Isn't Mac Minis and all current MacBooks based on Nvidia's ION???

FALSE!!! The phone doesn't have to explicitly support the provider's network... Just have to support the frequency used by the provider...

It's not technologically possible for a carrier to block non sim-locked phones, there isn't any command on a gsm network to query the simlock status of a phone...

Why should they support 3G CDMA??? It's a crappy and outdated technology that will die soon(4G/LTE will not work on CDMA, only GSM)

WCDMA IS NOT CDMA.... WCDMA is 3G GSM, 3G CDMA is called CDMA2000

I agree... However you have to agree that CDMA/EV-DO is a inferior technology when compared with UMTS/HSDPA...

Poor Americans... I don't rely at all on mobile phone provider... If want a certain phone, i simply buy it from whatever store i want and swap the SIM card from my old phone to the new one... Oh... wait... Verizon uses that crap called CDMA... We don't have that in Portugal... However you could just buy a non-verizon CDMA phone, and get Verizon to activate the phone's ESN on you account right?... I simply don't get why you, Americans, buy providers banded phones with features crippled... When you could buy non-branded phones and swap the sim card(or active the new phones ESN in case of CDMA)

That doesn't mean anything, Symbian will probably die some time in the future, but not Series60(witch is nokia UI ontop of Symbian) Symbian^4 will move away from that ugly C++ API an will be completely based on QT framework and will break the binary compatibility with previous series60/symbain (http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/30/reviewing-the-release-plan) This means that Series60 will be based on QT as well, so they can easily move to a Linux platform if they want... (and break the binay compatibility again in the process, but nokia doesn't have any problem with that, they do it regularly)

We use Teletext Subtitles

Can anyone explain to me why the browsers vendors canÂt simply use the existing codecs in the OS? They could(and should) use Direcshow for Windows, Quicktime for MacOSX and Gstreamer/ffmpeg for Linux?

Why RTEMS? why not use embedded Linux like uclinux, Timesys, Montavista,etc?

I am pretty sure this will be based on that stupid Microsoft iptv middleware named Microsoft Mediaroom(formerly known as Microsoft TV IPTV edition) witch is already ported to Xbox360. Mediaroom is full of DRM, not based on OpenIPTV Forum standards, doesn't scale well(while it is based on multicast, it uses unicast heavily) and is a real PITA for developers( you have three choices to develop apps on the platform: XHTML/JS/CSS running on Tasman rendering engine, with was the renderer used in IE for Mac witch is real slow and very limited, you can also use a stupid XML declarative language(called Mediaroom Presentation Foundation) and RDP on a remote terminal server (yes, remote desktop)! With better choices in middlewares, i just don't know how operators keep choosing this piece of crap middleware

yupe, thats right :) and all native UMTS SIMs do not use COM128v1, networks still support old GSM auth algorithm(using standard 2G GSM SIMs), but when they force UMTS authentication algorithms, and they swap all 2G SIMs for 3G ones, goodbye sim cloning...

This article is plain stupid, Nokia 1110 has nothing than other phones in the same Nokia DCT4 family don't have, while DCT4 firmwares can be decrypted, Nokia DCT3 phones(Nokia 3310, etc) are much more well suited for this job, given the fact that already exists an open source(GPL) firmware in C for this devices... And about SIM cloning, YOU CANÂT clone a GSM SIM card in seconds!!!! The most advanced software for clone SIM cards(SimScan - http://users.net.yu/~dejan/) still has to do some brute-force to extract the Ki key, witch is designed to never leave the card, while we can extract IMSI with no problems , to clone a SIM card, you need two values: IMSI and Ki, and without Ki, IMSI is worthless...