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| Jul 6, 2018 | ProBeat: HTC should kill its phones and focus on VR | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Let’s talk about HTC. The struggling Taiwanese consumer electronics company announced more layoffs this week: 1,500 jobs, or around 25 ... |
| Jul 6, 2018 | ProBeat: HTC should kill its phones and focus on VR | Let’s talk about HTC. The struggling Taiwanese consumer electronics company announced more layoffs this week: 1,500 jobs, or around 25 percent of its workforce. This has been long overdue, but I’ll say it again: HTC should stop making phone... |
| Jun 7, 2018 | New T-Mobile upgrade may boost your coverage—if you have the right phone | Enlarge / T-Mobile's newly acquired spectrum—this map does not show spectrum the company already owned.
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| Feb 6, 2018 | Amazon is removing lockscreen ads from Prime Exclusive Phones – and charging an extra $20 | Amazon will remove lockscreen ads from its Prime Exclusive Phones on Wednesday, February 7th. Going forward, new phones from the program will ship without lockscreen offers and ads, and customers who already own a Prime Exclusive Phone will... |
| Feb 17, 2017 | HTC To Pull Out From Entry-Level Smartphone Market, Will Focus On Midrange And High-End Phones Instead | Carl Velasco, Tech Times 17 February 2017, 06:02 am
No entry-level smartphones from HTC will be produced this year.
HTC is retiring from the entry-level smartphone market, at least for the time being, as it reroutes focus to its midrange an... |
| Jan 20, 2017 | AT&T raises phone activation fee another $5, now charges $25 | Enlarge
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AT&T has raised its non-contract phone activation and upgrade fee from $20 to $25, the latest incre... |
| May 3, 2016 | HTC 10 System Update Already Rolling Out: What Does It Bring? | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 03 May 2016, 10:05 am
The unlocked HTC 10 is just starting to ship this week, reaching preorder customers in the U.S. and the UK.
In the U.S., Verizon is currently the exclusive carrier for the HTC 10, set to s... |
| Oct 14, 2015 | OnePlus X debuts on October 29 in London and Beijing | reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating
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While supply problems and a frustrating invite system continue to dog the otherwise decent OnePlus 2 phone, the company is pl... |
| Oct 14, 2015 | OnePlus Will Announce Another New Smartphone On October 29 | Chinese Android phone maker OnePlus is gearing up to reveal its second smartphone of the year — its third to date — after it teased an upcoming launch event in London on October 29.
See you October 29, London. #PowerfullyBeautiful pic.twitt... |
| Sep 19, 2015 | AT&T Wi-Fi Calling For The iPhone Delayed Due To Regulatory Hurdles | Dave Calpito, Tech Times 19 September 2015, 02:09 am
Apart from the release of the iOS 9, another reason why AT&T subscribers were so anxiously excited for the arrival of the firmware is the Wi-Fi Calling feature for iPhones. However, t... |
| May 19, 2015 | YotaPhone 2 U.S. preorders open on Indiegogo starting at $500 with an August delivery | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Russian mobile broadband provider and smartphone manufacturer Yota has finally revealed the U.S. pricing and preorder details for the s... |
| May 19, 2015 | YotaPhone 2 U.S. preorders open on Indiegogo starting at $500 with an August delivery | Russian mobile broadband provider and smartphone manufacturer Yota has finally revealed the U.S. pricing and preorder details for the second version of its smartphone, the YotaPhone 2, six months after its European launch.
While we already ... |
| Mar 19, 2015 | From The Wirecutter: The best Wi-Fi/LTE portable hotspot (for most folks) | reader comments 55 with 35 posters participating
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| Jan 8, 2015 | TCL Resurrects Palm Brand and It's Asking for Ideas | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 08 January 2015, 12:01 am
A Chinese consumer electronics company has announced that it is "co-recreating" the storied but now defunct Palm brand. There is one problem, though. The company still doesn't know... |
| Aug 14, 2014 | T-Mobile to throttle P2P traffic and excessive tethering, leaked memo shows | T-Mobile reader comments 95 with 60 posters participating
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An internal T-Mobile memo published by TmoNews says the company will begin enforcing rules against peer-to-peer (P... |
| Dec 11, 2013 | The End Of Subsidized Phones Could Be Near | For almost a decade and a half, mobile customers – and Americans in particular – have enjoyed a certain economic perk: phone subsidies from the major carriers. This meant you could, on sign-up, get a very expensive phone for at most a few h... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | Supposed Nexus device hits the FCC again, with new exterior pictures | reader comments 46 with 37 posters participating, including story author
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The Nextus is back at the FCC. Officially, the device was back for a "class 2 permissive chang... |
| Feb 24, 2013 | Is Huawei's New Phone Infringing on Apple's Virtual Clickwheel?
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Search | I'm not sure that Apple has the stomach to battle yet another tech company that may be infringing on another Apple device feature patent, but they have a patent dating back to 2007 that clearly discusses the uses of virtual controls; that i... |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Leaked T-Mobile Calendar Points To March 27 Release Date For The BlackBerry Z10 | Between multiple simultaneous press conferences and sinking funds into a questionable Super Bowl commercial, BlackBerry is keen to make sure that its BB10-powered hardware is still on your mind. Really, the only thing that BlackBerry hasn’t... |
| Jan 3, 2013 | T-Mobile Introduces The BlackBerry Curve 9315, The Most Ridiculous Deal In Mobile Phones | T-Mobile has just announced the BlackBerry Curve 9315, which will be available January 23 for the price of $49 on a 2-year agreement. They’re touting it as the most affordable BlackBerry on the T-Mobile network, and it is, but it’s also may... |
| Nov 28, 2012 | Skype Updates iOS App To Allow Easy Merging Of Windows Live Messenger, Skype Accounts | Skype has just updated its iOS app, making it much easier to merge Skype accounts with your Microsoft account.
Microsoft recently decided to phase out Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype, finally putting the $8.5 billion acquisition to... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | Sprint iPhone 5 customers: No HD Voice for you | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sprint customers looking forward to the iPhone 5’s improved call quality, prepare to be disappointed.
Sprint today has confirmed via Ph... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Verizon To Launch The Strangely-Named Pantech Marauder On August 2 | It’s a sad truth of the mobile industry: sometimes perfectly good smartphones are saddled with silly, effete, or otherwise ridiculous names.
Take the new Pantech Marauder, which Verizon just revealed a few moments ago. The name conjures up ... |
| Dec 29, 2011 | Is Verizon Joking? Paying Online/By Phone Will Soon Cost You An Extra $2 | Yesterday Droid-Life obtained a leaked internal document from Verizon that had a surprisingly annoying little tidbit within: “Beginning 1/15/12, there is a $2 ‘convenience fee’ for making a credit or debit card bill payment online or via ca... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | The Official Word: Sprint’s iPhone 4S Will Be Unlocked, But Not For Long | Alright, there’s been a lot of conflicting information floating around regarding Sprint’s iPhone 4S and its locked/unlocked status, but a Sprint spokesperson has just offered Macworld her official word. The iPhone will indeed be unlocked at... |
| Sep 15, 2011 | Congress Members Urge Obama To Approve AT&T/T-Mobile Merger | Fifteen members of Congress aren’t too pleased with the Department of Justice’s recent anti-trust suit, as instanced by a letter they sent to President Obama. Penned by Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) the letter urged the president to settle the s... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | “Brazenly Anticompetitive”: Sprint Sues to Stop AT&T From Gobbling Up T-Mobile | Sprint Nextel legally joined the growing chorus of objections to AT&T’s plans to acquire T-Mobile today when it filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
The company, which is the third largest wireless carrier in the U... |
| Aug 31, 2011 | Is Sprint’s Early Termination Fee Jumping To $350? (Update: Confirmed) | This whole system of two-year contracts and early termination fees is far and away the worst thing about owning and enjoying a smartphone. Granted, contracts reduce the actual price of the phone by quite a bit, but it’s still super annoying... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Sprint Intros First Phones With New CDMA Push-To-Talk Support | For Sprint, maintaining their aging iDEN network is proving to be more of a headache than it’s worth. Even though their Nextel Direct Connect service still has footholds in certain markets (construction immediately springs to mind), their f... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Judge Rejects Samsung's Request To Peep Apple's iPhone 5, iPad 3 | Just as we expected, Judge Lucy Koh has rejected Samsung’s request to get its hands on Apple’s iPhone 5 and the iPad 3. She did not rule from the bench this time, as Apple tweaked its complaint the night before Friday’s hearing, adding a ho... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | Sprint To Bump Upload Speeds On Their WiMax Network Up By 50% | Good news, Sprinters! Sprintees? Sprintums? Guh. I never know what to call Sprint customers.
Anyway, you guys are in for a little treat: the upload speeds on your 4G WiMax network? They’re about to get about 50% faster. There is, of course,... |
| May 24, 2011 | Leap Joins… Everyone In Opposing The AT&T/T-Mobile Deal | At this point, it would probably be safe to say that just about everyone opposes the AT&T/T-Mobile deal (besides, you know, AT&T and T-Mobile.) We’ve heard senators, CEOs, and FCC members openly object to AT&T’s proposed $39 bil... |
| May 13, 2011 | HTC Merge Finally Available For Verizon… Sort of. | Oh, poor HTC Merge; you first sneaked your way into the spotlight so many months ago, and yet, you’ve gone mostly unseen ever since. Sure, Alltel picked you up and put you on the shelves — but your true calling was at Verizon, and they just... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | Verizon Wireless To Stop Offering One-Year Contracts On April 17th | Don’t mind making a commitment, but don’t want to commit to two whole years with the same carrier? Verizon’s gonna have one less option for you, soon.
Come April 17th, the ol’ VeeZeeDub will be nixing the one-year contract option. Their com... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | T-Mobile Adds 10 More Cities To Its HSPA+ Roster | Still anxiously awaiting T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network (the one they market as “4G” because it’s pretty dang fast, but technically isn’t 4G because it’s fancied up 3G tech?) in your home town? Cross your fingers: 10 more cities are getting it th... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Best Buy Adds 4G To Its Mobile Internet Service | Flickr’d
Best Buy is now in the the 4G business. The company has announced that its Best Buy Connect service, which first launched last July, will now support 4G, courtesy of a deal worked out with Clearwire. Access to the 4G network will s... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Sprint ditches Mail-In Rebates, goes with Instant Rebates indefinitely | Hurrah!
Back in January, word got out that Verizon was ditching mail-in rebates in favor of instant rebates on their more expensive handsets. We hoped, from the very geekiest depths of our heart (we’ve been burned by the mail-in rebate that... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Sprint To Fight The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger | Want to know something crazy? If you put AT&T and T-Mobile together — as would happen if AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mo goes through as planned — the new, shiny, two-headed super-carrier that emerges would account for 42% (130 million) ... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint [Update: And T-Mo And MetroPCS] Waive Fees For Calling/Texting Japan | Just a quick PSA for those who might be trying to reach friends and family in Japan following the earthquake: a few of the major carriers are temporarily waiving all fees associated with calling or texting Japan. Here’s what’s been confirme... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Verizon, AT&T, Sprint offer free calls and texts to Japan (update: T-Mobile too) | In a bid to help those trying to reach friends and family in Japan following the country’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have all announced today that they will be offering free calls and messaging to Japa... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Oh, You Thought 1 GHZ, Dual-Core CPUs Were Fast? Meet Texas Instruments' OMAP 5: 2 Ghz, Quad-Core | Whenever the Flux Capacitor is invented, this thing will probably power it
1 Ghz CPUs were all the rage in high-end smartphones throughout 2010 — and right now, the trend is to stick an extra core on that 1 Ghz CPU and call it a day. Nvidia... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | Windows Phone 7 SDK Downloaded Almost A Million Times, Now Includes Copy And Paste | Microsoft just recently made available a new version of the Windows Phone 7 SDK, and boasts that the dev tools have been downloaded nearly a million times. That’s a lot! Have they even sold a million phones? At any rate, I’m guessing the la... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9650 and Curve 3G To Get BlackBerry OS 6 Tonight | Hey, you! Owner of a BlackBerry Bold 9650 or Curve 3G on Verizon! Are you ready to join an exclusive group of energetic and intelligent individuals looking to explore the furthest reaches of the Galaxy?
That’s cool, but you’re going to have... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Verizon considers 4G data plans based on speed, not just data allowance | In a world where unlimited wireless data plans seem to be going the way of the Bluefin Tuna, it’s curious to see the way that carriers are trying to make money.
In the Wall Street Journal today, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg st... |
| Nov 4, 2010 | AT&T cries foul on T-mobile's "largest 4G network" claim | Let the advertising wars begin a-fresh. Last week, T-mobile launched a new marketing campaign that brands their HSPA+ network as “America’s Largest 4G Network“.
Clearly, AT&T are unhappy about this.
In an email to Phone Scoop today, AT&... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | T-Mobile's Huawei Comet lowers the Android entry fee to $10 | Just last week, T-Mobile announced the Android-powered Optimus T would be hitting their shelves on November 3rd. At just $30 bucks, it’s mighty cheap — so cheap, in fact, that we figured it was the cheapest Android handset on the market.
T-... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Verizon announces the Droid Pro — and it's not what anyone expected | Score one for Verizon! In a world full of constant, spot-on leaks (not that we’re complaining), they’ve managed to not only launch a device without leaksters getting it first, but also make (intentionally or not) everyone think the model in... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | T-Mobile Launches G2: What Does it Mean for 4G? | Earlier today T-Mobile officially launched the G2, its successor to the the company’s flagship Android-powered G1 handset. In its announcement, T-Mobile’s top selling point wasn’t for the phone’s hardware but for the fact that it can reach ... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Motorola Droid won't be getting WiFi Hotspot/Tethering with Android 2.2 | The Verizon Droid will be getting all sorts of new toys when it gets upgraded to Android 2.2 next week: Flash! Improved performance! A shiny, faster new camera!
One thing it won’t be getting, however, is support for Android’s WiFi Hotspot f... |
| Jul 29, 2010 | Sprint set to release 3G-enabling “case” for iPod touch | reader comments 60 with 53 posters participating
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Recently released FCC documents reveal that Sprint is set to launch what appears to be a new case for the iPod touch that w... |
| Jul 23, 2010 | CTIA sues San Francisco over plans to require cell phone retailers to display radiation ratings | Unless you live and breath all things cellular, you might not know what CTIA is, or what they do. Prior to becoming a mobile blogger, I knew CTIA as “those dudes that throw the big cell phone trade shows a few times a year”. Now that I’ve b... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | Mobile DTV moves forward as D.C. test proves successful | A mobile digital television service test underway in Washington, D.C. is going well, signaling that a more widespread launch of the technology is not too far off. The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) started the test in May with 23 channe... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | Don’t Believe the Hype: Sprint “4G” Slower Than T-Mobile 3G, Report Finds | Excited Sprint customers have been awaiting today’s release of the HTC Evo 4G – the first phone to take advantage of Sprint’s high-speed 4G network. Before you run out and drop some cash on an Evo, you may want to take a look at a study rel... |
| May 7, 2010 | Samsung releases Bada SDK to developers – will anyone care? | And so it begins: Samsung has just released the first build of the SDK for Bada, their built-in-house Smartphone platform. The SDK comes complete with it’s own user interface creation tool, debugger, simulator, and API set. Alas, it’s curre... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Are Caller ID spoofing apps in danger of becoming illegal? Maybe, thanks to H.R. 1258. | The first time I jailbroke my iPhone and used SpoofApp, I called up a good friend of mine and (thanks to the voice changer) pretended to be a lusty old flame that just couldn’t get over him.
Not exactly my finest moment — but if I had waite... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | Rumor: Looks like AT&T might be getting the Samsung Galaxy S, or something just like it | Samsung has been teasing the gadget-loving world ever since the announcement of the Galaxy S back at CTIA. “It’s Android-powered!” they’d say. “4.0-inch Super AMOLED screen!” they’d say. “Oh, you want to know what carrier its going to? Oh. ... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Swype for Android rolls into semi-public Beta | Swype for Android’s finger-dragging input method goodness has been available to some extent through other means for a while now — some legit, some not quite as legit. Legitimate means or otherwise, Swype has still only been made available t... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Sprint tweets about Android 2.1 update, coming second quarter | If you own a HTC Hero or Samsung Moment, don’t get too jealous at DROID and Nexus One owners just yet. Sure, it might take a while, but Sprint is working things out so that its Android handsets receive the latest version of Android, 2.1.
I’... |
| Feb 14, 2010 | Samsung makes the Wave with Bada official | After being teased with a washed out banner image, leaked images on the Internet and stealthy screen shots of its gorgeous AMOLED screen, the Samsung S8500, or Wave, has finally become official.
In terms of hardware, the design is very Sams... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Motorola takes two steps back, says DROID update isn't coming this week | Earlier this week we reported that Motorola would be gearing up for an Android 2.1 update for the DROID. Oops! It turns out that it might not be coming that soon after all. And here we were etching notches into the wall as we counted down t... |
| Feb 9, 2010 | Novatel Claims First LTE Data Call | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In what may be a pre-emptive announcement before next week’s GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, San Diego’s Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ: NVTL) says it has successfully made... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Symbian goes open source, releases code to developers | After so many years of hoping and wishing, developers can start getting excited about coding for the Symbian platform. Sure, it’s taken a while and some might be looking forward to Maemo 6 later this year far more than a newer version of Sy... |
| Feb 2, 2010 | Samsung S8500 becomes first Bluetooth 3.0 approved handset | There is nothing more satisfying than claiming to be the first at anything, and so far this week, Samsung must be pretty happy with itself. After announcing its plans to mass produce AMOLED touchscreens, the first to include built-in touch ... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | Resistive screens are dead: HTC now selling a stylus for capacitive screens | When it comes to touchscreens, you just can’t beat the feeling of a nice, high-quality capacitive screen. If you’ve been using an iPhone, Motorola Droid, or any one of many capacitive smartphones made in the past few years, try to hunt down... |
| Jan 9, 2010 | Video: Windows Mobile 6.5.3 caught on film | Our buddies over at Phonescoop spotted a handset running a copy of the as-of-yet unreleased Windows Mobile 6.5.3 floating around at CES, and were nice enough to snap some footage for everyone not living in the Las Vegas Convention Center th... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | T-Mobile to bring 21 Mbps HSPA+ to US this year | T-Mobile may not be the exclusive carrier of the Nexus One, as was previously expected, but the wireless carrier had another big announcement up its sleeve: HSPA+.
T-Mobile has been testing the "3.5G" network technology in Philade... |
| Jan 5, 2010 | T-Mobile bumps their entire 3G network up to 7.2Mbps, 21Mbps coming soon | T-Mobile might have been a bit late off the plate in rolling out their 3G network compared to the competition, but that gave them one small advantage: foresight. By the time T-Mobile started setting up towers, the world was already well awa... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | LG announces GW820 'eXpo' smartphone w/ 1GHz processor and optional projector | LG has announced a new Windows Mobile 6.5-based smartphone, the eXpo. But unlike other 6.5 smarties on the market, the newest member of the LG family is packing just about everything but the kitchen sink including a 1GHz processor, a built-... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Playing with Fire: A new MVNO, Simple Mobile, has entered the arena | What do you mean, US MVNOs are generally doomed from the start? Sure, Helio went under. Yeah yeah, so did Disney Mobile. And Mobile ESPN. And Amp’d, Voce, and Sonopia. Thats only what, a billion dollars or so thrown down the drain? Don’t be... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | U.S. Senate: It's cool to jam cell phones in prisons | Oh, U.S. Senate. Just when we thought you had turned your collective attention to the plethora of incredibly important issues to tackle (read: healthcare, 2 wars, global warming, education, etc), you go and pass the Safe Prisons Communicati... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | Motorola: No WinMo 6.5 for us, thanks. | Ouch. I knew I wasn’t the only one who wasn’t too fond of Windows Mobile 6.5, but I’m just a lowly blogger; when your hardware partners start bailing, its gotta sting a little.
At their Android ecosystem event this morning, Motorola’s VP of... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | TXTBlocker allows parents to block kids from texting while driving | Texting while driving is incredibly unsafe (and making calls, for that matter). Even more so than drinking and driving, which YOU SHOULD NEVER DO, EVER. California knows it. The Obama Administration knows it. And apparently, the folks respo... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | T-Mobile makes Facebook and Twitter apps available for older 'kicks | Earlier today, T-Mobile announced the availability of Facebook and Twitter apps (already available on the Sidekick LX 2009) for its older Sidekicks – the Sidekick LX (including Tony Hawk Sidekick LX), Sidekick (2008), and Sidekick Slide.
Wh... |
| Aug 21, 2009 | Verizon BlackBerry Storm gets V CAST Video | We’ll openly admit it: We haven’t touched Verizon’s V CAST video service in years. We tend to avoid most feature phones as if their outer casing is made of unstable explosives, and V CAST and smartphones don’t tend to mix – until now.
This ... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Verizon fires up LTE test networks, successfully makes calls | (Note: If you’re looking for the relevance of this image, don’t bother. I got bored of posting pictures of cell towers and maps every time a regional network story popped up. Instead, I’m posting a picture of a laser gun with the Verizon lo... |
| Aug 11, 2009 | AT&T doubles up the 3G in Atlanta | Throughout much of the country, AT&T’s 3G can be wonderful. Step into a major city, however, and it tends to grind to a halt. Here in my hometown of San Luis Obispo, for example, it soars; anytime I head to San Francisco or New York, ho... |
| Jul 21, 2009 | Rural Cellular Association agrees: Verizon's new exclusivity deal sucks | Just a few days ago, Verizon announced a change to the way they’d handle exclusive handset deals: rather than holding on to all of their exclusive handsets for years and years, they’d let any small carrier (defined as any carrier with under... |
| Jun 4, 2009 | Palm Pre: Rounding up (or down) the reviews | It's on, and most of the outlets we've seen so far compared Palm's new phone to -- what else? -- the iPhone. To summarize:
Pre beats iPhone: Associated Press, USA Today, TG Daily
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| Jun 4, 2009 | Here's what's wrong with the Palm Pre | The Palm Pre—you may have heard of it—comes out on Saturday, but all sorts of media “outlets” have already published their reviews; I don’t know when our review will go up. And since it’s my feeling that most of you already assume the phone... |
| May 19, 2009 | The first Palm Pre review in the whole wide world? | So I got an email from Eric at Phonescoop with the message “WHAT THE FF****KK!” and a link and I opened the link and I read a strangely stilted review of the Palm Pre by a site I’ve never visited. Go ahead and read it. It doesn’t say more t... |
| Apr 14, 2009 | Bluetooth 3.0 coming next week | One week from tomorrow, Bluetooth 3.0 will be unleashed upon the wireless world.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group confirmed to Phone Scoop late last week that next week's All Hands Meeting in Tokyo will be official unveiling of the upda... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | FCC confirms that a 3G Sidekick is on the way | At this point, it’s not really a secret that a new Sidekick is on the way. The rumors have long indicated that the next ‘Kick would be 3G-enabled, and no one really doubted it – but the FCC has gone ahead and confirmed it anyway. Smack dab ... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Openmoko scraps next-gen FreeRunner, shifts to "Plan B" | Although HTC was able to realize its Dream (aka G1), for many hardcore mobile enthusiasts, Openmoko’s open source and ultra-hackable smart device – Neo FreeRunner – was the real dream.
Running on Openmoko’s open source Linux platform, the F... |
| Mar 28, 2009 | Samsung Mondi, first WiMAX MID in US...maybe? | This week, Samsung confirmed to Phone Scoop that the SWD-M100 Mondi device demoed at Mobile World Congress '09 is coming to the Clear WiMAX network in the US.
The tablet runs Windows Mobile 6.1, so the 4.3" touchscreen is therefore res... |
| Mar 27, 2009 | Samsung plops out a Wimax MID | The Samsung SWD-M100 Mondi is the first Wimax device in the U.S. and hopes to pick up where Nokia’s Wimax tablet, now discontinued in the U.S., left off.
The new device has a full QWERTY keyboard, a directional pad, and a touchscreen. Not m... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | T-Mobile Takes Out Some Handset Unlockers | T-Mobile has won damages and an injunction (via Phone Scoop) against several companies that were taking bulk quantities of its prepaid handsets, unlocking them, and then reselling them. The company calls such activity “prepaid phone traffic... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | LG recalls 30,000 handsets because they suck at calling 911 | If you’re an owner of one of the 30,000 LG 830 Spyder handsets running OS versions T83LGV03 or T83LGV04, you have two options: A) Get in touch with your wireless carrier for a software upgrade, or B) Don’t get into any situations in which y... |
| Mar 2, 2009 | Price Ceiling For Mobile Voice Service Continues To Fall | T-Mobile has announced that it’s expanding its offer of a $50 per month unlimited voice service plan across the US, becoming the first of the country’s four biggest operators to start to fall into line with the $50 voice ceiling. Given the ... |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Nokia 5800 XpressMusic finds its way to North America | It’s been a long time since we saw the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic sneak into 10 seconds of The Dark Knight. At long last, Morgan Freeman isn’t the only North American who can get one. As expected, the North American model (with the proper 3G ba... |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Ballmer: Windows Mobile 7 in 2010 | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed on a conference call yesterday that Window Mobile 7 indeed won’t be here until next year. Although Ballmer didn’t give an exact date, it’s thought that the OS will be sent to manufacturers in November o... |
| Feb 23, 2009 | HTC uses Twitter to confirm Touch Pro2 coming to North America | Last time HTC used Twitter to confirm something, it was to let everyone know that the HTC Touch HD wouldn’t be coming stateside. This time, they bring good news!
We were already pretty sure that the Touch Pro2 was headed for North America w... |
| Feb 16, 2009 | Sprint rolls out ‘Simply Everything Plan + Mobile Broadband’ for $149.99 per month | If you ask me (which you didn’t) there are few things more consumer-unfriendly than charging people for 3G data on their handsets and then charging them again for the privilege of connecting their handsets to a computer in order to use that... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | BES 5.0 bringing Email Flagging, remote Windows file access, more | Photo via AppScout
Don’t the words “BlackBerry Enterprise Server update” just send a shiver of excitement down your spin? They do? Really? You’re kind of weird. Whether you’re awkwardly excited about BES 5.0 or not, it’s on its way – and RI... |
| Jan 30, 2009 | Japan's NTT DoCoMo saying goodbye to 2G in 2012 | Saying goodbye to that “special someone” is never an easy thing to do, especially after many years have passed. But, when the time comes, it’s best just to try and move on.
Take today’s NTT DoCoMo announcement that it will be shutting down ... |
| Jan 28, 2009 | Motorola Tundra tortured for your viewing pleasure | Just how rugged is the military-spec Motorola Tundra? Our buddies over at Phonescoop put it to the test during their full review – and by “put it to the test”, we mean throwing it across a driveway, kicking it into a wall, jamming it in the... |
| Jan 27, 2009 | AT&T launches the LG CF360, even they don't care | Practicing a controversial new “Lets not tell anybody” marketing method, AT&T has quietly slipped the LG CF360 onto store shelves. The demand was overwhelming – at one AT&T spot in Galesburg, Illinois, one whole person waited throug... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Sprint axing 8,000 employees, Philips 6,000 | Talk about a case of the Mondays. Sprint and Philips are the latest to announce layoffs with Sprint cutting 8,000 and Philips 6,000 employees. You know the drone. It’s cause we can’t borrow against our overinflated home’s equity to buy thes... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | US considering law to require audible shutter noise for camera phones | Any frequent user of public transportation has probably seen it: Cute girl gets on the train/subway in a skirt that’s just a little bit too short. Within minutes, some creepy guy starts pretending to “play a game” on his cell phone, oblivio... |
| Jan 22, 2009 | Huawei's Android phone to be shown next month | Huawei’s Android handset might drop during the original first half of 2009 time slot instead of the 3Q 2009 some reported. The maker will at least show it off at next months Mobile World Congress, with production hopefully starting shortly ... |
