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I'm still waiting to jump on EV-DO and already we are seeing signs of the new new thing: HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access.) Here's an HSDPA handset built by LG for Cingular. According to Engadget:
The LG people were crazy tight-lipped about this one, but the phone was listed as having a maximum download speed of 1.8Mbps (384Kbps up), a built-in multimedia player that can handle all sorts of audio and video formats (H.263, H.264, MPEG4, WMV, MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA), and support for video and music on demand. Cingular is already testing HSDPA in a few places right now, and from what we're hearing they’re probably going to commence their nationwide rollout right around the end of the year, with more and more cities to be added throughout 2006.Mmmm. 1.8 Mb/s. Now that is some serious speed. And from what I understand HSDPA can go even faster than that although, yeah, we'll see when they actually roll out the networks. I'll be surprised if anything actually happens by the end of this year. Still it's nice to know the future is happening somewhere.
Yahoo! 360 is Yahoo!'s soon to be released blogging / social network tool. Marc Canter has a little more info (since there is none at the first link.)
Presumably the rumored Flickr purchase will fit in here as well.