By the end of 2008, the new theoretical max speed of Telstra NextG would be 21Mbps, that’s more than just a few notches up from the current 14.4Mbps. I say theoretical due to the lack of compatible devices, of course, with the best phones able to only download with a speed of 7.2Mbps.

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News junkies and people who just have a need to hear the news most times during the day can now access current affairs on their phones and it’s not just through the radio. The BigPond Live TV News was recently launched and provides a stream of news about politics, weather, finance, and of course, sports.

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I’m admittedly not interested in sports, so the only part of the Olympics I watched is the opening—and wow, what an opening that was! I was lucky enough to have watched it on TV, but some might have been expecting to stream the Olympics on Telstra’s NextG network. Unfortunately for iPhone 3G users, you won’t be able to at all.

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Earlier this month, it was announced that Telstra will be releasing four mobile phones in the Australian market. These four phones are the Sony Ericsson W760, the Samsung A561, the LG KF700, and the Samsung U900. Telstra has just made the latter two available last July 14 and released them under the model names Samsung U900T and LG KF700Q.

*pictured above: Samsung U900

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Remember when Telstra claimed its NextG network could be home to the fastest iPhone 3G in the world? I’m sure a lot of people snorted in disbelief over such a claim, yet even so, Telstra‘s not just all talk.

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Telstra has recently announced a new service for its NextG subscribers. Just from the name Whereis Everyone, I take it you could guess what it’s all about. The new service allows you to locate people (through phones) using a-GPS technology.

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No more guessing which Australian carrier’s going to get the new BlackBerry Bold. It didn’t take long for us to find out after its official release a few days ago anyhow, but now we got an official statement about it. According to MIS Australia, the BlackBerry Bold will preliminarily be offered by Telstra’s Next G Network.

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Famous American technology journalist, Walt Mossberg, has casually stated that the 3G iPhone should be available in the U.S. within the next 60 days during a Beet.TV Summit. This means July, so perhaps around August for Australia? Perhaps I bought my iMate Ultimate 8502 too soon?

Nah! Love my 8502.

But great news for you 3G iPhone fans nonetheless.

Via Engadget and Beet.TV (image)

UBS predicts that the 3G iPhone will be released by September this year to coincide with Apple’s annual major events. The selected 3G chip manufacturer is rumoured to be Germany’s Infineon.

If anything, at least it’s better news than end of 2008 for the 3G iPhone! Hang in there fanboys.

Via CrunchGear