Well shiver me timbers. Who would have thought RIM, the maker of the business-suit BlackBerry handset lineup, would ever make a more consumer-friendly clamshell mobile phone? We sure didn’t. Enough with the rhetoric. What you see here is purportedly the first-ever flip-phone from RIM – dubbed the “Kickstart.” It’s tiny little thing and sports…
Archives for May 2008
Apple making iPhone into gaming graphics powerhouse – PA Semi acquisition hints at in-house chip design
Huge display, multi-touch interaction, powerful processor, advanced graphics core – these are all things that make the current iPhone a potential mobile gaming powerhouse. Thanks to Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR MBX 3D graphics video core that lies within the iPhone’s Samsung-manufactured ARM SoC (System on Chip) chip architecture, OpenGL ES 1.1 is supported by the Apple…
T-Mobile pre-paid: Now just $1 per day for unlimited in-network calls
One of T-Mobile’s greatest strengths is their pre-paid service. With great rates and the best wireless coverage value in the US, T-Mobile stands as a pre-paid wireless service leader. Now, the No. 4 US carrier has announced a new pre-paid plan. The “Pay By The Day” plan gives T-Mobile USA customer unlimited night and in-network…
Meet the Motorola MotoZINE ZN5 5 megapixel cameraphone
We’ve seen spy-shots and blurry in-the-wild photos of the 5 megapixel cameraphone from Motorola. The MotoZINE ZN5, as it’s called, is due to kick up the flagging company’s cameraphone offerings with a high-quality shooter to compete with the cameraphone elite from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and LG. So, to help quench your thirst for clear…
T-Mobile 3G network does voice and 384kbps data!
[Update] It looks like T-Mobile’s 3G network is good to go on the data side. I wish I was in New York and owned a handset with 1700Mhz UMTS to test out the 3G network, but reports indicate that speeds are as expected. Full 3G is better than voice-only 3G on T-Mobile’s 1700Mhz AWS spectrum.…
New 3G iPhone design rumors
And the rumors keep flowing in. The latest rumor regarding the next-generation iPhone comes from iLounge and points to a new iPhone that should be quite similar to the current generation iPhone. Among the key changes that are rumored for the 3G iPhone is a metallic back-casing get replaced by a high-gloss, black plastic casing.…