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Sprint stops selling iDEN phones

In an unsurprising move, Sprint is no longer selling iDEN phones that run on Nextel’s network. The carrier has removed the iDEN handsets from Boost Mobile’s website and calls to several Sprint locations by Phone Scoop suggest the carrier is no longer stocking the phones in its stores. Earlier this year, Sprint began to accelerate the timeline for shutting down its iDEN-based Nextel network. A significant number of Nextel towers will be shut down this summer and its iDEN network will be turned off completely by 2013. [Via Phone Scoop]

11 months ago

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Clearwire says its network could hit 168 Mbps

Clearwire may not be the strongest company financially, but it does have one thing going for it — spectrum. The wireless service provider has a lot of spectrum and it hopes to use this wireless asset to produce big, fat mobile pipes capable of download speeds as high as 168 Mbps. Much of the spectrum Clearwire owns is in the 2.5 GHz range and its owns a wide band. Clearwire CTO John Saw talked during CTIA about using carrier aggregation to lump this spectrum together and offer 4G broadband speeds that’ll … Read more

1 years ago

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Verizon Galaxy S III likely sports dual-core processor

It’s not much of a surprise at this point but it looks like the quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III will be landing at Verizon with just a dual-core processor. While four is larger than two, I wouldn’t be too worried about this change. The news comes from a benchmark from Droid-Life and this indicates that the Verizon Galaxy S III will likely have a Qualcomm SnapDragon S4 dual-core chip instead of the Samsung quad-core Exynos chip that will ship in the international version. The main reason for this is probably … Read more

1 years ago

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Spotify now available for the iPad

Spotify for the iPad was spotted in the wild earlier this month, and now the music app is available in the iOS App Store. The retina-capable app is perfect for both browsing Spotify’s catalog of music and for searching playlists, artists and users. The app takes full advantage of the iPad’s screen and has a beautiful design that makes it easy to control the playback of your music. Needless to say, cover art on the iPad looks fantastic. Besides its snazzy interface, Spotify for the iPad also adds gapless playback, cross fading and a handful of bug fixes. Spotify for the iPad is available … Read more

1 years ago

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Draw Something passes 50 million downloads

We all know that Draw Something was popular enough to have Zynga buy the creator for about $200 million and it recently hit a very impressive milestone: the Draw Something game has been downloaded more than 50 million times, making it the fastest-growing original game of all time. This is quite an feat when you consider that the game was released about 50 days ago. It also shows how powerful the mobile app space can be for social games, as the Draw Something had been around for a while on … Read more

1 years ago

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Ford SYNC AppLink goes global at MWC 2012

We’ve seen the Ford Sync AppLink before and believe it’s a smart way to augment your car’s experience with the technology in your pocket but this has been an exclusive experience for people in North America until now. At Mobile World Congress 2012, Ford said it is bringing the AppLink system to cars around the world. This means that people in Ford cars around the world will soon have access to voice control of smart phone apps from the driver’s seat as part of their Sync service. Not only is … Read more

1 years ago

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Tweetbot lands on iPad, 2.0 version hits iPhone

One of my favorite ways to access Twitter is through Tweetbot because I feel like it’s an excellent and stylized way to use the micro-blogging service. That’s why I’m very happy to see that Tweetbot has landed on the iPad and that the 2.0 version is now available for the iPhone. Tweetbot is a Twitter client that uses clean, useful designs and subtle sounds to make browsing Twitter an amazing experience. It’s very simple to read through you timelines, open links from tweets and even see the conversation history of … Read more

1 years ago

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Google buys Zagat to boost location-based services

Google has just announced that it has just acquired Zagat and it will be using this trove of restaurant and venue information as the cornerstone of its local offerings. If you remember, Google tried to buy Yelp a while back but the deal fell through for some reason (some say Yelp wanted too much cash) and Google would up using some Yelp data for Places anyways. Yelp didn’t like this and Google moved toward other sources but, to be honest, this wasn’t really that good or useful. With Zagat, Google’s … Read more