We know, there’s a bit of irony in syncing your Apple iPhone with Windows Vista/XP through your Mac. Nevertheless, with the new Parallels Desktop Beta, Mac-using iPhone owners can now sync with Outlook without the need to reboot into Windows, and keeps you from having to hoof it over to your Windows machine (what, doesn’t…
AOL offers customized mobile homepages
]Mobile web is the future, that’s a moot point at this, uh, point. So, it’s about time web purveyor AOL jumped on the wagon. The new AOL mobile homepages allows users to get their mobile page customized just the way they want – include hyperlinks, include images, optimize linked pages, include numbers, and set maximum…
Synchronica goes live with Mobile Gateway 3.0 – Microsoft Exchange for iPhone
It’s finally here! Synchronica’s mobile gateway service for Microsoft Exchange has opened the door to to it’s Mobile Gateway 3.0. As we all expected, Synchronica is offering a 60-day free trial of the service for all users, not just for iPhones. But, iPhone users have nothing to download, so getting in on the trial offer…
Apple iPhone does A2DP Bluetooth music streaming – kind of
It’d be nice if Apple had enabled A2DP Bluetooth on our iPhones with that recently released update. We’d love to rock out to our tunes without the hassle of wires. We guess that just means iPhone owners will have to take matter into their own hands. Wipe the dust off those fancy Bluetooth headphones of…
LG Wave brings A-GPS to Alltel – mid-range phone with assisted GPS
Low- and mid-range handsets are the bread and butter of a wireless carrier’s business, so it’s great to see mainstream phones getting trick features like A-GPS (Assisted Global Positioning Service). Alltel has picked up the LG AX380 as the LG Wave to pull double duty as a GPS phone and music phone. The A-GPS phone…
FCC outs Motorola O ROKR Pro Bluetooth headphone sunglasses
Does anyone actually wear these things? The FCC has outed the Motorola O ROKR Pro Bluetooth sunglasses on their web-site. Seriously, the Motorola O ROKR Pro Bluetooth headphone sunglasses look similar to the Oakley Thumps there were such a fantastic flop. Motorola’s joint venture with Oakley to develop sunglasses with built-in headphones seems to be…
ChangeWave survey shows just how much Apple iPhone is changing the US wireless industry
We all know the iPhone is doing well. Almost everyone we talk to is incredibly pleased with their newly acquired gadget (we have heard complaints, but the pros seems to greatly outweigh the cons). So, it’s not really surprising to hear that the iPhone is changing the wireless game in the US. ChangeWave conducted…
Verizon product roadmap leaked – 5 new handsets for August
It looks like Verizon’s got some plans for the month of August – well, five plans, really. We got our hands on this presumably leaked Verizon product roadmap and we like what we see. If the leak is reliable, Verizon is set to launch five new handsets this month – the Motorola Z6tv, Motorola Q9m,…
Open Interface North America introduces lossless Bluetooth audio codec – SOUNDabout Lossless from OINA
Some people are never satisfied – and that’s a good thing. The less-than-high-fidelity audio that we get from our A2DP Bluetooth Stereo headphones apparently irked Open Interface North America enough to develop a higher-quality solution – a lossless audio codec (that piece of code that encodes and decodes a data stream) for Bluetooth headphones. OINA’s…
France gets the HTC Touch on Orange
With the HTC Touch already having graced T-mobile’s German network as the T-mobile MDA Touch, it was just a matter of time before the TouchFLO toting iPhone-fighter hit French shores. Orange is picking up the HTC Touch as the, well, HTC Touch. It’s nice to see a carrier not only keeping with the device manufacturer’s…