We've been following the ridiculous attempts by the administration to protect telcos who most likely broke the law in supplying warrantless wiretaps by trying to get "immunity" included in the new FISA bill. As we've pointed out, this makes absolutely no sense. If the administration or the telcos (or both) [...]

Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM We suspect that some really common set of miniaturized phone guts has recently ramped up production to spawn an entire cottage industry of ugly-ass phone watches, because in the past few months we've seen a ton of these 220 x 176 portrait display GSM devices [...]

T-Mobile may be close to launching markets outside of NYC. When NYC was launched a list released by T-Mobile showed Dallas/Ft. Worth as one of the many markets to launch this year. With the Nokia 6263 now showing T-Mobile's 3G network, launch in DFW would seem imminent. In the weeks [...]

One of my co-workers at Nokia forwarded me the page on Voadfone Italy, where they will be selling the iPhone unlocked, or at least unsubsidized. To convert that into U.S. dollars (using today's exchange rates anyway): the 8gb iPhone is $772, the 16gb iPhone is $880! It does make me [...]

HTC's already familiar with the UMPC seeing as they've been shipping the Shift for a while, but they're going to go even more hardcore into mini laptops. Their CEO Peter Chou didn't elaborate exactly what their strategy was, but Digitime's sources say HTC is planning on making mobile internet devices [...]

Filed under: Handsets, GSM, CDMA, AppleLast time we checked, the iPhone 3G was GSM through and through -- four bands of GSM / EDGE plus three bands of UMTS / HSDPA, to be exact. So how exactly is it that an exclusively CDMA carrier, Jamaica's MiPhone, could be carrying it? [...]