With ESPN’s X-Games 13 well underway, Verizon has launched their temporary dedicated VCAST TV channel, EXPN, to bring Verizon Wireless’s customers the X-treme coverage they desire. Users will be getting a double-shot of the action with this temporary channel picking up where the permanent ESPN Mobile TV channel left off. If you’re one of Verizon’s…
Archives for July 2007
Sanyo plans to unload mobile phone division
It looks like Sanyo Electric Co. is wiping its hands clean of the mobile phone game. Sources “close to the matter” are saying that Sanyo is prepping Osaka-based Telecom Sanyo Co. for the auction block – with an expected sale amount in the billions of Yen, a healthy boost to the struggling company’s coffers. The…
How does No. 2 wireless carrier Verizon increase its user base – buy them from Rural Cellular’s Unicel
If you’re the second-largest wireless carrier in the US, locked in a heated battle with top-dog AT&T for subscribers, what can you do to increase your customer-base? Well, one way would be to buy them, literally. Verizon Wireless has announced their plans to buy the Unicel brand from Rural Cellular, netting the CDMA carrier about…
Another mysterious Nokia phone appears on FCC
What we have here is another unnamed Nokia phone passing through FCC’s approval system. Not much is known about it, except that just like the earlier RM-289 model, it is also made in Korea. And similarly to its older brother, the RM-276 features WCDMA on the 850 and 1900MHz bands, suggesting this baby may end…
27.6% of Japanese mobile phone users want an iPhone
Recently conducted poll by Mitsubishi Research Institute and Rakuten Research Inc. suggests that 27.6% of the mobile users in Japan are willing to buy Apple’s flagship handset. One would think that all their high-tech gizmos fill-in the demand of the Japan’s modern man/woman, but apparently some of them crave for that iPhone coolness Apple is…
iPhone-like scrolling on Nokia N800
Yesterday, we showed you the iPhone-like virtual keyboard running on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. Today, we’ve spotted iPhone-like screen scrolling video on YouTube. Apparently, the Nokia N800’s open Linux platform allows so much tweaking that at the end it will be able to do pretty much everything iPhone does. Yeah, there’s a lack of…
iFuntastic 2.1 released – now you can rearrange the main menu icons and change the AT&T logo
We already wrote about that easy to use utility called iFuntastic that allows iPhone users to add a custom ringtone to their beloved handset. Thanks to Gizmodo, we spotted that the new version is now out and this time it goes one step further. Not only that you can make your iPhone sound different —…
Match.com goes mobile
One of the largest (if not THE largest) online dating services Match.com finally decided to join the ride of the mobile wave with its newly launched MatchMobile service. Developed in partnership with Trilibis Mobile, the new service allows users to search for profiles, receive text message alerts when they are sent a “wink” or an…
Sony Ericsson T650 passes the FCC hurdle
Although it lacks the Uncle Sam endorsed 850Mhz radio, Sony Ericsson decided to push its 3.2 MP camera equipped T650 model through FCC’s filling. I never thought this baby will see its U.S. debut, and the approved-for-U.S.-soil seal won’t convince me either. Still, I can see phone importers jumping out of joy — after all…
Pyramid-shaped Phoebus MB6000 converts 3G connection into WiFi network
Now here’s something I could easily imagine sitting at the reception desks of hotels in Egypt. The Phoebus MB6000 is a nice little Pyramid-shaped device that uses the 3G PCMCIA card from an operator, to create a WiFi network. As it doesn’t pick the 3G signals on its own, the “Giza router” will work with…