Quite a year, good old 2012. Lots of innovations, devices, wireless technology, mergers, policy making, booms and busts. Let’s review:
- The Verge: The Year in Review
- PC Magazine: Year in Review
- C/Net: Biggest rumors
- Fierce Wireless: Year in Review
- RCR Wireless: Year in Review
- EE Times: Top 10 Tech Blunders
- PC Mag: Biggest Tech Failures
- TechCrunch: Year in Review
- Read/Write: Top Mobile Products
- Android: Year in Review
- Apple: Year in Review
- Google: Year in Review
- PC Magazine: Microsoft’s Year in Review
- Techmeme’s biggest stories of 2012
- Data Center Knowledge: Year in Review
- Silicon Valley: Year in Review
- Silicon Forest Year in Review
- Bluetooth: Year in Review
- First Responders: Year in Review
- Digital Entertainment Year in Review
- Verge: Most Pirated Movies of 2012
- Satmagazine: Year in Review
- Milsat: Year in Review
- Charlie Rose: People We’ve Lost
- Notable Deaths in Science/Technology
- The FBI: Year in Review
- Best Maker Projects of 2012
- UK Telegraph: Best Tech in 2012
- Washington Post: Technology in Review
- WSJ: Deals Year in Review
- ZD Net: Tech Turkeys of the Year
- AndroidAuthority: Best Android Tablet Apps
- PC Mag: Best iPad Apps
- PC Mag: 10 Great New Year’s Eve Apps
Here are some of my favorite stories of 2012:
- Cell phones: iPhone5, Nexus4, Samsung S3, Nokia 920, Windows Phone 8, Apple Store Turns Four
- Tablets: iPad3, iPad Mini, Nexus 7, Microsoft Surface, Kindle Fire HD
- Infrastructure: Verizon’s LTE coverage, Dish Spectrum Approved, AT&T and 2.3 GHz, T-Mobile’s HSPA in PCS, China Mobile TD-LTE Launch, Google Fiber, Small Cells
- Mergers: Sprint/Softband, T-Mobile/MetroPCS, ESRI Acquires Geoloqi, Cisco Buys Meraki for $1.2 Billion, Facebook/Instagram, Verizon Buys Hughes Telematics, Sprint Buying Clearwire
- Regulation: FCC Okays 3.5 GHz, Verizon AWS Purchase Okayed, Battle Over Unlicensed Spectrum, White Spaces by Mid January, TV Auction Set for 2014, Universal Service Reform Passed, ITU Wraps Up: US Disappointed, Flying Cell Towers
- Bluetooth/WiFi: Bluetooth LE, 802.11ac, Miracast, Ruckus at Olympics
- Satellites: Lightsquared’s Failure, Broadband satellites from ViaSat and EchoStar, Inmarsat Global Xpress, CubeSats
- R&D: Google Glass, Voice Translation, Telematics, Driverless Car, Microsoft Kinect, Platform as a Service, Interplanetary Internet, Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars
- General: 6 Billion Mobile Subs!,1 Billion Smartphones!, Cellular: 1000x Increase Predicted, Top Ten Spectrum Stories, Samsung vs iPhone: What Evidence?, Stuxnet, Municipal Fiber
What do you think were the most interesting wireless stories of 2012?

