

What to do? There is no single magic bullet to improve iPhone service. You can spend hours trying to persuade AT&T to let you out of your contract. The time you spend doing that will cost more than the contract termination fee.

Knowing a few tricks might get you a connection. If your touch screen says “No Service,” the easiest fix is to hold the phone completely vertical, rather than slanted across your cheek. The iPhone’s antenna is meant to reach furthest if it is held straight up and down. If that doesn’t work, move. Indoors, walk to a window. Outdoors, cross the street.

For the newer 3G-capable iPhones, turning off the 3G in favor of AT&T’s older Edge network is sometimes effective. Go to the iPhone’s Settings icon. Tap General, then Network. Slide the Enable 3G toggle from On to Off. But you can’t talk and browse the Web at the same time on Edge.

Another alternative is to use a Wi-Fi hot spot to make calls. Skype, the popular Internet phone service, will make and take calls as long as you leave the app running and signed in. (Until an iPhone can multitask, that means you have to have the Skype app on all the time.) Calls with other Skype users are free, but calls to and from phones cost about two cents a minute. The app is available in the iPhone App Store.

Skype call quality varied in our tests from clear to sputtery, with a delay from one half-second to three or four seconds. Also, the app works only over Wi-Fi, so you will need to juggle between Skype and AT&T, depending on where you are.

Or, for $15 a month, you can subscribe to the Line2 app that mimics Apple’s phone in look and feel, but switches calls to a Wi-Fi network whenever the iPhone connects to one.

Line2 can start a call on AT&T’s 3G network and then transfer to Wi-Fi, whereas Apple won’t allow Skype to handle calls via AT&T. If left running, it will also receive inbound calls over Wi-Fi. (If Apple were to add a Wi-Fi option to the built-in Phone app, this wouldn’t be a problem.)

But for reliable service, there is no substitute for hardware that increases range. That is why AT&T has begun offering home 3G base stations that look like Wi-Fi routers, but send and receive 3G radio signals instead. These microcells, as AT&T calls them, connect to the Internet and offer wireless coverage of up to 40 feet in any direction. They work with any 3G AT&T phone, but not with Apple’s older non-3G model of iPhone.

The catch is that you will have to pay AT&T for the boost. There are two payment plans: If you buy the microcell for $150, AT&T will charge your voice calls made using the device against the minutes on your monthly wireless plan. Or you can sign up for unlimited calling for a $20 a month fee, and get the microcell free.

Many people consider it outrageous that AT&T isn’t handing out microcells to solve what they see as a problem that AT&T created. But you do get your own personal cellphone tower without needing the approval of your neighborhood’s opposition watchdog group.

AT&T’s microcell is built by Cisco, a company with a reputation for solid network gear. Setup isn’t exactly plug-and-play, but it doesn’t require you to be a technician. You log in to attwireless.com — you’ll need to create an account if you haven’t already — and open a URL clearly labeled on a sticker that covers the microcell’s cable ports. Enter the microcell’s serial number and the 10-digit phone numbers of the iPhones you want it to serve. Then, as the instructions warn, you must wait up to 90 minutes while the microcell configures itself.

Call quality over the microcell was almost shockingly clear, ungarbled and free of the underwater sound that plagues many cellphone calls. You also might be less likely to experience the common many-second delays between your saying something and the other party’s hearing it. Cellular experts warn that delays and stuttering calls are still possible because these are caused by Internet traffic jams rather than the microcell.

If you make a call from inside the house and then walk outside, you can expect the microcell to reliably hand off the call to a local tower. Calls made outside, though, don’t transfer to the microcell when you get home. The only annoyance you may find with the AT&T unit is that whenever it is rebooted, as home networks sometimes are, it may take about 20 minutes to come back online.

AT&T’s solution will work for homes and small offices. But the company is clear that you can’t take it with you. It may not connect if plugged in somewhere else. So how to solve the restaurant dead-zone problem?

Mr. Pozar says the best fix is for the location to install its own repeater. For $1,000 to $5,000 in parts and labor, a hot dim sum spot could route calls through an outside antenna that connects to an inside amplifier.

That’s not cheap. But instead of a Free Wi-Fi sign, what better way to attract big spenders than one that says iPhone Hot Spot?

Cellular Solutions Rap

In one of the more embarrassing videos of all time, Paul and Robert take Cellular Solutions to a new level. Their funky flows and sweet melody will surely make them overnight sensations...

Cellphone-Mate 62 dB Dual Band System

Cellular Solutions is proud to announce they are now selling Cellphone-Mate 62 dB amplifiers. The 62 dB will also be available in a kit. The 62 dB system is a perfect fit for someone in between a 55 dB and a 65 dB system. Having a 62 dB system will allow users to get more coverage than a 55 dB while not paying the 65 dB price.

The system works with all carriers with the exception being Nextel. Cellphone-Mate advertises up to 4,000 square feet of coverage with the 62 dB system. While 4,000 square feet is the maximum coverage, true coverage is based upon outside signal, internal walls, etc. We are in the process of field testing now. Check back for a full review on the product.

Give us a call and ask one of our technicians which system will be right for you.

To view more information on the system, click here.

Harry and Lloyd Meet Cellular Solutions

On our blog you will see some of our YouTube videos. The most recent one is a fun parody made in the office. The idea for the video was just to play off of Harry and Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber and some of their crazy dialogue. With a little voice over the scene quickly changed from being about a dead bird to having no cell phone service in their "dump". Enjoy.

Cellular Solutions Introduction

The purpose of this blog is merely a communication between our company and our friends/clients/viewers. Over the course of this blog we hope to entertain you, inform you, and keep you updated on new happenings at Cellular Solutions.

Cellular Solutions Company Overview

Cellular Solutions has been implementing affordable cellular repeater systems in facilities of all sizes since early 2002. Specializing in both single and multi-carrier systems that increase capacity, expand coverage, and improve clarity inside facilities, Cellular Solutions is a renowned industry leader in in-building wireless. Incorporated and located in Michigan, and with a proven nationwide installer data base, Cellular Solutions has provided turnkey solutions to clients in all fifty states. Our highly qualified engineering team enables us to design systems to deliver strong wireless coverage into all conceivable venues.

Cellular Solutions has developed and maintains a close working relationship with RF engineers from all major service providers assuring system designs meet all carrier engineering requirements. All products implemented are pre-approved by the FCC. Supported access standards include TDMA, CDMA, GSM, iDEN, Ev-DO, GPRS, UMTS, EDGE, SMR, CDMA 2000, AMPS, 1.7/2.1 and 802.11 technologies. Having more than 2,000 large facility systems currently in operation, Cellular Solutions has set the standard in meeting new demands regarding in-building signal enhancement.