The battle for championship of telecommunications standards tied into wireless transmission of cellular data isn't quite over yet, according to a fresh research report. It reveals CDMA, through EVDO, continues to hold its own against newer, high speed technologies. ABI declared "CDMA is not dead yet," basing this on findings that EVDO Rev A subscribers "ramped up more than eightfold between Q2 2007 and Q2 2008."

Apple’s iPhone will see its first serious competitor soon: T-Mobile preps HTC "Dream" for an October release and is expected to launch its own application store alongside the handset. However, the Dream faces an uphill battle, since first reports claim that the device lacks Apple's appealing design and, if we believe these sources, the operating system is not as elegantly integrated with the handset as Apple’s OS X-based OS with the iPhone.