Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
Don’t get upset with us, but we were literally this close to completely forgetting about Neo’s diminutive 808i. We mean, it was introduced in December of 2006 — a lot (lot!) has happened in the mobile space since then. All that being true, we’re still elated to see that [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Telus Mobility
It won’t fill the void left in your heart from not being able to acquire a BlackBerry Storm, but it will withstand the beating you probably feel like dishing out. Motorola’s surprisingly stout V750 has made its way across the border and onto Telus Mobility, bringing with it EV-DO Rev. [...]
In a new survey conducted by Harris Poll for Intel of over 2,000 internet users, nearly half of all women and a third of all men said they would forego sex for two weeks for an internet connection. According to Ars Technica, Sex wasn’t the only thing people ranked below Internet access in Intel’s survey, [...]
Major Windows Mobile applications online distributor, and somewhat of Microsoft’s unofficial App Store, Handango is partnering with Best Buy to bring applications to Best Buy stores. MobileTopSoft is reporting that Handango will offer applications for S60, Windows Mobile, Palm, and BlackBerry platforms.
Moreover, under the agreement, Users can now buy the apps for their [...]
XDA Developers found a way to dramatically improve your SD Card speed, by only applying a simple cab tweak.
Note: this tweak applies only to devices sporting a physical SD/miniSD/microSD slot, so no Internal Storage like HTC Touch Diamond.
Applying the supplied cab will change some registry entries in your device (changes which are reversible by simply [...]
Palm has announced its intentions to announce some “Palm new-ness” come CES in January 2009, according to MobileTopSoft. No details were given and it could be hardware or the new Linux-based operating system that Palm has been working on. Hopefully, Palm can make a revival considering its financial state isn’t too great.
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While GPS on Windows Mobile phones on Verizon have remained relatively opened, the navigation component on other phones have been locked to VZ Navigator, Verizon’s own internet-based navigation system requiring an internet connection and subscription for the voice-guided turn-by-turn service. The focus of the online petition is aimed at Verizon BlackBerry devices, which have been [...]
Sprint is readying the “Titan” platform as a development platform for developers to quickly launch apps for Windows Mobile according to Information Week. The catch is that Sprint will use a Java-based SDK for its Titan platform and tout it as a platform for developing for Windows Mobile. That means that apps developed for Titan [...]
Bell, a carrier from Cananda, has created an interface for the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro (see this flash demo) that has a similar concept to TouchFLO 3D, but is much better in my opinion. The idea behind these new breed of interface replacements for Windows Mobile is that the user should is [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Retail, Apple Financial, Deals, iPhone
Which hardly seems believable, but you never know. Yes, Walmart, that bastion of crass commercialism, is going to be carrying the iPhone, that symbol of elegant commercialism, and what we’re going to get is a whole lot of commercialism. Analyst Gene Munster (our favorite prognosticator other [...]
Filed under: Games, Software, Apple
According to extremely reliable and embarrassingly handsome Engadget sources, at an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows. During an ADC “iPhone Tech Talk” in San Jose, Geleynse apparently waxed excited [...]
Filed under: Nokia, Symbian
Sure, we try to front as world-weary cynics, but when we pinged our folks at Nokia for a statement on that suspiciously-awesome slide about a previously unseen touchscreen interface and device concept, we were totally hoping for a “oh, our bad, that’s a real phone and it’s awesome and it’s being released [...]
Filed under: Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
MacRumors reports that the developer of the “Pull My Finger” iPhone application was finally accepted by Apple. You may recall that Apple banned the application from the App Store a few months ago due to “Limited Utility.” It looks as though Apple has changed its mind about the [...]
If Jesus wasn’t too busy telling that fat fucker Santa to shit down my chimney, maybe I’d bake him a meat-cake for his birthday.
Hit the jump to see a pictorial on how to create your own meat cake, which basically involves making three giant hamburgers, gluing them together with ketchup, and frosting the bitch with [...]
Within days of a well-publicized open letter from a developer complaining about how the dominance of free and 99-cent applications in Apple’s iPhone App Store was hurting software development, Apple has made some changes.
The store has added the 20 top free and top paid lists in each category. Apps can be sorted by the user [...]
The Free Software Foundation filed a copyright-infringement lawsuit Thursday against Cisco Systems in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The FSF alleges Cisco violated its copyrights, including for GCC, binutils and the GNU C library, in various products distributed under the Linksys brand.
In doing so, the FSF said, Cisco denied its [...]
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to pay million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the commission’s implementing rule.
COPPA prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with the collection, use or disclosure of personally identifiable information from and about children [...]
If Nintendo has a sales alarm at its headquarters for the Wii, it is ringing off the wall about November. According to a report from the NPD Group consumer-research firm, Nintendo sold more than two million Wiis last month, doubling its numbers from the same time last year.
And the Wii’s little brother, the DS handheld [...]
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
Celebrating a storied Hollywood career as illustrious and celebrated as Barb Wire’s Pamela Anderson’s takes more than a lavish party stocked to the nines with fashionable people. Much more, actually — in fact, it takes the release of a special bundle of Samsung’s F480 to properly commemorate the [...]
Filed under: Gaming, Stocking Stuffers, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Well, my earlier prediction turned out right. I said in my last review that more tricks would be on the way, and this afternoon 3 more hit my in box. Maybe there is something to magic after all.These three apps for the iPhone and iPod touch [...]
