Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Hutchison 3 Hold up just a second, this is more than your average WiFi-powered Skype handset for yakking it up while you're wandering around the abode in your skivvies. In fact, it's none other than the follow-on to 3's Skypephone of last [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Vodafone, GSM, EDGE, Apple, OS XThough we can't definitively say this will end up being the priciest iPhone 3G this side of eBay, there's a good chance it will be. Word has it that Vodafone will be offering up Apple's latest 8GB handset for a mind-boggling Rs [...]
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August 19th, 2008 |
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Who Wins: AT&T; U-Verse or Verizon FiOS AT&T; U-Verse Verizon FiOS Neither. Cable will still beat them Verizon recently launched its FiOS TV and fiber-based broadband service in New York City, The New York Times is taking stock of the service, which seems to be doing well. Verizon's $23 billion [...]
Filed under: HTCHTC's already done a terrific job of going from anonymous Asian ODM to a major name player in the cellphone game, and it sounds like the company's aiming for the next level -- in an interview with the Commercial Times, CEO Peter Chou said the goal is to [...]
Filed under: Multimedia, Peripherals, Motorola The follow-on to Motorola's sporty and moderately popular (for a stereo bluetooth headset, anyway) S9 may not have launched yet -- a disappointment, considering the original plan for a Q2 release when it was announced at CES -- but perhaps a little last-minute paint job [...]
Filed under: Motorola, Accessories Hmm, Hov, you may want to check the fine print on whatever deal you've got with Moto, because these Jay-Z-branded MOTOROKR S7-HD Bluetooth headset aren't exactly big pimpin' -- and compared to Dre's big ol' cans, they look downright sad. Of course, the FCC's legendarily nasty [...]
Filed under: Culture, Handsets, Nokia, Misc Just as wallets leave impressions in rear pockets, cellphones can do the same for pockets in the front. One Aram Bartholl has decided to start a collection of battle-tested jeans that "show traces of mobile tech development in society." We've no idea if he's [...]
Before the dust settled on the results of the $4.25B AWS auction, Industry Minister Prentice said that we'll be gearing up for the next auction - the release of the 700 MHz band for mobile services.How will the spectrum be divided?Despite the designation of this summer's auction feature as "AWS" [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Orange, Linux, Symbian, ALP, AndroidWithout much fanfare, the Samsung i800 was canned at the tail end of last month. When asked why, Orange simply noted that it was pulled in order to "prepare a more competitive Linux mobile." A recent writeup at Ostatic takes a hard [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, O2, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS The Windows Mobilicious i900 Omnia from Samsung definitely qualifies for the upper echelon of 2008's crop of smartphones, thanks in no small part to a 5 megapixel cam, capacitive touchscreen, and a UI that seems to do a bang-up [...]
Filed under: Software, Motorola, ATT, Windows MobileMettlesome souls have been swimming in the Windows Mobile 6.1 seas on their Motorola Q9h for a few weeks now, but those waiting (and waiting) on a proper update can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The official ROM update that brings WinMo 6.1 [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Palm, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS The dam has been breached, and now there seems to be no stopping the internet at large as every little nook and cranny of the Treo Pro is exposed and explored. TreoCentral member scottymomo has fleshed out a few more [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS We can think of about fifteen plain-vanilla EDGE flips from Samsung that we'd expect T-Mobile to launch ahead of something like this, but you're definitely not going to see us complaining. TmoNews is claiming that the guys and gals in pink [...]
Andy Abramson |
August 16th, 2008 |
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This is the kind of story I like to see, not only because it has direct benefit to clients (Truphone and Boingo) but also because one of the company's whose advisory board I sit on Agito, is smack in the middle of this whole Voice over WiFi game. Voice over [...]
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, ATT, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA We were personally pulling for the "Full Tilt," but WMExperts is citing a tipster that claims AT&T's rendition of the HTC Touch Pro will end up seeing the light of day as the "Fuze." That name would certainly [...]
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August 16th, 2008 |
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Evert Bopp is following up on his idea for a co-working space in Ireland. Eirpreneur uses Twitter to have a virtual watercooler for teleworkers. Bernie Goldback does the Sunday Papers via Qik, the instant video solution from your smart phone. Oh Yeah, and Ireland gives James Enck some serious link [...]
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August 15th, 2008 |
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Now that the iPhone 3G is out, it is time to obsess about the next eagerly awaited device, the Google Phone. Now we know that Google isn't building a device of their own (that doesn't mean they shouldn't), but it is much cooler to call it Google Phone than say [...]
Filed under: Software, Nokia, SymbianSome of those sweet-sounding bug fixes neatly tucked away in the last firmware update for Europe's N78 have finally trickled down to the second-class citizens left of the pond -- a bit late, yes, but if it's any consolation, users will still be able to take [...]
Darla Mack |
August 15th, 2008 |
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For the summer vacation I planned two weeks of R&R for myself. For my Nokia N95 it became two weeks of very hard work. It was continuously at my beck and call, multitasking to every whim I felt. The perfect electronic slave. On vacation I tend to rove around like [...]
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August 15th, 2008 |
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I was hoping that McCain's Tech Policy would emphasize and extend the two McCain pro-Internet initiatives -- the McCain Lautenberg Community Broadband Act and Spectrum Re-regulation, neither of which have yet seen the light of day -- but it doesn't. In the first case, it makes a vague nod in [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Motorola It looks like Motorola is set to give its standard V70 handset a bit of sprucing up, with this new and hereto unseen V70 Retro model now making its first appearance courtesy of CTI-Miami.com. Unfortunately, apart from the fact that it boasts a generous 5-megapixel camera, [...]
