Well, it’s a week late by our rumor-watch, but AT&T has launched their GPS-equipped BlackBerry 8130 Curve to pull enterprise- and consumer-duty on the national carrier’s EDGE network. Unlike AT&T’s previously released GPS-equipped BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry 8820 with both WiFi and GPS, the BlackBerry 8130 Curve brings GPS functionality to the masses in a…
Sprint announces CDMA HTC Touch as the Sprint Touch
So, it looks like Sprint will be picking up the CDMA version of the HTC Touch (also known as the HTC Vogue) as the, wait for it… Sprint Touch. Touchscreens are the next big thing (cough…told you so…cough), and Sprint’s cashing in on the action. With a 2 megapixel camera, 400Mhz processor, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi,…
Samsung U470 Juke coming to Verizon on October 19
Well, it’s official. The swiveling Samsung U470 Jukemusicphone is coming to Verizon on October 19. The No. 2 carrier has announced today that they’ll be bringing the 2GB-packing, stereo Bluetooth compatible, swiveling-screen, musicphone to the masses in a few days. In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past few weeks, and you…
Want an unlocked iPhone? Just go to France. Orange France to sell carrier-unlocked iPhones
Well, well, well. Look what we have here. Carrier-unlocked iPhones, once thought to be an impossibility (given Steve Jobs’ stance on the iPhone’s business model), will be hitting France this holiday shopping season (November 29). Those same wireless regulations that sparked speculation about the iPhone possibly being barred from French soil will require that Apple…
Steve Jobs: You want an iPhone SDK? Wait until February
It seems good ole’ Stevie Jobs has pulled a bit of an about-face on his policy of keeping the iPhone’s Mac OS a closed-system. Apple has published a note from Stevie on their Hot News Page that basically details Mr. Jobs’ plan to release a full Software Development Kit (SDK) for the iPhone this coming…
iPhone Dev Team announces the free iPhone v1.1.1 software unlocking solution!
Following on iPhoneSIMfree’s recently released unlocking software for the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware, the intrepid iPhone Dev Team has just released their own unlocking solution for iPhones with the most recent v1.1.1 firmware. AnySim v1.1 is the one and only free unlocking solution for the iPhone v1.1.1. The hack works only with previously unlocked (virgin, if…
HTC reportedly to ship 50,000 handsets with Google OS installed
We love hearing about the near-mythical Google Phone, the GPhone if you will. Will it be a fully-branded Google handset? Will a Google Phone just be some smartphone using the Linux-based Google OS? We’re still not 100% on those questions, and now there’s yet another rumor to throw into the mix. According to UBS analyst…
Rogers Wireless launches 3G network in Canada
Canadian wireless carrier Rogers Wireless has just launched their 3G network in Canada (duh). The network rollout will bring HSPA speeds to Rogers’ Vision Voice video calling service in 22 Canadian cities. Rogers’ reference to HSPA gives us reason to believe that Rogers Wireless will be offering high-speed upload speeds as well as high-speed downloads,…
LG and Philips launch 2.4 inch LCD panel with 1mm bezel
Progress in the mobile world is measured in millimeters and judged by how many millimeters you can shave off any particular component. In this case, progress in LCD panel technology is measured in bezel thickness. LG and Philips have announced another industry first in their breakthrough “narrow bezel” 2.4-inch LCD panel. Designed for mobile device…
It’s official – Apple and Orange launching iPhone in France on November 29
We’ve known this for quite some time now, but we were starting to wonder if Apple and Orange were ever going to announce their deal. France’s wireless regulations and Apple’s revenue-sharing demands were rumored to have put the deal on thin ice, but those issues seem to be a thing of the past. Apple and…