Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
As whether the iPhone 3G launch could really have any more misinformation floating around, we’ve got yet another tidbit that needs clarification. Shortly after Apple’s second iPhone was announced, out flew a report from Reuters suggesting that TomTom already had iPhone navigation software ready to go. French site Mac Generation was able […]
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
As whether the iPhone 3G launch could really have any more misinformation floating around, we’ve got yet another tidbit that needs clarification. Shortly after Apple’s second iPhone was announced, out flew a report from Reuters suggesting that TomTom already had iPhone navigation software ready to go. French site Mac Generation was able […]
REPORT SAYS NEXTEL WAIVED EARLY TERMINATION FEES FOR THE GOVERNMENT
Jun 13 2008
Posted by admin as mobile phones
Filed under: Cellphones
Want to get around those costly, annoying fees the telcos hit you with whether you break your cellphone contract early? Get a job with the US government. According to internal emails from Nextel which were uncovered by the Associated Press, the company debated whether it could charge the folks in ability early termination […]
IPHONE 3G MUST BE ACTIVATED IN-STORE (AND OTHER FOLLOWUP QUESTIONS ANSWERED)
Jun 13 2008
Posted by admin as mobile phones
Filed under: Cellphones
Yesterday we went by a few of the more confusing bits of the iPhone 3G launch — and let’s be honest, the details of that launch are confusing as hell compared to the original go-round. Of course, there were a lot of burning questions to be answered from the audience, so we got […]
Filed under: Cellphones
Hey look! The BlackBerry KickStart is just as bulky, ugly, and arguably ill-conceived from the side, too. The gents by at CrackBerry.com have unleashed a huge mountain of pics of that unannounced bit of messaging madness. From a quick boo at the pics — and no side is ignored, not even the innards […]
Filed under: Cellphones
Call us loony, but it assured seems like Nokia’s heralded N95 ends up in the middle of quite a few DIY endeavors. Sure enough, said mobile is at the heart of Sittiphol Phanvilai’s latest project: NeuScreen. Put as simply as possible, the project composes a multi-touch engine for the N95, and in the […]
Filed under: Cellphones
Nokia’s got a new no-frills handset coming to Verizon on June 15th, the Nokia 6205. Specs like a 1.3 megapixel camera, 58MB of memory and the Verizon UI — no thank you — won’t have us in a rush to turn in our N95, but the real news here is that the phone […]
NOKIA HAS A LAUGH WITH CYLINDRICAL CELLPHONE PATENT APPLICATION
Jun 13 2008
Posted by admin as mobile phones
Filed under: Cellphones
You kvetch abundant about that ultrathin candybar taking up too much room in those über-tight Emo-style jeans — we know you’d throw a fit whether you had to tote around a mobile akin to a rolling pin. Nevertheless, that’s not stopping Nokia’s wildly imaginative R&D team from throwing out a patent app for […]
WORLD’S FIRST PROJECTOR CELLPHONE IS ALSO AN IPHONE CLONE, IN ROME
Jun 13 2008
Posted by admin as mobile phones
Filed under: Cellphones, Displays
Ok, not Rome, but somewhere in China. But Shenzhen wouldn’t have rhymed now would it? Anyway, you’re looking at what’s scheduled to be the world’s first projector phone from ChinaKing (aka, CKing). The bits of details we scraped off the machine translated text reveals an LCoS-based projector that relies upon a LED […]
BLACKBERRY SEAWOLF AND AURORA GET TOSSED INTO THE CODENAME SOUP
Jun 13 2008
Posted by admin as mobile phones
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
RIM hasn’t even had the opportunity to announce the Kickstart 9100 — much less release it — but it looks like we might already have some intel leaking out on the first BlackBerry flip’s successor. In RIM parlance, a “10″ tacked on to a model number is often a sign that a […]
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